notwithstandingthe
pictures
and
the
gilding
it
was
found
impossible
to
forbid
,
though
there
were
efforts
to
discourage
,
this
practice
,
in
the
Temple
of
the
Muses
.
Nothing
however
could
be
more
decorous
than
the
general
conduct
of
the
company
,
though
they
consisted
principally
of
factory
people
.
The
waiters
flew
about
with
as
much
agility
as
if
they
were
serving
nobles
.
In
general
the
noise
was
great
,
though
not
disagreeable
;
sometimes
a
bell
rang
and
there
was
comparative
silence
,
while
a
curtain
drew
up
at
the
further
end
of
the
room
,
opposite
to
the
entrance
,
and
where
there
was
a
theatre
,
the
stage
raised
at
a
due
elevation
,
and
adorned
with
side
scenes
from
which
issued
a
lady
in
a
fancy
dress
who
sang
a
favourite
ballad
;
or
a
gentleman
elaborately
habited
in
a
farmer’s
costume
of
the
old
comedy
,
a
bob-wig
,
silver
buttons
and
buckles
,
and
blue
stockings
,
and
who
favoured
the
company
with
that
melancholy
effusion
called
a
comic
song
.
Some
nights
there
was
music
on
the
stage
;
a
young
lady
in
a
white
robe
with
a
golden
harp
,
and
attended
by
a
gentleman
in
black
mustachios
.
This
was
when
the
principal
harpiste
of
the
King
of
Saxony
and
his
first
fiddler
happened
to
be
passing
through
Mowbray
,
merely
by
accident
,
or
on
a
tour
of
pleasure
and
instruction
,
to
witness
the
famous
scenes
of
British
industry
.
Otherwise
the
audience
of
the
Cat
and
Fiddle
,
we
mean
the
Temple
of
the
Muses
,
were
fain
to
be
content
with
four
Bohemian
brothers
,
or
an
equal
number
of
Swiss
sisters
.
The
most
popular
amusements
however
were
the
“
Thespian
recitations
:
”
by
amateurs
,
or
novices
who
wished
to
become
professional
.
They
tried
their
metal
on
an
audience
which
could
be
critical
.
A
sharp
waiter
,
with
a
keen
eye
on
the
entering
guests
,
immediately
saluted
Gerard
and
his
friend
,
with
profuse
offers
of
hospitality
:
insisting
that
they
wanted
much
refreshment
;
that
they
were
both
very
hungry
and
very
thirsty
:
that
,
if
not
hungry
,
they
should
order
something
to
drink
that
would
give
them
an
appetite
:
if
not
inclined
to
quaff
,
something
to
eat
that
would
make
them
athirst
.
In
the
midst
of
these
embarrassing
attentions
,
he
was
pushed
aside
by
his
master
with
,
“
There
,
go
;
hands
wanted
at
the
upper
end
;
two
American
gentlemen
from
Lowell
singing
out
for
Sherry
Cobler
;
don’t
know
what
it
is
;
give
them
our
bar
mixture
;
if
they
complain
,
say
it’s
the
Mowbray
slap-bang
,
and
no
mistake
.
Must
have
a
name
,
Mr
Morley
;
name’s
everything
;
made
the
fortune
of
the
Temple
:
if
I
had
called
it
the
Saloon
,
it
never
would
have
filled
,
and
perhaps
the
magistrates
never
have
granted
a
licence
.
”
The
speaker
was
a
very
portly
man
who
had
passed
the
maturity
of
manhood
,
but
active
as
Harlequin
.
He
had
a
well-favoured
countenance
;
fair
,
good-humoured
,
but
very
sly
.
He
was
dressed
like
the
head
butler
of
the
London
Tavern
,
and
was
particular
as
to
his
white
waistcoats
and
black
silk
stockings
,
punctilious
as
to
his
knee-buckles
,
proud
of
his
diamond
pin
;
that
is
to
say
when
he
officiated
at
the
Temple
.
“
Your
mistress
told
us
we
should
find
you
here
,
”
said
Stephen
,
“
and
that
you
wished
to
see
us
.
“
Plenty
to
tell
you
,
”
said
their
host
putting
his
finger
to
his
nose
.
“
If
information
is
wanted
in
this
part
of
the
world
,
I
flatter
myself
—
Come
,
Master
Gerard
,
here’s
a
table
;
what
shall
I
call
for
?
glass
of
the
Mowbray
slap-bang
?
No
better
;
the
receipt
has
been
in
our
family
these
fifty
years
.
Mr
Morley
I
know
won’t
join
us
.
Did
you
say
a
cup
of
tea
,
Mr
Morley
?
Water
,
only
water
;
well
,
that’s
strange
.
Boy
alive
there
,
do
you
hear
me
call
?
Water
wanted
,
glass
of
water
for
the
Secretary
of
the
Mowbray
Temperance
and
Teatotal
.
Sing
it
out
.
I
like
titled
company
.
Brush
!
”
“
And
so
you
can
give
us
some
information
about
this
—
”
“
Be
back
directly
.
”
exclaimed
their
host
:
and
darting
off
with
a
swift
precision
,
that
carried
him
through
a
labyrinth
of
tables
without
the
slightest
inconvenience
to
their
occupiers
.
“
Beg
pardon
,
Mr
Morley
,
”
he
said
,
sliding
again
into
his
chair
;
“
but
saw
one
of
the
American
gentlemen
brandishing
his
bowie-knife
against
one
of
my
waiters
;
called
him
Colonel
;
quieted
him
directly
;
a
man
of
his
rank
brawling
with
a
help
;
oh
!
no
;
not
to
be
thought
of
;
no
squabbling
here
;
licence
in
danger
.
”
“
You
were
saying
—
”
resumed
Morley
.
“
Ah
!
yes
,
about
that
man
Hatton
;
remember
him
perfectly
well
;
a
matter
of
twenty
or
it
may
be
nineteen
years
since
he
bolted
.
Queer
fellow
;
lived
upon
nothing
;
only
drank
water
;
no
temperance
and
teetotal
then
,
so
no
excuse
.
Beg
pardon
,
Mr
Morley
;
no
offence
I
hope
;
can’t
bear
whims
;
but
respectable
societies
,
if
they
don’t
drink
,
they
make
speeches
,
hire
your
rooms
,
leads
to
business
.
”
“
And
this
Hatton
—
”
said
Gerard
.
“
Ah
!
a
queer
fellow
;
lent
him
a
one-pound
note
—
never
saw
it
again
—
always
remember
it
—
last
one-pound
note
I
had
.
He
offered
me
an
old
book
instead
;
not
in
my
way
;
took
a
china
jar
for
my
wife
.
He
kept
a
curiosity
shop
;
always
prowling
about
the
country
,
picking
up
old
books
and
hunting
after
old
monuments
;
called
himself
an
antiquarian
;
queer
fellow
,
that
Hatton
.
”
“
And
you
have
heard
of
him
since
?
”
said
Gerard
rather
impatiently
.
“
Not
a
word
,
”
said
their
host
;
“
never
knew
any
one
who
had
.
”
“
I
thought
you
had
something
to
tell
us
about
him
,
”
said
Stephen
.
“
So
I
have
;
I
can
put
you
in
the
way
of
getting
hold
of
him
and
anything
else
.
I
havn’t
lived
in
Mowbray
man
and
boy
for
fifty
years
;
seen
it
a
village
,
and
now
a
great
town
full
of
first-rate
institutions
and
establishments
like
this
,
”
added
their
host
surveying
the
Temple
with
a
glance
of
admiring
complacency
;
“
I
say
I
havn’t
lived
here
all
this
time
and
talked
to
the
people
for
nothing
.
”
“
Well
,
we
are
all
attention
,
”
said
Gerard
with
a
smile
.
“
Hush
!
”
said
their
host
as
a
bell
sounded
,
and
he
jumped
up
.
“
Now
ladies
,
now
gentlemen
,
if
you
please
;
silence
if
you
please
for
a
song
from
a
Polish
lady
.
The
Signora
sings
English
like
a
new-born
babe
;
”
and
the
curtain
drew
up
amid
the
hushed
voices
of
the
company
and
the
restrained
clatter
of
their
knives
and
forks
and
glasses
.
The
Polish
lady
sang
“
Cherry
Ripe
”
to
the
infinite
satisfaction
of
her
audience
.
Young
Mowbray
indeed
,
in
the
shape
of
Dandy
Mick
and
some
of
his
followers
and
admirers
,
insisted
on
an
encore
.
The
lady
as
she
retired
curtseyed
like
a
Prima
Donna
;
but
the
host
continued
on
his
legs
for
some
time
,
throwing
open
his
coat
and
bowing
to
his
guests
,
who
expressed
by
their
applause
how
much
they
approved
his
enterprise
.
At
length
he
resumed
his
seat
;
“
It’s
almost
too
much
.
”
he
exclaimed
;
“
the
enthusiasm
of
these
people
.
I
believe
they
look
upon
me
as
a
father
.
”
“
And
you
think
you
have
some
clue
to
this
Hatton
?
”
resumed
Stephen
.
“
They
say
he
has
no
relations
,
”
said
their
host
.
“
I
have
heard
as
much
.
”
“
Another
glass
of
the
bar
mixture
,
Master
Gerard
.
What
did
we
call
it
?
Oh
!
the
bricks
and
beans
—
the
Mowbray
bricks
and
beans
;
known
by
that
name
in
the
time
of
my
grandfather
.
No
more
!
No
use
asking
Mr
Morley
I
know
.
Water
!
well
,
I
must
say
—
and
yet
,
in
an
official
capacity
,
drinking
water
is
not
so
unnatural
.
”
“
And
Hatton
.
”
said
Gerard
;
“
they
say
he
has
no
relations
,
eh
?
”
“
They
do
,
and
they
say
wrong
.
He
has
a
relation
;
he
has
a
brother
;
and
I
can
put
you
in
the
way
of
finding
him
.
”
“
Well
,
that
looks
like
business
,
”
said
Gerard
;
“
and
where
may
he
be
?
”
“
Not
here
,
”
said
their
host
;
“
he
never
put
his
foot
in
the
Temple
to
my
knowledge
;
and
lives
in
a
place
where
they
have
as
much
idea
of
popular
institutions
as
any
Turks
or
heathen
you
ever
heard
of
.
”
“
And
where
might
we
find
him
?
”
said
Stephen
.
“
What’s
that
?
”
said
their
host
jumping
up
and
looking
around
him
.
“
Here
boys
,
brush
about
.
The
American
gentleman
is
a
whittling
his
name
on
that
new
mahogany
table
.
Take
him
the
printed
list
of
rules
,
stuck
up
in
a
public
place
,
under
a
great
coat
,
and
fine
him
five
shillings
for
damaging
the
furniture
.
If
he
resists
(
he
has
paid
for
his
liquor
)
,
call
in
the
police
;
X
.
Z
.
No.
5
is
in
the
bar
,
taking
tea
with
your
mistress
.
Now
brush
.
”
“
And
this
place
is
—
”
“
In
the
land
of
mines
and
minerals
,
”
said
their
host
;
“
about
ten
miles
from
—
—
.
He
works
in
metals
on
his
own
account
.
You
have
heard
of
a
place
called
Hell-house
Yard
;
well
,
he
lives
there
;
and
his
name
is
Simon
.
”
“
And
does
he
keep
up
any
communication
with
his
brother
,
think
you
?
”
said
Gerard
.
“
Nay
,
I
know
no
more
;
at
least
at
present
,
”
said
their
host
.
“
The
secretary
asked
me
about
a
person
absent
without
leave
for
twenty
years
and
who
was
said
to
have
no
relations
,
I
found
you
one
and
a
very
near
one
.
You
are
at
the
station
and
you
have
got
your
ticket
.
The
American
gentleman’s
wiolent
.
Here’s
the
police
.
I
must
take
a
high
tone
.
”
And
with
these
words
Chaffing
Jack
quitted
them
.
In
the
meantime
,
we
must
not
forget
Dandy
Mick
and
his
two
young
friends
whom
he
had
so
generously
offered
to
treat
to
the
Temple
.
“
Well
,
what
do
you
think
of
it
?
”
asked
Caroline
of
Harriet
in
a
whisper
as
they
entered
the
splendid
apartment
.
“
It’s
just
what
I
thought
the
Queen
lived
in
,
”
said
Harriet
;
“
but
indeed
I’m
all
of
a
flutter
.
”
“
Well
,
don’t
look
as
if
you
were
,
”
said
her
friend
.
“
Come
along
gals
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
who’s
afraid
?
Here
,
we’ll
sit
down
at
this
table
.
Now
,
what
shall
we
have
?
Here
waiter
;
I
say
waiter
!
”
“
Yes
,
sir
,
yes
,
sir
.
”
“
Well
,
why
don’t
you
come
when
I
call
,
”
said
Mick
with
a
consequential
air
.
“
I
have
been
hallooing
these
ten
minutes
.
Couple
of
glasses
of
bar
mixture
for
these
ladies
and
go
of
gin
for
myself
.
And
I
say
waiter
,
stop
,
stop
,
don’t
be
in
such
a
deuced
hurry
;
do
you
think
folks
can
drink
without
eating
;
—
sausages
for
three
;
and
damme
,
take
care
they
are
not
burnt
.
”
“
Yes
,
sir
,
directly
,
directly
.
”
“
That’s
the
way
to
talk
to
these
fellows
,
”
said
Mick
with
a
self-satisfied
air
,
and
perfectly
repaid
by
the
admiring
gaze
of
his
companions
.
“
It’s
pretty
Miss
Harriet
,
”
said
Mick
looking
up
at
the
ceiling
with
a
careless
nil
admirari
glance
.
“
Oh
!
it
is
beautiful
,
”
said
Harriet
.
“
You
never
were
here
before
;
it’s
the
only
place
.
That’s
the
Lady
of
the
Lake
,
”
he
added
,
pointing
to
a
picture
;
“
I’ve
seen
her
at
the
Circus
,
with
real
water
.
”
The
hissing
sausages
crowning
a
pile
of
mashed
potatoes
were
placed
before
them
;
the
delicate
rummers
of
the
Mowbray
slap-bang
,
for
the
girls
;
the
more
masculine
pewter
measure
for
their
friend
.
“
Are
the
plates
very
hot
?
”
said
Mick
;
“
Very
sir
.
”
“
Hot
plates
half
the
battle
,
”
said
Mick
.
“
Now
,
Caroline
;
here
,
Miss
Harriet
;
don’t
take
away
your
plate
,
wait
for
the
mash
;
they
mash
their
taters
here
very
elegant
.
”
It
was
a
very
happy
and
very
merry
party
.
Mick
delighted
to
help
his
guests
,
and
to
drink
their
healths
.
“
Well
,
”
said
he
when
the
waiter
had
cleared
away
their
plates
,
and
left
them
to
their
less
substantial
luxuries
.
“
Well
,
”
said
Mick
,
sipping
a
renewed
glass
of
gin
twist
and
leaning
back
in
his
chair
,
“
say
what
they
please
,
there’s
nothing
like
life
.
”
“
At
the
Traffords’
,
”
said
Caroline
,
“
the
greatest
fun
we
ever
had
was
a
singing
class
.
”
“
I
pity
them
poor
devils
in
the
country
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
we
got
some
of
them
at
Collinson’s
—
come
from
Suffolk
they
say
;
what
they
call
hagricultural
labourers
,
a
very
queer
lot
,
indeed
.
”
“
Ah
!
them’s
the
himmigrants
,
”
said
Caroline
;
“
they’re
sold
out
of
slavery
,
and
sent
down
by
Pickford’s
van
into
the
labour
market
to
bring
down
our
wages
.
”
“
We’ll
teach
them
a
trick
or
two
before
they
do
that
,
”
urged
Mick
.
“
Where
are
you
,
Miss
Harriet
?
”
“
I’m
at
Wiggins
and
Webster’s
,
sir
.
”
“
Where
they
clean
machinery
during
meal-time
;
that
won’t
do
,
”
said
Mick
.
“
I
see
one
of
your
partners
coming
in
,
”
said
Mick
,
making
many
signals
to
a
person
who
very
soon
joined
them
.
“
Well
,
Devilsdust
,
how
are
you
?
”
This
was
the
familiar
appellation
of
a
young
gentleman
,
who
really
had
no
other
,
baptismal
or
patrimonial
.
About
a
fortnight
after
his
mother
had
introduced
him
into
the
world
,
she
returned
to
her
factory
and
put
her
infant
out
to
nurse
,
that
is
to
say
,
paid
threepence
a
week
to
an
old
woman
who
takes
charge
of
these
new-born
babes
for
the
day
,
and
gives
them
back
at
night
to
their
mothers
as
they
hurriedly
return
from
the
scene
of
their
labour
to
the
dungeon
or
the
den
,
which
is
still
by
courtesy
called
“
home
.
”
The
expense
is
not
great
:
laudanum
and
treacle
,
administered
in
the
shape
of
some
popular
elixir
,
affords
these
innocents
a
brief
taste
of
the
sweets
of
existence
,
and
keeping
them
quiet
,
prepares
them
for
the
silence
of
their
impending
grave
.
Infanticide
is
practised
as
extensively
and
as
legally
in
England
,
as
it
is
on
the
banks
of
the
Ganges
;
a
circumstance
which
apparently
has
not
yet
engaged
the
attention
of
the
Society
for
the
Propagation
of
the
Gospel
in
Foreign
Parts
.
But
the
vital
principle
is
an
impulse
from
an
immortal
artist
,
and
sometimes
baffles
,
even
in
its
tenderest
phasis
,
the
machinations
of
society
for
its
extinction
.
There
are
infants
that
will
defy
even
starvation
and
poison
,
unnatural
mothers
and
demon
nurses
.
Such
was
the
nameless
one
of
whom
we
speak
.
We
cannot
say
he
thrived
;
but
he
would
not
die
.
So
at
two
years
of
age
,
his
mother
being
lost
sight
of
,
and
the
weekly
payment
having
ceased
,
he
was
sent
out
in
the
street
to
“
play
,
”
in
order
to
be
run
over
.
Even
this
expedient
failed
.
The
youngest
and
the
feeblest
of
the
band
of
victims
,
Juggernaut
spared
him
to
Moloch
.
All
his
companions
were
disposed
of
.
Three
months’
“
play
”
in
the
streets
got
rid
of
this
tender
company
,
—
shoeless
,
half-naked
,
and
uncombed
,
—
whose
age
varied
from
two
to
five
years
.
Some
were
crushed
,
some
were
lost
,
some
caught
cold
and
fevers
,
crept
back
to
their
garret
or
their
cellars
,
were
dosed
with
Godfrey’s
cordial
,
and
died
in
peace
.
The
nameless
one
would
not
disappear
.
He
always
got
out
of
the
way
of
the
carts
and
horses
,
and
never
lost
his
own
.
They
gave
him
no
food
:
he
foraged
for
himself
,
and
shared
with
the
dogs
the
garbage
of
the
streets
.
But
still
he
lived
;
stunted
and
pale
,
he
defied
even
the
fatal
fever
which
was
the
only
habitant
of
his
cellar
that
never
quitted
it
.
And
slumbering
at
night
on
a
bed
of
mouldering
straw
,
his
only
protection
against
the
plashy
surface
of
his
den
,
with
a
dungheap
at
his
head
and
a
cesspool
at
his
feet
,
he
still
clung
to
the
only
roof
which
shielded
him
from
the
tempest
.
At
length
when
the
nameless
one
had
completed
his
fifth
year
,
the
pest
which
never
quitted
the
nest
of
cellars
of
which
he
was
a
citizen
,
raged
in
the
quarter
with
such
intensity
,
that
the
extinction
of
its
swarming
population
was
menaced
.
The
haunt
of
this
child
was
peculiarly
visited
.
All
the
children
gradually
sickened
except
himself
;
and
one
night
when
he
returned
home
he
found
the
old
woman
herself
dead
,
and
surrounded
only
by
corpses
.
The
child
before
this
had
slept
on
the
same
bed
of
straw
with
a
corpse
,
but
then
there
were
also
breathing
beings
for
his
companions
.
A
night
passed
only
with
corpses
seemed
to
him
in
itself
a
kind
of
death
.
He
stole
out
of
the
cellar
,
quitted
the
quarter
of
pestilence
,
and
after
much
wandering
laid
down
near
the
door
of
a
factory
.
Fortune
had
guided
him
.
Soon
after
break
of
day
,
he
was
woke
by
the
sound
of
the
factory
bell
,
and
found
assembled
a
crowd
of
men
,
women
,
and
children
.
The
door
opened
,
they
entered
,
the
child
accompanied
them
.
The
roll
was
called
;
his
unauthorized
appearance
noticed
;
he
was
questioned
;
his
acuteness
excited
attention
.
A
child
was
wanted
in
the
Wadding
Hole
,
a
place
for
the
manufacture
of
waste
and
damaged
cotton
,
the
refuse
of
the
mills
,
which
is
here
worked
up
into
counterpanes
and
coverlids
.
The
nameless
one
was
prefered
to
the
vacant
post
,
received
even
a
salary
,
more
than
that
,
a
name
;
for
as
he
had
none
,
he
was
christened
on
the
spot
—
DEVILSDUST
.
Devilsdust
had
entered
life
so
early
that
at
seventeen
he
combined
the
experience
of
manhood
with
the
divine
energy
of
youth
.
He
was
a
first-rate
workman
and
received
high
wages
;
he
had
availed
himself
of
the
advantages
of
the
factory
school
;
he
soon
learnt
to
read
and
write
with
facility
,
and
at
the
moment
of
our
history
,
was
the
leading
spirit
of
the
Shoddy-Court
Literary
and
Scientific
Institute
.
His
great
friend
,
his
only
intimate
,
was
Dandy
Mick
.
The
apparent
contrariety
of
their
qualities
and
structure
perhaps
led
to
this
.
It
is
indeed
the
most
assured
basis
of
friendship
.
Devilsdust
was
dark
and
melancholy
;
ambitious
and
discontented
;
full
of
thought
,
and
with
powers
of
patience
and
perseverance
that
alone
amounted
to
genius
.
Mick
was
as
brilliant
as
his
complexion
;
gay
,
irritable
,
evanescent
,
and
unstable
.
Mick
enjoyed
life
;
his
friend
only
endured
it
;
yet
Mick
was
always
complaining
of
the
lowness
of
his
wages
and
the
greatness
of
his
toil
;
while
Devilsdust
never
murmured
,
but
read
and
pondered
on
the
rights
of
labour
,
and
sighed
to
vindicate
his
order
.
“
I
have
some
thoughts
of
joining
the
Total
Abstinence
,
”
said
Devilsdust
;
“
ever
since
I
read
Stephen
Morley’s
address
it
has
been
in
my
mind
.
We
shall
never
get
our
rights
till
we
leave
off
consuming
exciseable
articles
;
and
the
best
thing
to
begin
with
is
liquors
.
”
“
Well
,
I
could
do
without
liquors
myself
,
”
said
Caroline
.
“
If
I
was
a
lady
,
I
would
never
drink
anything
except
fresh
milk
from
the
cow
.
”
“
Tea
for
my
money
,
”
said
Harriet
;
“
I
must
say
there’s
nothing
I
grudge
for
good
tea
.
Now
I
keep
house
,
I
mean
always
to
drink
the
best
.
”
“
Well
,
you
have
not
yet
taken
the
pledge
,
Dusty
,
”
said
Mick
:
“
and
so
suppose
we
order
a
go
of
gin
and
talk
this
matter
of
temperance
over
.
”
Devilsdust
was
manageable
in
little
things
,
especially
by
Mick
;
he
acceded
,
and
seated
himself
at
their
table
.
“
I
suppose
you
have
heard
this
last
dodge
of
Shuffle
and
Screw
,
Dusty
,
”
said
Mick
.
“
What’s
that
?
”
“
Every
man
had
his
key
given
him
this
evening
—
half-a-crown
a
week
round
deducted
from
wages
for
rent
.
Jim
Plastow
told
them
he
lodged
with
his
father
and
didn’t
want
a
house
;
upon
which
they
said
he
must
let
it
.
”
“
Their
day
will
come
,
”
said
Devilsdust
,
thoughtfully
.
“
I
really
think
that
those
Shuffle
and
Screws
are
worse
even
than
Truck
and
Trett
.
You
knew
where
you
were
with
those
fellows
;
it
was
five-and-twenty
per
cent
,
off
wages
and
very
bad
stuff
for
your
money
.
But
as
for
Shuffle
and
Screw
,
what
with
their
fines
and
their
keys
,
a
man
never
knows
what
he
has
to
spend
.
Come
,
”
he
added
filling
his
glass
,
“
let’s
have
a
toast
—
Confusion
to
Capital
.
”
“
That’s
your
sort
,
”
said
Mick
.
“
Come
,
Caroline
;
drink
to
your
partner’s
toast
,
Miss
Harriet
.
Money’s
the
root
of
all
evil
,
which
nobody
can
deny
.
We’ll
have
the
rights
of
labour
yet
;
the
ten-hour
bill
,
no
fines
,
and
no
individuals
admitted
to
any
work
who
have
not
completed
their
sixteenth
year
.
”
“
No
,
fifteen
,
”
said
Caroline
eagerly
.
“
The
people
won’t
bear
their
grievances
much
longer
,
”
said
Devilsdust
.
“
I
think
one
of
the
greatest
grievances
the
people
have
,
”
said
Caroline
,
“
is
the
beaks
serving
notice
on
Chaffing
Jack
to
shut
up
the
Temple
on
Sunday
nights
.
”
“
It
is
infamous
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
aynt
we
to
have
no
recreation
?
One
might
as
well
live
in
Suffolk
,
where
the
immigrants
come
from
,
and
where
they
are
obliged
to
burn
ricks
to
pass
the
time
.
”
“
As
for
the
rights
of
labour
,
”
said
Harriet
,
“
the
people
goes
for
nothing
with
this
machinery
.
”
“
And
you
have
opened
your
mouth
to
say
a
very
sensible
thing
Miss
Harriet
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
but
if
I
were
Lord
Paramount
for
eight-and-forty
hours
,
I’d
soon
settle
that
question
.
Wouldn’t
I
fire
a
broadside
into
their
‘double
deckers
?
’
The
battle
of
Navarino
at
Mowbray
fair
with
fourteen
squibs
from
the
admiral’s
ship
going
off
at
the
same
time
,
should
be
nothing
to
it
.
”
“
Labour
may
be
weak
,
but
Capital
is
weaker
,
”
said
Devilsdust
.
“
Their
capital
is
all
paper
.
”
“
I
tell
you
what
,
”
said
Mick
,
with
a
knowing
look
,
and
in
a
lowered
tone
,
“
The
only
thing
,
my
hearties
,
that
can
save
this
here
nation
,
is
—
a
—
good
strike
.
”
CHAPTER
XI
.
“
Your
lordship’s
dinner
is
served
,
”
announced
the
groom
of
the
chambers
to
Lord
de
Mowbray
;
and
the
noble
lord
led
out
Lady
Marney
.
The
rest
followed
.
Egremont
found
himself
seated
next
to
Lady
Maud
Fitz-Warene
,
the
younger
daughter
of
the
earl
.
Nearly
opposite
to
him
was
Lady
Joan
.
The
ladies
Fitz-Warene
were
sandy
girls
,
somewhat
tall
,
with
rather
good
figures
and
a
grand
air
;
the
eldest
very
ugly
,
the
second
rather
pretty
;
and
yet
both
very
much
alike
.
They
had
both
great
conversational
powers
,
though
in
different
ways
.
Lady
Joan
was
doctrinal
;
Lady
Maud
inquisitive
:
the
first
often
imparted
information
which
you
did
not
previously
possess
;
the
other
suggested
ideas
which
were
often
before
in
your
own
mind
,
but
lay
tranquil
and
unobserved
,
till
called
into
life
and
notice
by
her
fanciful
and
vivacious
tongue
.
Both
of
them
were
endowed
with
a
very
remarkable
self-possession
;
but
Lady
Joan
wanted
softness
,
and
Lady
Maud
repose
.
This
was
the
result
of
the
rapid
observation
of
Egremont
,
who
was
however
experienced
in
the
world
and
quick
in
his
detection
of
manner
and
of
character
.
The
dinner
was
stately
,
as
becomes
the
high
nobility
.
There
were
many
guests
,
yet
the
table
seemed
only
a
gorgeous
spot
in
the
capacious
chamber
.
The
side
tables
were
laden
with
silver
vases
and
golden
shields
arranged
on
shelves
of
crimson
velvet
.
The
walls
were
covered
with
Fitz-Warenes
,
De
Mowbrays
,
and
De
Veres
.
The
attendants
glided
about
without
noise
,
and
with
the
precision
of
military
discipline
.
They
watched
your
wants
,
they
anticipated
your
wishes
,
and
they
supplied
all
you
desired
with
a
lofty
air
of
pompous
devotion
.
“
You
came
by
the
railroad
?
”
enquired
Lord
de
Mowbray
mournfully
,
of
Lady
Marney
.
“
From
Marham
;
about
ten
miles
from
us
,
”
replied
her
ladyship
.
“
A
great
revolution
!
”
“
Isn’t
it
?
”
“
I
fear
it
has
a
very
dangerous
tendency
to
equality
,
”
said
his
lordship
shaking
his
head
;
“
I
suppose
Lord
Marney
gives
them
all
the
opposition
in
his
power
.
”
“
There
is
nobody
so
violent
against
railroads
as
George
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
;
“
I
cannot
tell
you
what
he
does
not
do
!
He
organized
the
whole
of
our
division
against
the
Marham
line
!
”
“
I
rather
counted
on
him
,
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
,
“
to
assist
me
in
resisting
this
joint
branch
here
;
but
I
was
surprised
to
learn
he
had
consented
.
”
“
Not
until
the
compensation
was
settled
,
”
innocently
remarked
Lady
Marney
;
“
George
never
opposes
them
after
that
.
He
gave
up
all
opposition
to
the
Marham
line
when
they
agreed
to
his
terms
.
”
“
And
yet
,
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
,
“
I
think
if
Lord
Marney
would
take
a
different
view
of
the
case
and
look
to
the
moral
consequences
,
he
would
hesitate
.
Equality
,
Lady
Marney
,
equality
is
not
our
metier
.
If
we
nobles
do
not
make
a
stand
against
the
levelling
spirit
of
the
age
,
I
am
at
a
loss
to
know
who
will
fight
the
battle
.
You
many
depend
upon
it
that
these
railroads
are
very
dangerous
things
.
”
“
I
have
no
doubt
of
it
.
I
suppose
you
have
heard
of
Lady
Vanilla’s
trip
from
Birmingham
?
Have
you
not
,
indeed
!
She
came
up
with
Lady
Laura
,
and
two
of
the
most
gentlemanlike
men
sitting
opposite
her
;
never
met
,
she
says
,
two
more
intelligent
men
.
She
begged
one
of
them
at
Wolverhampton
to
change
seats
with
her
,
and
he
was
most
politely
willing
to
comply
with
her
wishes
,
only
it
was
necessary
that
his
companion
should
move
at
the
same
time
,
for
they
were
chained
together
!
Two
of
the
swell
mob
,
sent
to
town
for
picking
a
pocket
at
Shrewsbury
races
.
”
“
A
countess
and
a
felon
!
So
much
for
public
conveyances
,
”
said
Lord
Mowbray
.
“
But
Lady
Vanilla
is
one
of
those
who
will
talk
with
everybody
.
”
“
She
is
very
amusing
though
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
.
“
I
dare
say
she
is
,
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
;
“
but
believe
me
,
my
dear
Lady
Marney
,
in
these
times
especially
,
a
countess
has
something
else
to
do
than
be
amusing
.
”
“
You
think
as
property
has
its
duties
as
well
as
its
rights
,
rank
has
its
bores
as
well
as
its
pleasures
.
”
Lord
Mowbray
mused
.
“
How
do
you
do
,
Mr
Jermyn
?
”
said
a
lively
little
lady
with
sparkling
beady
black
eyes
,
and
a
very
yellow
complexion
,
though
with
good
features
;
“
when
did
you
arrive
in
the
North
?
I
have
been
fighting
your
battles
finely
since
I
saw
you
,
”
she
added
shaking
her
head
,
rather
with
an
expression
of
admonition
than
of
sympathy
.
“
You
are
always
fighting
one’s
battles
Lady
Firebrace
;
it
is
very
kind
of
you
.
If
it
were
not
for
you
,
we
should
none
of
us
know
how
much
we
are
all
abused
,
”
replied
Mr
Jermyn
,
a
young
M.P.
“
They
say
you
gave
the
most
radical
pledges
,
”
said
Lady
Firebrace
eagerly
,
and
not
without
malice
.
“
I
heard
Lord
Muddlebrains
say
that
if
he
had
had
the
least
idea
of
your
principles
,
you
would
not
have
had
his
influence
.
”
“
Muddlebrains
can’t
command
a
single
vote
,
”
said
Mr
Jermyn
.
“
He
is
a
political
humbug
,
the
greatest
of
all
humbugs
;
a
man
who
swaggers
about
London
clubs
and
consults
solemnly
about
his
influence
,
and
in
the
country
is
a
nonentity
.
”
“
Well
,
that
can’t
be
said
of
Lord
Clarinel
,
”
rejoined
Lady
Firebrace
.
“
And
have
you
been
defending
me
against
Lord
Clarinel’s
attacks
?
”
inquired
Mr
Jermyn
.
“
No
;
but
I
am
going
to
Wemsbury
,
and
then
I
have
no
doubt
I
shall
have
the
opportunity
.
”
“
I
am
going
to
Wemsbury
myself
,
”
said
Mr
Jermyn
.
“
And
what
does
Lord
Clarinel
think
of
your
pledge
about
the
pension
list
?
”
said
Lady
Firebrace
daunted
but
malignant
.
“
He
never
told
me
,
”
said
Mr
Jermyn
.
“
I
believe
you
did
not
pledge
yourself
to
the
ballot
?
”
inquired
Lady
Firebrace
with
an
affected
air
of
inquisitiveness
.
“
It
is
a
subject
that
requires
some
reflection
,
”
said
Mr
Jermyn
.
“
I
must
consult
some
profound
politician
like
Lady
Firebrace
.
By
the
bye
,
you
told
my
mother
that
the
conservatives
would
have
a
majority
of
fifteen
.
Do
you
think
they
will
have
as
much
?
”
said
Mr
Jermyn
with
an
innocent
air
,
it
now
being
notorious
that
the
whig
administration
had
a
majority
of
double
that
amount
.
“
I
said
Mr
Tadpole
gave
us
a
majority
of
fifteen
,
”
said
Lady
Firebrace
.
“
I
knew
he
was
in
error
;
because
I
had
happened
to
see
Lord
Melbourne’s
own
list
,
made
up
to
the
last
hour
;
and
which
gave
the
government
a
majority
of
sixty
.
It
was
only
shown
to
three
members
of
the
cabinet
,
”
she
added
in
a
tone
of
triumphant
mystery
.
Lady
Firebrace
,
a
great
stateswoman
among
the
tories
,
was
proud
of
an
admirer
who
was
a
member
of
the
whig
cabinet
.
She
was
rather
an
agreeable
guest
in
a
country-house
,
with
her
extensive
correspondence
,
and
her
bulletins
from
both
sides
.
Tadpole
flattered
by
her
notice
,
and
charmed
with
female
society
that
talked
his
own
slang
,
and
entered
with
affected
enthusiasm
into
all
his
dirty
plots
and
barren
machinations
,
was
vigilant
in
his
communications
;
while
her
whig
cavalier
,
an
easy
individual
who
always
made
love
by
talking
or
writing
politics
,
abandoned
himself
without
reserve
,
and
instructed
Lady
Firebrace
regularly
after
every
council
.
Taper
looked
grave
at
this
connection
between
Tadpole
and
Lady
Firebrace
;
and
whenever
an
election
was
lost
,
or
a
division
stuck
in
the
mud
,
he
gave
the
cue
with
a
nod
and
a
monosyllable
,
and
the
conservative
pack
that
infests
clubs
,
chattering
on
subjects
of
which
it
is
impossible
they
can
know
anything
,
instantly
began
barking
and
yelping
,
denouncing
traitors
,
and
wondering
how
the
leaders
could
be
so
led
by
the
nose
,
and
not
see
that
which
was
flagrant
to
the
whole
world
.
If
,
on
the
other
hand
,
the
advantage
seemed
to
go
with
the
Canton
Club
,
or
the
opposition
benches
,
then
it
was
the
whig
and
liberal
hounds
who
howled
and
moaned
,
explaining
everything
by
the
indiscretion
,
infatuation
,
treason
,
of
Lord
Viscount
Masque
,
and
appealing
to
the
initiated
world
of
idiots
around
them
,
whether
any
party
could
ever
succeed
,
hampered
by
such
men
,
and
influenced
by
such
means
.
The
best
of
the
joke
was
,
that
all
this
time
Lord
Masque
and
Tadpole
were
two
old
foxes
,
neither
of
whom
conveyed
to
Lady
Firebrace
a
single
circumstance
but
with
the
wish
,
intention
,
and
malice
aforethought
,
that
it
should
be
communicated
to
his
rival
.
“
I
must
get
you
to
interest
Lord
de
Mowbray
in
our
cause
,
”
said
Sir
Vavasour
Firebrace
,
in
an
insinuating
voice
to
his
neighbour
,
Lady
Joan
;
“
I
have
sent
him
a
large
packet
of
documents
.
You
know
,
he
is
one
of
us
;
still
one
of
us
.
Once
a
baronet
,
always
a
baronet
.
The
dignity
merges
,
but
does
not
cease
;
and
happy
as
I
am
to
see
one
covered
with
high
honours
,
who
is
in
every
way
so
worthy
of
them
,
still
I
confess
to
you
it
is
not
so
much
as
Earl
de
Mowbray
that
your
worthy
father
interests
me
,
as
in
his
undoubted
character
and
capacity
of
Sir
Altamont
Fitz-Warene
,
baronet
.
”
“
You
have
the
data
on
which
you
move
I
suppose
well
digested
,
”
said
Lady
Joan
,
attentive
but
not
interested
.
“
The
case
is
clear
;
as
far
as
equity
is
concerned
,
irresistible
;
indeed
the
late
king
pledged
himself
to
a
certain
point
.
But
if
you
would
do
me
the
favour
of
reading
our
memorial
.
”
“
The
proposition
is
not
one
adapted
to
our
present
civilisation
,
”
said
Lady
Joan
.
“
A
baronetcy
has
become
the
distinction
of
the
middle
class
;
a
physician
,
our
physician
for
example
,
is
a
baronet
;
and
I
dare
say
some
of
our
tradesmen
;
brewers
,
of
people
of
that
class
.
An
attempt
to
elevate
them
into
an
order
of
nobility
,
however
inferior
,
would
partake
in
some
degree
of
the
ridiculous
.
”
“
And
has
the
duke
escaped
his
gout
this
year
?
”
enquired
Lord
Marney
of
Lady
de
Mowbray
.
“
A
very
slight
touch
;
I
never
knew
my
father
so
well
.
I
expect
you
will
meet
him
here
.
We
look
for
him
daily
.
”
“
I
shall
be
delighted
;
I
hope
he
will
come
to
Marney
in
October
.
I
keep
the
blue
ribbon
cover
for
him
.
”
“
What
you
suggest
is
very
just
,
”
said
Egremont
to
Lady
Maud
.
“
If
we
only
in
our
own
spheres
made
the
exertion
,
the
general
effect
would
be
great
.
Marney
Abbey
,
for
instance
,
I
believe
one
of
the
finest
of
our
monastic
remains
,
—
that
indeed
is
not
disputed
—
diminished
yearly
to
repair
barns
;
the
cattle
browsing
in
the
nave
;
all
this
might
be
prevented
.
If
my
brother
would
not
consent
to
preserve
or
to
restore
,
still
any
member
of
the
family
,
even
I
,
without
expense
,
only
with
a
little
zeal
as
you
say
,
might
prevent
mischief
,
might
stop
at
least
demolition
.
”
“
If
this
movement
in
the
church
had
only
revived
a
taste
for
Christian
architecture
,
”
said
Lady
Maud
,
“
it
would
not
have
been
barren
,
and
it
has
done
so
much
more
!
But
I
am
surprised
that
old
families
can
be
so
dead
to
our
national
art
;
so
full
of
our
ancestors
,
their
exploits
,
their
mind
.
Indeed
you
and
I
have
no
excuse
for
such
indifference
Mr
Egremont
.
”
“
And
I
do
not
think
I
shall
ever
again
be
justly
accused
of
it
,
”
replied
Egremont
,
“
you
plead
its
cause
so
effectively
.
But
to
tell
you
the
truth
,
I
have
been
thinking
of
late
about
these
things
;
monasteries
and
so
on
;
the
influence
of
the
old
church
system
on
the
happiness
and
comfort
of
the
People
.
”
“
And
on
the
tone
of
the
Nobles
—
do
not
you
think
so
?
”
said
Lady
Maud
.
“
I
know
it
is
the
fashion
to
deride
the
crusades
,
but
do
not
you
think
they
had
their
origin
in
a
great
impulse
,
and
in
a
certain
sense
,
led
to
great
results
?
Pardon
me
,
if
I
speak
with
emphasis
,
but
I
never
can
forget
I
am
a
daughter
of
the
first
crusaders
.
”
“
The
tone
of
society
is
certainly
lower
than
of
yore
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
It
is
easy
to
say
we
view
the
past
through
a
fallacious
medium
.
We
have
however
ample
evidence
that
men
feel
less
deeply
than
of
old
and
act
with
less
devotion
.
But
how
far
is
this
occasioned
by
the
modern
position
of
our
church
?
That
is
the
question
.
”
“
You
must
speak
to
Mr
St
Lys
about
that
,
”
said
Lady
Maud
.
“
Do
you
know
him
?
”
she
added
in
a
lowered
tone
.
“
No
;
is
he
here
?
”
“
Next
to
mamma
.
”
And
looking
in
that
direction
,
on
the
left
hand
of
Lady
Mowbray
,
Egremont
beheld
a
gentleman
in
the
last
year
of
his
youth
,
if
youth
according
to
the
scale
of
Hippocrates
cease
at
thirty-five
.
He
was
distinguished
by
that
beauty
of
the
noble
English
blood
,
of
which
in
these
days
few
types
remain
;
the
Norman
tempered
by
the
Saxon
;
the
fire
of
conquest
softened
by
integrity
;
and
a
serene
,
though
inflexible
habit
of
mind
.
The
chains
of
convention
,
an
external
life
grown
out
of
all
proportion
with
that
of
the
heart
and
mind
,
have
destroyed
this
dignified
beauty
.
There
is
no
longer
in
fact
an
aristocracy
in
England
,
for
the
superiority
of
the
animal
man
is
an
essential
quality
of
aristocracy
.
But
that
it
once
existed
,
any
collection
of
portraits
from
the
sixteenth
century
will
show
.
Aubrey
St
Lys
was
a
younger
son
of
the
most
ancient
Norman
family
in
England
.
The
Conqueror
had
given
them
the
moderate
estate
on
which
they
now
lived
,
and
which
,
in
spite
of
so
many
civil
conflicts
and
religious
changes
,
they
had
handed
down
to
each
other
,
from
generation
to
generation
,
for
eight
centuries
.
Aubrey
St
Lys
was
the
vicar
of
Mowbray
.
He
had
been
the
college
tutor
of
the
late
Lord
Fitz-Warene
,
whose
mind
he
had
formed
,
whose
bright
abilities
he
had
cultivated
,
who
adored
him
.
To
that
connection
he
owed
the
slight
preferment
which
he
possessed
,
but
which
was
all
he
desired
.
A
bishopric
would
not
have
tempted
him
from
his
peculiar
charge
.
In
the
centre
of
the
town
of
Mowbray
teeming
with
its
toiling
thousands
,
there
rose
a
building
which
might
vie
with
many
of
the
cathedrals
of
our
land
.
Beautiful
its
solemn
towers
,
its
sculptured
western
front
;
beautiful
its
columned
aisles
and
lofty
nave
;
its
sparkling
shrine
and
delicate
chantry
;
most
beautiful
the
streaming
glories
of
its
vast
orient
light
!
This
magnificent
temple
,
built
by
the
monks
of
Mowbray
,
and
once
connected
with
their
famous
house
of
which
not
a
trace
now
remained
,
had
in
time
become
the
parish
church
of
an
obscure
village
,
whose
population
could
not
have
filled
one
of
its
side
chapels
.
These
strange
vicissitudes
of
ecclesiastical
buildings
are
not
singular
in
the
north
of
England
.
Mowbray
Church
remained
for
centuries
the
wonder
of
passing
peasants
,
and
the
glory
of
county
histories
.
But
there
is
a
magic
in
beautiful
buildings
which
exercises
an
irresistible
influence
over
the
mind
of
man
.
One
of
the
reasons
urged
for
the
destruction
of
the
monasteries
after
the
dispersion
of
their
inhabitants
,
was
the
pernicious
influence
of
their
solemn
and
stately
forms
on
the
memories
and
imagination
of
those
that
beheld
them
.
It
was
impossible
to
connect
systematic
crime
with
the
creators
of
such
divine
fabrics
.
And
so
it
was
with
Mowbray
Church
.
When
manufactures
were
introduced
into
this
district
,
which
abounded
with
all
the
qualities
which
were
necessary
for
their
successful
pursuit
,
Mowbray
offering
equal
though
not
superior
advantages
to
other
positions
,
was
accorded
the
preference
,
“
because
it
possessed
such
a
beautiful
church
.
”
The
lingering
genius
of
the
monks
of
Mowbray
hovered
round
the
spot
which
they
had
adorned
,
and
sanctified
,
and
loved
;
and
thus
they
had
indirectly
become
the
authors
of
its
present
greatness
and
prosperity
.
Unhappily
for
a
long
season
the
vicars
of
Mowbray
had
been
little
conscious
of
their
mission
.
An
immense
population
gathered
round
the
sacred
citadel
and
gradually
spread
on
all
sides
of
it
for
miles
.
But
the
parish
church
for
a
long
time
remained
the
only
one
at
Mowbray
when
the
population
of
the
town
exceeded
that
of
some
European
capitals
.
And
even
in
the
parish
church
the
frigid
spell
of
Erastian
self-complacency
fatally
prevailed
.
A
scanty
congregation
gathered
together
for
form
,
and
as
much
influenced
by
party
as
higher
sentiments
.
Going
to
church
was
held
more
genteel
than
going
to
meeting
.
The
principal
tradesmen
of
the
neighbouring
great
houses
deemed
it
more
“
aristocratic
;
”
using
a
favourite
and
hackneyed
epithet
which
only
expressed
their
own
servility
.
About
the
time
the
Church
Commission
issued
,
the
congregation
of
Mowbray
was
approaching
zero
.
There
was
an
idea
afloat
for
a
time
of
making
it
the
seat
of
a
new
bishopric
;
the
cathedral
was
ready
;
another
instance
of
the
influence
of
fine
art
.
But
there
was
no
residence
for
the
projected
prelate
,
and
a
jobbing
bishop
on
the
commission
was
afraid
that
he
might
have
to
contribute
to
building
one
.
So
the
idea
died
away
;
and
the
living
having
become
vacant
at
this
moment
,
instead
of
a
bishop
,
Mowbray
received
a
humble
vicar
in
the
shape
of
Aubrey
St
Lys
,
who
came
among
a
hundred
thousand
heathens
to
preach
“
the
Unknown
God
.
”
CHAPTER
XII
.
“
And
how
do
you
find
the
people
about
you
,
Marney
?
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
seating
himself
on
a
sofa
by
his
guest
.
“
All
very
well
,
my
lord
,
”
replied
the
earl
,
who
ever
treated
Lord
de
Mowbray
with
a
certain
degree
of
ceremony
,
especially
when
the
descendant
of
the
crusaders
affected
the
familiar
.
There
was
something
of
a
Puck-like
malignity
in
the
temperament
of
Lord
Marney
,
which
exhibited
itself
in
a
remarkable
talent
for
mortifying
persons
in
a
small
way
;
by
a
gesture
,
an
expression
,
a
look
,
cloaked
too
very
often
with
all
the
character
of
profound
deference
.
The
old
nobility
of
Spain
delighted
to
address
each
other
only
by
their
names
,
when
in
the
presence
of
a
spick-and-span
grandee
;
calling
each
other
,
“
Infantado
,
”
“
Sidonia
,
”
“
Ossuna
,
”
and
then
turning
round
with
the
most
distinguished
consideration
,
and
appealing
to
the
Most
Noble
Marquis
of
Ensenada
.
“
They
begin
to
get
a
little
uneasy
here
,
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
.
“
We
have
nothing
to
complain
of
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
We
continue
reducing
the
rates
,
and
as
long
as
we
do
that
the
country
must
improve
.
The
workhouse
test
tells
.
We
had
the
other
day
a
case
of
incendiarism
,
which
frightened
some
people
:
but
I
inquired
into
it
,
and
am
quite
satisfied
it
originated
in
purely
accidental
circumstances
;
at
least
nothing
to
do
with
wages
.
I
ought
to
be
a
judge
,
for
it
was
on
my
own
property
.
”
“
And
what
is
the
rate
of
wages
,
in
your
part
of
the
world
,
Lord
Marney
?
”
inquired
Mr
St
Lys
who
was
standing
by
.
“
Oh
!
good
enough
:
not
like
your
manufacturing
districts
;
but
people
who
work
in
the
open
air
,
instead
of
a
furnace
,
can’t
expect
,
and
don’t
require
such
.
They
get
their
eight
shillings
a
week
;
at
least
generally
.
”
“
Eight
shillings
a
week
!
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
.
“
Can
a
labouring
man
with
a
family
,
perhaps
of
eight
children
,
live
on
eight
shillings
a
week
!
”
“
Oh
!
as
for
that
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
they
get
more
than
that
,
because
there
is
beer-money
allowed
,
at
least
to
a
great
extent
among
us
,
though
I
for
one
do
not
approve
of
the
practice
,
and
that
makes
nearly
a
shilling
per
week
additional
;
and
then
some
of
them
have
potatoe
grounds
,
though
I
am
entirely
opposed
to
that
system
.
“
And
yet
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
,
“
how
they
contrive
to
live
is
to
me
marvellous
.
”
“
Oh
!
as
for
that
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
“
I
have
generally
found
the
higher
the
wages
the
worse
the
workman
.
They
only
spend
their
money
in
the
beer-shops
.
They
are
the
curse
of
this
country
.
”
“
But
what
is
a
poor
man
to
do
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
;
“
after
his
day’s
work
if
he
returns
to
his
own
roof
and
finds
no
home
:
his
fire
extinguished
,
his
food
unprepared
;
the
partner
of
his
life
,
wearied
with
labour
in
the
field
or
the
factory
,
still
absent
,
or
perhaps
in
bed
from
exhaustion
,
or
because
she
has
returned
wet
to
the
skin
,
and
has
no
change
of
raiment
for
her
relief
.
We
have
removed
woman
from
her
sphere
;
we
may
have
reduced
wages
by
her
introduction
into
the
market
of
labour
;
but
under
these
circumstances
what
we
call
domestic
life
is
a
condition
impossible
to
be
realized
for
the
people
of
this
country
;
and
we
must
not
therefore
be
surprised
that
they
seek
solace
or
rather
refuge
in
the
beer-shop
.
”
Lord
Marney
looked
up
at
Mr
St
Lys
,
with
a
stare
of
high-bred
impertinence
,
and
then
carelessly
observed
,
without
directing
his
words
to
him
,
“
They
may
say
what
they
like
,
but
it
is
all
an
affair
of
population
.
”
“
I
would
rather
believe
that
it
is
an
affair
of
resources
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
;
“
not
what
is
the
amount
of
our
population
,
but
what
is
the
amount
of
our
resources
for
their
maintenance
.
“
It
comes
to
the
same
thing
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
Nothing
can
put
this
country
right
but
emigration
on
a
great
scale
;
and
as
the
government
do
not
choose
to
undertake
it
,
I
have
commenced
it
for
my
own
defence
on
a
small
scale
.
I
will
take
care
that
the
population
of
my
parishes
is
not
increased
.
I
build
no
cottages
and
I
destroy
all
I
can
;
and
I
am
not
ashamed
or
afraid
to
say
so
.
”
“
You
have
declared
war
to
the
cottage
,
then
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
,
smiling
.
“
It
is
not
at
the
first
sound
so
startling
a
cry
as
war
to
the
castle
.
”
“
But
you
think
it
may
lead
to
it
?
”
said
Lord
Mowbray
.
“
I
love
not
to
be
a
prophet
of
evil
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
.
Lord
Marney
rose
from
his
seat
and
addressed
Lady
Firebrace
,
whose
husband
in
another
part
of
the
room
had
caught
Mr
Jermyn
,
and
was
opening
his
mind
on
“
the
question
of
the
day
;
”
Lady
Maud
,
followed
by
Egremont
,
approached
Mr
St
Lys
,
and
said
,
“
Mr
Egremont
has
a
great
feeling
for
Christian
architecture
,
Mr
St
Lys
,
and
wishes
particularly
to
visit
our
church
of
which
we
are
so
proud
.
”
And
in
a
few
moments
they
were
seated
together
and
engaged
in
conversation
.
Lord
Mowbray
placed
himself
by
the
side
of
Lady
Marney
,
who
was
seated
by
his
countess
.
“
Oh
!
how
I
envy
you
at
Marney
,
”
he
exclaimed
.
“
No
manufactures
,
no
smoke
;
living
in
the
midst
of
a
beautiful
park
and
surrounded
by
a
contented
peasantry
!
”
“
It
is
very
delightful
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
,
“
but
then
we
are
so
very
dull
;
we
have
really
no
neighbourhood
.
”
“
I
think
that
such
a
great
advantage
,
”
said
Lady
Mowbray
:
“
I
must
say
I
like
my
friends
from
London
.
I
never
know
what
to
say
to
the
people
here
.
Excellent
people
,
the
very
best
people
in
the
world
;
the
way
they
behaved
to
poor
dear
Fitz-Warene
,
when
they
wanted
him
to
stand
for
the
county
,
I
never
can
forget
;
but
then
they
do
not
know
the
people
we
know
,
or
do
the
things
we
do
;
and
when
you
have
gone
through
the
routine
of
county
questions
,
and
exhausted
the
weather
and
all
the
winds
,
I
am
positively
,
my
dear
Lady
Marney
,
aux
abois
,
and
then
they
think
you
are
proud
,
when
really
one
is
only
stupid
.
”
“
I
am
very
fond
of
work
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
,
“
and
I
talk
to
them
always
about
it
.
”
“
Ah
!
you
are
fortunate
,
I
never
could
work
;
and
Joan
and
Maud
,
they
neither
of
them
work
.
Maud
did
embroider
a
banner
once
for
her
brother
;
it
is
in
the
hail
.
I
think
it
beautiful
;
but
somehow
or
other
she
never
cultivated
her
talent
.
”
“
For
all
that
has
occurred
or
may
occur
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
to
Egremont
,
“
I
blame
only
the
Church
.
The
church
deserted
the
people
;
and
from
that
moment
the
church
has
been
in
danger
and
the
people
degraded
.
Formerly
religion
undertook
to
satisfy
the
noble
wants
of
human
nature
,
and
by
its
festivals
relieved
the
painful
weariness
of
toil
.
The
day
of
rest
was
consecrated
,
if
not
always
to
elevated
thought
,
at
least
to
sweet
and
noble
sentiments
.
The
church
convened
to
its
solemnities
under
its
splendid
and
almost
celestial
roofs
amid
the
finest
monuments
of
art
that
human
hands
have
raised
,
the
whole
Christian
population
;
for
there
,
in
the
presence
of
God
,
all
were
brethren
.
It
shared
equally
among
all
its
prayer
,
its
incense
,
and
its
music
;
its
sacred
instructions
,
and
the
highest
enjoyments
that
the
arts
could
afford
.
”
“
You
believe
then
in
the
efficacy
of
forms
and
ceremonies
?
”
“
What
you
call
forms
and
ceremonies
represent
the
divinest
instincts
of
our
nature
.
Push
your
aversion
to
forms
and
ceremonies
to
a
legitimate
conclusion
,
and
you
would
prefer
kneeling
in
a
barn
rather
than
in
a
cathedral
.
Your
tenets
would
strike
at
the
very
existence
of
all
art
,
which
is
essentially
spiritual
.
”
“
I
am
not
speaking
abstractedly
,
”
said
Egremont
,
“
but
rather
with
reference
to
the
indirect
connection
of
these
forms
and
ceremonies
with
another
church
.
The
people
of
this
country
associate
them
with
an
enthralling
superstition
and
a
foreign
dominion
.
”
“
With
Rome
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
;
“
yet
forms
and
ceremonies
existed
before
Rome
.
”
“
But
practically
,
”
said
Egremont
,
“
has
not
their
revival
in
our
service
at
the
present
day
a
tendency
to
restore
the
Romish
system
in
this
country
?
”
“
It
is
difficult
to
ascertain
what
may
be
the
practical
effect
of
certain
circumstances
among
the
uninformed
,
”
said
Mr
St
Lys
.
“
The
church
of
Rome
is
to
be
respected
as
the
only
Hebraeo-christian
church
extant
;
all
other
churches
established
by
the
Hebrew
apostles
have
disappeared
,
but
Rome
remains
;
and
we
must
never
permit
the
exaggerated
position
which
it
assumed
in
the
middle
centuries
to
make
us
forget
its
early
and
apostolical
character
,
when
it
was
fresh
from
Palestine
and
as
it
were
fragrant
from
Paradise
.
The
church
of
Rome
is
sustained
by
apostolical
succession
;
but
apostolical
succession
is
not
an
institution
complete
in
itself
;
it
is
a
part
of
a
whole
;
if
it
be
not
part
of
a
whole
it
has
no
foundation
.
The
apostles
succeeded
the
prophets
.
Our
Master
announced
himself
as
the
last
of
the
prophets
.
They
in
their
turn
were
the
heirs
of
the
patriarchs
:
men
who
were
in
direct
communication
with
the
Most
High
.
To
men
not
less
favoured
than
the
apostles
,
the
revelation
of
the
priestly
character
was
made
,
and
those
forms
and
ceremonies
ordained
,
which
the
church
of
Rome
has
never
relinquished
.
But
Rome
did
not
invent
them
:
upon
their
practice
,
the
duty
of
all
congregations
,
we
cannot
consent
to
her
founding
a
claim
to
supremacy
.
For
would
you
maintain
then
that
the
church
did
not
exist
in
the
time
of
the
prophets
?
Was
Moses
then
not
a
churchman
?
And
Aaron
,
was
he
not
a
high
priest
?
Ay
!
greater
than
any
pope
or
prelate
,
whether
he
be
at
Rome
or
at
Lambeth
.
“
In
all
these
church
discussions
,
we
are
apt
to
forget
that
the
second
Testament
is
avowedly
only
a
supplement
.
Jehovah-Jesus
came
to
complete
the
‘law
and
the
prophets.’
Christianity
is
completed
Judaism
,
or
it
is
nothing
.
Christianity
is
incomprehensible
without
Judaism
,
as
Judaism
is
incomplete
;
without
Christianity
.
What
has
Rome
to
do
with
its
completion
;
what
with
its
commencement
?
The
law
was
not
thundered
forth
from
the
Capitolian
mount
;
the
divine
atonement
was
not
fulfilled
upon
Mons
Sacer
.
No
;
the
order
of
our
priesthood
comes
directly
from
Jehovah
;
and
the
forms
and
ceremonies
of
His
church
are
the
regulations
of
His
supreme
intelligence
.
Rome
indeed
boasts
that
the
authenticity
of
the
second
Testament
depends
upon
the
recognition
of
her
infallibility
.
The
authenticity
of
the
second
Testament
depends
upon
its
congruity
with
the
first
.
Did
Rome
preserve
that
?
I
recognize
in
the
church
an
institution
thoroughly
,
sincerely
,
catholic
:
adapted
to
all
climes
and
to
all
ages
.
I
do
not
bow
to
the
necessity
of
a
visible
head
in
a
defined
locality
;
but
were
I
to
seek
for
such
,
it
would
not
be
at
Rome
.
I
cannot
discover
in
its
history
however
memorable
any
testimony
of
a
mission
so
sublime
.
When
Omnipotence
deigned
to
be
incarnate
,
the
Ineffable
Word
did
not
select
a
Roman
frame
.
The
prophets
were
not
Romans
;
the
apostles
were
not
Romans
;
she
,
who
was
blessed
above
all
women
,
I
never
heard
she
was
a
Roman
maiden
.
No
,
I
should
look
to
a
land
more
distant
than
Italy
,
to
a
city
more
sacred
even
than
Rome
.
”
CHAPTER
XIII
.
It
was
a
cloudy
,
glimmering
dawn
.
A
cold
withering
east
wind
blew
through
the
silent
streets
of
Mowbray
.
The
sounds
of
the
night
had
died
away
,
the
voices
of
the
day
had
not
commenced
.
There
reigned
a
stillness
complete
and
absorbing
.
Suddenly
there
is
a
voice
,
there
is
movement
.
The
first
footstep
of
the
new
week
of
toil
is
heard
.
A
man
muffled
up
in
a
thick
coat
,
and
bearing
in
his
hand
what
would
seem
at
the
first
glance
to
be
a
shepherd’s
crook
,
only
its
handle
