28/30 If the squire would put up John during a part of his visit it would be a kindness to John himself, and an economy to the vicarage. Mr.Ambrose himself would not have gone to such a length; but then, as his wife said to herself in self-defence, Augustin did not pay the butcher's bills, and did not know how the money went. She did not say that Augustin was precisely what is called reckless, but he of course did not understand economy as she did. How should he, poor man, with all his sermons and his funerals and other occupations to take his mind off? "That would be too good of you, Mr.Juxon. |