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He was almost ashamed of himself as he rode back to Bowick, first, because he had condescended to ask advice, and then because, after having asked it, he had been so thoroughly scolded. There was no one whom Mr. Puddicombe would admit to have been wrong in the matter except the Doctor himself.
BUT there arose a trouble greater than that occasioned by the 'Broughton Gazette. There came out an article in a London weekly newspaper, called 'Everybody's Business, which nearly drove the Doctor mad. This was on the last Saturday of the holidays. The holidays had been commenced in the middle of July, and went on till the end of August. Things had not gone well at Bowick during these weeks.
He must be made to say that there existed no slightest reason for believing the insinuation contained; and then, having confessed so much, he must be asked why he had sent that letter to Bowick parsonage.
Peacocke in great respect, and would have been almost as unwilling as the Doctor himself to tell stories to the schoolmaster's discredit. "They are saying down at the Lamb" the Lamb was the Bowick public-house "that Lefroy told them all yesterday " the Doctor hesitated before he could tell it. "That my wife is not my wife?" "Just so." "Of course I am prepared for it.
Two hours afterwards they were walking, the two of them alone together, out in the Bowick woods. When once the law, which had been rather understood than spoken, had been infringed and set at naught, there was no longer any use in endeavouring to maintain a semblance of its restriction.
He would be friendly with me. Though he might think it necessary that I should leave Bowick, he would not turn against me violently." "He could do nothing." "I think he would assist me rather.
Peacocke's most intimate friend at Bowick, excepting of course his wife, had been one of the pupils at the school. The lad was one of the pupils, but could not be said to be one of the boys. He was the young Lord Carstairs, eldest son of Earl Bracy. He had been sent to Bowick now six years ago, with the usual purpose of progressing from Bowick to Eton.
He was to be at Oxford then, and would be thinking only of his Greek and Latin, or perhaps amusing himself, in utter forgetfulness that he had a heart belonging to him at Bowick Parsonage. In this way Mary, though no doubt she thought the most of it all, had less opportunity of talking of it than either her father or her mother. In the mean time Mr. Peacocke was coming home.
Had he been with the other gentlemen, Mrs. Stantiloup, violent as she was, would probably have held her tongue; but as he was absent, the opportunity was not bad for attacking the Bishop on the subject under discussion. "We were talking, my lord, about the Bowick school." Now the Bishop was a man who could be very confidential with one lady, but was apt to be guarded when men are concerned.
Of course she stayed over the Christmas, or went back to Bowick for a week, and then returned to Carstairs, so that she might tell her mother everything, and hear of the six new boys who were to come after the holidays. "Papa couldn't take both the Buncombes," said Mrs. Wortle in her triumph, "and one must remain till midsummer.
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