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If she could but have got hold of Jim and told him that there were particular reasons why the Grange party should not attend upon this occasion! but no, Pansey Cottrell was entertaining her with a scandalous and apparently interminable narrative of the doings of one of her friends, and she felt she had been as effectually buttonholed as if she were the victim of the Ancient Mariner.
The rain and thunder would in all human probability have drowned both. 'Besides which his lordship is neither sharp-eared nor observant, said Mrs Pansey, spitefully; 'a man less fitted to be a bishop doesn't live. 'Oh, dear Mrs Pansey! you are too hard on him. 'Rubbish! don't tell me! What about his sons, Mr Cargrim? Did they hear anything? 'I don't quite follow you, Mrs Pansey.
'I hear the poor woman is very ill, sighed the chaplain, after he had introduced the subject, 'and I fear that her daughter does not give her all the attention an invalid should have. 'The Jezebel! growled Mrs Pansey. 'What can you expect from that flaunting hussy? 'She is a human being, Mrs Pansey, and I expect at least human feelings. 'Can you get blood out of a stone, Mr Cargrim?
'I believe general opinion is agreed upon that point, said the chaplain, dryly. 'What is Miss Whichello's opinion? demanded the archdeacon's widow. Cargrim could not suppress a start. It was strange that Mrs Pansey should allude to Miss Whichello, when he also had his suspicions regarding her knowledge of the dead man.
She 'Excuse me, Mrs Pansey! cried Gabriel, with an angry look, 'you speak too freely and too ignorantly. The Derby Winner is a well-conducted house, for Mrs Mosk looks after it personally, and her daughter is an excellent young woman. I do not defend the father, but I hope to bring him to a sense of his errors in time.
Hence he was a kind of clerical Ishmael, and as dangerous within as he looked harmless without. How such a viper came to warm itself on the bishop's hearth no one could say. Mrs Pansey herself did not know in what particular way Mr Cargrim had wriggled himself so she expressed it into his present snug position.
And who can say that she was acting wrongly? 'Yes, Mr Cargrim, she repeated, looking him directly in the face, 'Mrs Pansey is right. I was at the dead-house and I went to see the corpse of the man Jentham. I suppose you and Mrs Pansey wonder why I did so?
'And very silly words they are! pronounced the hostess, ex cathedrâ; 'but what can you expect from a parcel of trading fools? 'But, Mrs Pansey, no one knows who killed this man. 'They should find out, Mr Cargrim. 'They have tried to do so and have failed! 'That shows that what I say is true. Police and jury are fools, said Mrs Pansey, with the triumphant air of one clinching an argument.
Then he came back to his seat and fixed his eyes on the perturbed face of the young man. 'Does your father know that you are back? he asked. 'No one knows that I am here save Mrs Pansey. 'Then it won't be a secret long, said Graham, drily; 'that old magpie is as good as the town-crier. You left your mother well? 'Quite well; and Lucy also. I made an excuse to come back.
'And if Mrs Pansey should hear that Captain Pendle was on Southberry Heath on Sunday night, she continued, 'I trust that she will not accuse him of shooting the man, although as I know, and you know also, Mr Cargrim, she is quite capable of doing so.
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