But Mrs Proudie's face was still dark as Acheron when her enemy
withdrew, and with angry tone she sent her daughter to her work. "Mr.
Tickler will have great reason to complain if, in your position, you
indulge such habits of idleness," she said. Therefore I conceive that
I am justified in saying that in that encounter Mrs. Grantly was the
conqueror.
CHAPTER XLI
Don Quixote
On the day on which Lucy had her interview with Lady Lufton the dean
dined at Framley parsonage. He and Robarts had known each other
since the latter had been in the diocese, and now, owing to Mark's
preferment in the chapter, had become almost intimate. The dean was
greatly pleased with the manner in which poor Mr. Crawley's children
had been conveyed away from Hogglestock, and was inclined to open his
heart to the whole Framley household. As he still had to ride home
he could only allow himself to remain half an hour after dinner, but
in that half-hour he said a great deal about Crawley, complimented
Robarts on the manner in which he was playing the part of the Good
Samaritan, and then by degrees informed him that it had come to his,
the dean's, ears, before he left Barchester, that a writ was in the
hands of certain persons in the city, enabling them to seize--he did
not know whether it was the person or the property of the vicar of
Framley.
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