"The place ought to be too hot to hold him!"
exclaimed the Senator indignantly. The rector seemed to think it
possible that he might find it uncomfortable at first, in which
case he would sell the land at a good price to Lord Rufford and
every one concerned would have been benefited by the transaction,--
except Scrobby for whom no one would feel any pity.
The two gentlemen then promised to come and dine with the rector on
the following day. He feared he said that he could not make up a
party as there was, he declared,--nobody in Dillsborough. "I never
knew such a place," said the rector. "Except old Nupper, who is
there? Masters is a very decent fellow himself, but he has got out
of that kind of thing;--and you can't ask a man without asking his
wife. As for clergymen, I'm sick of dining with my own cloth and
discussing the troubles of sermons. There never was such a place as
Dillsborough." Then he whispered a word to the Squire. Was the
Squire unwilling to meet his cousin Reginald Morton? Things were
said and people never knew what was true and what was false. Then
John Morton declared that he would be very happy to meet his
cousin.
CHAPTER XV
Mr. Mainwaring's little Dinner
The company at the rector's house consisted of the Senator, the two
Mortons, Mr. Surtees the curate, and old Doctor Nupper.
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