2/33 But it was impossible (with my religious views) to rouse myself in a few days only from the shock which this death had caused me. I was informed, moreover, that the rector of Frizinghall was to read the service. Having myself in past times seen this clerical castaway making one of the players at Lady Verinder's whist-table, I doubt, even if I had been fit to travel, whether I should have felt justified in attending the ceremony. He was appointed guardian by the will, until his niece married, or came of age. Under these circumstances, Mr.Godfrey informed his father, I suppose, of the new relation in which he stood towards Rachel. |