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'Ordering the bishop to have The Derby Winner removed, mother. 'The Derby Winner, repeated Mrs Pendle, in puzzled tones; 'is that a horse? 'A public-house, mother; it is in my district, and I have been lately visiting the wife of the landlord, who is very ill. Mrs Pansey wants the house closed and the woman turned out into the streets, so far as I can make out!
It was for this reason that Cargrim suggested the good lady should call upon Mrs Mosk, for he knew well that neither the father, nor the daughter, nor the whole assembled domestics of the hotel, would be able to stop her from making her way to the bedside of the invalid; and in the devastated rear of Mrs Pansey the chaplain intended to follow.
'Is it a very, very good match? 'Ten thousand a year and a fine estate, my dear. Sir Harry is a nice young fellow, but a fool. An absentee landlord, too, grumbled Mrs Pansey, resentfully. 'Always running over the world poking his nose into what doesn't concern him, like the Wandering Jew or the Flying Dutchman. Ah, my dear, husbands are not what they used to be.
'Good-bye for the present, Mrs Pansey; I'll apologise for my shortcomings when I recover from my journey. 'Oh, you will, will you? growled the archdeacon's widow, as Gabriel lifted his hat and drove off; 'you'll do more than apologise, young man, you'll explain.
Instinctively he kept his eyes on Gabriel's face, which looked disturbed and anxious; too much so for social requirements. 'It must be removed, repeated the bishop, gently; 'and why, Mrs Pansey? 'Why, bishop? You ask why? Because it is a hot-bed of vice and betting and gambling; that's why! 'But I really cannot see I have not the power
I hope you will visit me again next year, and then you may be more fortunate. Mrs Pansey made this amiable little speech which nevertheless, like a scorpion, had a sting in its tail to Miss Norsham on the platform of the Beorminster railway station.
This remark was directed against Bell, who, apparently in her mother's room, was at the window amusing herself by watching the passers-by. When she saw Mrs Pansey and the chaplain stalking along in black garments, and looking like two birds of prey, she hastily withdrew, and by the time they arrived at the hotel was at the doorway to receive them, with fixed bayonets.
It was many a long day before Mrs Pansey ventured into that neighbourhood again; and she ever afterwards referred to it in terms which a rigid Calvinist usually applies to Papal Rome. As for Mrs Trumbly herself, the archdeacon's widow said the whole Commination Service over her with heartfelt and prayerful earnestness.
'And who is really and truly the most beautiful girl in Beorminster? she asked abruptly. 'Mab Arden, replied Mrs Pansey, promptly. 'There, now, with an emphatic blow of her fan, 'she is pretty, if you like, though I daresay there is more art than nature about her. 'Who is Mab Arden, dear Mrs Pansey? 'She is Miss Whichello's niece, that's who she is. 'Whichello?
It was in this artful fashion that the town mouse strove to ensnare the church mouse, and succeeded so well that when Mr Dean went home to his lonely house he concluded that it was just as well the monastic institution of celibacy had been abolished. On leaving Mrs Pansey in disgust, Gabriel proceeded with considerable heat into the next room, where his mother held her court as hostess.
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