5/28 A man must have some amusement, even if he be an archbishop." "He has amusement at home," Lady Lufton would answer. "What does his wife do--and his sister ?" This allusion to Lucy, however, was very soon dropped. He would not even passively discourage the vicar, or refrain from offering to give him a seat in going to the meets. Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself; and then what was the harm of it? He had taken himself to task more than once, and had promised himself that he would not become a sporting parson. |