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262 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

We wrote yesterday, desiring him to meet<br />

us, and Mr. Maurice is vnth. him. We<br />

found him <strong>her</strong>e on our arrival. But he is<br />

not—he certainly is not," said Price,<br />

mournfully, "the comfort that we might<br />

have expected him to be to his lordship<br />

under the present trying circumstances."<br />

Price went up first, with a mournful<br />

dignity that was all his own, to us<strong>her</strong><br />

Temple Masters into his lordship's presence.<br />

He would have liked, if Mr. Masters could<br />

but have been brought to see how desirable<br />

it was that he should be so, to have been<br />

consulted by that gentleman in the present<br />

melancholy state <strong>of</strong> affairs ; to have said<br />

what it would be advisable to do, and what<br />

to refrain from doing ; to have hinted how<br />

much the Bishop could bear, and how much<br />

it would be best to spare him. Such an<br />

avalanche <strong>of</strong> misfortune had fallen on his<br />

lordship, that Price felt as if he must try<br />

and stand with uplifted hands to keep it.

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