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He is submitting himself where his submission is due; but his submission will be of no avail unless you take some action upon his letter. Do you not think that Mr Thumble had better go over?" "No, I don't. I think Mr Thumble had better stay where he is," said the irritated bishop. "What, then, would you wish to have done?" "Never mind," said he.
"The bishop has been placed in a very delicate position," said Mr Thumble, pleading for his patron. "I don't know the meaning of the word 'delicate'," said Robarts. "I think his duty was very clear, to avoid interference whilst the matter is, so to say, before the judge." "Nobody has anything else to propose?" said Dr Tempest.
John was peremptory with him, insisting that he must wait first upon Mrs Proudie and then upon the bishop. Mr Thumble might perhaps have turned a deaf ear to the latter command, but the former was one which he felt himself bound to obey.
Jane in the meantime had retired out by the back door to the school, but Mrs Crawley kept her ground. She kept her ground although she believed almost that her husband would prefer to have the field to himself. As Mr Thumble did not at once enter the room, Mr Crawley stalked to the door, and stood with it open in his hand.
"Well, Mr Thumble?" she said again; and then she stood looking at the man who had failed so disastrously. "I have explained to the bishop," said he. "Mr Crawley has been contumacious, very contumacious indeed." "But you preached at Hogglestock?" "No, indeed, Mrs Proudie. Nor would it have been possible, unless I had had the police to assist me." "Then you should have had the police.
He had been strictly desired to do this by Mrs Proudie, and had not dared to disobey her injunctions, thinking, however, himself, that his doing so was inexpedient. "I have got nothing to say to you about it; not a word," said the bishop crossly. "I thought that perhaps you might like to see me before I started," pleaded Mr Thumble very humbly.
"There should be no stumbling-blocks prepared for feet that are only too ready to fall." And the word did come out. "Now, Mr Thumble," said the lady, as she gave the letter to her satellite, "the bishop and I wish you to be at Hogglestock early to-morrow. You should be there not later than ten, certainly." Then she paused until Mr Thumble had given the required promise.
I have notified to him expressly your coming, with the purport that it may be so." "You'll take a part in the service, I suppose?" said Mr Thumble. "No part, no part whatever," said Mr Crawley, standing still for a moment as he spoke, and showing plainly by the tone of his voice how dismayed he was, how indignant he had been made, by so indecent a proposition.
"I say nothing of his being bad, my friend, but merely mention the fact that on Sunday morning last he performed the service in our church. On the Sunday previous, one Mr Thumble was here." "We all know Thumble, too," said the dean; "or, at least, know something about him."
But there was no such liberal allowance at present, and, therefore, Mrs Proudie, after having frowned at Mr Thumble for some seconds, desired him to take the grey cob. Now, Mr Thumble had ridden the grey cob before, and would much have preferred a gig. But even the grey cob was better than a gig at his own cost. "Mamma, there's a man at the gate wanting to come in," said Jane.
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