Ewold's, in East Barsetshire, and had not yet got
himself settled there when he married the Widow Bold, a widow with
belongings in land and funded money, and with but one small baby as
an encumbrance. Nor had he even yet married her, had only engaged
himself so to do, when they made him Dean of Barchester--all which
may be read in the diocesan and county chronicles. And now that he
was wealthy, the new dean did contrive to pay the debts of his poor
friend, some lawyer of Camelford assisting him. It was but a paltry
schedule after all, amounting in the total to something not much
above a hundred pounds. And then, in the course of eighteen months,
this poor piece of preferment fell in the dean's way, this incumbency
of Hogglestock with its stipend reaching one hundred and thirty
pounds a year. Even that was worth double the Cornish curacy, and
there was, moreover, a house attached to it. Poor Mrs. Crawley, when
she heard of it, thought that their struggles of poverty were now
wellnigh over. What might not be done with a hundred and thirty
pounds by people who had lived for ten years on seventy?
And so they moved away out of that cold, bleak country, carrying with
them their humble household gods, and settled themselves in another
country, cold and bleak also, but less terribly so than the former.
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