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268 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

" I had your letter yesterday, and I came<br />

tliis morning ; I suppose this most miser-<br />

able affair is in all the papers, even the<br />

London ones ?"<br />

" Yes, I think so ; it is a matter they<br />

would not be likely to pass over."<br />

" Won't—won't you take luncheon ?" and<br />

the Bishop pointed to the well-spread table.<br />

T<strong>her</strong>e was the honour, if not the life <strong>of</strong> his<br />

son at stake, but still the conventionaHties<br />

must be observed—even Price felt this as<br />

he said, " S<strong>her</strong>ry or claret, sir T<br />

Temple declined both food and wine, and<br />

the Bishop leaning back, looked mournfully<br />

at Maurice. Perhaps his conscience smote<br />

him as he regarded the son who, before<br />

this, had been such a thorn in his side.<br />

What were his outbreaks ? what was all<br />

the publicity he had incurred—all his<br />

aberrations and deviations from the safe and<br />

well-ordered course in which his fat<strong>her</strong> had<br />

thought fit to move, to this ? His heart

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