12/26 It is undoubtedly the fact that you must at the next assizes surrender yourself at the court-house yonder, to be tried for this offence against the laws." "That is true. If I be alive, my lord, and have strength sufficient, I shall be there." "You must be there," said Mrs.Proudie. "The police will look to that, Mr.Crawley." She was becoming very angry in that the man would not answer her a word. On this occasion again he did not even look at her. "Now that is, to say the least of it, an unseemly position for a beneficed clergyman." "You said before, my lord, that it was an unfortunate position, and the word, methinks, was better chosen." "It is very unseemly, very unseemly indeed," said Mrs.Proudie; "nothing could possibly be more unseemly. |