tastein
costume
,
and
our
general
preference
for
the
best
style
of
thing
.
Fred
felt
sure
that
he
should
have
a
present
from
his
uncle
,
that
he
should
have
a
run
of
luck
,
that
by
dint
of
"
swapping
"
he
should
gradually
metamorphose
a
horse
worth
forty
pounds
into
a
horse
that
would
fetch
a
hundred
at
any
moment
—
"
judgment
"
being
always
equivalent
to
an
unspecified
sum
in
hard
cash
.
And
in
any
case
,
even
supposing
negations
which
only
a
morbid
distrust
could
imagine
,
Fred
had
always
(
at
that
time
)
his
father
's
pocket
as
a
last
resource
,
so
that
his
assets
of
hopefulness
had
a
sort
of
gorgeous
superfluity
about
them
.
Of
what
might
be
the
capacity
of
his
father
's
pocket
,
Fred
had
only
a
vague
notion
:
was
not
trade
elastic
?
And
would
not
the
deficiencies
of
one
year
be
made
up
for
by
the
surplus
of
another
?
The
Vincys
lived
in
an
easy
profuse
way
,
not
with
any
new
ostentation
,
but
according
to
the
family
habits
and
traditions
,
so
that
the
children
had
no
standard
of
economy
,
and
the
elder
ones
retained
some
of
their
infantine
notion
that
their
father
might
pay
for
anything
if
he
would
.
Mr.
Vincy
himself
had
expensive
Middlemarch
habits
—
spent
money
on
coursing
,
on
his
cellar
,
and
on
dinner-giving
,
while
mamma
had
those
running
accounts
with
tradespeople
,
which
give
a
cheerful
sense
of
getting
everything
one
wants
without
any
question
of
payment
.
But
it
was
in
the
nature
of
fathers
,
Fred
knew
,
to
bully
one
about
expenses
:
there
was
always
a
little
storm
over
his
extravagance
if
he
had
to
disclose
a
debt
,
and
Fred
disliked
bad
weather
within
doors
.
He
was
too
filial
to
be
disrespectful
to
his
father
,
and
he
bore
the
thunder
with
the
certainty
that
it
was
transient
;
but
in
the
mean
time
it
was
disagreeable
to
see
his
mother
cry
,
and
also
to
be
obliged
to
look
sulky
instead
of
having
fun
;
for
Fred
was
so
good-tempered
that
if
he
looked
glum
under
scolding
,
it
was
chiefly
for
propriety
's
sake
.
The
easier
course
plainly
,
was
to
renew
the
bill
with
a
friend
's
signature
.
Why
not
?
With
the
superfluous
securities
of
hope
at
his
command
,
there
was
no
reason
why
he
should
not
have
increased
other
people
's
liabilities
to
any
extent
,
but
for
the
fact
that
men
whose
names
were
good
for
anything
were
usually
pessimists
,
indisposed
to
believe
that
the
universal
order
of
things
would
necessarily
be
agreeable
to
an
agreeable
young
gentleman
.
With
a
favour
to
ask
we
review
our
list
of
friends
,
do
justice
to
their
more
amiable
qualities
,
forgive
their
little
offenses
,
and
concerning
each
in
turn
,
try
to
arrive
at
the
conclusion
that
he
will
be
eager
to
oblige
us
,
our
own
eagerness
to
be
obliged
being
as
communicable
as
other
warmth
.
Still
there
is
always
a
certain
number
who
are
dismissed
as
but
moderately
eager
until
the
others
have
refused
;
and
it
happened
that
Fred
checked
off
all
his
friends
but
one
,
on
the
ground
that
applying
to
them
would
be
disagreeable
;
being
implicitly
convinced
that
he
at
least
(
whatever
might
be
maintained
about
mankind
generally
)
had
a
right
to
be
free
from
anything
disagreeable
.
That
he
should
ever
fall
into
a
thoroughly
unpleasant
position
—
wear
trousers
shrunk
with
washing
,
eat
cold
mutton
,
have
to
walk
for
want
of
a
horse
,
or
to
"
duck
under
"
in
any
sort
of
way
—
was
an
absurdity
irreconcilable
with
those
cheerful
intuitions
implanted
in
him
by
nature
.
And
Fred
winced
under
the
idea
of
being
looked
down
upon
as
wanting
funds
for
small
debts
.
Thus
it
came
to
pass
that
the
friend
whom
he
chose
to
apply
to
was
at
once
the
poorest
and
the
kindest
—
namely
,
Caleb
Garth
.
The
Garths
were
very
fond
of
Fred
,
as
he
was
of
them
;
for
when
he
and
Rosamond
were
little
ones
,
and
the
Garths
were
better
off
,
the
slight
connection
between
the
two
families
through
Mr.
Featherstone
's
double
marriage
(
the
first
to
Mr.
Garth
's
sister
,
and
the
second
to
Mrs.
Vincy
's
)
had
led
to
an
acquaintance
which
was
carried
on
between
the
children
rather
than
the
parents
:
the
children
drank
tea
together
out
of
their
toy
teacups
,
and
spent
whole
days
together
in
play
.
Mary
was
a
little
hoyden
,
and
Fred
at
six
years
old
thought
her
the
nicest
girl
in
the
world
,
making
her
his
wife
with
a
brass
ring
which
he
had
cut
from
an
umbrella
.
Through
all
the
stages
of
his
education
he
had
kept
his
affection
for
the
Garths
,
and
his
habit
of
going
to
their
house
as
a
second
home
,
though
any
intercourse
between
them
and
the
elders
of
his
family
had
long
ceased
.
Even
when
Caleb
Garth
was
prosperous
,
the
Vincys
were
on
condescending
terms
with
him
and
his
wife
,
for
there
were
nice
distinctions
of
rank
in
Middlemarch
;
and
though
old
manufacturers
could
not
any
more
than
dukes
be
connected
with
none
but
equals
,
they
were
conscious
of
an
inherent
social
superiority
which
was
defined
with
great
nicety
in
practice
,
though
hardly
expressible
theoretically
.
Since
then
Mr.
Garth
had
failed
in
the
building
business
,
which
he
had
unfortunately
added
to
his
other
avocations
of
surveyor
,
valuer
,
and
agent
,
had
conducted
that
business
for
a
time
entirely
for
the
benefit
of
his
assignees
,
and
had
been
living
narrowly
,
exerting
himself
to
the
utmost
that
he
might
after
all
pay
twenty
shillings
in
the
pound
.
He
had
now
achieved
this
,
and
from
all
who
did
not
think
it
a
bad
precedent
,
his
honourable
exertions
had
won
him
due
esteem
;
but
in
no
part
of
the
world
is
genteel
visiting
founded
on
esteem
,
in
the
absence
of
suitable
furniture
and
complete
dinner-service
.
Mrs.
Vincy
had
never
been
at
her
ease
with
Mrs.
Garth
,
and
frequently
spoke
of
her
as
a
woman
who
had
had
to
work
for
her
bread
—
meaning
that
Mrs.
Garth
had
been
a
teacher
before
her
marriage
;
in
which
case
an
intimacy
with
Lindley
Murray
and
Mangnall
's
Questions
was
something
like
a
draper
's
discrimination
of
calico
trademarks
,
or
a
courier
's
acquaintance
with
foreign
countries
:
no
woman
who
was
better
off
needed
that
sort
of
thing
.
And
since
Mary
had
been
keeping
Mr.
Featherstone
's
house
,
Mrs.
Vincy
's
want
of
liking
for
the
Garths
had
been
converted
into
something
more
positive
,
by
alarm
lest
Fred
should
engage
himself
to
this
plain
girl
,
whose
parents
"
lived
in
such
a
small
way
.
"
Fred
,
being
aware
of
this
,
never
spoke
at
home
of
his
visits
to
Mrs.
Garth
,
which
had
of
late
become
more
frequent
,
the
increasing
ardor
of
his
affection
for
Mary
inclining
him
the
more
towards
those
who
belonged
to
her
.
Mr.
Garth
had
a
small
office
in
the
town
,
and
to
this
Fred
went
with
his
request
.
He
obtained
it
without
much
difficulty
,
for
a
large
amount
of
painful
experience
had
not
sufficed
to
make
Caleb
Garth
cautious
about
his
own
affairs
,
or
distrustful
of
his
fellow-men
when
they
had
not
proved
themselves
untrustworthy
;
and
he
had
the
highest
opinion
of
Fred
,
was
"
sure
the
lad
would
turn
out
well
—
an
open
affectionate
fellow
,
with
a
good
bottom
to
his
character
—
you
might
trust
him
for
anything
.
"
Such
was
Caleb
's
psychological
argument
.
He
was
one
of
those
rare
men
who
are
rigid
to
themselves
and
indulgent
to
others
.
He
had
a
certain
shame
about
his
neighbors
'
errors
,
and
never
spoke
of
them
willingly
;
hence
he
was
not
likely
to
divert
his
mind
from
the
best
mode
of
hardening
timber
and
other
ingenious
devices
in
order
to
preconceive
those
errors
.
If
he
had
to
blame
any
one
,
it
was
necessary
for
him
to
move
all
the
papers
within
his
reach
,
or
describe
various
diagrams
with
his
stick
,
or
make
calculations
with
the
odd
money
in
his
pocket
,
before
he
could
begin
;
and
he
would
rather
do
other
men
's
work
than
find
fault
with
their
doing
.
I
fear
he
was
a
bad
disciplinarian
.
When
Fred
stated
the
circumstances
of
his
debt
,
his
wish
to
meet
it
without
troubling
his
father
,
and
the
certainty
that
the
money
would
be
forthcoming
so
as
to
cause
no
one
any
inconvenience
,
Caleb
pushed
his
spectacles
upward
,
listened
,
looked
into
his
favourite
's
clear
young
eyes
,
and
believed
him
,
not
distinguishing
confidence
about
the
future
from
veracity
about
the
past
;
but
he
felt
that
it
was
an
occasion
for
a
friendly
hint
as
to
conduct
,
and
that
before
giving
his
signature
he
must
give
a
rather
strong
admonition
.
Accordingly
,
he
took
the
paper
and
lowered
his
spectacles
,
measured
the
space
at
his
command
,
reached
his
pen
and
examined
it
,
dipped
it
in
the
ink
and
examined
it
again
,
then
pushed
the
paper
a
little
way
from
him
,
lifted
up
his
spectacles
again
,
showed
a
deepened
depression
in
the
outer
angle
of
his
bushy
eyebrows
,
which
gave
his
face
a
peculiar
mildness
(
pardon
these
details
for
once
—
you
would
have
learned
to
love
them
if
you
had
known
Caleb
Garth
)
,
and
said
in
a
comfortable
tone
,
—
"
It
was
a
misfortune
,
eh
,
that
breaking
the
horse
's
knees
?
And
then
,
these
exchanges
,
they
do
n't
answer
when
you
have
'
cute
jockeys
to
deal
with
.
You
'll
be
wiser
another
time
,
my
boy
.
"
Whereupon
Caleb
drew
down
his
spectacles
,
and
proceeded
to
write
his
signature
with
the
care
which
he
always
gave
to
that
performance
;
for
whatever
he
did
in
the
way
of
business
he
did
well
.
He
contemplated
the
large
well-proportioned
letters
and
final
flourish
,
with
his
head
a
trifle
on
one
side
for
an
instant
,
then
handed
it
to
Fred
,
said
"
Good-by
,
"
and
returned
forthwith
to
his
absorption
in
a
plan
for
Sir
James
Chettam
's
new
farm-buildings
.
Either
because
his
interest
in
this
work
thrust
the
incident
of
the
signature
from
his
memory
,
or
for
some
reason
of
which
Caleb
was
more
conscious
,
Mrs.
Garth
remained
ignorant
of
the
affair
.
Since
it
occurred
,
a
change
had
come
over
Fred
's
sky
,
which
altered
his
view
of
the
distance
,
and
was
the
reason
why
his
uncle
Featherstone
's
present
of
money
was
of
importance
enough
to
make
his
colour
come
and
go
,
first
with
a
too
definite
expectation
,
and
afterwards
with
a
proportionate
disappointment
.
His
failure
in
passing
his
examination
,
had
made
his
accumulation
of
college
debts
the
more
unpardonable
by
his
father
,
and
there
had
been
an
unprecedented
storm
at
home
.
Mr.
Vincy
had
sworn
that
if
he
had
anything
more
of
that
sort
to
put
up
with
,
Fred
should
turn
out
and
get
his
living
how
he
could
;
and
he
had
never
yet
quite
recovered
his
good-humored
tone
to
his
son
,
who
had
especially
enraged
him
by
saying
at
this
stage
of
things
that
he
did
not
want
to
be
a
clergyman
,
and
would
rather
not
"
go
on
with
that
.
"
Fred
was
conscious
that
he
would
have
been
yet
more
severely
dealt
with
if
his
family
as
well
as
himself
had
not
secretly
regarded
him
as
Mr.
Featherstone
's
heir
;
that
old
gentleman
's
pride
in
him
,
and
apparent
fondness
for
him
,
serving
in
the
stead
of
more
exemplary
conduct
—
just
as
when
a
youthful
nobleman
steals
jewellery
we
call
the
act
kleptomania
,
speak
of
it
with
a
philosophical
smile
,
and
never
think
of
his
being
sent
to
the
house
of
correction
as
if
he
were
a
ragged
boy
who
had
stolen
turnips
.
In
fact
,
tacit
expectations
of
what
would
be
done
for
him
by
uncle
Featherstone
determined
the
angle
at
which
most
people
viewed
Fred
Vincy
in
Middlemarch
;
and
in
his
own
consciousness
,
what
uncle
Featherstone
would
do
for
him
in
an
emergency
,
or
what
he
would
do
simply
as
an
incorporated
luck
,
formed
always
an
immeasurable
depth
of
aerial
perspective
.
But
that
present
of
bank-notes
,
once
made
,
was
measurable
,
and
being
applied
to
the
amount
of
the
debt
,
showed
a
deficit
which
had
still
to
be
filled
up
either
by
Fred
's
"
judgment
"
or
by
luck
in
some
other
shape
.
For
that
little
episode
of
the
alleged
borrowing
,
in
which
he
had
made
his
father
the
agent
in
getting
the
Bulstrode
certificate
,
was
a
new
reason
against
going
to
his
father
for
money
towards
meeting
his
actual
debt
.
Fred
was
keen
enough
to
foresee
that
anger
would
confuse
distinctions
,
and
that
his
denial
of
having
borrowed
expressly
on
the
strength
of
his
uncle
's
will
would
be
taken
as
a
falsehood
.
He
had
gone
to
his
father
and
told
him
one
vexatious
affair
,
and
he
had
left
another
untold
:
in
such
cases
the
complete
revelation
always
produces
the
impression
of
a
previous
duplicity
.
Now
Fred
piqued
himself
on
keeping
clear
of
lies
,
and
even
fibs
;
he
often
shrugged
his
shoulders
and
made
a
significant
grimace
at
what
he
called
Rosamond
's
fibs
(
it
is
only
brothers
who
can
associate
such
ideas
with
a
lovely
girl
)
;
and
rather
than
incur
the
accusation
of
falsehood
he
would
even
incur
some
trouble
and
self-restraint
.
It
was
under
strong
inward
pressure
of
this
kind
that
Fred
had
taken
the
wise
step
of
depositing
the
eighty
pounds
with
his
mother
.
It
was
a
pity
that
he
had
not
at
once
given
them
to
Mr.
Garth
;
but
he
meant
to
make
the
sum
complete
with
another
sixty
,
and
with
a
view
to
this
,
he
had
kept
twenty
pounds
in
his
own
pocket
as
a
sort
of
seed-corn
,
which
,
planted
by
judgment
,
and
watered
by
luck
,
might
yield
more
than
threefold
—
a
very
poor
rate
of
multiplication
when
the
field
is
a
young
gentleman
's
infinite
soul
,
with
all
the
numerals
at
command
.
Fred
was
not
a
gambler
:
he
had
not
that
specific
disease
in
which
the
suspension
of
the
whole
nervous
energy
on
a
chance
or
risk
becomes
as
necessary
as
the
dram
to
the
drunkard
;
he
had
only
the
tendency
to
that
diffusive
form
of
gambling
which
has
no
alcoholic
intensity
,
but
is
carried
on
with
the
healthiest
chyle-fed
blood
,
keeping
up
a
joyous
imaginative
activity
which
fashions
events
according
to
desire
,
and
having
no
fears
about
its
own
weather
,
only
sees
the
advantage
there
must
be
to
others
in
going
aboard
with
it
.
Hopefulness
has
a
pleasure
in
making
a
throw
of
any
kind
,
because
the
prospect
of
success
is
certain
;
and
only
a
more
generous
pleasure
in
offering
as
many
as
possible
a
share
in
the
stake
.
Fred
liked
play
,
especially
billiards
,
as
he
liked
hunting
or
riding
a
steeple-chase
;
and
he
only
liked
it
the
better
because
he
wanted
money
and
hoped
to
win
.
But
the
twenty
pounds
'
worth
of
seed-corn
had
been
planted
in
vain
in
the
seductive
green
plot
—
all
of
it
at
least
which
had
not
been
dispersed
by
the
roadside
—
and
Fred
found
himself
close
upon
the
term
of
payment
with
no
money
at
command
beyond
the
eighty
pounds
which
he
had
deposited
with
his
mother
.
The
broken-winded
horse
which
he
rode
represented
a
present
which
had
been
made
to
him
a
long
while
ago
by
his
uncle
Featherstone
:
his
father
always
allowed
him
to
keep
a
horse
,
Mr.
Vincy
's
own
habits
making
him
regard
this
as
a
reasonable
demand
even
for
a
son
who
was
rather
exasperating
.
This
horse
,
then
,
was
Fred
's
property
,
and
in
his
anxiety
to
meet
the
imminent
bill
he
determined
to
sacrifice
a
possession
without
which
life
would
certainly
be
worth
little
.
He
made
the
resolution
with
a
sense
of
heroism
—
heroism
forced
on
him
by
the
dread
of
breaking
his
word
to
Mr.
Garth
,
by
his
love
for
Mary
and
awe
of
her
opinion
.
He
would
start
for
Houndsley
horse-fair
which
was
to
be
held
the
next
morning
,
and
—
simply
sell
his
horse
,
bringing
back
the
money
by
coach
?
—
Well
,
the
horse
would
hardly
fetch
more
than
thirty
pounds
,
and
there
was
no
knowing
what
might
happen
;
it
would
be
folly
to
balk
himself
of
luck
beforehand
.
It
was
a
hundred
to
one
that
some
good
chance
would
fall
in
his
way
;
the
longer
he
thought
of
it
,
the
less
possible
it
seemed
that
he
should
not
have
a
good
chance
,
and
the
less
reasonable
that
he
should
not
equip
himself
with
the
powder
and
shot
for
bringing
it
down
.
He
would
ride
to
Houndsley
with
Bambridge
and
with
Horrock
"
the
vet
,
"
and
without
asking
them
anything
expressly
,
he
should
virtually
get
the
benefit
of
their
opinion
.
Before
he
set
out
,
Fred
got
the
eighty
pounds
from
his
mother
.
Most
of
those
who
saw
Fred
riding
out
of
Middlemarch
in
company
with
Bambridge
and
Horrock
,
on
his
way
of
course
to
Houndsley
horse-fair
,
thought
that
young
Vincy
was
pleasure-seeking
as
usual
;
and
but
for
an
unwonted
consciousness
of
grave
matters
on
hand
,
he
himself
would
have
had
a
sense
of
dissipation
,
and
of
doing
what
might
be
expected
of
a
gay
young
fellow
.
Considering
that
Fred
was
not
at
all
coarse
,
that
he
rather
looked
down
on
the
manners
and
speech
of
young
men
who
had
not
been
to
the
university
,
and
that
he
had
written
stanzas
as
pastoral
and
unvoluptuous
as
his
flute-playing
,
his
attraction
towards
Bambridge
and
Horrock
was
an
interesting
fact
which
even
the
love
of
horse-flesh
would
not
wholly
account
for
without
that
mysterious
influence
of
Naming
which
determinates
so
much
of
mortal
choice
.
Under
any
other
name
than
"
pleasure
"
the
society
of
Messieurs
Bambridge
and
Horrock
must
certainly
have
been
regarded
as
monotonous
;
and
to
arrive
with
them
at
Houndsley
on
a
drizzling
afternoon
,
to
get
down
at
the
Red
Lion
in
a
street
shaded
with
coal-dust
,
and
dine
in
a
room
furnished
with
a
dirt-enamelled
map
of
the
county
,
a
bad
portrait
of
an
anonymous
horse
in
a
stable
,
His
Majesty
George
the
Fourth
with
legs
and
cravat
,
and
various
leaden
spittoons
,
might
have
seemed
a
hard
business
,
but
for
the
sustaining
power
of
nomenclature
which
determined
that
the
pursuit
of
these
things
was
"
gay
.
"
In
Mr.
Horrock
there
was
certainly
an
apparent
unfathomableness
which
offered
play
to
the
imagination
.
Costume
,
at
a
glance
,
gave
him
a
thrilling
association
with
horses
(
enough
to
specify
the
hat-brim
which
took
the
slightest
upward
angle
just
to
escape
the
suspicion
of
bending
downwards
)
,
and
nature
had
given
him
a
face
which
by
dint
of
Mongolian
eyes
,
and
a
nose
,
mouth
,
and
chin
seeming
to
follow
his
hat-brim
in
a
moderate
inclination
upwards
,
gave
the
effect
of
a
subdued
unchangeable
sceptical
smile
,
of
all
expressions
the
most
tyrannous
over
a
susceptible
mind
,
and
,
when
accompanied
by
adequate
silence
,
likely
to
create
the
reputation
of
an
invincible
understanding
,
an
infinite
fund
of
humor
—
too
dry
to
flow
,
and
probably
in
a
state
of
immovable
crust
,
—
and
a
critical
judgment
which
,
if
you
could
ever
be
fortunate
enough
to
know
it
,
would
be
the
thing
and
no
other
.
It
is
a
physiognomy
seen
in
all
vocations
,
but
perhaps
it
has
never
been
more
powerful
over
the
youth
of
England
than
in
a
judge
of
horses
.
Mr.
Horrock
,
at
a
question
from
Fred
about
his
horse
's
fetlock
,
turned
sideways
in
his
saddle
,
and
watched
the
horse
's
action
for
the
space
of
three
minutes
,
then
turned
forward
,
twitched
his
own
bridle
,
and
remained
silent
with
a
profile
neither
more
nor
less
sceptical
than
it
had
been
.
The
part
thus
played
in
dialogue
by
Mr.
Horrock
was
terribly
effective
.
A
mixture
of
passions
was
excited
in
Fred
—
a
mad
desire
to
thrash
Horrock
's
opinion
into
utterance
,
restrained
by
anxiety
to
retain
the
advantage
of
his
friendship
.
There
was
always
the
chance
that
Horrock
might
say
something
quite
invaluable
at
the
right
moment
.
Mr.
Bambridge
had
more
open
manners
,
and
appeared
to
give
forth
his
ideas
without
economy
.
He
was
loud
,
robust
,
and
was
sometimes
spoken
of
as
being
"
given
to
indulgence
"
—
chiefly
in
swearing
,
drinking
,
and
beating
his
wife
.
Some
people
who
had
lost
by
him
called
him
a
vicious
man
;
but
he
regarded
horse-dealing
as
the
finest
of
the
arts
,
and
might
have
argued
plausibly
that
it
had
nothing
to
do
with
morality
.
He
was
undeniably
a
prosperous
man
,
bore
his
drinking
better
than
others
bore
their
moderation
,
and
,
on
the
whole
,
flourished
like
the
green
bay-tree
.
But
his
range
of
conversation
was
limited
,
and
like
the
fine
old
tune
,
"
Drops
of
brandy
,
"
gave
you
after
a
while
a
sense
of
returning
upon
itself
in
a
way
that
might
make
weak
heads
dizzy
.
But
a
slight
infusion
of
Mr.
Bambridge
was
felt
to
give
tone
and
character
to
several
circles
in
Middlemarch
;
and
he
was
a
distinguished
figure
in
the
bar
and
billiard-room
at
the
Green
Dragon
.
He
knew
some
anecdotes
about
the
heroes
of
the
turf
,
and
various
clever
tricks
of
Marquesses
and
Viscounts
which
seemed
to
prove
that
blood
asserted
its
pre-eminence
even
among
black-legs
;
but
the
minute
retentiveness
of
his
memory
was
chiefly
shown
about
the
horses
he
had
himself
bought
and
sold
;
the
number
of
miles
they
would
trot
you
in
no
time
without
turning
a
hair
being
,
after
the
lapse
of
years
,
still
a
subject
of
passionate
asseveration
,
in
which
he
would
assist
the
imagination
of
his
hearers
by
solemnly
swearing
that
they
never
saw
anything
like
it
.
In
short
,
Mr.
Bambridge
was
a
man
of
pleasure
and
a
gay
companion
.
Fred
was
subtle
,
and
did
not
tell
his
friends
that
he
was
going
to
Houndsley
bent
on
selling
his
horse
:
he
wished
to
get
indirectly
at
their
genuine
opinion
of
its
value
,
not
being
aware
that
a
genuine
opinion
was
the
last
thing
likely
to
be
extracted
from
such
eminent
critics
.
It
was
not
Mr.
Bambridge
's
weakness
to
be
a
gratuitous
flatterer
.
He
had
never
before
been
so
much
struck
with
the
fact
that
this
unfortunate
bay
was
a
roarer
to
a
degree
which
required
the
roundest
word
for
perdition
to
give
you
any
idea
of
it
.
"
You
made
a
bad
hand
at
swapping
when
you
went
to
anybody
but
me
,
Vincy
!
Why
,
you
never
threw
your
leg
across
a
finer
horse
than
that
chestnut
,
and
you
gave
him
for
this
brute
.
If
you
set
him
cantering
,
he
goes
on
like
twenty
sawyers
.
I
never
heard
but
one
worse
roarer
in
my
life
,
and
that
was
a
roan
:
it
belonged
to
Pegwell
,
the
corn-factor
;
he
used
to
drive
him
in
his
gig
seven
years
ago
,
and
he
wanted
me
to
take
him
,
but
I
said
,
'
Thank
you
,
Peg
,
I
do
n't
deal
in
wind-instruments
.
'
That
was
what
I
said
.
It
went
the
round
of
the
country
,
that
joke
did
.
But
,
what
the
hell
!
the
horse
was
a
penny
trumpet
to
that
roarer
of
yours
.
"
"
Why
,
you
said
just
now
his
was
worse
than
mine
,
"
said
Fred
,
more
irritable
than
usual
.
"
I
said
a
lie
,
then
,
"
said
Mr.
Bambridge
,
emphatically
.
"
There
was
n't
a
penny
to
choose
between
'
em
.
"
Fred
spurred
his
horse
,
and
they
trotted
on
a
little
way
.
When
they
slackened
again
,
Mr.
Bambridge
said
—
"
Not
but
what
the
roan
was
a
better
trotter
than
yours
.
"
"
I
'm
quite
satisfied
with
his
paces
,
I
know
,
"
said
Fred
,
who
required
all
the
consciousness
of
being
in
gay
company
to
support
him
;
"
I
say
his
trot
is
an
uncommonly
clean
one
,
eh
,
Horrock
?
"
Mr.
Horrock
looked
before
him
with
as
complete
a
neutrality
as
if
he
had
been
a
portrait
by
a
great
master
.
Fred
gave
up
the
fallacious
hope
of
getting
a
genuine
opinion
;
but
on
reflection
he
saw
that
Bambridge
's
depreciation
and
Horrock
's
silence
were
both
virtually
encouraging
,
and
indicated
that
they
thought
better
of
the
horse
than
they
chose
to
say
.
That
very
evening
,
indeed
,
before
the
fair
had
set
in
,
Fred
thought
he
saw
a
favourable
opening
for
disposing
advantageously
of
his
horse
,
but
an
opening
which
made
him
congratulate
himself
on
his
foresight
in
bringing
with
him
his
eighty
pounds
.
A
young
farmer
,
acquainted
with
Mr.
Bambridge
,
came
into
the
Red
Lion
,
and
entered
into
conversation
about
parting
with
a
hunter
,
which
he
introduced
at
once
as
Diamond
,
implying
that
it
was
a
public
character
.
For
himself
he
only
wanted
a
useful
hack
,
which
would
draw
upon
occasion
;
being
about
to
marry
and
to
give
up
hunting
.
The
hunter
was
in
a
friend
's
stable
at
some
little
distance
;
there
was
still
time
for
gentlemen
to
see
it
before
dark
.
The
friend
's
stable
had
to
be
reached
through
a
back
street
where
you
might
as
easily
have
been
poisoned
without
expense
of
drugs
as
in
any
grim
street
of
that
unsanitary
period
.
Fred
was
not
fortified
against
disgust
by
brandy
,
as
his
companions
were
,
but
the
hope
of
having
at
last
seen
the
horse
that
would
enable
him
to
make
money
was
exhilarating
enough
to
lead
him
over
the
same
ground
again
the
first
thing
in
the
morning
.
He
felt
sure
that
if
he
did
not
come
to
a
bargain
with
the
farmer
,
Bambridge
would
;
for
the
stress
of
circumstances
,
Fred
felt
,
was
sharpening
his
acuteness
and
endowing
him
with
all
the
constructive
power
of
suspicion
.
Bambridge
had
run
down
Diamond
in
a
way
that
he
never
would
have
done
(
the
horse
being
a
friend
's
)
if
he
had
not
thought
of
buying
it
;
every
one
who
looked
at
the
animal
—
even
Horrock
—
was
evidently
impressed
with
its
merit
.
To
get
all
the
advantage
of
being
with
men
of
this
sort
,
you
must
know
how
to
draw
your
inferences
,
and
not
be
a
spoon
who
takes
things
literally
.
The
colour
of
the
horse
was
a
dappled
gray
,
and
Fred
happened
to
know
that
Lord
Medlicote
's
man
was
on
the
look-out
for
just
such
a
horse
.
After
all
his
running
down
,
Bambridge
let
it
out
in
the
course
of
the
evening
,
when
the
farmer
was
absent
,
that
he
had
seen
worse
horses
go
for
eighty
pounds
.
Of
course
he
contradicted
himself
twenty
times
over
,
but
when
you
know
what
is
likely
to
be
true
you
can
test
a
man
's
admissions
.
And
Fred
could
not
but
reckon
his
own
judgment
of
a
horse
as
worth
something
.
The
farmer
had
paused
over
Fred
's
respectable
though
broken-winded
steed
long
enough
to
show
that
he
thought
it
worth
consideration
,
and
it
seemed
probable
that
he
would
take
it
,
with
five-and-twenty
pounds
in
addition
,
as
the
equivalent
of
Diamond
.
In
that
case
Fred
,
when
he
had
parted
with
his
new
horse
for
at
least
eighty
pounds
,
would
be
fifty-five
pounds
in
pocket
by
the
transaction
,
and
would
have
a
hundred
and
thirty-five
pounds
towards
meeting
the
bill
;
so
that
the
deficit
temporarily
thrown
on
Mr.
Garth
would
at
the
utmost
be
twenty-five
pounds
.
By
the
time
he
was
hurrying
on
his
clothes
in
the
morning
,
he
saw
so
clearly
the
importance
of
not
losing
this
rare
chance
,
that
if
Bambridge
and
Horrock
had
both
dissuaded
him
,
he
would
not
have
been
deluded
into
a
direct
interpretation
of
their
purpose
:
he
would
have
been
aware
that
those
deep
hands
held
something
else
than
a
young
fellow
's
interest
.
With
regard
to
horses
,
distrust
was
your
only
clew
.
But
scepticism
,
as
we
know
,
can
never
be
thoroughly
applied
,
else
life
would
come
to
a
standstill
:
something
we
must
believe
in
and
do
,
and
whatever
that
something
may
be
called
,
it
is
virtually
our
own
judgment
,
even
when
it
seems
like
the
most
slavish
reliance
on
another
.
Fred
believed
in
the
excellence
of
his
bargain
,
and
even
before
the
fair
had
well
set
in
,
had
got
possession
of
the
dappled
gray
,
at
the
price
of
his
old
horse
and
thirty
pounds
in
addition
—
only
five
pounds
more
than
he
had
expected
to
give
.
But
he
felt
a
little
worried
and
wearied
,
perhaps
with
mental
debate
,
and
without
waiting
for
the
further
gayeties
of
the
horse-fair
,
he
set
out
alone
on
his
fourteen
miles
'
journey
,
meaning
to
take
it
very
quietly
and
keep
his
horse
fresh
.
CHAPTER
XXIV
.
"
The
offender
's
sorrow
brings
but
small
relief
To
him
who
wears
the
strong
offence
's
cross
.
"
—
SHAKESPEARE
:
Sonnets
.
I
am
sorry
to
say
that
only
the
third
day
after
the
propitious
events
at
Houndsley
Fred
Vincy
had
fallen
into
worse
spirits
than
he
had
known
in
his
life
before
.
Not
that
he
had
been
disappointed
as
to
the
possible
market
for
his
horse
,
but
that
before
the
bargain
could
be
concluded
with
Lord
Medlicote
's
man
,
this
Diamond
,
in
which
hope
to
the
amount
of
eighty
pounds
had
been
invested
,
had
without
the
slightest
warning
exhibited
in
the
stable
a
most
vicious
energy
in
kicking
,
had
just
missed
killing
the
groom
,
and
had
ended
in
laming
himself
severely
by
catching
his
leg
in
a
rope
that
overhung
the
stable-board
.
There
was
no
more
redress
for
this
than
for
the
discovery
of
bad
temper
after
marriage
—
which
of
course
old
companions
were
aware
of
before
the
ceremony
.
For
some
reason
or
other
,
Fred
had
none
of
his
usual
elasticity
under
this
stroke
of
ill-fortune
:
he
was
simply
aware
that
he
had
only
fifty
pounds
,
that
there
was
no
chance
of
his
getting
any
more
at
present
,
and
that
the
bill
for
a
hundred
and
sixty
would
be
presented
in
five
days
.
Even
if
he
had
applied
to
his
father
on
the
plea
that
Mr.
Garth
should
be
saved
from
loss
,
Fred
felt
smartingly
that
his
father
would
angrily
refuse
to
rescue
Mr.
Garth
from
the
consequence
of
what
he
would
call
encouraging
extravagance
and
deceit
.
He
was
so
utterly
downcast
that
he
could
frame
no
other
project
than
to
go
straight
to
Mr.
Garth
and
tell
him
the
sad
truth
,
carrying
with
him
the
fifty
pounds
,
and
getting
that
sum
at
least
safely
out
of
his
own
hands
.
His
father
,
being
at
the
warehouse
,
did
not
yet
know
of
the
accident
:
when
he
did
,
he
would
storm
about
the
vicious
brute
being
brought
into
his
stable
;
and
before
meeting
that
lesser
annoyance
Fred
wanted
to
get
away
with
all
his
courage
to
face
the
greater
.
He
took
his
father
's
nag
,
for
he
had
made
up
his
mind
that
when
he
had
told
Mr.
Garth
,
he
would
ride
to
Stone
Court
and
confess
all
to
Mary
.
In
fact
,
it
is
probable
that
but
for
Mary
's
existence
and
Fred
's
love
for
her
,
his
conscience
would
have
been
much
less
active
both
in
previously
urging
the
debt
on
his
thought
and
impelling
him
not
to
spare
himself
after
his
usual
fashion
by
deferring
an
unpleasant
task
,
but
to
act
as
directly
and
simply
as
he
could
.
Even
much
stronger
mortals
than
Fred
Vincy
hold
half
their
rectitude
in
the
mind
of
the
being
they
love
best
.
"
The
theatre
of
all
my
actions
is
fallen
,
"
said
an
antique
personage
when
his
chief
friend
was
dead
;
and
they
are
fortunate
who
get
a
theatre
where
the
audience
demands
their
best
.
Certainly
it
would
have
made
a
considerable
difference
to
Fred
at
that
time
if
Mary
Garth
had
had
no
decided
notions
as
to
what
was
admirable
in
character
.
Mr.
Garth
was
not
at
the
office
,
and
Fred
rode
on
to
his
house
,
which
was
a
little
way
outside
the
town
—
a
homely
place
with
an
orchard
in
front
of
it
,
a
rambling
,
old-fashioned
,
half-timbered
building
,
which
before
the
town
had
spread
had
been
a
farm-house
,
but
was
now
surrounded
with
the
private
gardens
of
the
townsmen
.
We
get
the
fonder
of
our
houses
if
they
have
a
physiognomy
of
their
own
,
as
our
friends
have
.
The
Garth
family
,
which
was
rather
a
large
one
,
for
Mary
had
four
brothers
and
one
sister
,
were
very
fond
of
their
old
house
,
from
which
all
the
best
furniture
had
long
been
sold
.
Fred
liked
it
too
,
knowing
it
by
heart
even
to
the
attic
which
smelt
deliciously
of
apples
and
quinces
,
and
until
to-day
he
had
never
come
to
it
without
pleasant
expectations
;
but
his
heart
beat
uneasily
now
with
the
sense
that
he
should
probably
have
to
make
his
confession
before
Mrs.
Garth
,
of
whom
he
was
rather
more
in
awe
than
of
her
husband
.
Not
that
she
was
inclined
to
sarcasm
and
to
impulsive
sallies
,
as
Mary
was
.
In
her
present
matronly
age
at
least
,
Mrs.
Garth
never
committed
herself
by
over-hasty
speech
;
having
,
as
she
said
,
borne
the
yoke
in
her
youth
,
and
learned
self-control
.
She
had
that
rare
sense
which
discerns
what
is
unalterable
,
and
submits
to
it
without
murmuring
.
Adoring
her
husband
's
virtues
,
she
had
very
early
made
up
her
mind
to
his
incapacity
of
minding
his
own
interests
,
and
had
met
the
consequences
cheerfully
.
She
had
been
magnanimous
enough
to
renounce
all
pride
in
teapots
or
children
's
frilling
,
and
had
never
poured
any
pathetic
confidences
into
the
ears
of
her
feminine
neighbors
concerning
Mr.
Garth
's
want
of
prudence
and
the
sums
he
might
have
had
if
he
had
been
like
other
men
.
Hence
these
fair
neighbors
thought
her
either
proud
or
eccentric
,
and
sometimes
spoke
of
her
to
their
husbands
as
"
your
fine
Mrs.
Garth
.
"
She
was
not
without
her
criticism
of
them
in
return
,
being
more
accurately
instructed
than
most
matrons
in
Middlemarch
,
and
—
where
is
the
blameless
woman
?
—
apt
to
be
a
little
severe
towards
her
own
sex
,
which
in
her
opinion
was
framed
to
be
entirely
subordinate
.
On
the
other
hand
,
she
was
disproportionately
indulgent
towards
the
failings
of
men
,
and
was
often
heard
to
say
that
these
were
natural
.
Also
,
it
must
be
admitted
that
Mrs.
Garth
was
a
trifle
too
emphatic
in
her
resistance
to
what
she
held
to
be
follies
:
the
passage
from
governess
into
housewife
had
wrought
itself
a
little
too
strongly
into
her
consciousness
,
and
she
rarely
forgot
that
while
her
grammar
and
accent
were
above
the
town
standard
,
she
wore
a
plain
cap
,
cooked
the
family
dinner
,
and
darned
all
the
stockings
.
She
had
sometimes
taken
pupils
in
a
peripatetic
fashion
,
making
them
follow
her
about
in
the
kitchen
with
their
book
or
slate
.
She
thought
it
good
for
them
to
see
that
she
could
make
an
excellent
lather
while
she
corrected
their
blunders
"
without
looking
,
"
—
that
a
woman
with
her
sleeves
tucked
up
above
her
elbows
might
know
all
about
the
Subjunctive
Mood
or
the
Torrid
Zone
—
that
,
in
short
,
she
might
possess
"
education
"
and
other
good
things
ending
in
"
tion
,
"
and
worthy
to
be
pronounced
emphatically
,
without
being
a
useless
doll
.
When
she
made
remarks
to
this
edifying
effect
,
she
had
a
firm
little
frown
on
her
brow
,
which
yet
did
not
hinder
her
face
from
looking
benevolent
,
and
her
words
which
came
forth
like
a
procession
were
uttered
in
a
fervid
agreeable
contralto
.
Certainly
,
the
exemplary
Mrs.
Garth
had
her
droll
aspects
,
but
her
character
sustained
her
oddities
,
as
a
very
fine
wine
sustains
a
flavour
of
skin
.
Towards
Fred
Vincy
she
had
a
motherly
feeling
,
and
had
always
been
disposed
to
excuse
his
errors
,
though
she
would
probably
not
have
excused
Mary
for
engaging
herself
to
him
,
her
daughter
being
included
in
that
more
rigorous
judgment
which
she
applied
to
her
own
sex
.
But
this
very
fact
of
her
exceptional
indulgence
towards
him
made
it
the
harder
to
Fred
that
he
must
now
inevitably
sink
in
her
opinion
.
And
the
circumstances
of
his
visit
turned
out
to
be
still
more
unpleasant
than
he
had
expected
;
for
Caleb
Garth
had
gone
out
early
to
look
at
some
repairs
not
far
off
.
Mrs.
Garth
at
certain
hours
was
always
in
the
kitchen
,
and
this
morning
she
was
carrying
on
several
occupations
at
once
there
—
making
her
pies
at
the
well-scoured
deal
table
on
one
side
of
that
airy
room
,
observing
Sally
's
movements
at
the
oven
and
dough-tub
through
an
open
door
,
and
giving
lessons
to
her
youngest
boy
and
girl
,
who
were
standing
opposite
to
her
at
the
table
with
their
books
and
slates
before
them
.
A
tub
and
a
clothes-horse
at
the
other
end
of
the
kitchen
indicated
an
intermittent
wash
of
small
things
also
going
on
.
Mrs.
Garth
,
with
her
sleeves
turned
above
her
elbows
,
deftly
handling
her
pastry
—
applying
her
rolling-pin
and
giving
ornamental
pinches
,
while
she
expounded
with
grammatical
fervor
what
were
the
right
views
about
the
concord
of
verbs
and
pronouns
with
"
nouns
of
multitude
or
signifying
many
,
"
was
a
sight
agreeably
amusing
.
She
was
of
the
same
curly-haired
,
square-faced
type
as
Mary
,
but
handsomer
,
with
more
delicacy
of
feature
,
a
pale
skin
,
a
solid
matronly
figure
,
and
a
remarkable
firmness
of
glance
.
In
her
snowy-frilled
cap
she
reminded
one
of
that
delightful
Frenchwoman
whom
we
have
all
seen
marketing
,
basket
on
arm
.
Looking
at
the
mother
,
you
might
hope
that
the
daughter
would
become
like
her
,
which
is
a
prospective
advantage
equal
to
a
dowry
—
the
mother
too
often
standing
behind
the
daughter
like
a
malignant
prophecy
—
"
Such
as
I
am
,
she
will
shortly
be
.
"
"
Now
let
us
go
through
that
once
more
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
pinching
an
apple-puff
which
seemed
to
distract
Ben
,
an
energetic
young
male
with
a
heavy
brow
,
from
due
attention
to
the
lesson
.
"
'
Not
without
regard
to
the
import
of
the
word
as
conveying
unity
or
plurality
of
idea
'
—
tell
me
again
what
that
means
,
Ben
.
"
(
Mrs.
Garth
,
like
more
celebrated
educators
,
had
her
favourite
ancient
paths
,
and
in
a
general
wreck
of
society
would
have
tried
to
hold
her
"
Lindley
Murray
"
above
the
waves
.
)
"
Oh
—
it
means
—
you
must
think
what
you
mean
,
"
said
Ben
,
rather
peevishly
.
"
I
hate
grammar
.
What
's
the
use
of
it
?
"
"
To
teach
you
to
speak
and
write
correctly
,
so
that
you
can
be
understood
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
with
severe
precision
.
"
Should
you
like
to
speak
as
old
Job
does
?
"
"
Yes
,
"
said
Ben
,
stoutly
;
"
it
's
funnier
.
He
says
,
'
Yo
goo
'
—
that
's
just
as
good
as
'
You
go
.
'
"
"
But
he
says
,
'
A
ship
's
in
the
garden
,
'
instead
of
'
a
sheep
,
'
"
said
Letty
,
with
an
air
of
superiority
.
"
You
might
think
he
meant
a
ship
off
the
sea
.
"
"
No
,
you
might
n't
,
if
you
were
n't
silly
,
"
said
Ben
.
"
How
could
a
ship
off
the
sea
come
there
?
"
"
These
things
belong
only
to
pronunciation
,
which
is
the
least
part
of
grammar
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
.
"
That
apple-peel
is
to
be
eaten
by
the
pigs
,
Ben
;
if
you
eat
it
,
I
must
give
them
your
piece
of
pasty
.
Job
has
only
to
speak
about
very
plain
things
.
How
do
you
think
you
would
write
or
speak
about
anything
more
difficult
,
if
you
knew
no
more
of
grammar
than
he
does
?
You
would
use
wrong
words
,
and
put
words
in
the
wrong
places
,
and
instead
of
making
people
understand
you
,
they
would
turn
away
from
you
as
a
tiresome
person
.
What
would
you
do
then
?
"
"
I
should
n't
care
,
I
should
leave
off
,
"
said
Ben
,
with
a
sense
that
this
was
an
agreeable
issue
where
grammar
was
concerned
.
"
I
see
you
are
getting
tired
and
stupid
,
Ben
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
accustomed
to
these
obstructive
arguments
from
her
male
offspring
.
Having
finished
her
pies
,
she
moved
towards
the
clothes-horse
,
and
said
,
"
Come
here
and
tell
me
the
story
I
told
you
on
Wednesday
,
about
Cincinnatus
.
"
"
I
know
!
he
was
a
farmer
,
"
said
Ben
.
"
Now
,
Ben
,
he
was
a
Roman
—
let
me
tell
,
"
said
Letty
,
using
her
elbow
contentiously
.
"
You
silly
thing
,
he
was
a
Roman
farmer
,
and
he
was
ploughing
.
"
"
Yes
,
but
before
that
—
that
did
n't
come
first
—
people
wanted
him
,
"
said
Letty
.
"
Well
,
but
you
must
say
what
sort
of
a
man
he
was
first
,
"
insisted
Ben
.
"
He
was
a
wise
man
,
like
my
father
,
and
that
made
the
people
want
his
advice
.
And
he
was
a
brave
man
,
and
could
fight
.
And
so
could
my
father
—
could
n't
he
,
mother
?
"
"
Now
,
Ben
,
let
me
tell
the
story
straight
on
,
as
mother
told
it
us
,
"
said
Letty
,
frowning
.
"
Please
,
mother
,
tell
Ben
not
to
speak
.
"
"
Letty
,
I
am
ashamed
of
you
,
"
said
her
mother
,
wringing
out
the
caps
from
the
tub
.
"
When
your
brother
began
,
you
ought
to
have
waited
to
see
if
he
could
not
tell
the
story
.
How
rude
you
look
,
pushing
and
frowning
,
as
if
you
wanted
to
conquer
with
your
elbows
!
Cincinnatus
,
I
am
sure
,
would
have
been
sorry
to
see
his
daughter
behave
so
.
"
(
Mrs.
Garth
delivered
this
awful
sentence
with
much
majesty
of
enunciation
,
and
Letty
felt
that
between
repressed
volubility
and
general
disesteem
,
that
of
the
Romans
inclusive
,
life
was
already
a
painful
affair
.
)
"
Now
,
Ben
.
"
"
Well
—
oh
—
well
—
why
,
there
was
a
great
deal
of
fighting
,
and
they
were
all
blockheads
,
and
—
I
ca
n't
tell
it
just
how
you
told
it
—
but
they
wanted
a
man
to
be
captain
and
king
and
everything
—
"
"
Dictator
,
now
,
"
said
Letty
,
with
injured
looks
,
and
not
without
a
wish
to
make
her
mother
repent
.
"
Very
well
,
dictator
!
"
said
Ben
,
contemptuously
.
"
But
that
is
n't
a
good
word
:
he
did
n't
tell
them
to
write
on
slates
.
"
"
Come
,
come
,
Ben
,
you
are
not
so
ignorant
as
that
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
carefully
serious
.
"
Hark
,
there
is
a
knock
at
the
door
!
Run
,
Letty
,
and
open
it
.
"
The
knock
was
Fred
's
;
and
when
Letty
said
that
her
father
was
not
in
yet
,
but
that
her
mother
was
in
the
kitchen
,
Fred
had
no
alternative
.
He
could
not
depart
from
his
usual
practice
of
going
to
see
Mrs.
Garth
in
the
kitchen
if
she
happened
to
be
at
work
there
.
He
put
his
arm
round
Letty
's
neck
silently
,
and
led
her
into
the
kitchen
without
his
usual
jokes
and
caresses
.
Mrs.
Garth
was
surprised
to
see
Fred
at
this
hour
,
but
surprise
was
not
a
feeling
that
she
was
given
to
express
,
and
she
only
said
,
quietly
continuing
her
work
—
"
You
,
Fred
,
so
early
in
the
day
?
You
look
quite
pale
.
Has
anything
happened
?
"
"
I
want
to
speak
to
Mr.
Garth
,
"
said
Fred
,
not
yet
ready
to
say
more
—
"
and
to
you
also
,
"
he
added
,
after
a
little
pause
,
for
he
had
no
doubt
that
Mrs.
Garth
knew
everything
about
the
bill
,
and
he
must
in
the
end
speak
of
it
before
her
,
if
not
to
her
solely
.
"
Caleb
will
be
in
again
in
a
few
minutes
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
who
imagined
some
trouble
between
Fred
and
his
father
.
"
He
is
sure
not
to
be
long
,
because
he
has
some
work
at
his
desk
that
must
be
done
this
morning
.
Do
you
mind
staying
with
me
,
while
I
finish
my
matters
here
?
"
"
But
we
need
n't
go
on
about
Cincinnatus
,
need
we
?
"
said
Ben
,
who
had
taken
Fred
's
whip
out
of
his
hand
,
and
was
trying
its
efficiency
on
the
cat
.
"
No
,
go
out
now
.
But
put
that
whip
down
.
How
very
mean
of
you
to
whip
poor
old
Tortoise
!
Pray
take
the
whip
from
him
,
Fred
.
"
"
Come
,
old
boy
,
give
it
me
,
"
said
Fred
,
putting
out
his
hand
.
"
Will
you
let
me
ride
on
your
horse
to-day
?
"
said
Ben
,
rendering
up
the
whip
,
with
an
air
of
not
being
obliged
to
do
it
.
"
Not
to-day
—
another
time
.
I
am
not
riding
my
own
horse
.
"
"
Shall
you
see
Mary
to-day
?
"
"
Yes
,
I
think
so
,
"
said
Fred
,
with
an
unpleasant
twinge
.
"
Tell
her
to
come
home
soon
,
and
play
at
forfeits
,
and
make
fun
.
"
"
Enough
,
enough
,
Ben
!
run
away
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
seeing
that
Fred
was
teased
.
"
Are
Letty
and
Ben
your
only
pupils
now
,
Mrs.
Garth
?
"
said
Fred
,
when
the
children
were
gone
and
it
was
needful
to
say
something
that
would
pass
the
time
.
He
was
not
yet
sure
whether
he
should
wait
for
Mr.
Garth
,
or
use
any
good
opportunity
in
conversation
to
confess
to
Mrs.
Garth
herself
,
give
her
the
money
and
ride
away
.
"
One
—
only
one
.
Fanny
Hackbutt
comes
at
half
past
eleven
.
I
am
not
getting
a
great
income
now
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
smiling
.
"
I
am
at
a
low
ebb
with
pupils
.
But
I
have
saved
my
little
purse
for
Alfred
's
premium
:
I
have
ninety-two
pounds
.
He
can
go
to
Mr.
Hanmer
's
now
;
he
is
just
at
the
right
age
.
"
This
did
not
lead
well
towards
the
news
that
Mr.
Garth
was
on
the
brink
of
losing
ninety-two
pounds
and
more
.
Fred
was
silent
.
"
Young
gentlemen
who
go
to
college
are
rather
more
costly
than
that
,
"
Mrs.
Garth
innocently
continued
,
pulling
out
the
edging
on
a
cap-border
.
"
And
Caleb
thinks
that
Alfred
will
turn
out
a
distinguished
engineer
:
he
wants
to
give
the
boy
a
good
chance
.
There
he
is
!
I
hear
him
coming
in
.
We
will
go
to
him
in
the
parlor
,
shall
we
?
"
When
they
entered
the
parlor
Caleb
had
thrown
down
his
hat
and
was
seated
at
his
desk
.
"
What
!
Fred
,
my
boy
!
"
he
said
,
in
a
tone
of
mild
surprise
,
holding
his
pen
still
undipped
;
"
you
are
here
betimes
.
"
But
missing
the
usual
expression
of
cheerful
greeting
in
Fred
's
face
,
he
immediately
added
,
"
Is
there
anything
up
at
home
?
—
anything
the
matter
?
"
"
Yes
,
Mr.
Garth
,
I
am
come
to
tell
something
that
I
am
afraid
will
give
you
a
bad
opinion
of
me
.
I
am
come
to
tell
you
and
Mrs.
Garth
that
I
ca
n't
keep
my
word
.
I
ca
n't
find
the
money
to
meet
the
bill
after
all
.
I
have
been
unfortunate
;
I
have
only
got
these
fifty
pounds
towards
the
hundred
and
sixty
.
"
While
Fred
was
speaking
,
he
had
taken
out
the
notes
and
laid
them
on
the
desk
before
Mr.
Garth
.
He
had
burst
forth
at
once
with
the
plain
fact
,
feeling
boyishly
miserable
and
without
verbal
resources
.
Mrs.
Garth
was
mutely
astonished
,
and
looked
at
her
husband
for
an
explanation
.
Caleb
blushed
,
and
after
a
little
pause
said
—
"
Oh
,
I
did
n't
tell
you
,
Susan
:
I
put
my
name
to
a
bill
for
Fred
;
it
was
for
a
hundred
and
sixty
pounds
.
He
made
sure
he
could
meet
it
himself
.
"
There
was
an
evident
change
in
Mrs.
Garth
's
face
,
but
it
was
like
a
change
below
the
surface
of
water
which
remains
smooth
.
She
fixed
her
eyes
on
Fred
,
saying
—
"
I
suppose
you
have
asked
your
father
for
the
rest
of
the
money
and
he
has
refused
you
.
"
"
No
,
"
said
Fred
,
biting
his
lip
,
and
speaking
with
more
difficulty
;
"
but
I
know
it
will
be
of
no
use
to
ask
him
;
and
unless
it
were
of
use
,
I
should
not
like
to
mention
Mr.
Garth
's
name
in
the
matter
.
"
"
It
has
come
at
an
unfortunate
time
,
"
said
Caleb
,
in
his
hesitating
way
,
looking
down
at
the
notes
and
nervously
fingering
the
paper
,
"
Christmas
upon
us
—
I
'm
rather
hard
up
just
now
.
You
see
,
I
have
to
cut
out
everything
like
a
tailor
with
short
measure
.
What
can
we
do
,
Susan
?
I
shall
want
every
farthing
we
have
in
the
bank
.
It
's
a
hundred
and
ten
pounds
,
the
deuce
take
it
!
"
"
I
must
give
you
the
ninety-two
pounds
that
I
have
put
by
for
Alfred
's
premium
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
gravely
and
decisively
,
though
a
nice
ear
might
have
discerned
a
slight
tremor
in
some
of
the
words
.
"
And
I
have
no
doubt
that
Mary
has
twenty
pounds
saved
from
her
salary
by
this
time
.
She
will
advance
it
.
"
Mrs.
Garth
had
not
again
looked
at
Fred
,
and
was
not
in
the
least
calculating
what
words
she
should
use
to
cut
him
the
most
effectively
.
Like
the
eccentric
woman
she
was
,
she
was
at
present
absorbed
in
considering
what
was
to
be
done
,
and
did
not
fancy
that
the
end
could
be
better
achieved
by
bitter
remarks
or
explosions
.
But
she
had
made
Fred
feel
for
the
first
time
something
like
the
tooth
of
remorse
.
Curiously
enough
,
his
pain
in
the
affair
beforehand
had
consisted
almost
entirely
in
the
sense
that
he
must
seem
dishonourable
,
and
sink
in
the
opinion
of
the
Garths
:
he
had
not
occupied
himself
with
the
inconvenience
and
possible
injury
that
his
breach
might
occasion
them
,
for
this
exercise
of
the
imagination
on
other
people
's
needs
is
not
common
with
hopeful
young
gentlemen
.
Indeed
we
are
most
of
us
brought
up
in
the
notion
that
the
highest
motive
for
not
doing
a
wrong
is
something
irrespective
of
the
beings
who
would
suffer
the
wrong
.
But
at
this
moment
he
suddenly
saw
himself
as
a
pitiful
rascal
who
was
robbing
two
women
of
their
savings
.
"
I
shall
certainly
pay
it
all
,
Mrs.
Garth
—
ultimately
,
"
he
stammered
out
.
"
Yes
,
ultimately
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
who
having
a
special
dislike
to
fine
words
on
ugly
occasions
,
could
not
now
repress
an
epigram
.
"
But
boys
cannot
well
be
apprenticed
ultimately
:
they
should
be
apprenticed
at
fifteen
.
"
She
had
never
been
so
little
inclined
to
make
excuses
for
Fred
.
"
I
was
the
most
in
the
wrong
,
Susan
,
"
said
Caleb
.
"
Fred
made
sure
of
finding
the
money
.
But
I
'd
no
business
to
be
fingering
bills
.
I
suppose
you
have
looked
all
round
and
tried
all
honest
means
?
"
he
added
,
fixing
his
merciful
gray
eyes
on
Fred
.
Caleb
was
too
delicate
to
specify
Mr.
Featherstone
.
"
Yes
,
I
have
tried
everything
—
I
really
have
.
I
should
have
had
a
hundred
and
thirty
pounds
ready
but
for
a
misfortune
with
a
horse
which
I
was
about
to
sell
.
My
uncle
had
given
me
eighty
pounds
,
and
I
paid
away
thirty
with
my
old
horse
in
order
to
get
another
which
I
was
going
to
sell
for
eighty
or
more
—
I
meant
to
go
without
a
horse
—
but
now
it
has
turned
out
vicious
and
lamed
itself
.
I
wish
I
and
the
horses
too
had
been
at
the
devil
,
before
I
had
brought
this
on
you
.
There
's
no
one
else
I
care
so
much
for
:
you
and
Mrs.
Garth
have
always
been
so
kind
to
me
.
However
,
it
's
no
use
saying
that
.
You
will
always
think
me
a
rascal
now
.
"
Fred
turned
round
and
hurried
out
of
the
room
,
conscious
that
he
was
getting
rather
womanish
,
and
feeling
confusedly
that
his
being
sorry
was
not
of
much
use
to
the
Garths
.
They
could
see
him
mount
,
and
quickly
pass
through
the
gate
.
"
I
am
disappointed
in
Fred
Vincy
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
.
"
I
would
not
have
believed
beforehand
that
he
would
have
drawn
you
into
his
debts
.
I
knew
he
was
extravagant
,
but
I
did
not
think
that
he
would
be
so
mean
as
to
hang
his
risks
on
his
oldest
friend
,
who
could
the
least
afford
to
lose
.
"
"
I
was
a
fool
,
Susan
.
"
"
That
you
were
,
"
said
the
wife
,
nodding
and
smiling
.
"
But
I
should
not
have
gone
to
publish
it
in
the
market-place
.
Why
should
you
keep
such
things
from
me
?
It
is
just
so
with
your
buttons
:
you
let
them
burst
off
without
telling
me
,
and
go
out
with
your
wristband
hanging
.
If
I
had
only
known
I
might
have
been
ready
with
some
better
plan
.
"
"
You
are
sadly
cut
up
,
I
know
,
Susan
,
"
said
Caleb
,
looking
feelingly
at
her
.
"
I
ca
n't
abide
your
losing
the
money
you
've
scraped
together
for
Alfred
.
"
"
It
is
very
well
that
I
had
scraped
it
together
;
and
it
is
you
who
will
have
to
suffer
,
for
you
must
teach
the
boy
yourself
.
You
must
give
up
your
bad
habits
.
Some
men
take
to
drinking
,
and
you
have
taken
to
working
without
pay
.
You
must
indulge
yourself
a
little
less
in
that
.
And
you
must
ride
over
to
Mary
,
and
ask
the
child
what
money
she
has
.
"
Caleb
had
pushed
his
chair
back
,
and
was
leaning
forward
,
shaking
his
head
slowly
,
and
fitting
his
finger-tips
together
with
much
nicety
.
"
Poor
Mary
!
"
he
said
.
"
Susan
,
"
he
went
on
in
a
lowered
tone
,
"
I
'm
afraid
she
may
be
fond
of
Fred
.
"
"
Oh
no
!
She
always
laughs
at
him
;
and
he
is
not
likely
to
think
of
her
in
any
other
than
a
brotherly
way
.
"
Caleb
made
no
rejoinder
,
but
presently
lowered
his
spectacles
,
drew
up
his
chair
to
the
desk
,
and
said
,
"
Deuce
take
the
bill
—
I
wish
it
was
at
Hanover
!
These
things
are
a
sad
interruption
to
business
!
"
The
first
part
of
this
speech
comprised
his
whole
store
of
maledictory
expression
,
and
was
uttered
with
a
slight
snarl
easy
to
imagine
.
But
it
would
be
difficult
to
convey
to
those
