She dragged me into the mire once, but I'll not pollute myself with such filth as that--" And the archdeacon gave a shudder which shook the whole room, so violently was he convulsed with the thought which then agitated his mind.
Now in this matter the widow Bold was scandalously ill-treated by her relatives.

She had spoken to the man three or four times, and had expressed her willingness to teach in a Sunday-school.

Such was the full extent of her sins in the matter of Mr.Slope.Poor Eleanor! But time will show.
The next morning Mr.Harding returned to Barchester, no further word having been spoken in his hearing respecting Mr.Slope's acquaintance with his younger daughter.

But he observed that the archdeacon at breakfast was less cordial than he had been on the preceding evening..