In fact,
some might not be so well pleased to meet him.'
The Bishop took the opportunity of trying to learn from the next
person he fell in with, namely, Mr. Ryder, how Felix had lowered
himself; and received an answer that showed a good deal of the
schoolmaster's disappointment, but certainly did not show any sense
of Felix's degradation. And what he said was afterwards amplified by
Mr. Audley, whom the Bishop took apart, and questioned him with much
interest upon both Ferdinand Travis and the Underwood family, of whom
he had only heard, when, immediately after his appointment, his vote
for the orphan school had been solicited for the two boys, and he had
been asked to subscribe to the Comment on the Philippians. Mr Audley
felt that he had a sympathising listener, and was not slow to tell
the whole story of the family--what the father had been, what Felix
now was, and how his influence and that of little Lancelot had told
upon their young inmate. The Bishop listened with emotion, and said,
'I must see that boy! Is the mother in a state in which she would
like a call from me?' but there an interruption had come; and when
the country clergy came in the morning, Mr.
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