12/19 This is what you get from Eleanor's teaching." Eleanor was the dean's wife, and Mrs.Grantly's younger sister. "It has always been a sorrow to me that I ever brought Arabin into the diocese." "I never asked you to bring him, archdeacon. But nobody was so glad as you when he proposed to Eleanor." "Well, the long and the short of it is this, I shall tell Henry to-night that if he makes a fool of himself with this girl, he must not look to me any longer for an income. He has about six hundred a year of his own, and if he chooses to throw himself away, he had better go and live in the south of France, or in Canada, or where he pleases. He shan't come here." "I hope he won't marry the girl, with all my heart," said Mrs. |