voicewhich
clearly
implies
that
the
speaker
is
not
thinking
of
the
words
spoken
.
"
And
Kate
has
now
left
you
?
"
"
Yes
;
she
is
with
her
aunt
,
at
the
seaside
.
"
"
So
I
understand
;
—
and
your
cousin
George
?
"
"
I
never
know
much
of
George
's
movements
.
He
may
be
in
Town
,
but
I
have
not
seen
him
since
I
came
back
.
"
"
Ah
!
that
is
the
way
with
friends
living
in
London
.
Unless
circumstances
bring
them
together
,
they
are
in
fact
further
apart
than
if
they
lived
fifty
miles
asunder
in
the
country
.
And
he
managed
to
get
through
all
the
trouble
without
losing
your
luggage
for
you
very
often
?
"
"
If
you
were
to
say
that
we
did
not
lose
his
,
that
would
be
nearer
the
mark
.
But
,
John
,
you
have
come
up
to
London
in
this
sudden
way
to
speak
to
me
about
my
letter
to
you
.
Is
it
not
so
?
"
"
Certainly
it
is
so
.
Certainly
I
have
.
"
"
I
have
thought
much
,
since
,
of
what
I
then
wrote
,
very
much
,
—
very
much
,
indeed
;
and
I
have
learned
to
feel
sure
that
we
had
better
—
"
"
Stop
,
Alice
;
stop
a
moment
,
love
.
Do
not
speak
hurriedly
.
Shall
I
tell
you
what
I
learned
from
your
letter
?
"
"
Yes
;
tell
me
,
if
you
think
it
better
that
you
should
do
so
.
"
"
Perhaps
it
may
be
better
.
I
learned
,
love
,
that
something
had
been
said
or
done
during
your
journey
,
—
or
perhaps
only
something
thought
,
that
had
made
you
melancholy
,
and
filled
your
mind
for
a
while
with
those
unsubstantial
and
indefinable
regrets
for
the
past
which
we
are
all
apt
to
feel
at
certain
moments
of
our
life
.
There
are
few
of
us
who
do
not
encounter
,
now
and
again
,
some
of
that
irrational
spirit
of
sadness
which
,
when
over-indulged
,
drives
men
to
madness
and
self-destruction
.
I
used
to
know
well
what
it
was
before
I
knew
you
;
but
since
I
have
had
the
hope
of
having
you
in
my
house
,
I
have
banished
it
utterly
.
In
that
I
think
I
have
been
stronger
than
you
.
Do
not
speak
under
the
influence
of
that
spirit
till
you
have
thought
whether
you
,
too
,
cannot
banish
it
.
"
"
I
have
tried
,
and
it
will
not
be
banished
.
"
"
Try
again
,
Alice
.
It
is
a
damned
spirit
,
and
belongs
neither
to
heaven
nor
to
earth
.
Do
not
say
to
me
the
words
that
you
were
about
to
say
till
you
have
wrestled
with
it
manfully
.
I
think
I
know
what
those
words
were
to
be
.
If
you
love
me
,
those
words
should
not
be
spoken
.
If
you
do
not
—
"
"
If
I
do
not
love
you
,
I
love
no
one
upon
earth
.
"
"
I
believe
it
.
I
believe
it
as
I
believe
in
my
own
love
for
you
.
I
trust
your
love
implicitly
,
Alice
.
I
know
that
you
love
me
.
I
think
I
can
read
your
mind
.
Tell
me
that
I
may
return
to
Cambridgeshire
,
and
again
plead
my
cause
for
an
early
marriage
from
thence
.
I
will
not
take
such
speech
from
you
to
mean
more
than
it
says
!
"
She
sat
quiet
,
looking
at
him
—
looking
full
into
his
face
.
She
had
in
nowise
changed
her
mind
,
but
after
such
words
from
him
,
she
did
not
know
how
to
declare
to
him
her
resolution
.
There
was
something
in
his
manner
that
awed
her
,
—
and
something
also
that
softened
her
.
"
Tell
me
,
"
said
he
,
"
that
I
may
see
you
again
to-morrow
morning
in
our
usual
quiet
,
loving
way
,
and
that
I
may
return
home
to-morrow
evening
.
Pronounce
a
yea
to
that
speech
from
me
,
and
I
will
ask
for
nothing
further
.
"
"
No
;
I
cannot
do
so
,
"
she
said
.
And
the
tone
of
her
voice
,
as
she
spoke
,
was
different
to
any
tone
that
he
had
heard
before
from
her
mouth
.
"
Is
that
melancholy
fiend
too
strong
for
you
?
"
He
smiled
as
he
said
this
,
and
as
he
smiled
,
he
took
her
hand
.
She
did
not
attempt
to
withdraw
it
,
but
sat
by
him
in
a
strange
calmness
,
looking
straight
before
her
into
the
middle
of
the
room
.
"
You
have
not
struggled
with
it
.
You
know
,
as
I
do
,
that
it
is
a
bad
fiend
and
a
wicked
one
,
—
a
fiend
that
is
prompting
you
to
the
worst
cruelty
in
the
world
.
Alice
!
Alice
!
Alice
!
Try
to
think
of
all
this
as
though
some
other
person
were
concerned
.
If
it
were
your
friend
,
what
advice
would
you
give
her
?
"
"
I
would
bid
her
tell
the
man
who
had
loved
her
,
—
that
is
,
if
he
were
noble
,
good
,
and
great
,
—
that
she
found
herself
to
be
unfit
to
be
his
wife
;
and
then
I
would
bid
her
ask
his
pardon
humbly
on
her
knees
.
"
As
she
said
this
,
she
sank
before
him
on
to
the
floor
,
and
looked
up
into
his
face
with
an
expression
of
sad
contrition
which
almost
drew
him
from
his
purposed
firmness
.
He
had
purposed
to
be
firm
,
—
to
yield
to
her
in
nothing
,
resolving
to
treat
all
that
she
might
say
as
the
hallucination
of
a
sickened
imagination
,
—
as
the
effect
of
absolute
want
of
health
,
for
which
some
change
in
her
mode
of
life
would
be
the
best
cure
.
She
might
bid
him
begone
in
what
language
she
would
.
He
knew
well
that
such
was
her
intention
.
But
he
would
not
allow
a
word
coming
from
her
in
such
a
way
to
disturb
arrangements
made
for
the
happiness
of
their
joint
lives
.
As
a
loving
husband
would
treat
a
wife
,
who
,
in
some
exceptionable
moment
of
a
melancholy
malady
,
should
declare
herself
unable
to
remain
longer
in
her
home
,
so
would
he
treat
her
.
As
for
accepting
what
she
might
say
as
his
dismissal
,
he
would
as
soon
think
of
taking
the
fruit-trees
from
the
southern
wall
because
the
sun
sometimes
shines
from
the
north
.
He
could
not
treat
either
his
interests
or
hers
so
lightly
as
that
.
"
But
what
if
he
granted
no
such
pardon
,
Alice
?
I
will
grant
none
such
.
You
are
my
wife
,
my
own
,
my
dearest
,
my
chosen
one
.
You
are
all
that
I
value
in
the
world
,
my
treasure
and
my
comfort
,
my
earthly
happiness
and
my
gleam
of
something
better
that
is
to
come
hereafter
.
Do
you
think
that
I
shall
let
you
go
from
me
in
that
way
?
No
,
love
.
If
you
are
ill
I
will
wait
till
your
illness
is
gone
by
;
and
,
if
you
will
let
me
,
I
will
be
your
nurse
.
"
"
I
am
not
ill.
"
"
Not
ill
with
any
defined
sickness
.
You
do
not
shake
with
ague
,
nor
does
your
head
rack
you
with
aching
;
but
yet
you
may
be
ill.
Think
of
what
has
passed
between
us
.
Must
you
not
be
ill
when
you
seek
to
put
an
end
to
all
that
without
any
cause
assigned
.
"
"
You
will
not
hear
my
reasons
,
"
—
she
was
still
kneeling
before
him
and
looking
up
into
his
face
.
"
I
will
hear
them
if
you
will
tell
me
that
they
refer
to
any
supposed
faults
of
my
own
.
"
"
No
,
no
,
no
!
"
"
Then
I
will
not
hear
them
.
It
is
for
me
to
find
out
your
faults
,
and
when
I
have
found
out
any
that
require
complaint
,
I
will
come
and
make
it
.
Dear
Alice
,
I
wish
you
knew
how
I
long
for
you
.
"
Then
he
put
his
hand
upon
her
hair
,
as
though
he
would
caress
her
.
But
this
she
would
not
suffer
,
so
she
rose
slowly
,
and
stood
with
her
hand
upon
the
table
in
the
middle
of
the
room
.
"
Mr.
Grey
—
"
she
said
.
"
If
you
will
call
me
so
,
I
shall
think
it
only
a
part
of
your
malady
.
"
"
Mr.
Grey
,
"
she
continued
,
"
I
can
only
hope
that
you
will
take
me
at
my
word
.
"
"
Oh
,
but
I
will
not
;
certainly
I
will
not
,
if
that
would
be
adverse
to
my
own
interests
.
"
"
I
am
thinking
of
your
interests
;
I
am
,
indeed
;
—
at
any
rate
as
much
as
of
my
own
.
I
feel
quite
sure
that
I
should
not
make
you
happy
as
your
wife
,
—
quite
sure
;
and
feeling
that
,
I
think
that
I
am
right
,
even
after
all
that
has
passed
,
to
ask
your
forgiveness
,
and
to
beg
that
our
engagement
may
be
over
.
"
"
No
,
Alice
,
no
;
never
with
my
consent
.
I
cannot
tell
you
with
what
contentment
I
would
marry
you
to-morrow
,
—
to-morrow
,
or
next
month
,
or
the
month
after
.
But
if
it
cannot
be
so
,
then
I
will
wait
.
Nothing
but
your
marriage
with
some
one
else
would
convince
me
.
"
"
I
cannot
convince
you
in
that
way
,
"
she
said
,
smiling
.
"
You
will
convince
me
in
no
other
.
You
have
not
spoken
to
your
father
of
this
as
yet
?
"
"
Not
as
yet
.
"
"
Do
not
do
so
,
at
any
rate
for
the
present
.
You
will
own
that
it
might
be
possible
that
you
would
have
to
unsay
what
you
had
said
.
"
"
No
;
it
is
not
possible
.
"
"
Give
yourself
and
me
the
chance
.
It
can
do
no
harm
.
And
,
Alice
,
I
ask
you
now
for
no
reasons
.
I
will
not
ask
your
reasons
,
or
even
listen
to
them
,
because
I
do
not
believe
that
they
will
long
have
effect
even
on
yourself
.
Do
you
still
think
of
going
to
Cheltenham
?
"
"
I
have
decided
nothing
as
yet
.
"
"
If
I
were
you
,
I
would
go
.
I
think
a
change
of
air
would
be
good
for
you
.
"
"
Yes
;
you
treat
me
as
though
I
were
partly
silly
,
and
partly
insane
;
but
it
is
not
so
.
The
change
you
speak
of
should
be
in
my
nature
,
and
in
yours
.
"
He
shook
his
head
and
still
smiled
.
There
was
something
in
the
imperturbed
security
of
his
manner
which
almost
made
her
angry
with
him
.
It
seemed
as
though
he
assumed
so
great
a
superiority
that
he
felt
himself
able
to
treat
any
resolve
of
hers
as
the
petulance
of
a
child
.
And
though
he
spoke
in
strong
language
of
his
love
,
and
of
his
longing
that
she
should
come
to
him
,
yet
he
was
so
well
able
to
command
his
feelings
,
that
he
showed
no
sign
of
grief
at
the
communication
she
had
made
to
him
.
She
did
not
doubt
his
love
,
but
she
believed
him
to
be
so
much
the
master
of
his
love
,
—
as
he
was
the
master
of
everything
else
,
that
her
separation
from
him
would
cause
him
no
uncontrollable
grief
.
In
that
she
utterly
failed
to
understand
his
character
.
Had
she
known
him
better
,
she
might
have
been
sure
that
such
a
separation
now
would
with
him
have
carried
its
mark
to
the
grave
.
Should
he
submit
to
her
decision
,
he
would
go
home
and
settle
himself
to
his
books
the
next
day
;
but
on
no
following
day
would
he
be
again
capable
of
walking
forth
among
his
flowers
with
an
easy
heart
.
He
was
a
strong
,
constant
man
,
perhaps
over-conscious
of
his
own
strength
;
but
then
his
strength
was
great
.
"
He
is
perfect
!
"
Alice
had
said
to
herself
often
.
"
Oh
that
he
were
less
perfect
!
"
He
did
not
stay
with
her
long
after
the
last
word
that
has
been
recorded
.
"
Perhaps
,
"
he
said
,
as
for
a
moment
he
held
her
hand
at
parting
,
"
I
had
better
not
come
to-morrow
.
"
"
No
,
no
;
it
is
better
not
.
"
"
I
advise
you
not
to
tell
your
father
of
this
,
and
doubtless
you
will
think
of
it
before
you
do
so
.
But
if
you
do
tell
him
,
let
me
know
that
you
have
done
so
.
"
"
Why
that
?
"
"
Because
in
such
case
I
also
must
see
him
.
God
bless
you
,
Alice
!
God
bless
you
,
dearest
,
dearest
Alice
!
"
Then
he
went
,
and
she
sat
there
on
the
sofa
without
moving
,
till
she
heard
her
father
's
feet
as
he
came
up
the
stairs
.
"
What
,
Alice
,
are
you
not
in
bed
yet
?
"
"
Not
yet
,
papa
.
"
"
And
so
John
Grey
has
been
here
.
He
has
left
his
stick
in
the
hall
.
I
should
know
it
among
a
thousand
.
"
"
Yes
;
he
has
been
here
.
"
"
Is
anything
the
matter
,
Alice
?
"
"
No
,
papa
,
nothing
is
the
matter
.
"
"
He
has
not
made
himself
disagreeable
,
has
he
?
"
"
Not
in
the
least
.
He
never
does
anything
wrong
.
He
may
defy
man
or
woman
to
find
fault
with
him
.
"
"
So
that
is
it
,
is
it
?
He
is
just
a
shade
too
good
.
Well
,
I
have
always
thought
that
myself
.
But
it
's
a
fault
on
the
right
side
.
"
"
It
's
no
fault
,
Papa
.
If
there
be
any
fault
,
it
is
not
with
him
.
But
I
am
yawning
and
tired
,
and
I
will
go
to
bed
.
"
"
Is
he
to
be
here
to-morrow
?
"
"
No
;
he
returns
to
Nethercoats
early
.
Good
night
,
papa
.
"
Mr.
Vavasor
,
as
he
went
up
to
his
bedroom
,
felt
sure
that
there
had
been
something
wrong
between
his
daughter
and
her
lover
.
"
I
do
n't
know
how
she
'll
ever
put
up
with
him
,
"
he
said
to
himself
,
"
he
is
so
terribly
conceited
.
I
shall
never
forget
how
he
went
on
about
Charles
Kemble
,
and
what
a
fool
he
made
of
himself
.
"
Alice
,
before
she
went
to
bed
,
sat
down
and
wrote
a
letter
to
her
cousin
Kate
.
CHAPTER
XII
.
Mr.
George
Vavasor
at
Home
.
It
cannot
perhaps
fairly
be
said
that
George
Vavasor
was
an
unhospitable
man
,
seeing
that
it
was
his
custom
to
entertain
his
friends
occasionally
at
Greenwich
,
Richmond
,
or
such
places
;
and
he
would
now
and
again
have
a
friend
to
dine
with
him
at
his
club
.
But
he
never
gave
breakfasts
,
dinners
,
or
suppers
under
his
own
roof
.
During
a
short
period
of
his
wine-selling
career
,
at
which
time
he
had
occupied
handsome
rooms
over
his
place
of
business
in
New
Burlington
Street
,
he
had
presided
at
certain
feasts
given
to
customers
or
expectant
customers
by
the
firm
;
but
he
had
not
found
this
employment
to
his
taste
,
and
had
soon
relinquished
it
to
one
of
the
other
partners
.
Since
that
he
had
lived
in
lodgings
in
Cecil
Street
,
—
down
at
the
bottom
of
that
retired
nook
,
near
to
the
river
and
away
from
the
Strand
.
Here
he
had
simply
two
rooms
on
the
first
floor
,
and
hither
his
friends
came
to
him
very
rarely
.
They
came
very
rarely
on
any
account
.
A
stray
man
might
now
and
then
pass
an
hour
with
him
here
;
but
on
such
occasions
the
chances
were
that
the
visit
had
some
reference
,
near
or
distant
,
to
affairs
of
business
.
Eating
or
drinking
there
was
never
any
to
be
found
here
by
the
most
intimate
of
his
allies
.
His
lodgings
were
his
private
retreat
,
and
they
were
so
private
that
but
few
of
his
friends
knew
where
he
lived
.
And
had
it
been
possible
he
would
have
wished
that
no
one
should
have
known
his
whereabouts
.
I
am
not
aware
that
he
had
any
special
reason
for
this
peculiarity
,
or
that
there
was
anything
about
his
mode
of
life
that
required
hiding
;
but
he
was
a
man
who
had
always
lived
as
though
secrecy
in
certain
matters
might
at
any
time
become
useful
to
him
.
He
had
a
mode
of
dressing
himself
when
he
went
out
at
night
that
made
it
almost
impossible
that
any
one
should
recognise
him
.
The
people
at
his
lodgings
did
not
even
know
that
he
had
relatives
,
and
his
nearest
relatives
hardly
knew
that
he
had
lodgings
.
Even
Kate
had
never
been
at
the
rooms
in
Cecil
Street
,
and
addressed
all
her
letters
to
his
place
of
business
or
his
club
.
He
was
a
man
who
would
bear
no
inquiry
into
himself
.
If
he
had
been
out
of
view
for
a
month
,
and
his
friends
asked
him
where
he
had
been
,
he
always
answered
the
question
falsely
,
or
left
it
unanswered
.
There
are
many
men
of
whom
everybody
knows
all
about
all
their
belongings
;
—
as
to
whom
everybody
knows
where
they
live
,
whither
they
go
,
what
is
their
means
,
and
how
they
spend
it
.
But
there
are
others
of
whom
no
man
knows
anything
,
and
George
Vavasor
was
such
a
one
.
For
myself
I
like
the
open
babbler
the
best
.
Babbling
may
be
a
weakness
,
but
to
my
thinking
mystery
is
a
vice
.
Vavasor
also
maintained
another
little
establishment
,
down
in
Oxfordshire
;
but
the
two
establishments
did
not
even
know
of
each
other
's
existence
.
There
was
a
third
,
too
,
very
closely
hidden
from
the
world
's
eye
,
which
shall
be
nameless
;
but
of
the
establishment
in
Oxfordshire
he
did
sometimes
speak
,
in
very
humble
words
,
among
his
friends
.
When
he
found
himself
among
hunting
men
,
he
would
speak
of
his
two
nags
at
Roebury
,
saying
that
he
had
never
yet
been
able
to
mount
a
regular
hunting
stable
,
and
that
he
supposed
he
never
would
;
but
that
there
were
at
Roebury
two
indifferent
beasts
of
his
if
any
one
chose
to
buy
them
.
And
men
very
often
did
buy
Vavasor
's
horses
.
When
he
was
on
them
they
always
went
well
and
sold
themselves
readily
.
And
though
he
thus
spoke
of
two
,
and
perhaps
did
not
keep
more
during
the
summer
,
he
always
seemed
to
have
horses
enough
when
he
was
down
in
the
country
.
No
one
even
knew
George
Vavasor
not
to
hunt
because
he
was
short
of
stuff
.
And
here
,
at
Roebury
,
he
kept
a
trusty
servant
,
an
ancient
groom
with
two
little
bushy
grey
eyes
which
looked
as
though
they
could
see
through
a
stable
door
.
Many
were
the
long
whisperings
which
George
and
Bat
Smithers
carried
on
at
the
stable
door
,
in
the
very
back
depth
of
the
yard
attached
to
the
hunting
inn
at
Roebury
.
Bat
regarded
his
master
as
a
man
wholly
devoted
to
horses
,
but
often
wondered
why
he
was
not
more
regular
in
his
sojournings
in
Oxfordshire
.
Of
any
other
portion
of
his
master
's
life
Bat
knew
nothing
.
Bat
could
give
the
address
of
his
master
's
club
in
London
,
but
he
could
give
no
other
address
.
But
though
Vavasor
's
private
lodgings
were
so
very
private
,
he
had
,
nevertheless
,
taken
some
trouble
in
adorning
them
.
The
furniture
in
the
sitting-room
was
very
neat
,
and
the
book-shelves
were
filled
with
volumes
that
shone
with
gilding
on
their
backs
.
The
inkstand
,
the
paper-weight
,
the
envelope
case
on
his
writing-table
were
all
handsome
.
He
had
a
single
good
portrait
of
a
woman
's
head
hanging
on
one
of
his
walls
.
He
had
a
special
place
adapted
for
his
pistols
,
others
for
his
foils
,
and
again
another
for
his
whips
.
The
room
was
as
pretty
a
bachelor
's
room
as
you
would
wish
to
enter
,
but
you
might
see
,
by
the
position
of
the
single
easy-chair
that
was
brought
forward
,
that
it
was
seldom
appropriated
to
the
comfort
of
more
than
one
person
.
Here
he
sat
lounging
over
his
breakfast
,
late
on
a
Sunday
morning
in
September
,
when
all
the
world
was
out
of
town
.
He
was
reading
a
letter
which
had
just
been
brought
down
to
him
from
his
club
.
Though
the
writer
of
it
was
his
sister
Kate
,
she
had
not
been
privileged
to
address
it
to
his
private
lodgings
.
He
read
it
very
quickly
,
running
rapidly
over
its
contents
,
and
then
threw
it
aside
from
him
as
though
it
were
of
no
moment
,
keeping
,
however
,
an
enclosure
in
his
hand
.
And
yet
the
letter
was
of
much
moment
,
and
made
him
think
deeply
.
"
If
I
did
it
at
all
,
"
said
he
,
"
it
would
be
more
with
the
object
of
cutting
him
out
than
with
any
other
.
"
The
reader
will
hardly
require
to
be
told
that
the
him
in
question
was
John
Grey
,
and
that
Kate
's
letter
was
one
instigating
her
brother
to
renew
his
love
affair
with
Alice
.
And
Vavasor
was
in
truth
well
inclined
to
renew
it
,
and
would
have
begun
the
renewing
it
at
once
,
had
he
not
doubted
his
power
with
his
cousin
.
Indeed
it
has
been
seen
that
he
had
already
attempted
some
commencement
of
such
renewal
at
Basle
.
He
had
told
Kate
more
than
once
that
Alice
's
fortune
was
not
much
,
and
that
her
beauty
was
past
its
prime
;
and
he
would
no
doubt
repeat
the
same
objections
to
his
sister
with
some
pretence
of
disinclination
.
It
was
not
his
custom
to
show
his
hand
to
the
players
at
any
game
that
he
played
.
But
he
was
,
in
truth
,
very
anxious
to
obtain
from
Alice
a
second
promise
of
her
hand
.
How
soon
after
that
he
might
marry
her
,
would
be
another
question
.
Perhaps
it
was
not
Alice
's
beauty
that
he
coveted
,
nor
yet
her
money
exclusively
.
Nevertheless
he
thought
her
very
beautiful
,
and
was
fully
aware
that
her
money
would
be
of
great
service
to
him
.
But
I
believe
that
he
was
true
in
that
word
that
he
spoke
to
himself
,
and
that
his
chief
attraction
was
the
delight
which
he
would
have
in
robbing
Mr.
Grey
of
his
wife
.
Alice
had
once
been
his
love
,
had
clung
to
his
side
,
had
whispered
love
to
him
,
and
he
had
enough
of
the
weakness
of
humanity
in
him
to
feel
the
soreness
arising
from
her
affection
for
another
.
When
she
broke
away
from
him
he
had
acknowledged
that
he
had
been
wrong
,
and
when
,
since
her
engagement
with
Mr.
Grey
,
he
had
congratulated
her
,
he
had
told
her
in
his
quiet
,
half-whispered
,
impressive
words
how
right
she
was
;
but
not
the
less
,
therefore
,
did
he
feel
himself
hurt
that
John
Grey
should
be
her
lover
.
And
when
he
had
met
this
man
he
had
spoken
well
of
him
to
his
sister
,
saying
that
he
was
a
gentleman
,
a
scholar
,
and
a
man
of
parts
;
but
not
the
less
had
he
hated
him
from
the
first
moment
of
his
seeing
him
.
Such
hatred
under
such
circumstances
was
almost
pardonable
.
But
George
Vavasor
,
when
he
hated
,
was
apt
to
follow
up
his
hatred
with
injury
.
He
could
not
violently
dislike
a
man
and
yet
not
wish
to
do
him
any
harm
.
At
present
,
as
he
sat
lounging
in
his
chair
,
he
thought
that
he
would
like
to
marry
his
cousin
Alice
;
but
he
was
quite
sure
that
he
would
like
to
be
the
means
of
putting
a
stop
to
the
proposed
marriage
between
Alice
and
John
Grey
.
Kate
had
been
very
false
to
her
friend
,
and
had
sent
up
to
her
brother
the
very
letter
which
Alice
had
written
to
her
after
that
meeting
in
Queen
Anne
Street
which
was
described
in
the
last
chapter
,
—
or
rather
a
portion
of
it
,
for
with
the
reserve
common
to
women
she
had
kept
back
the
other
half
.
Alice
had
declared
to
herself
that
she
would
be
sure
of
her
cousin
's
sympathy
,
and
had
written
out
all
her
heart
on
the
matter
,
as
was
her
wont
when
writing
to
Kate
.
"
But
you
must
understand
,
"
she
wrote
,
"
that
all
that
I
said
to
him
went
with
him
for
nothing
.
I
had
determined
to
make
him
know
that
everything
between
us
must
be
over
,
but
I
failed
.
I
found
that
I
had
no
words
at
command
,
but
that
he
was
able
to
talk
to
me
as
though
I
were
a
child
.
He
told
me
that
I
was
sick
and
full
of
phantasies
,
and
bade
me
change
the
air
.
As
he
spoke
in
this
way
,
I
could
not
help
feeling
how
right
he
was
to
use
me
so
;
but
I
felt
also
that
he
,
in
his
mighty
superiority
,
could
never
be
a
fitting
husband
for
a
creature
so
inferior
to
him
as
I
am
.
Though
I
altogether
failed
to
make
him
understand
that
it
was
so
,
every
moment
that
we
were
together
made
me
more
fixed
in
my
resolution
.
"
This
letter
from
Alice
to
Kate
,
Vavasor
read
over
and
over
again
,
though
Kate
's
letter
to
himself
,
which
was
the
longer
one
,
he
had
thrown
aside
after
the
first
glance
.
There
was
nothing
that
he
could
learn
from
that
.
He
was
as
good
a
judge
of
the
manner
in
which
he
would
play
his
own
game
as
Kate
could
be
;
but
in
this
matter
he
was
to
learn
how
he
would
play
his
game
from
a
knowledge
of
the
other
girl
's
mind
.
"
She
'll
never
marry
him
,
at
any
rate
,
"
he
said
to
himself
,
"
and
she
is
right
.
He
'd
make
an
upper
servant
of
her
;
very
respectable
,
no
doubt
,
but
still
only
an
upper
servant
.
Now
with
me
;
—
well
,
I
hardly
know
what
I
should
make
of
her
.
I
cannot
think
of
myself
as
a
man
married
.
"
Then
he
threw
her
letter
after
Kate
's
,
and
betook
himself
to
his
newspaper
and
his
cigar
.
It
was
two
hours
after
this
,
and
he
still
wore
his
dressing-gown
,
and
he
was
still
lounging
in
his
easy-chair
,
when
the
waiting-maid
at
the
lodgings
brought
him
up
word
that
a
gentleman
wished
to
see
him
.
Vavasor
kept
no
servant
of
his
own
except
that
confidential
groom
down
at
Bicester
.
It
was
a
rule
with
him
that
people
could
be
better
served
and
cheaper
served
by
other
people
's
servants
than
by
their
own
.
Even
in
the
stables
at
Bicester
the
innkeeper
had
to
find
what
assistance
was
wanted
,
and
charge
for
it
in
the
bill
.
And
George
Vavasor
was
no
Sybarite
.
He
did
not
deem
it
impracticable
to
put
on
his
own
trousers
without
having
a
man
standing
at
his
foot
to
hold
up
the
leg
of
the
garment
.
A
valet
about
a
man
knows
a
great
deal
of
a
man
's
ways
,
and
therefore
George
had
no
valet
.
"
A
gentleman
!
"
said
he
to
the
girl
.
"
Does
the
gentleman
look
like
a
public-house
keeper
?
"
"
Well
,
I
think
he
do
,
"
said
the
girl
.
"
Then
show
him
up
,
"
said
George
.
And
the
gentleman
was
a
public-house
keeper
.
Vavasor
was
pretty
sure
of
his
visitor
before
he
desired
the
servant
to
give
him
entrance
.
It
was
Mr.
Grimes
from
the
"
Handsome
Man
"
public-house
and
tavern
,
in
the
Brompton
Road
,
and
he
had
come
by
appointment
to
have
a
little
conversation
with
Mr.
Vavasor
on
matters
political
.
Mr.
Grimes
was
a
man
who
knew
that
business
was
business
,
and
as
such
had
some
considerable
weight
in
his
own
neighbourhood
.
With
him
politics
was
business
,
as
well
as
beer
,
and
omnibus-horses
,
and
foreign
wines
;
—
in
the
fabrication
of
which
latter
article
Mr.
Grimes
was
supposed
to
have
an
extended
experience
.
To
such
as
him
,
when
intent
on
business
,
Mr.
Vavasor
was
not
averse
to
make
known
the
secrets
of
his
lodging-house
;
and
now
,
when
the
idle
of
London
world
was
either
at
morning
church
or
still
in
bed
,
Mr.
Grimes
had
come
out
by
appointment
to
do
a
little
political
business
with
the
lately-rejected
member
for
the
Chelsea
Districts
.
Vavasor
had
been
,
as
I
have
said
,
lately
rejected
,
and
the
new
member
who
had
beaten
him
at
the
hustings
had
sat
now
for
one
session
in
parliament
.
Under
his
present
reign
he
was
destined
to
the
honour
of
one
other
session
,
and
then
the
period
of
his
existing
glory
,
—
for
which
he
was
said
to
have
paid
nearly
six
thousand
pounds
,
—
would
be
over
.
But
he
might
be
elected
again
,
perhaps
for
a
full
period
of
six
sessions
;
and
it
might
be
hoped
that
this
second
election
would
be
conducted
on
more
economical
principles
.
To
this
,
the
economical
view
of
the
matter
,
Mr.
Grimes
was
very
much
opposed
,
and
was
now
waiting
upon
George
Vavasor
in
Cecil
Street
,
chiefly
with
the
object
of
opposing
the
new
member
's
wishes
on
this
head
.
No
doubt
Mr.
Grimes
was
personally
an
advocate
for
the
return
of
Mr.
Vavasor
,
and
would
do
all
in
his
power
to
prevent
the
re-election
of
the
young
Lord
Kilfenora
,
whose
father
,
the
Marquis
of
Bunratty
,
had
scattered
that
six
thousand
pounds
among
the
electors
and
non-electors
of
Chelsea
;
but
his
main
object
was
that
money
should
be
spent
.
"
'
Tai
n't
altogether
for
myself
,
"
he
said
to
a
confidential
friend
in
the
same
way
of
business
;
"
I
do
n't
get
so
much
on
it
.
Perhaps
sometimes
not
none
.
May
be
I
've
a
bill
agin
some
of
those
gents
not
paid
this
werry
moment
.
But
it
's
the
game
I
looks
to
.
If
the
game
dies
away
,
it
'll
never
be
got
up
again
;
—
never
.
Who
'll
care
about
elections
then
?
Anybody
'd
go
and
get
hisself
elected
if
we
was
to
let
the
game
go
by
!
"
And
so
,
that
the
game
might
not
go
by
,
Mr.
Grimes
was
now
present
in
Mr.
George
Vavasor
's
rooms
.
"
Well
Mr.
Grimes
,
"
said
George
,
"
how
are
you
this
morning
?
Sit
down
,
Mr.
Grimes
.
If
every
man
were
as
punctual
as
you
are
,
the
world
would
go
like
clock-work
;
would
n't
it
?
"
"
Business
is
business
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
"
said
the
publican
,
after
having
made
his
salute
,
and
having
taken
his
chair
with
some
little
show
of
mock
modesty
.
"
That
's
my
maxim
.
If
I
did
n't
stick
to
that
,
nothing
would
n't
ever
stick
to
me
;
and
nothing
does
n't
much
as
it
is
.
Times
is
very
bad
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
"
"
Of
course
they
are
.
They
're
always
bad
.
What
was
the
Devil
made
for
,
except
that
they
should
be
bad
?
But
I
should
have
thought
you
publicans
were
the
last
men
who
ought
to
complain
.
"
"
Lord
love
you
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
why
,
I
suppose
of
all
the
men
as
is
put
upon
,
we
're
put
upon
the
worst
.
What
's
the
good
of
drawing
of
beer
,
if
the
more
you
draw
the
more
you
do
n't
make
.
Yesterday
as
ever
was
was
Saturday
,
and
we
drawed
three
pound
ten
and
nine
.
What
'll
that
come
to
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
when
you
reckons
it
up
with
the
brewer
?
Why
,
it
's
a
next
to
nothing
.
You
knows
that
well
enough
.
"
"
Upon
my
word
I
do
n't
.
But
I
know
you
do
n't
sell
a
pint
of
beer
without
getting
a
profit
out
of
it
.
"
"
Lord
love
you
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
If
I
had
n't
nothink
to
look
to
but
beer
I
could
n't
keep
a
house
over
my
head
;
no
I
could
n't
.
That
house
of
mine
belongs
to
Meux
's
people
;
and
very
good
people
they
are
too
;
—
have
made
a
sight
of
money
;
have
n't
they
,
Mr.
Vavasor
?
I
has
to
get
my
beer
from
them
in
course
.
Why
not
,
when
it
's
their
house
?
But
if
I
sells
their
stuff
as
I
gets
it
,
there
ai
n't
a
halfpenny
coming
to
me
out
of
a
gallon
.
Look
at
that
,
now
.
"
"
But
then
you
do
n't
sell
it
as
you
get
it
.
You
stretch
it
.
"
"
That
's
in
course
.
I
'm
not
going
to
tell
you
a
lie
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
You
know
what
's
what
as
well
as
I
do
,
and
a
sight
better
,
I
expect
.
There
's
a
dozen
different
ways
of
handling
beer
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
But
what
's
the
use
of
that
,
when
they
can
take
four
or
five
pounds
a
day
over
the
counter
for
their
rot-gut
stuff
at
the
'
Cadogan
Arms
,
'
and
I
ca
n't
do
no
better
nor
yet
perhaps
so
well
,
for
a
real
honest
glass
of
beer
.
Stretch
it
!
It
's
my
belief
the
more
you
poison
their
liquor
,
the
more
the
people
likes
it
!
"
Mr.
Grimes
was
a
stout
man
,
not
very
tall
,
with
a
mottled
red
face
,
and
large
protruding
eyes
.
As
regards
his
own
person
,
Mr.
Grimes
might
have
been
taken
as
a
fair
sample
of
the
English
innkeeper
,
as
described
for
many
years
past
.
But
in
his
outer
garments
he
was
very
unlike
that
description
.
He
wore
a
black
,
swallow-tailed
coat
,
made
,
however
,
to
set
very
loose
upon
his
back
,
a
black
waistcoat
,
and
black
pantaloons
.
He
carried
,
moreover
,
in
his
hands
a
black
chimney-pot
hat
.
Not
only
have
the
top-boots
and
breeches
vanished
from
the
costume
of
innkeepers
,
but
also
the
long
,
particoloured
waistcoat
,
and
the
birds'-eye
fogle
round
their
necks
.
They
get
themselves
up
to
look
like
Dissenting
ministers
or
undertakers
,
except
that
there
is
still
a
something
about
their
rosy
gills
which
tells
a
tale
of
the
spigot
and
corkscrew
.
Mr.
Grimes
had
only
just
finished
the
tale
of
his
own
hard
ways
as
a
publican
,
when
the
door-bell
was
again
rung
.
"
There
's
Scruby
,
"
said
George
Vavasor
,
"
and
now
we
can
go
to
business
.
"
CHAPTER
XIII
.
Mr.
Grimes
Gets
His
Odd
Money
.
The
handmaiden
at
George
Vavasor
's
lodgings
announced
"
another
gent
,
"
and
then
Mr.
Scruby
entered
the
room
in
which
were
seated
George
,
and
Mr.
Grimes
the
publican
from
the
"
Handsome
Man
"
on
the
Brompton
Road
.
Mr.
Scruby
was
an
attorney
from
Great
Marlborough
Street
,
supposed
to
be
very
knowing
in
the
ways
of
metropolitan
elections
;
and
he
had
now
stepped
round
,
as
he
called
it
,
with
the
object
of
saying
a
few
words
to
Mr.
Grimes
,
partly
on
the
subject
of
the
forthcoming
contest
at
Chelsea
,
and
partly
on
that
of
the
contest
last
past
.
These
words
were
to
be
said
in
the
presence
of
Mr.
Vavasor
,
the
person
interested
.
That
some
other
words
had
been
spoken
between
Mr.
Scruby
and
Mr.
Grimes
on
the
same
subjects
behind
Mr.
Vavasor
's
back
I
think
very
probable
.
But
even
though
this
might
have
been
so
I
am
not
prepared
to
say
that
Mr.
Vavasor
had
been
deceived
by
their
combinations
.
The
two
men
were
very
civil
to
each
other
in
their
salutations
,
the
attorney
assuming
an
air
of
patronizing
condescension
,
always
calling
the
other
Grimes
;
whereas
Mr.
Scruby
was
treated
with
considerable
deference
by
the
publican
,
and
was
always
called
Mr.
Scruby
.
"
Business
is
business
,
"
said
the
publican
as
soon
as
these
salutations
were
over
;
"
is
n't
it
now
,
Mr.
Scruby
?
"
"
And
I
suppose
Grimes
thinks
Sunday
morning
a
particularly
good
time
for
business
,
"
said
the
attorney
,
laughing
.
"
It
's
quiet
,
you
know
,
"
said
Grimes
.
"
But
it
war
n't
me
as
named
Sunday
morning
.
It
was
Mr.
Vavasor
here
.
But
it
is
quiet
;
ai
n't
it
,
Mr.
Scruby
?
"
Mr.
Scruby
acknowledged
that
it
was
quiet
,
especially
looking
out
over
the
river
,
and
then
they
proceeded
to
business
.
"
We
must
pull
the
governor
through
better
next
time
than
we
did
last
,
"
said
the
attorney
.
"
Of
course
we
must
,
Mr.
Scruby
;
but
,
Lord
love
you
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
whose
fault
was
it
?
What
notice
did
I
get
,
—
just
tell
me
that
?
Why
,
Travers
's
name
was
up
on
the
liberal
interest
ever
so
long
before
the
governor
had
ever
thought
about
it
.
"
"
Nobody
is
blaming
you
,
Mr.
Grimes
,
"
said
George
.
"
And
nobody
ca
n't
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
I
done
my
work
true
as
steel
,
and
there
ai
n't
another
man
about
the
place
as
could
have
done
half
as
much
.
You
ask
Mr.
Scruby
else
.
Mr.
Scruby
knows
,
if
ere
a
man
in
London
does
.
I
tell
you
what
it
is
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
them
Chelsea
fellows
,
who
lives
mostly
down
by
the
river
,
ai
n't
like
your
Maryboners
or
Finsburyites
.
It
wants
something
of
a
man
to
manage
them
.
Do
n't
it
Mr.
Scruby
?
"
"
It
wants
something
of
a
man
to
manage
any
of
them
as
far
as
my
experience
goes
,
"
said
Mr.
Scruby
.
"
Of
course
it
do
;
and
there
ai
n't
one
in
London
knows
so
much
about
it
as
you
do
,
Mr.
Scruby
.
I
will
say
that
for
you
.
But
the
long
and
the
short
of
it
is
this
;
—
business
is
business
,
and
money
is
money
.
"
"
Money
is
money
,
certainly
,
"
said
Mr.
Scruby
.
"
There
's
no
doubt
in
the
world
about
that
,
Grimes
;
—
and
a
deal
of
it
you
had
out
of
the
last
election
.
"
"
No
,
I
had
n't
;
begging
your
pardon
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
for
making
so
free
.
What
I
had
to
my
own
cheek
was
n't
nothing
to
speak
of
.
I
was
n't
paid
for
my
time
;
that
's
what
I
was
n't
.
You
look
how
a
publican
's
business
gets
cut
up
at
them
elections
;
—
and
then
the
state
of
the
house
afterwards
!
What
would
the
governor
say
to
me
if
I
was
to
put
down
painting
inside
and
out
in
my
little
bill
?
"
"
It
does
n't
seem
to
make
much
difference
how
you
put
it
down
,
"
said
Vavasor
.
"
The
total
is
what
I
look
at
.
"
"
Just
so
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
just
so
.
The
total
is
what
I
looks
at
too
.
And
I
has
to
look
at
it
a
deuced
long
time
before
I
gets
it
.
I
ai
n't
a
got
it
yet
;
have
I
,
Mr.
Vavasor
?
"
"
Well
;
if
you
ask
me
I
should
say
you
had
,
"
said
George
.
"
I
know
I
paid
Mr.
Scruby
three
hundred
pounds
on
your
account
.
"
"
And
I
got
every
shilling
of
it
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
I
'm
not
a
going
to
deny
the
money
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
You
'll
never
find
me
doing
that
.
I
'm
as
round
as
your
hat
,
and
as
square
as
your
elbow
,
—
I
am
.
Mr.
Scruby
knows
me
;
do
n't
you
,
Mr.
Scruby
?
"
"
Perhaps
I
know
you
too
well
,
Grimes
.
"
"
No
you
do
n't
,
Mr.
Scruby
;
not
a
bit
too
well
.
Nor
I
do
n't
know
you
too
well
,
either
.
I
respect
you
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
because
you
're
a
man
as
understands
your
business
.
But
as
I
was
saying
,
what
's
three
hundred
pounds
when
a
man
's
bill
is
three
hundred
and
ninety-two
thirteen
and
fourpence
?
"
"
I
thought
that
was
all
settled
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
"
said
Vavasor
.
"
Why
you
see
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
it
's
very
hard
to
settle
these
things
.
If
you
ask
me
whether
Mr.
Grimes
here
can
sue
you
for
the
balance
,
I
tell
you
very
plainly
that
he
ca
n't
.
We
were
a
little
short
of
money
when
we
came
to
a
settlement
,
as
is
generally
the
case
at
such
times
,
and
so
we
took
Mr.
Grimes
'
receipt
for
three
hundred
pounds
.
"
"
Of
course
you
did
,
Mr.
Scruby
.
"
"
Not
on
account
,
but
in
full
of
all
demands
.
"
"
Now
Mr.
Scruby
!
"
and
the
publican
as
he
made
this
appeal
looked
at
the
attorney
with
an
expression
of
countenance
which
was
absolutely
eloquent
.
"
Are
you
going
to
put
me
off
with
such
an
excuse
as
that
?
"
so
the
look
spoke
plainly
enough
.
"
Are
you
going
to
bring
up
my
own
signature
against
me
,
when
you
know
very
well
that
I
should
n't
have
got
a
shilling
at
all
for
the
next
twelve
months
if
I
had
n't
given
it
?
Oh
Mr.
Scruby
!
"
That
's
what
Mr.
Grimes
'
look
said
,
and
both
Mr.
Scruby
and
Mr.
Vavasor
understood
it
perfectly
.
"
In
full
of
all
demands
,
"
said
Mr.
Scruby
,
with
a
slight
tone
of
triumph
in
his
voice
,
as
though
to
show
that
Grimes
'
appeal
had
no
effect
at
all
upon
his
conscience
.
"
If
you
were
to
go
into
a
court
of
law
,
Grimes
,
you
would
n't
have
a
leg
to
stand
upon
.
"
"
A
court
of
law
?
Who
's
a
going
to
law
with
the
governor
,
I
should
like
to
know
?
not
I
;
not
if
he
did
n't
pay
me
them
ninety-two
pounds
thirteen
and
fourpence
for
the
next
five
years
.
"
"
Five
years
or
fifteen
would
make
no
difference
,
"
said
Scruby
.
"
You
could
n't
do
it
.
"
"
And
I
ai
n't
a
going
to
try
.
That
's
not
the
ticket
I
've
come
here
about
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
this
blessed
Sunday
morning
.
Going
to
law
,
indeed
!
But
Mr.
Scruby
,
I
've
got
a
family
.
"
"
Not
in
the
vale
of
Taunton
,
I
hope
,
"
said
George
.
"
They
is
at
the
'
Handsome
Man
'
in
the
Brompton
Road
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
and
I
always
feels
that
I
owes
my
first
duty
to
them
.
If
a
man
do
n't
work
for
his
family
,
what
do
he
work
for
?
"
"
Come
,
come
,
Grimes
,
"
said
Mr.
Scruby
.
"
What
is
it
you
're
at
?
Out
with
it
,
and
do
n't
keep
us
here
all
day
.
"
"
What
is
it
I
'm
at
,
Mr.
Scruby
?
As
if
you
did
n't
know
very
well
what
I
'm
at
.
There
's
my
house
;
—
in
all
them
Chelsea
districts
it
's
the
most
convenientest
of
any
public
as
is
open
for
all
manner
of
election
purposes
.
That
's
given
up
to
it
.
"
"
And
what
next
?
"
said
Scruby
.
"
The
next
is
,
I
myself
.
There
is
n't
one
of
the
lot
of
'
em
can
work
them
Chelsea
fellows
down
along
the
river
unless
it
is
me
.
Mr.
Scruby
knows
that
.
Why
I
've
been
a
getting
of
them
up
with
a
view
to
this
very
job
ever
since
;
—
why
ever
since
they
was
a
talking
of
the
Chelsea
districts
.
When
Lord
Robert
was
a
coming
in
for
the
county
on
the
religious
dodge
,
he
could
n't
have
worked
them
fellows
anyhow
,
only
for
me
.
Mr.
Scruby
knows
that
.
"
"
Let
's
take
it
all
for
granted
,
Mr.
Grimes
,
"
said
Vavasor
.
"
What
comes
next
?
"
"
Well
;
—
them
Bunratty
people
;
it
is
they
as
has
come
next
.
They
know
which
side
their
bread
is
likely
to
be
buttered
;
they
do
.
They
're
a
bidding
for
the
'
Handsome
Man
'
already
;
they
are
.
"
"
And
you
'd
let
your
house
to
the
Tory
party
,
Grimes
!
"
said
Mr.
Scruby
,
in
a
tone
in
which
disgust
and
anger
were
blended
.
"
Who
said
anything
of
my
letting
my
house
to
the
Tory
party
,
Mr.
Scruby
?
I
'm
as
round
as
your
hat
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
and
as
square
as
your
elbow
;
I
am
.
But
suppose
as
all
the
liberal
gents
as
employs
you
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
was
to
turn
again
you
and
not
pay
you
your
little
bills
,
would
n't
you
have
your
eyes
open
for
customers
of
another
kind
?
Come
now
,
Mr.
Scruby
?
"
"
You
wo
n't
make
much
of
that
game
,
Grimes
.
"
"
Perhaps
not
;
perhaps
not
.
There
's
a
risk
in
all
these
things
;
is
n't
there
,
Mr.
Vavasor
?
I
should
like
to
see
you
a
Parliament
gent
;
I
should
indeed
.
You
'd
be
a
credit
to
the
districts
;
I
really
think
you
would
.
"
"
I
'm
much
obliged
by
your
good
opinion
,
Mr.
Grimes
,
"
said
George
.
"
When
I
sees
a
gent
coming
forward
I
knows
whether
he
's
fit
for
Parliament
,
or
whether
he
ai
n't
.
I
says
you
are
fit
.
But
Lord
love
you
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
it
's
a
thing
a
gentleman
always
has
to
pay
for
.
"
"
That
's
true
enough
;
a
deal
more
than
it
's
worth
,
generally
.
"
"
A
thing
's
worth
what
it
fetches
.
I
'm
worth
what
I
'll
fetch
;
that
's
the
long
and
the
short
of
it
.
I
want
to
have
my
balance
,
that
's
the
truth
.
It
's
the
odd
money
in
a
man
's
bill
as
always
carries
the
profit
.
You
ask
Mr.
Scruby
else
;
—
only
with
a
lawyer
it
's
all
profit
I
believe
.
"
"
That
's
what
you
know
about
it
,
"
said
Scruby
.
"
If
you
cut
off
a
man
's
odd
money
,
"
continued
the
publican
,
"
you
break
his
heart
.
He
'd
almost
sooner
have
that
and
leave
the
other
standing
.
He
'd
call
the
hundreds
capital
,
and
if
he
lost
them
at
last
,
why
he
'd
put
it
down
as
being
in
the
way
of
trade
.
But
the
odd
money
;
—
he
looks
at
that
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
as
in
a
manner
the
very
sweat
of
his
brow
,
the
work
of
his
own
hand
;
that
's
what
goes
to
his
family
,
and
keeps
the
pot
a
boiling
down-stairs
.
Never
stop
a
man
's
odd
money
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
that
is
,
unless
he
comes
it
very
strong
indeed
.
"
"
And
what
is
it
you
want
now
?
"
said
Scruby
.
"
I
wants
ninety-two
pounds
thirteen
and
fourpence
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
and
then
we
'll
go
to
work
for
the
new
fight
with
contented
hearts
.
If
we
're
to
begin
at
all
,
it
's
quite
time
;
it
is
indeed
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
"
"
And
what
you
mean
us
to
understand
is
,
that
you
wo
n't
begin
at
all
without
your
money
,
"
said
the
lawyer
.
"
That
's
about
it
,
Mr.
Scruby
.
"
"
Take
a
fifty-pound
note
,
Grimes
,
"
said
the
lawyer
.
"
Fifty-pound
notes
are
not
so
ready
,
"
said
George
.
"
Oh
,
he
'll
be
only
too
happy
to
have
your
acceptance
;
wo
n't
you
,
Grimes
.
"
"
Not
for
fifty
pounds
,
Mr.
Scruby
.
It
's
the
odd
money
that
I
wants
.
I
do
n't
mind
the
thirteen
and
four
,
because
that
's
neither
here
nor
there
among
friends
,
but
if
I
did
n't
get
all
them
ninety-two
pounds
I
should
be
a
broken-hearted
man
;
I
should
indeed
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
I
could
n't
go
about
your
work
for
next
year
so
as
to
do
you
justice
among
the
electors
.
I
could
n't
indeed
.
"
"
You
'd
better
give
him
a
bill
for
ninety
pounds
at
three
months
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
I
have
no
doubt
he
has
got
a
stamp
in
his
pocket
.
"
"
That
I
have
,
Mr.
Scruby
;
there
ai
n't
no
mistake
about
that
.
A
bill
stamp
is
a
thing
that
often
turns
up
convenient
with
gents
as
mean
business
like
Mr.
Vavasor
and
you
.
But
you
must
make
it
ninety-two
;
you
must
indeed
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
And
do
make
it
two
months
if
you
can
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
they
do
charge
so
unconscionable
on
ninety
days
at
them
branch
banks
;
they
do
indeed
.
"
George
Vavasor
and
Mr.
Scruby
,
between
them
,
yielded
at
last
,
so
far
as
to
allow
the
bill
to
be
drawn
for
ninety-two
pounds
,
but
they
were
stanch
as
to
the
time
.
"
If
it
must
be
,
it
must
,
"
said
the
publican
,
with
a
deep
sigh
,
as
he
folded
up
the
paper
and
put
it
into
the
pocket
of
a
huge
case
which
he
carried
.
"
And
now
,
gents
,
I
'll
tell
you
what
it
is
.
We
'll
make
safe
work
of
this
here
next
election
.
We
know
what
's
to
be
our
little
game
in
time
,
and
if
we
do
n't
go
in
and
win
,
my
name
ai
n't
Jacob
Grimes
,
and
I
ai
n't
the
landlord
of
the
'
Handsome
Man
.
'
As
you
gents
has
perhaps
got
something
to
say
among
yourselves
,
I
'll
make
so
bold
as
to
wish
you
good
morning
.
"
So
,
with
that
,
Mr.
Grimes
lifted
his
hat
from
the
floor
,
and
bowed
himself
out
of
the
room
.
"
You
could
n't
have
done
it
cheaper
;
you
could
n't
,
indeed
,
"
said
the
lawyer
,
as
soon
as
the
sound
of
the
closing
front
door
had
been
heard
.
"
Perhaps
not
;
but
what
a
thief
the
man
is
!
I
remember
your
telling
me
that
the
bill
was
about
the
most
preposterous
you
had
ever
seen
.
"
"
So
it
was
,
and
if
we
had
n't
wanted
him
again
of
course
we
should
n't
have
paid
him
.
But
we
'll
have
it
all
off
his
next
account
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
—
every
shilling
of
it
,
It
's
only
lent
;
that
's
all
;
—
it
's
only
lent
.
"
"
But
one
does
n't
want
to
lend
such
a
man
money
,
if
one
could
help
it
.
"
"
That
's
true
.
If
you
look
at
it
in
that
light
,
it
's
quite
true
.
But
you
see
we
cannot
do
without
him
.
If
he
had
n't
got
your
bill
,
he
'd
have
gone
over
to
the
other
fellows
before
the
week
was
over
;
and
the
worst
of
it
would
have
been
that
he
knows
our
hand
.
Looking
at
it
all
round
you
've
got
him
cheap
,
Mr.
Vavasor
;
—
you
have
,
indeed
.
"
"
Looking
at
it
all
round
is
just
what
I
do
n't
like
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
But
if
a
man
will
have
a
whistle
,
he
must
pay
for
it
.
"
"
You
ca
n't
do
it
cheap
for
any
of
these
metropolitan
seats
;
you
ca
n't
,
indeed
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
That
is
,
a
new
man
ca
n't
.
When
you
've
been
in
four
or
five
times
,
like
old
Duncombe
,
why
then
,
of
course
,
you
may
snap
your
fingers
at
such
men
as
Grimes
.
But
the
Chelsea
districts
ai
n't
dear
.
I
do
n't
call
them
by
any
means
dear
.
Now
Marylebone
is
dear
,
—
and
so
is
Southwark
.
It
's
dear
,
and
nasty
;
that
's
what
the
borough
is
.
Only
that
I
never
tell
tales
,
I
could
tell
you
a
tale
,
Mr.
Vavasor
,
that
'd
make
your
hair
stand
on
end
;
I
could
indeed
.
"
"
Ah
!
the
game
is
hardly
worth
the
candle
,
I
believe
.
"
"
That
depends
on
what
way
you
choose
to
look
at
it
.
A
seat
in
Parliament
is
a
great
thing
to
a
man
who
wants
to
make
his
way
;
—
a
very
great
thing
;
—
specially
when
a
man
's
young
,
like
you
,
Mr.
Vavasor
.
"
"
Young
!
"
said
George
.
"
Sometimes
it
seems
to
me
as
though
I
've
been
living
for
a
hundred
years
.
But
I
wo
n't
trouble
you
with
that
,
Mr.
Scruby
,
and
I
believe
I
need
n't
keep
you
any
longer
.
"
With
that
,
he
got
up
and
bowed
the
attorney
out
of
the
room
,
with
just
a
little
more
ceremony
than
he
had
shown
to
the
publican
.
"
Young
!
"
said
Vavasor
to
himself
,
when
he
was
left
alone
.
"
There
's
my
uncle
,
or
the
old
squire
,
—
they
're
both
younger
men
than
I
am
.
One
cares
for
his
dinner
,
and
the
other
for
his
bullocks
and
his
trees
.
But
what
is
there
that
I
care
for
,
unless
it
is
not
getting
among
the
sheriff
's
officers
for
debt
?
"
Then
he
took
out
a
little
memorandum-book
from
his
breast-pocket
,
and
having
made
in
it
an
entry
as
to
the
amount
and
date
of
that
bill
which
he
had
just
accepted
on
the
publican
's
behalf
,
he
conned
over
the
particulars
of
its
pages
.
"
Very
blue
;
very
blue
,
indeed
,
"
he
said
to
himself
when
he
had
completed
the
study
.
"
But
nobody
shall
say
I
had
n't
the
courage
to
play
the
game
out
,
and
that
old
fellow
must
die
some
day
,
one
supposes
.
If
I
were
not
a
fool
,
I
should
make
it
up
with
him
before
he
went
;
but
I
am
a
fool
,
and
shall
remain
so
to
the
last
.
"
Soon
after
that
he
dressed
himself
slowly
,
reading
a
little
every
now
and
then
as
he
did
so
.
When
his
toilet
was
completed
,
and
his
Sunday
newspapers
sufficiently
perused
,
he
took
up
his
hat
and
umbrella
and
sauntered
out
.
CHAPTER
XIV
.
Alice
Vavasor
Becomes
Troubled
.
Kate
Vavasor
had
sent
to
her
brother
only
the
first
half
of
her
cousin
's
letter
,
that
half
in
which
Alice
had
attempted
to
describe
what
had
taken
place
between
her
and
Mr.
Grey
.
In
doing
this
,
Kate
had
been
a
wicked
traitor
,
—
a
traitor
to
that
feminine
faith
against
which
treason
on
the
part
of
one
woman
is
always
unpardonable
in
the
eyes
of
other
women
.
But
her
treason
would
have
been
of
a
deeper
die
had
she
sent
the
latter
portion
,
for
in
that
Alice
had
spoken
of
George
Vavasor
himself
.
But
even
of
this
treason
,
Kate
would
,
I
think
,
have
been
guilty
,
had
the
words
which
Alice
wrote
been
of
a
nature
to
serve
her
own
purpose
if
read
by
her
brother
.
But
they
had
