A clergyman
is as privileged to enter the bedroom of a sick lady as is a doctor or a
cousin. There was another clean cap, and another laced handkerchief, and
on this occasion a little shawl over Lizzie's shoulders. Mr. Emilius first
said a prayer, kneeling at Lizzie's bedside; then he read a chapter in the
Bible; and after that he read the first half of the fourth canto of Childe
Harold so well, that Lizzie felt for the moment that after all poetry was
life, and life was poetry.
CHAPTER LIV
"I SUPPOSE I MAY SAY A WORD"
The second robbery to which Lady Eustace had been subjected by no means
decreased the interest which was attached to her and her concerns in the
fashionable world. Parliament had now met, and the party at Matching
Priory, Lady Glencora Palliser's party in the country, had been to some
extent broken up. All those gentlemen who were engaged in the service of
Her Majesty's Government had necessarily gone to London, and they who had
wives at Matching had taken their wives with them. Mr. and Mrs. Bonteen
had seen the last of their holiday; Mr. Palliser himself was, of course,
at his post; and all the private secretaries were with the public
secretaries on the scene of action.
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