[Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Thorne CHAPTER XXII 1/19
Sir Roger Is Unseated After this, little occurred at Greshamsbury, or among Greshamsbury people, which it will be necessary for us to record.
Some notice was, of course, taking of Frank's prolonged absence from his college; and tidings, perhaps exaggerated tidings, of what had happened in Pall Mall were not slow to reach the High Street of Cambridge.
But that affair was gradually hushed up; and Frank went on with his studies. He went back to his studies: it then being an understood arrangement between him and his father that he should not return to Greshamsbury till the summer vacation.
On this occasion, the squire and Lady Arabella had, strange to say, been of the same mind.
They both wished to keep their son away from Miss Thorne; and both calculated, that at his age and with his disposition, it was not probable that any passion would last out a six months' absence.
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