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This girl, bred on the family estate, had a brother in Captain Crawley's troop, and if the truth were known, I daresay it would come out that she was aware of certain arrangements, which have a great deal to do with this history.
"My cousin is at present staying at Allington with Mrs Dale," said Johnny. "Just so," said the major, who now began to reflect that he had been indiscreet in mentioning Grace Crawley's name.
"A slender young man," or "a young man of genteel appearance," is sometimes all that is vouchsafed to us, the rest being happily left to our imagination. Among modern writers, Trollope alone manifests this curious indifference to the hair, eyes, noses, and mouths of his dramatis personae. What was the color of Grace Crawley's hair, or of Lily Dale's eyes?
Soon its eyes and teeth will catch light! It knows the work we have been at. Ah! ah! ah!" The man looked round very uneasily. Crawley's way of pointing and glaring over one's head at some object behind one was anything but encouraging. "What? where?" "There! there! coming through the side of the tent. It can come through a wall!" and Crawley shook from head to foot.
Mr Chadwick was to prepare a letter to Dr Tempest, for the bishop's signature, in which the doctor should be requested, as the rural dean to whom Mr Crawley was subject, to hold a commission of five to inquire into Mr Crawley's conduct.
I am used to it from childhood, and I am often thankful that Miss Crawley's money has gone to restore the splendour of the noble old family of which I am so proud to be a member. I am sure Sir Pitt will make a much better use of it than Rawdon would."
Such, at least, are my feelings, when I see A. B. or W. T.'s insufficient acts of repentance. And I have no doubt that Pitt Crawley's contrition, or kindness if you will, towards his younger brother, by whom he had so much profited, was only a very small dividend upon the capital sum in which he was indebted to Rawdon. Not everybody is willing to pay even so much.
Mr Crawley's old hat, and short rusty cloak, and dirty boots, had been duly observed and chronicled by the minor canon; and Mr Thumble had been enabled to put together a not altogether false picture of what had occurred. As soon as the greetings between Mr Robarts and the ladies had been made, Miss Anne Prettyman broke out again, just where she had left off when Mr Robarts came in.
Such was her idea of Mr Crawley's conduct to her, while she was fingering the papers, simply because Mr Crawley would not speak to her. "I forget where I was," said the bishop. "Oh, Mr Thumble came back, and I received your letter; of course I received it.
Indeed, at this time, very little else was talked about in that part of the county; not only because of the interest naturally attaching to the question of the suspected guilt of a parish clergyman, but because much had become lately known of Mr Crawley's character, and because it was known also that an internecine feud had arisen between him and the bishop.
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