Mrs.Proudie knew this, and therefore did not do it; but she stationed herself as near to the door as she well could, that she might, if possible, get the advantage which the housemaid would have had, without descending to the housemaid's artifice.
It was little, however, that she heard, and that little was only sufficient to deceive her.

She saw nothing of that friendly pressure, perceived nothing of that concluded bargain; she did not even dream of the treacherous resolves which those two false men had made together to upset her in the pride of her station, to dash the cup from her lip before she had drunk of it, to sweep away all her power before she had tasted its sweets! Traitors that they were, the husband of her bosom and the outcast whom she had fostered and brought to the warmth of the world's brightest fireside! But neither of them had the magnanimity of this woman.

Though two men have thus leagued themselves together against her, even yet the battle is not lost.
Mr.Slope felt pretty sure that Dr.Grantly would decline the honour of seeing him, and such turned out to be the case.

The archdeacon, when the palace door was opened to him, was greeted by a note.
Mr.Slope presented his compliments, &c.

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