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Do you know him, Mrs Walker?" "We know his daughter Grace." And then Mrs Walker whispered something further, which we may presume to have been an intimation that the gentleman opposite, Major Grantly, was supposed by some people to be very fond of Miss Grace Crawley. "Quite a child, isn't she?" said Toogood, whose own daughter, now about to be married, was three or four years older than Grace.
There is no knowing whether I mightn't offend you." And Mr Toogood as he spoke grasped the decanter at his elbow. Mr Walker grasped another at his elbow, and the two attorneys took their glass of wine together. "A very queer case this is of my cousin Crawley's," said Toogood to Walker, when the ladies had left the dining-room. "A most distressing case.
Something of a doubt had crept across his mind as he talked to the lawyer. Mr Toogood, though Mrs Crawley was his cousin, seemed to believe that the money had been stolen; and Mr Toogood as a lawyer ought to understand such matters better than an old secluded clergyman in Barchester.
If my letters and her sister's letters have been sent on to her, she must know it now." Then Mr Toogood got up to take his leave. "You will excuse me for troubling you, I hope, Mr Harding." "Oh, sir, pray do not mention it. It is no trouble if one could only be of any service." "One can always try to be of service. In these affairs so much is to be done by rummaging about, as I always call it.
But, as Mrs Toogood had just told him, all this was nothing to what Toogood was doing. Toogood with twelve children was living at his own charges at Barchester, and was neglecting his business besides. "There's Mr Crump," said Mrs Toogood. "Of course he doesn't like it, and what can I say to him when he comes to me?"
In the meantime, it may be a question whether we should not hold our tongues. Mr Crawley himself, I suppose, knows nothing of it yet?" "Not a word," said Toogood. "Papa, I must tell Miss Prettyman," said Mary. "I should think that probably all Silverbridge knows it by this time," said Mrs Walker, "because Jane was in the room when the announcement was made.
Mr Harding was at home, but was not very well, the servant said. Mr Toogood, however, persevered, sending up his card, and saying that he wished to have a few minutes' conversation with Mr Harding on very particular business.
Since those days that Toogood had been gathered to the ancient Toogoods of old, and the son reigned on the family throne in Raymond's Buildings. The present Toogood was therefore first-cousin to Mrs Crawley. But there had been no intimacy between them.
"Ah, that's been the mischief of it all!" said Mr Toogood, dashing his hand against the porcupine's mahogany table. "But the facts were so strong, Mr Toogood!" "Nobody there to soften 'em down, you know," said Mr Toogood, shaking his head. Very little more than this was learned from the porcupine; and then Mr Toogood went away, and prepared for Mr Walker's dinner.
Of course I shan't open my mouth in court. But I might say one word to the dean, if he's there; and one word to Mr Soames. Who is conducting the prosecution?" Mr Crawley said that Mr Walker was doing so. "Walker, Walker, Walker? oh, yes; Walker and Winthrop, isn't it? A decent sort of man, I suppose?" "I have heard nothing to his discredit, Mr Toogood."
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