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Out of her sphere - University Library

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A BOLD GAME PLAYED IN VAIN. 57<br />

decided upon coming, although Clare was<br />

in the house. He had had a telegram<br />

from the Palace at Drowsehead to-day,<br />

summoning him t<strong>her</strong>e. The Bishop had<br />

gout, which threatened to fly to the sto-<br />

mach. But whenever the Bishop did have<br />

gout, it always threatened to fly to that<br />

sensitive portion <strong>of</strong> his frame, and the<br />

Bishop trembled accordingly, and gat<strong>her</strong>ed<br />

his children round him, and prepared to<br />

resign himself to his latter end as it behoved<br />

a dignitary <strong>of</strong> the Church to do. This time<br />

the attack had been rat<strong>her</strong> more serious<br />

than usual, and the Bishop being alarmed<br />

accordingly, both Maurice and Audley Dale<br />

had been sent for, and the former was now<br />

making his way to the Palace, sure <strong>of</strong> find-<br />

ing in the precincts <strong>of</strong> Drowsehead some<br />

supply for his pulpit ; and the latter, having<br />

obtained leave <strong>of</strong> absence from his colonel,<br />

had now sought the Rectory <strong>of</strong> St. Hilda,<br />

in the hope <strong>of</strong> seeing Mrs. Thornton, and

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