Everybody round us is talking about it." "No, Mr.Crawley; not two or three times a week; very seldom above once, I think.

And then I do believe he does it more with the view of being with Lord Lufton than anything else." "I cannot see that that would make the matter better," said Mr.
Crawley.
"It would show that he was not strongly imbued with a taste which I cannot but regard as vicious in a clergyman." "It must be vicious in all men," said Mr.Crawley.

"It is in itself cruel, and leads to idleness and profligacy." Again Lady Lufton made a gulp.

She had called Mr.Crawley thither to her aid, and felt that it would be inexpedient to quarrel with him.

But she did not like to be told that her son's amusement was idle and profligate.