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Chapter 4 THE CLERGYMAN'S HOUSE AT HOGGLESTOCK.

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iage. The tidings she brought home with her to her husband were very grievous. The magistrates would sit on the next Thursday,-it was then Friday,-and Mr. Crawley had better appear before the

awyer might use what gentle means he could for ensuring the clergyman's attendance. Could Mrs. Crawley undertake to say that he would appear? Mrs. Crawley did undertake either that her husband should appear on the Thursday, or else that she would send over in the early part of the week and declare her inability to ensure his appearance. In that case it was understood the policeman must come. Then Mr. Walker had suggested that Mr. Crawley had better employ a lawyer. Upon this Mrs. Crawley had looked beseechingly up into Mr. Walker's f

hem all from illness to herself, she could not pass through to her room till she had spoken to her husband. He was sitting in the one sitting-room on the left side of the passage as the house was entered, and with him was their daughter Jane, a girl now nearly sixteen years of age. There was no light in the room, and hardly more than a spark of fire showed itself in the grate. The father was sitting on one side of the hearth, in an old arm-chair, and there he had sat for

d Jane, rising to her feet as

s. Crawley, striving to speak in a

e dark. Papa is here. Oh,

in two minutes." Then, when Jane was gone, the wife made her way in the dark over to her

peak about? Wher

I have been to Mr. Walker. H

no man's kindness. Mr. Walker is th

do the best we can in this trouble.

t to be a locked guardian for domestic documents, and the receptacle for all that was most private in the house of some paterfamilias. But beneath the hands of Mr. Crawley it always stood open; and with the exception of the small space at which he wrote, was covered with dog's-eared books, from nearly all of which the covers had disappeared. There were there two odd volumes of Euripides, a Greek Testament, an Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a miniature Anacreon. There was half a Horace,-the two first books of the Odes at the beginning, and the De Arte Poetica at the end having disappeared. There was a little bit of a volume of Cicero, and there were C?sar's Commentaries, in two volumes, so stoutly bound that they had defied the combined ill-usage of time and the Crawley family. All these were piled upon the secretary, with many others,-odd volumes of sermons and the like; but the Greek and Latin lay at the top, and showed signs of most frequent use. There was one arm-chair in the room,-a Windsor-chair, as such used to be called, made soft by an old cushion in the back, in which Mr. Crawley sat when both he and his wife were in the room, and Mrs. Crawley

oom. "Jane, dear," she said, "bring my things down to the kitchen and I will change them by the fire. I will be there in two minutes, when I have had a word

here w

re the magistrates at Silverbridge on Thursda

o say that I must go there. Is

go; will you not?" She stood leaning over him, half embracing him, waiting for an answer; but for

t they fetched me. I think

sh! Mr. Walker has promised that he will send

s the distance, and though I had not a shoe left to my feet I woul

ou wil

ers it who sees me now? I cannot be degra

race without guil

ren know of it, and I hear their whispers in the school, 'Mr.

rs what the

as though to a wedding. If I am wanted there let them take me as

ter to the kitchen. The one red-armed young girl who was their only servant was sent away, and then the mother and ch

ink it will. But I can

have done any

o make people understand that he has not intentionally spoken untruths. He is ever th

how poor we

ll in the memory with other people. He said that he had got this

did he get

seen every shilling that came into the house; bu

not papa

he knew. He thinks it

ou sure it

me he would give him fifty pounds, and the fifty pounds came. I h

is be part of th

dear,

it? Perhaps he picked i

culpation of her husband easier to herself. If villany on the part of Soames was needful to her theory, Soames would become to her a villain at once,-of the blackest dye. Might it not be possible that the cheque having thus fallen into her husband's hands, he had come, after a while, to think that it had been sent to him by his friend, the dean? And if it were so, would it be possible to make others so believe? That there was some mistake which would be easily explained were her husband's mind lucid at all points, but which she could not explain because of the darkness of his mind, she was thoroughly convinced. But were she herself to put forward such a defence on her husband's part, she would in doing so be driven to say that he was a lunatic,-that he was incapable of managing the affairs of himself or his family. It seemed to her that she would be compelled to have him proved to be either a thief or a madman. And yet she knew that he was neither. That he was not a thief was as clear to her as the sun at noonday. Could she have lain on the man's bosom for twenty years, and not yet have learned the secrets of the heart beneath? The whole mind of the man was, as she told herself, within her grasp. He might have taken the twenty pounds; he might have taken it and spent it, though it was not his own; but yet he was no thief. Nor was he a madman. No man more sane in preaching the gospel of his Lord, in making intelligible to the ignorant the promises of his Saviour, ever got into a parish pulpit, or taught in a parish school. The intellect of the man was as clear as running water in all things not appertaining to his daily life and its difficulties. He could be logica

will be unravelled. Of one thing we at least may be sur

are sure of

his congregation consisted only of farmers, brickmakers, and agricultural labourers, who would willingly have dispensed with the second. Mrs. Crawley proposed to send over to Mr. Robarts, a neighbouring clergyman, for the loan of a curate. Mr. Robarts was a warm friend to the Crawleys, and in such an emergency would probably have come himself; but Mr.

hese absent ones he sent in great anger. The poor bairns came creeping in, for he was a man who by his manners had been able to secure their obedience in spite of his poverty. And he preached to the people of his parish on that Sunday, as he had always preached; eagerly, clearly, with an eloquence fitted for the hearts

were over, he sank again and never rouse

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Contents

Chapter 1 HOW DID HE GET IT Chapter 2 BY HEAVENS HE HAD BETTER NOT! Chapter 3 THE ARCHDEACON'S THREAT. Chapter 4 THE CLERGYMAN'S HOUSE AT HOGGLESTOCK. Chapter 5 WHAT THE WORLD THOUGHT ABOUT IT. Chapter 6 GRACE CRAWLEY. Chapter 7 MISS PRETTYMAN'S PRIVATE ROOM. Chapter 8 MR. CRAWLEY IS TAKEN TO SILVERBRIDGE. Chapter 9 GRACE CRAWLEY GOES TO ALLINGTON. Chapter 10 DINNER AT FRAMLEY COURT. Chapter 11 THE BISHOP SENDS HIS INHIBITION.
Chapter 12 MR. CRAWLEY SEEKS FOR SYMPATHY.
Chapter 13 THE BISHOP'S ANGEL.
Chapter 14 MAJOR GRANTLY CONSULTS A FRIEND.
Chapter 15 UP IN LONDON.
Chapter 16 DOWN AT ALLINGTON.
Chapter 17 MR. CRAWLEY IS SUMMONED TO BARCHESTER.
Chapter 18 THE BISHOP OF BARCHESTER IS CRUSHED.
Chapter 19 WHERE DID IT COME FROM
Chapter 20 WHAT MR. WALKER THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
Chapter 21 MR. ROBARTS ON HIS EMBASSY.
Chapter 22 MAJOR GRANTLY AT HOME.
Chapter 23 MISS LILY DALE'S RESOLUTION.
Chapter 24 MRS. DOBBS BROUGHTON'S DINNER-PARTY.
Chapter 25 MISS MADALINA DEMOLINES.
Chapter 26 THE PICTURE.
Chapter 27 A HERO AT HOME.
Chapter 28 SHOWING HOW MAJOR GRANTLY TOOK A WALK.
Chapter 29 MISS LILY DALE'S LOGIC.
Chapter 30 SHOWING WHAT MAJOR GRANTLY DID
Chapter 31 SHOWING HOW MAJOR GRANTLY
Chapter 32 MR. TOOGOOD
Chapter 33 THE PLUMSTEAD FOXES.
Chapter 34 MRS. PROUDIE SENDS FOR HER LAWYER.
Chapter 35 LILY DALE WRITES TWO WORDS IN HER BOOK.
Chapter 36 GRACE CRAWLEY RETURNS HOME.
Chapter 37 HOOK COURT.
Chapter 38 JAEL.
Chapter 39 A NEW FLIRTATION.
Chapter 40 MR. TOOGOOD'S IDEAS ABOUT SOCIETY.
Chapter 41 GRACE CRAWLEY AT HOME.
Chapter 42 MR. TOOGOOD TRAVELS PROFESSIONALLY.
Chapter 43 MR. CROSBIE GOES INTO THE CITY.
Chapter 44 I SUPPOSE I MUST LET YOU HAVE IT.
Chapter 45 LILY DALE GOES TO LONDON.
Chapter 46 THE BAYSWATER ROMANCE.
Chapter 47 No.47
Chapter 48 THE SOFTNESS OF SIR RAFFLE BUFFLE.
Chapter 49 NEAR THE CLOSE.
Chapter 50 LADY LUFTON'S PROPOSITION.
Chapter 51 MRS. DOBBS BROUGHTON PILES HER FAGOTS.
Chapter 52 WHY DON'T YOU HAVE AN IT FOR YOURSELF
Chapter 53 ROTTEN ROW.
Chapter 54 THE CLERICAL COMMISSION.
Chapter 55 FRAMLEY PARSONAGE.
Chapter 56 THE ARCHDEACON GOES TO FRAMLEY.
Chapter 57 A DOUBLE PLEDGE.
Chapter 58 THE CROSS-GRAINEDNESS OF MEN.
Chapter 59 A LADY PRESENTS HER COMPLIMENTS TO MISS L. D.
Chapter 60 THE END OF JAEL AND SISERA.
Chapter 61 IT'S DOGGED AS DOES IT.
Chapter 62 MR. CRAWLEY'S LETTER TO THE DEAN.
Chapter 63 TWO VISITORS TO HOGGLESTOCK.
Chapter 64 THE TRAGEDY IN HOOK COURT.
Chapter 65 MISS VAN SIEVER MAKES HER CHOICE.
Chapter 66 REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
Chapter 67 IN MEMORIAM.
Chapter 68 THE OBSTINACY OF MR. CRAWLEY.
Chapter 69 MR. CRAWLEY'S LAST APPEARANCE
Chapter 70 MRS. ARABIN IS CAUGHT.
Chapter 71 MR. TOOGOOD AT SILVERBRIDGE
Chapter 72 MR. TOOGOOD AT THE DRAGON OF WANTLY.
Chapter 73 THERE IS COMFORT AT PLUMSTEAD.
Chapter 74 THE CRAWLEYS ARE INFORMED.
Chapter 75 MADALINA'S HEART IS BLEEDING.
Chapter 76 I THINK HE IS LIGHT OF HEART.
Chapter 77 THE SHATTERED TREE.
Chapter 78 THE ARABINS RETURN TO BARCHESTER.
Chapter 79 MR. CRAWLEY SPEAKS OF HIS COAT.
Chapter 80 MISS DEMOLINES DESIRES
Chapter 81 BARCHESTER CLOISTERS.
Chapter 82 THE LAST SCENE AT HOGGLESTOCK.
Chapter 83 MR. CRAWLEY IS CONQUERED.
Chapter 84 CONCLUSION.
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