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Smirkie had more endeared himself to Julia's mother than to Julia's father or sisters, and that Mr. Smirkie himself was very clear as to the criminality of the bigamist. 'I suppose you are often there, Mr. Babington said to his guest, the parson of Utterden. 'Yes; I have seen a good deal of them. 'Do you think it possible? 'Not probable, said the clergyman. 'I don't, said the Squire.
'I am particularly induced at the present moment to hold out to you once more the right hand of fellowship and family affection by the fact that dear Julia is about to settle herself most advantageously in life. She is engaged to marry the Rev. Augustus Smirkie, the rector of Plum-cum-Pippins near Woodbridge in this county. We all like Mr. Augustus Smirkie to Mr. Smirkie's mother at Ipswich.
But I am well aware that she won't come to me; and from little words which constantly drop from her, I am quite sure that nothing would induce her to leave her husband but a direct command from himself. 'You might do it through him. 'I am equally sure that nothing would induce him to send her away. But such a conviction as this was not sufficient for Mr. Smirkie.
Julia declared that she would much rather not have accepted the brooch, and that she would never wear it. But animosity against such articles wears itself out quickly, and it may be expected that the little ornament will be seen in the houses of the Suffolk gentry among whom Mr. Smirkie is so popular. Whether it was Mr.
Smirkie, indeed, did not utter a word on any subject, till at an early hour he wished them all good-night with dignified composure. How The Big-Wigs Doubted It's what I call an awful shame. Mr. Holt and parson Bromley were standing together on the causeway at Folking, and the former was speaking.
Smirkie had not, in truth, made the offensive remark. It had been made by Mrs. Smirkie. But it had suited the squire to attribute it to the clergyman. Mr. Smirkie was now put upon his mettle, and was obliged either to agree or to disagree. He would have preferred the former, had he not been somewhat in awe of his wife.
When we think what might have been the case here, in this house, we have all of us a peculiar reason to be thankful for the interposition of divine Providence. Here Mr. Smirkie made a little gesture of thanksgiving, thanking Heaven for its goodness to his wife in having given her himself. 'Julia, my love, you have a very peculiar reason to be thankful, and I trust you are so.
'I was sure it was not true, said Mrs. Smirkie. 'Then you're quite wrong, said the squire, 'for it's as true as the Gospel. Then there was no more said about John Caldigate till the servants had left the room. Mr. Smirkie's general appreciation of the good things provided, did not on this occasion give the owner of them that gratification which a host should feel in the pleasures of his guests.
Bromley could not be aroused to a sense either of his duty or of his privileges. All this was sad to Mr. Smirkie, who regretted those past days in which, as he believed, the delinquent soul had been as manifestly subject to ecclesiastical interference as the delinquent body has always been to the civil law. But with Julia, who was to be his wife, he could be more imperative.
He was soon restored to his former favour, and after his return from the Continent spent a fortnight at the Hall, with his wife, very comfortably. Julia, indeed, was not there, nor Mr. Smirkie. Among all their neighbours and acquaintances Mr. Smirkie was the last to drop the idea that there must have been something in that story of an Australian marriage.
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