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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER IV
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What Dr Thorne did in this matter the squire well knew was done for love.

But the squire of Greshamsbury was a great man at Greshamsbury; and it behoved him to maintain the greatness of his squirehood when discussing his affairs with the village doctor.
So much he had at any rate learnt from his contact with the de Courcys.
And the doctor--proud, arrogant, contradictory, headstrong as he was--why did he bear to be thus snubbed?
Because he knew that the squire of Greshamsbury, when struggling with debt and poverty, required an indulgence for his weakness.

Had Mr Gresham been in easy circumstances, the doctor would by no means have stood so placidly with his hands in his pockets, and have had Mr Umbleby thus thrown in his teeth.

The doctor loved the squire, loved him as his own oldest friend; but he loved him ten times better as being in adversity than he could ever have done had things gone well at Greshamsbury in his time.
While this was going on downstairs, Mary was sitting upstairs with Beatrice Gresham in the schoolroom.

The old schoolroom, so called, was now a sitting-room, devoted to the use of the grown-up young ladies of the family, whereas one of the old nurseries was now the modern schoolroom.


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