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THE BISHOP'S TROUBLES. 267<br />

all its tragic horror, t<strong>her</strong>e was an element<br />

<strong>of</strong> coarseness and vulgarity in it, with which<br />

theyhad never contemplated that any sorrow<br />

or trouble likely to befall them, could possibly<br />

be allied. They were brought down to the<br />

level <strong>of</strong> the common <strong>her</strong>d at once ; and with<br />

all his Utopian E/adicalism, Maurice Dale<br />

was sufficiently a patrician to feel this al-<br />

most as keenly as his fat<strong>her</strong>, to whose un-<br />

stained, decorous life, the event that 'had<br />

happened was a shock so great, that even<br />

yet, in its full extent, it was almost incre-<br />

dible.<br />

They looked eagerly to Temple Masters<br />

when he came in. Price followed him. If<br />

Price had not been allowed to prepare his<br />

master for this interview, at any rate he<br />

was going to support him through it. He<br />

came up to the Bishop now, and poured him<br />

out a half tumbler <strong>of</strong> wine diluted with<br />

a little water, and the ot<strong>her</strong> drank it, and<br />

then turned to Temple Masters.

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