[Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookScenes of Clerical Life CHAPTER 3 11/28
It is a great privilege for us, Mr. Tryan living at Mrs.Wagstaff's, for he is often able to take us on his way backwards and forwards into the town.' 'I wonder if there's another man in the world who has been brought up as Mr.Tryan has, that would choose to live in those small close rooms on the common, among heaps of dirty cottages, for the sake of being near the poor people,' said Mrs.Pettifer.
'I'm afraid he hurts his health by it; he looks to me far from strong.' 'Ah,' said Miss Pratt, 'I understand he is of a highly respectable family indeed, in Huntingdonshire.
I heard him myself speak of his father's carriage--quite incidentally, you know--and Eliza tells me what very fine cambric handkerchiefs he uses.
My eyes are not good enough to see such things, but I know what breeding is as well as most people, and it is easy to see that Mr.Tryan is quite _comme il faw_, to use a French expression.' 'I should like to tell him better nor use fine cambric i' this place, where there's such washing, it's a shame to be seen,' said Mrs.Linnet; 'he'll get 'em tore to pieces.
Good lawn 'ud be far better.
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