Sowerby some little time
since, with the object of obliging him. He, Mark, intended to sell
him again, as soon as he could do so judiciously." This, as I have
said above, was not satisfactory. Neither of the two ladies at
Framley parsonage knew much about horses, or of the manner in which
one gentleman might think it proper to oblige another by purchasing
the superfluities of his stable; but they did both feel that there
were horses enough in the parsonage stable without Dandy, and that
the purchasing of a hunter with a view of immediately selling him
again, was, to say the least of it, an operation hardly congenial
with the usual tastes and pursuits of a clergyman. "I hope you did
not give very much money for him, Mark," said Fanny.
"Not more than I shall get again," said Mark; and Fanny saw from the
form of his countenance that she had better not pursue the subject
any further at that moment.
"I suppose I shall have to go into residence almost immediately,"
said Mark, recurring to the more agreeable subject of the stall.
"And shall we all have to go and live at Barchester at once?" asked
Lucy.
"The house will not be furnished, will it, Mark!" said his wife. "I
don't know how we shall get on."
"Don't frighten yourselves.
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