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They all knew that old Mr Bateson the present Mr Bateson's father had gone off with the governess; and young Mr Everbeery, near Taunton, had only the other day married a cook-maid." "But Mr Everbeery was always drunk, aunt," said Augusta, feeling called upon to say something for her brother. "Never mind, my dear; these things do happen, and they are very dreadful."
Had Lady Arabella, in truth, known all her son's doings in this way, could she have guessed how very nigh he had approached the iniquity of old Mr Bateson, and to the folly of young Mr Everbeery, she would in truth have been in a hurry to send him off to Courcy Castle and Miss Dunstable.
Old Mr Bateson and the governess, Mr Everbeery and his cook's diluted blood, and ways paved for revolutions, all presented themselves to Augusta's mind when she found her brother walking with no other company than Mary Thorne, and walking with her, too, in much too close proximity.
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