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THE BISHOPS TROUBLES. 265<br />

nothing but sit and make believe to eat<br />

lunch, and wait for Temple Masters to come<br />

and tell him what else t<strong>her</strong>e was for him<br />

to do.<br />

Maurice was pretty well as helpless as his<br />

fat<strong>her</strong>. He had hurried from Tring that<br />

naorning as soon as the post had brought<br />

him the letter desiring him to meet the<br />

Bishop at Wearmouth ; but now he had<br />

come, what could he do ?—only tell tis<br />

Lordship that he had seen Audley the day<br />

before, and that he was in as good spirits<br />

as could be expected <strong>of</strong> him ; that if Temple<br />

Masters took the thing up, and went on<br />

with it, he would be sure to pull him<br />

through; and then sit and sip the dry s<strong>her</strong>ry,<br />

and crumble up pellets <strong>of</strong> bread, and wish<br />

Temple would come in and put an end to<br />

the tete-d-tete with his fat<strong>her</strong>.<br />

What could he talk about? What<br />

could they say one to the ot<strong>her</strong> ? The con-<br />

solations with which people in a lower class

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