[Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookBarchester Towers CHAPTER XIV 12/14
I think you'll find that it will end in his sending you the appointment without any condition whatever.
And as to the seats in the cathedral, we may safely leave that to Mr.Dean.I believe the fool positively thinks that the bishop could walk away with the cathedral if he pleased." And so the matter was arranged between them.
Mr.Harding had come expressly for advice, and therefore felt himself bound to take the advice given him.
He had known, moreover, beforehand that the archdeacon would not hear of his giving the matter up, and accordingly, though he had in perfect good faith put forward his own views, he was prepared to yield. They therefore went into the drawing-room in good humour with each other, and the evening passed pleasantly in prophetic discussions on the future wars of Arabin and Slope.
The frogs and the mice would be nothing to them, nor the angers of Agamemnon and Achilles.
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