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The preparations for the Whitstable marriage went on without any apparent attention to the intimacy which was growing up between Mr Batherbolt and Georgiana. There was no room to apprehend anything wrong on that side.
But the fugitives could not be brought back, and with some little delay, which made the marriage perhaps uncanonical but not illegal, Mr George Whitstable was made a happy man. It need only be added that in about a month's time Georgiana returned to Caversham as Mrs Batherbolt, and that she resided there with her husband in much connubial bliss for the next six months.
Lady Pomona had determined that she would tell her husband of those walks in the park, and of other signs of growing intimacy which had reached her ears; but this she would postpone until after the Whitstable marriage. But at nine o'clock on the morning set apart for that marriage, they were all astounded by the news that Georgiana had run away with Mr Batherbolt. She had been up before six.
And moreover, Lady Pomona had received no former hint of the information which was now conveyed to her, Georgiana was in the habit of meeting the curate of the next parish almost every day in the park. 'Mr Batherbolt! exclaimed Lady Pomona. 'She is walking with Mr Batherbolt almost every day. 'But he is so very strict. 'It is true, mamma. 'And he's five years younger than she!
Mr Batherbolt was so excellent a young man, and so exclusively given to religion, that, even should Sophy's suspicion be correct, he might be trusted to walk about the park with Georgiana. Should he at any time come forward and ask to be allowed to make the lady his wife, there would be no disgrace in the matter. He was a clergyman and a gentleman, and the poverty would be Georgiana's own affair.
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