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Barchester Towers

CHAPTER X
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The old dean would crawl in, if it were but for half an hour.

The chancellor, treasurer, archdeacon, prebendaries, and minor canons would all go, and would all take their wives.

Mr.Harding was especially bidden to do so, resolving in his heart to keep himself far removed from Mrs.
Proudie.

And Mrs.Bold was determined to go, though assured by her father that there was no necessity for such a sacrifice on her part.
When all Barchester was to be there, neither Eleanor nor Mary Bold understood why they should stay away.

Had they not been invited separately?
And had not a separate little note from the chaplain, couched in the most respectful language, been enclosed with the huge episcopal card?
And the Stanhopes would be there, one and all.


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