Mark what I tell you, archdeacon: while you and Sir Abraham are fighting, papa will lose his preferment; and what will you do then with him and Eleanor on your hands?
besides, who's to pay Sir Abraham?
I suppose he won't take the case up for nothing ?" And so the lady descended to family worship among her children and servants, the pattern of a good and prudent wife.
Dr Grantly was blessed with a happy, thriving family.

There were, first, three boys, now at home from school for the holidays.

They were called, respectively, Charles James, Henry, and Samuel.

The two younger (there were five in all) were girls; the elder, Florinda, bore the name of the Archbishop of York's wife, whose godchild she was: and the younger had been christened Grizzel, after a sister of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The boys were all clever, and gave good promise of being well able to meet the cares and trials of the world; and yet they were not alike in their dispositions, and each had his individual character, and each his separate admirers among the doctor's friends.
Charles James was an exact and careful boy; he never committed himself; he well knew how much was expected from the eldest son of the Archdeacon of Barchester, and was therefore mindful not to mix too freely with other boys.