CHAPTER XI.
THE BISHOP SENDS HIS INHIBITION.
Tidings of Mr.Crawley's fate reached the palace at Barchester on the afternoon of the day on which the magistrates had committed him.

All such tidings travel very quickly, conveyed by imperceptible wires, and distributed by indefatigable message boys whom Rumour seems to supply for the purpose.

Barchester is twenty miles from Silverbridge by road, and more than forty by railway.

I doubt whether any one was commissioned to send the news along the actual telegraph, and yet Mrs.Proudie knew it before four o'clock.

But she did not know it quite accurately.