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Fothergill, knew well that this was intended; and he knew well also, that when once he should cease to be Mr. Sowerby of Chaldicotes, he need never again hope to be returned as member for West Barsetshire. This world would for him be all over. And what must such a man feel when he reflects that this world is for him all over?
Mrs Thorne was very glad to see her, and told her all the Barsetshire news, much more than Mrs Arabin would have learned in a week at the deanery; for Mrs Thorne had a marvellous gift of picking up news. She had already heard the whole story of Mr Soames's cheque, and expressed her conviction that the least that could be done in amends to Mr Crawley was to make him a bishop.
Suppose they have been weak, or untrue to their duty and from what we know of the magistrates of Barsetshire, there is too much reason to suppose that they will have been so; suppose they have let him out, is he to go about like a roaring lion among the souls of the people?" The bishop shook in his shoes. When Mrs Proudie began to talk of the souls of the people he always shook in his shoes.
When the division above spoken of was first contemplated, in those stormy days in which gallant men were still combatting reform ministers, if not with hope, still with spirit, the battle was fought by none more bravely than by John Newbold Gresham of Greshamsbury, the member for Barsetshire.
A considerable portion of his property had already gone into the hands of the duke, who, as a rule, bought up everything around him that was to be purchased. Indeed it was said of him by his enemies, that so covetous was he of Barsetshire property, that he would lead a young neighbour on to his ruin, in order that he might get his land.
"If your son, my dear, is to marry a man's daughter, it will be as well that you should at least be able to say that you do not believe that man to be a thief." "That is neither here nor there," said the archdeacon. "A jury must decide it." "No jury in Barsetshire shall decide it for me," said Mrs Grantly. "I'm sick of Mr Crawley, and I'm sorry I spoke of him," said the archdeacon.
"What a delightful time those lucky dogs of lords do have!" said Sowerby. "No constituents, no turning out, no fighting, no necessity for political opinions; and, as a rule, no such opinions at all!" "I suppose you're tolerably safe in East Barsetshire?" said Robarts. "The duke has it pretty much his own way there." "Yes; the duke does have it pretty much his own way.
Her opinion of the poor squire was very different from Frank's. "It is no use now," said she, "looking back to that which cannot be cured. The first commoner in Barsetshire should hold a position I will not of course say equal to that of a peer." "Oh dear no; of course not," said Frank; and a bystander might have thought that there was a touch of satire in his tone.
But he had a difficulty in this, that he liked to make all the affairs of his life matter for enjoyment, almost for triumph; but how was he to be triumphant over this marriage, or how even was he to enjoy it, seeing that he had opposed it so bitterly? Those posters, though they were now pulled down, had been up on all barn ends and walls, patent, alas, too patent, to all the world of Barsetshire!
But she did not like to be told that her son's amusement was idle and profligate. She had always regarded hunting as a proper pursuit for a country gentleman. It was, indeed, in her eyes one of the peculiar institutions of country life in England, and it may be almost said that she looked upon the Barsetshire Hunt as something sacred.
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