Both the archbishops take rank of me. I never
quite understood why that was, but they do. And these things never can be
altered when they're once settled. It's quite absurd nowadays since
they've cut the archbishops down so terribly. They were princes once, I
suppose, and had great power. But it's quite absurd now, and so they must
feel it. I have often thought about that a good deal, Glencora."
"And I think about poor Mrs. Arch, who hasn't got any rank at all."
"A great prelate having a wife does seem to be an absurdity," said Madame
Max, who had passed some years of her life in a Catholic country.
"And the man is a cad; is he?" asked the duke.
"A Bohemian Jew, duke, an impostor who has come over here to make a
fortune. We hear that he has a wife in Prague, and probably two or three
elsewhere. But he has got poor little Lizzie Eustace and all her money
into his grasp, and they who know him say that he's likely to keep it."
"Dear, dear, dear!"
"Barrington says that the best spec he knows out, for a younger son, would
be to go to Prague for the former wife and bring her back, with evidence
of the marriage. The poor little woman could not fail of being grateful to
the hero who would liberate her.
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