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The Last Chronicle of Barset

CHAPTER XVII
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For myself, I rarely break bread in any house but my own; and as to the horse, I have none.
I have the honour to be, My lord, &c.

&c., JOSIAH CRAWLEY.
"Of course I shall go," he had said to his wife as soon as he had had time to read the letter, and make known to her the contents.

"I shall go if it be possible for me to get there.

I think that I am bound to comply with the bishop's wishes in so much as that." "But how will you get there, Josiah ?" "I will walk,--with the Lord's aid." Now Hogglestock was fifteen miles from Barchester, and Mr.Crawley was, as his wife well knew, by no means fitted in his present state for great physical exertion.

But from the tone in which he had replied to her, she well knew that it would not avail for her to remonstrate at the moment.


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