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Excerpt from The Last Chronicle of Barset, Vol. 3
He can hardly be staying there, said Mrs. Grantly because I know that he is so very busy at home. The business at home of which the major's mother was speaking was his projected moving from Cosby Lodge, a subject which was also very odious to the archdeacon. He did not wish his son to move from Cosby Lodge. He could not endure the idea that his son Should be known throughout the county to be giving up a resi dence because he could not afford to keep it. The archdeacon could have afforded to keep up two Cosby Lodges for his son, and would have been well pleased to do so, if only his son would not misbehave against him so shamefully! He could not bear that his son Should be punished, Openly, before the eyes of all Bar setshire. Indeed, he did not wish that his son should be punished at all. He Simply desired that his son should recognise his father's power to in?ict punish ment. It would be henbane to Archdeacon Grantly to have a poor son, - a son living at Pau, - among Frenchmen, - because he could not afford to live in England! Why had the archdeacon been careful of his money, adding house to house and field to field?
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