No man reverences a clergyman, as a clergyman, so slightly as a brother clergyman.

To Dr.Tempest it appeared to be neither very strange nor very terrible that Mr.Crawley should have stolen twenty pounds.

"What is a man to do," he said, "when he sees his children starving?
He should not have married on such a preferment as that." Mr.Crawley had married, however, long before he got the living of Hogglestock.
There were two Lady Luftons,--mother-in-law and daughter-in-law,--who at this time were living together at Framley Hall, Lord Lufton's seat in the county of Barset, and they were both thoroughly convinced of Mr.Crawley's innocence.

The elder lady had lived much among clergymen, and could hardly, I think, by any means have been brought to believe in the guilt of any man who had taken upon himself the orders of the Church of England.

She had also known Mr.Crawley personally for some years, and was one of those who could not admit to herself that any one was vile who had been near to herself.