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It was quite understood by everyone at Folking that for the present there was to be no intercourse between the Boltons and the Caldigates. It was understood that there should be no visitors of any kind at Folking, and it had been thought that Mr. Smirkie had forced an entrance in an impertinent manner. But yet it was not possible to send Mrs.
The young ladies in that part of the world had been slow in marrying lately, and it was felt that the present occasion might give a little fillip to the neighbourhood. This was the second Suffolk young lady that Mr. Smirkie had married, and he was therefore entitled to popularity. He certainly had done as much as he could, and there was probably no one around who had done more.
If this story were true, then certainly his son would soon be liberated. Mr. Smirkie Is Ill-used It was on a Tuesday that Mr. Caldigate made his visit to the Home Office, and on the Thursday he returned to Cambridge. On the platform whom should he meet but his brother-in-law Squire Babington, who had come into Cambridge that morning intent on hearing something further about his nephew.
Munday was a lady possessing much clerical authority, and that which she said had to be endured with equanimity. Mr. Smirkie seemed to enjoy the occasion, and held his own through the day with much dignity, The archdeacon, and the clergyman of the parish, and Mr. Bromley, all assisted, and nothing was wanting of outward ceremony which a small country church could supply.
I don't think Smirkie ever looked on me with favourable eyes. Then the clergyman was forced to own that Smirkie too had been among those who had believed the woman's story. 'But you have to remember how natural it is that a man should think a verdict to be right. In our country a wrong verdict is an uncommon occurrence.
'I think the dear child will be happy, said Mrs. Babington to her old friend, Mrs. Munday, the wife of Archdeacon Munday, the clerical dignitary who had given Mr. Smirkie so good a character. 'Of course she will, said Mrs. Munday, who had already given three daughters in marriage to three clergymen, and who had, as it were, become used to the transfer. 'And that she will do her duty in it.
But a host expects that his corns should be respected, whereas Mr. Smirkie was always treading on Mr. Babington's toes. Hints had been given to him as to his personal conduct which he did not take altogether in good part. His absence from afternoon service had been alluded to, and it had been suggested to him that he ought sometimes to be more careful as to his language.
In this way the stone was hollowed though the hollowing had not been made visible to the naked eye of Mr. Smirkie. He was a man whose conscience did not easily let him rest when he believed that a duty was incumbent on him. It was his duty now, he thought, not to bid her go, not to advise her to go, but to put before her what reasons there might be for her going.
The ceremony through which she had just passed had given her courage to hint at such a possibility. 'I suppose she'll have to be called Miss Bolton again. Of course there was some well-founded triumph in the bosom of the undoubted Mrs. Augustus Smirkie as she remembered what her own fate might have been.
Mayor, if you have an objection to interfere in families, why do you do it? The mayor took the rebuke with placid good-humour, feeling that his little drop might also have done something towards hollowing the stone. But of all the counsellors, perhaps Mr. Smirkie was the most zealous and the most trusting. He felt himself to be bound in a peculiar manner to Folking, by double ties.
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