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"Bold is bound for Paris, then," said Gaston, "and you will see how he will give up his petit-maître ways and become a seasoned soldier after one campaign." Francezka then took her attention long enough from the dog to play some beautiful airs upon the harpsichord. That, if anything, increased Bold's infatuation for her and recommended him still more highly to his master.
All this he did without a scruple of conscience; but then he never contrived active villainy. In this affair of his marriage, it had been represented to him as a matter of duty that he ought to put himself in possession of Mrs Bold's hand and fortune; and at first he had so regarded it. About her he had thought but little.
As he got on his horse, which he was fain to do feeling like a dog turned out of a kitchen, he was again greeted by little Sammy. "Good-bye, Mr Bold; I hope we may have the pleasure of seeing you again before long; I am sure papa will always be glad to see you." That was certainly the bitterest moment in John Bold's life.
He vouchsafed her no further intelligence, but again seizing his hat, he rushed out, and took his departure for London without another word to anyone. The meeting between Eleanor and her father was not so stormy as that described in the last chapter, but it was hardly more successful. On her return from Bold's house she found her father in a strange state.
"The time will come, Dr Grantly, when you will understand why I called upon you to-day." "No doubt, no doubt. Is Mr Bold's horse there? That's right; open the front door. Good-morning, Mr Bold;" and the doctor stalked into his own drawing-room, closing the door behind him, and making it quite impossible that John Bold should speak another word.
Having satisfied his creditors with half of the widow's fortune, he would be allowed to sit down quietly at Barchester, keeping economical house with the remainder. His duty would be to rock the cradle of the late Mr Bold's child, and his highest excitement a demure party at Plumstead rectory, should it ultimately turn out that the archdeacon be sufficiently reconciled to receive him.
Such were John Bold's inward exclamations as he made his way out of the quiet labyrinth of the Temple; and yet there was no position of worldly power so coveted in Bold's ambition as that held by the man of whom he was thinking. It was the impregnability of the place which made Bold so angry with the possessor of it, and it was the same quality which made it appear so desirable.
'He used to be ready enough to stand up for his order. 'My dear archdeacon, Mrs Grantly would say in reply, 'what is the use of always fighting? I really think the Master is right. The Master, however, had taken steps of his own, of which neither the archdeacon nor his wife knew anything. 'Then Mr Slope's successes were henbane to Dr Grantly; and Mrs Bold's improprieties were as bad.
His mind, however, slightly inclined itself to the appointment of Mr Harding, seeing that by such a step, he should have the assistance of Mr Slope in opposing Mrs Proudie. Such was the state of affairs at the palace, when Mr Slope called at Mrs Bold's house, and found her playing with her baby.
And in such matters Miss Bold and her sister-in-law had but one opinion. This wrath, however, has in some degree been mitigated, and I regret to say that these ladies allowed Mr Slope to be his own apologist. About a fortnight after the sermon had been preached, they were both of them not a little surprised by hearing Mr Slope announced, as the page in buttons opened Mrs Bold's drawing-room door.
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