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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER XV 'YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT I AM HIS MOTHER'
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He has got a little cottage about a mile from here, in this parish, and does duty both at Beccles and Bungay.

I used to know something of his family.' 'He is a gentleman then ?' 'Certainly he is a gentleman.

He took his degree at Oxford, and then became what we call a pervert, and what I suppose they call a convert.
He has not got a shilling in the world beyond what they pay him as a priest, which I take it amounts to about as much as the wages of a day labourer.

He told me the other day that he was absolutely forced to buy second-hand clothes.' 'How shocking!' said Lady Carbury, holding up her hands.
'He didn't seem to be at all shocked at telling it.

We have got to be quite friends.' 'Will the bishop like to meet him ?' 'Why should not the bishop like to meet him?
I've told the bishop all about him, and the bishop particularly wishes to know him.


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