He had inherited from his father enough of that longing for ascendancy among those around him to make him feel that in such circumstances he would be wretched.

But he would be made more wretched by the self-knowledge that he had behaved badly to the girl he loved; and the world beyond Barsetshire was open to him.

He would take her with him to Canada, to New Zealand, or to some other far-away country, and there begin his life again.

Should his father choose to punish him for so doing by disinheriting him, they would be poor enough; but, in his present frame of mind, the major was able to regard such poverty as honourable and not altogether disagreeable.
He had been out shooting all day at Chaldicotes, with Dr.Thorne and a party who were staying in the house there, and had been talking about Mr.Crawley, first with one man and then with another.

Lord Lufton had been there, and young Gresham from Greshamsbury, and Mr.
Robarts the clergyman, and news had come among them of the attempt made by the bishop to stop Mr.Crawley from preaching.