"
"Very well, my dear, I dare say you know better than I; but to me it
looks extremely like hypocrisy; eh, Justinia?
"Oh, mamma, do be moderate."
"Moderate! That's all very well. How is one to moderate one's
feelings when one has been betrayed?"
"You do not mean that Mr. Robarts has betrayed you?" said the wife.
"Oh, no; of course not." And then she went on reading the letter:
"'Seem to have been standing in judgement upon the duke.' Might he
not use the same argument as to going into any house in the kingdom,
however infamous? We must all stand in judgement one upon another in
that sense. 'Crawley!' Yes; if he were a little more like Mr. Crawley
it would be a good thing for me, and for the parish, and for you too,
my dear. God forgive me for bringing him here; that's all."
"Lady Lufton, I must say that you are very hard upon him--very hard.
I did not expect it from such a friend."
"My dear, you ought to know me well enough to be sure that I shall
speak my mind. 'Written to Jones'--yes; it is easy enough to write to
poor Jones. He had better write to Jones, and bid him do the whole
duty. Then he can go and be the duke's domestic chaplain."
"I believe my husband does as much of his own duty as any clergyman
in the whole diocese," said Mrs.
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