"
"Heighty-tighty!" said her ladyship.
"Whether or no he is right in going to the Duke of Omnium's, I will
not pretend to judge. He is the judge of his own actions, and neither
you nor I."
"And when he leaves you with the butcher's bill unpaid and no money
to buy shoes for the children, who will be the judge then?"
"Not you, Lady Lufton. If such bad days should ever come--and neither
you nor I have a right to expect them--I will not come to you in my
troubles; not after this."
"Very well, my dear. You may go to the Duke of Omnium if that suits
you better."
"Fanny, come away," said Lady Meredith. "Why should you try to anger
my mother?"
"I don't want to anger her; but I won't hear him abused in that way
without speaking up for him. If I don't defend him, who will? Lady
Lufton has said terrible things about him; and they are not true."
"Oh, Fanny!" said Justinia.
"Very well, very well!" said Lady Lufton. "This is the sort of return
that one gets."
"I don't know what you mean by return, Lady Lufton: but would you
wish me to stand by quietly and hear such things said of my husband?
He does not live with such people as you have named. He does not
neglect his duties. If every clergyman were as much in his parish,
it would be well for some of them.
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