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He has a large family, of whom the three eldest are daughters, now all grown up and fit for fashionable life; and he has a wife. It is not my intention to breathe a word against the character of Mrs Proudie, but still I cannot think that with all her virtues she adds much to her husband's happiness.
Both these men were inimical to the present bishop of the diocese, and both had perhaps respected the old bishop beyond all other men. But they were different in this, that the archdeacon hated Dr Proudie as a partisan, whereas Dr Tempest opposed the bishop on certain principles which he endeavoured to make clear, at any rate to himself.
"You must tell her, Dr Thorne, how exceedingly much we miss her." Dr Thorne, who was accustomed to hear his wife speak of her dear friend Mrs Proudie with almost unmeasured ridicule, promised that he would do so.
"It's not me; it's the cursed sofa," said Bertie, looking imploringly in her face and holding up both his hands to show that he was not touching her belongings, but still remaining on his knees. Hereupon the Signora laughed; not loud, indeed, but yet audibly. And as the tigress bereft of her young will turn with equal anger on any within reach, so did Mrs. Proudie turn upon her female guest.
Smith, that I don't think much more of their sport than I do of their business. I shall take to hunting a pack of hounds myself after this." "Do, my dear, and I'll be your whipper-in. I wonder whether Mrs. Proudie would join us." "I shall be writing to the duke to-night," said Mr. Fothergill to Mark, as they were all riding up to the stable-yard together.
Proudie, to the great amazement of the assembled people, and to the thorough wakening of the bishop, who, jumping up in his chair at the sound of the well-known voice, exclaimed, "Certainly, certainly." "Hear, hear, hear," said those on the benches who particularly belonged to Mrs.
And then as to suppers of all modes in which one may extend one's hospitality to a large acquaintance, they are the most costly. "It is horrid to think that we should go out among our friends for the mere sake of eating and drinking," Mrs. Proudie would say to the clergymen's wives from Barsetshire. "It shows such a sensual propensity." "Indeed it does, Mrs.
The bishop rubbed his hands together and smiled, and said that he thought it was rather nice. "Mrs. Proudie is so fortunate in all her little arrangements," said Miss Dunstable. "Yes, yes," said the bishop. "I think she is happy in these matters. I do flatter myself that she is so. Of course, Miss Dunstable, you are accustomed to things on a much grander scale." "I! Lord bless you, no!
Finally, on the first Saturday in October, there appeared the first sheet of the Bexley Tribune, with a cutting article on bloated dignitaries and blood-sucking parasites, and an equally personal review of all the Proudie literature. On the Monday morning one hundred and twenty-nine Pursuivants remained on hand. Redstone took the trouble to count them, and to look into the office to ask Mr.
A great pet of mine is dear Miss Thorne. She is so very strange, you know. She always makes me think of the Esquimaux and the Indians. Isn't her dress quite delightful? 'Delightful, said Mrs Proudie; 'I wonder now whether she paints. Did you ever see such colour? 'Oh, of course, said Lady De Courcy; 'that is, I have no doubt she does.
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