"He has picked it up about the house, and then has thought that it was his own," said Lord Lufton.

Had they come to the conclusion that such an appropriation of money had been made by one of the clergy of the palace, by one of the Proudeian party, they would doubtless have been very loud and very bitter as to the iniquity of the offender.

They would have said much as to the weakness of the bishop and the wickedness of the bishop's wife, and would have declared the appropriator to have been as very a thief as ever picked a pocket or opened a till;--but they were unanimous in their acquittal of Mr.Crawley.It had not been his intention, they said, to be a thief, and a man should be judged only by his intention.

It must now be their object to induce a Barchester jury to look at the matter in the same light.
"When they come to understand how the land lies," said the archdeacon, "they will be all right.

There's not a tradesman in the city who does not hate that woman as though she were--" "Archdeacon," said his wife, cautioning him to repress his energy.
"Their bills are all paid by this new chaplain they've got, and he is made to claim discount on every leg of mutton," said the archdeacon.
Arguing from which fact,--or from which assertion, he came to the conclusion that no Barchester jury would find Mr.Crawley guilty.
But it was agreed on all sides that it would not be well to trust to the unassisted friendship of the Barchester tradesmen.