Thumble

Thumble had been enabled to put together a not altogether false picture of what had occurred.

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The bishop had hardly finished his letter when Mrs Proudie returned to the study, followed by the Rev Caleb Thumble.

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Thumble was bound to go to Hogglestock; and, when Mr Thumble declared petulantly the he would not stir a step out of Barchester,

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Crawley and Thumble question, and he tried to alleviate the misery which the last interview with his wife now created by assuring himself that he at least been justified in what he had done.

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Thumble, that the bishop will never be found interfering with the ordinary laws of the land.

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Thumble, hardly knowing what he was about, followed the woman into the bedroom, and there he found himself standing awe-struck before the corpse of her who had so lately been the presiding spirit of the palace.

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Very likely Thumble is one of them; but of that you will be the best judge yourself.

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He knew ‘Lycidas’ by heart; and as for Thumble, he felt quite sure that Thumble was incompetent of understanding a single allusion in that divine poem.

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Thumble asked no more questions about the Hogglestock school.

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But I do not perceive that I owe it as a duty to either to obey implicitly their injunctions, and I will not submit myself to the cross-questioning of the man Thumble.

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