tomake
happy
a
man
perfect
as
he
was
!
But
then
there
would
be
no
doubt
as
to
her
present
duty
.
She
loved
him
,
and
that
was
everything
.
Having
told
him
that
she
loved
him
,
and
having
on
that
score
accepted
his
love
,
nothing
but
a
change
in
her
heart
towards
him
could
justify
her
in
seeking
to
break
the
bond
which
bound
them
together
.
She
did
love
him
,
and
she
loved
him
only
.
But
she
had
once
loved
her
cousin
.
Yes
,
truly
it
was
so
.
In
her
thoughts
she
did
not
now
deny
it
.
She
had
loved
him
,
and
was
tormented
by
a
feeling
that
she
had
had
a
more
full
delight
in
that
love
than
in
this
other
that
had
sprung
up
subsequently
.
She
had
told
herself
that
this
had
come
of
her
youth
;
—
that
love
at
twenty
was
sweeter
than
it
could
be
afterwards
.
There
had
been
a
something
of
rapture
in
that
earlier
dream
which
could
never
be
repeated
,
—
which
could
never
live
,
indeed
,
except
in
a
dream
.
Now
,
now
that
she
was
older
and
perhaps
wiser
,
love
meant
a
partnership
,
in
which
each
partner
would
be
honest
to
the
other
,
in
which
each
would
wish
and
strive
for
the
other
's
welfare
,
so
that
thus
their
joint
welfare
might
be
insured
.
Then
,
in
those
early
girlish
days
,
it
had
meant
a
total
abnegation
of
self
.
The
one
was
of
earth
,
and
therefore
possible
.
The
other
had
been
a
ray
from
heaven
,
—
and
impossible
,
except
in
a
dream
.
And
she
had
been
mistaken
in
her
first
love
.
She
admitted
that
frankly
.
He
whom
she
had
worshipped
had
been
an
idol
of
clay
,
and
she
knew
that
it
was
well
for
her
to
have
abandoned
that
idolatry
.
He
had
not
only
been
untrue
to
her
,
but
,
worse
than
that
,
had
been
false
in
excusing
his
untruth
.
He
had
not
only
promised
falsely
,
but
had
made
such
promises
with
a
deliberate
,
premeditated
falsehood
.
And
he
had
been
selfish
,
coldly
selfish
,
weighing
the
value
of
his
own
low
lusts
against
that
of
her
holy
love
.
She
had
known
this
,
and
had
parted
from
him
with
an
oath
to
herself
that
no
promised
contrition
on
his
part
should
ever
bring
them
again
together
.
But
she
had
pardoned
him
as
a
man
,
though
never
as
a
lover
,
and
had
bade
him
welcome
again
as
a
cousin
and
as
her
friend
's
brother
.
She
had
again
become
very
anxious
as
to
his
career
,
not
hiding
her
regard
,
but
professing
that
anxiety
aloud
.
She
knew
him
to
be
clever
,
ambitious
,
bold
,
—
and
she
believed
even
yet
,
in
spite
of
her
own
experience
,
that
he
might
not
be
bad
at
heart
.
Now
,
as
she
told
herself
that
in
truth
she
loved
the
man
to
whom
her
troth
was
plighted
,
I
fear
that
she
almost
thought
more
of
that
other
man
from
whom
she
had
torn
herself
asunder
.
"
Why
should
he
find
himself
unhappy
in
London
?
"
she
said
,
as
she
went
back
to
the
letter
.
"
Why
should
he
pretend
to
condemn
the
very
place
which
most
men
find
the
fittest
for
all
their
energies
?
Were
I
a
man
,
no
earthly
consideration
should
induce
me
to
live
elsewhere
.
It
is
odd
how
we
differ
in
all
things
.
However
brilliant
might
be
his
own
light
,
he
would
be
contented
to
hide
it
under
a
bushel
!
"
And
at
last
she
recurred
to
that
matter
as
to
which
she
had
been
so
anxious
when
she
first
opened
her
lover
's
letter
.
It
will
be
remembered
how
assured
she
had
expressed
herself
that
Mr.
Grey
would
not
condescend
to
object
to
her
travelling
with
her
cousin
.
He
had
not
so
condescended
.
He
had
written
on
the
matter
with
a
pleasant
joke
,
like
a
gentleman
as
he
was
,
disdaining
to
allude
to
the
past
passages
in
the
life
of
her
whom
he
loved
,
abstaining
even
from
expressing
anything
that
might
be
taken
as
a
permission
on
his
part
.
There
had
been
in
Alice
's
words
,
as
she
told
him
of
their
proposed
plan
,
a
something
that
had
betrayed
a
tremor
in
her
thoughts
.
She
had
studiously
striven
so
to
frame
her
phrases
that
her
tale
might
be
told
as
any
other
simple
statement
,
—
as
though
there
had
been
no
trembling
in
her
mind
as
she
wrote
.
But
she
had
failed
,
and
she
knew
that
she
had
failed
.
She
had
failed
;
and
he
had
read
all
her
effort
and
all
her
failure
.
She
was
quite
conscious
of
this
;
she
felt
it
thoroughly
;
and
she
knew
that
he
was
noble
and
a
gentleman
to
the
last
drop
of
his
blood
.
And
yet
—
yet
—
yet
there
was
almost
a
feeling
of
disappointment
in
that
he
had
not
written
such
a
letter
as
Lady
Macleod
had
anticipated
.
During
the
next
week
Lady
Macleod
still
came
almost
daily
to
Queen
Anne
Street
,
but
nothing
further
was
said
between
her
and
Miss
Vavasor
as
to
the
Swiss
tour
;
nor
were
any
questions
asked
about
Mr
.
.
Grey
's
opinion
on
the
subject
.
The
old
lady
of
course
discovered
that
there
was
no
quarrel
,
or
,
as
she
believed
,
any
probability
of
a
quarrel
;
and
with
that
she
was
obliged
to
be
contented
.
Nor
did
she
again
on
this
occasion
attempt
to
take
Alice
to
Lady
Midlothian
's
.
Indeed
,
their
usual
subjects
of
conversation
were
almost
abandoned
,
and
Lady
Macleod
's
visits
,
though
they
were
as
constant
as
heretofore
,
were
not
so
long
.
She
did
not
dare
to
talk
about
Mr.
Grey
,
and
because
she
did
not
so
dare
,
was
determined
to
regard
herself
as
in
a
degree
ill-used
.
So
she
was
silent
,
reserved
,
and
fretful
.
At
length
came
the
last
day
of
her
London
season
,
and
her
last
visit
to
her
niece
.
"
I
would
come
because
it
's
my
last
day
,
"
said
Lady
Macleod
;
"
but
really
I
'm
so
hurried
,
and
have
so
many
things
to
do
,
that
I
hardly
know
how
to
manage
it
.
"
"
It
's
very
kind
,
"
said
Alice
,
giving
her
aunt
an
affectionate
squeeze
of
the
hand
.
"
I
'm
keeping
the
cab
,
so
I
can
just
stay
twenty-five
minutes
.
I
've
marked
the
time
accurately
,
but
I
know
the
man
will
swear
it
's
over
the
half-hour
.
"
"
You
'll
have
no
more
trouble
about
cabs
,
aunt
,
when
you
are
back
in
Cheltenham
.
"
"
The
flies
are
worse
,
my
dear
.
I
really
think
they
're
worse
.
I
pay
the
bill
every
month
,
but
they
've
always
one
down
that
I
did
n't
have
.
It
's
the
regular
practice
,
for
I
've
had
them
from
all
the
men
in
the
place
.
"
"
It
's
hard
enough
to
find
honest
men
anywhere
,
I
suppose
.
"
"
Or
honest
women
either
.
What
do
you
think
of
Mrs.
Green
wanting
to
charge
me
for
an
extra
week
,
because
she
says
I
did
n't
give
her
notice
till
Tuesday
morning
?
I
wo
n't
pay
her
,
and
she
may
stop
my
things
if
she
dares
.
However
,
it
's
the
last
time
.
I
shall
never
come
up
to
London
again
,
my
dear
.
"
"
Oh
,
aunt
,
do
n't
say
that
!
"
"
But
I
do
say
it
,
my
dear
.
What
should
an
old
woman
like
me
do
,
trailing
up
to
town
every
year
,
merely
because
it
's
what
people
choose
to
call
the
season
.
"
"
To
see
your
friends
,
of
course
.
Age
does
n't
matter
when
a
person
's
health
is
so
good
as
yours
.
"
"
If
you
knew
what
I
suffer
from
lumbago
,
—
though
I
must
say
coming
to
London
always
does
cure
that
for
the
time
.
But
as
for
friends
—
!
Well
,
I
suppose
one
has
no
right
to
complain
when
one
gets
to
be
as
old
as
I
am
;
but
I
declare
I
believe
that
those
I
love
best
would
sooner
be
without
me
than
with
me
.
"
"
Do
you
mean
me
,
aunt
?
"
"
No
,
my
dear
,
I
do
n't
mean
you
.
Of
course
my
life
would
have
been
very
different
if
you
could
have
consented
to
remain
with
me
till
you
were
married
.
But
I
did
n't
mean
you
.
I
do
n't
know
that
I
meant
any
one
.
You
should
n't
mind
what
an
old
woman
like
me
says
.
"
"
You
're
a
little
melancholy
because
you
're
going
away
.
"
"
No
,
indeed
.
I
do
n't
know
why
I
stayed
the
last
week
.
I
did
say
to
Lady
Midlothian
that
I
thought
I
should
go
on
the
20th
;
and
,
though
I
know
that
she
knew
that
I
really
did
n't
go
,
she
has
not
once
sent
to
me
since
.
To
be
sure
they
've
been
out
every
night
;
but
I
thought
she
might
have
asked
me
to
come
and
lunch
.
It
's
so
very
lonely
dining
by
myself
in
lodgings
in
London
.
"
"
And
yet
you
never
will
come
and
dine
with
me
.
"
"
No
,
my
dear
;
no.
But
we
wo
n't
talk
about
that
.
I
've
just
one
word
more
to
say
.
Let
me
see
.
I
've
just
six
minutes
to
stay
.
I
've
made
up
my
mind
that
I
'll
never
come
up
to
town
again
,
—
except
for
one
thing
.
"
"
And
what
's
that
,
aunt
?
"
Alice
,
as
she
asked
the
question
,
well
knew
what
that
one
thing
was
.
"
I
'll
come
for
your
marriage
,
my
dear
.
I
do
hope
you
will
not
keep
me
long
waiting
.
"
"
Ah
!
I
ca
n't
make
any
promise
.
There
's
no
knowing
when
that
may
be
.
"
"
And
why
should
there
be
no
knowing
?
I
always
think
that
when
a
girl
is
once
engaged
the
sooner
she
's
married
the
better
.
There
may
be
reasons
for
delay
on
the
gentleman
's
part
.
"
"
There
very
often
are
,
you
know
,
"
"
But
,
Alice
,
you
do
n't
mean
to
say
that
Mr.
Grey
is
putting
it
off
?
"
Alice
was
silent
for
a
moment
,
during
which
Lady
Macleod
's
face
assumed
a
look
of
almost
tragic
horror
.
Was
there
something
wrong
on
Mr.
Grey
's
side
of
which
she
was
altogether
unaware
?
Alice
,
though
for
a
second
or
two
she
had
been
guilty
of
a
slight
playful
deceit
,
was
too
honest
to
allow
the
impression
to
remain
.
"
No
,
aunt
,
"
she
said
;
"
Mr.
Grey
is
not
putting
it
off
.
It
has
been
left
to
me
to
fix
the
time
.
"
"
And
why
do
n't
you
fix
it
?
"
"
It
is
such
a
serious
thing
!
After
all
it
is
not
more
than
four
months
yet
since
I
—
I
accepted
him
.
I
do
n't
know
that
there
has
been
any
delay
.
"
"
But
you
might
fix
the
time
now
,
if
he
wishes
it
.
"
"
Well
,
perhaps
I
shall
,
—
some
day
,
aunt
.
I
'm
going
to
think
about
it
,
and
you
must
n't
drive
me
.
"
"
But
you
should
have
some
one
to
advise
you
,
Alice
.
"
"
Ah
!
that
's
just
it
.
People
always
do
seem
to
think
it
so
terrible
that
a
girl
should
have
her
own
way
in
anything
.
She
must
n't
like
any
one
at
first
;
and
then
,
when
she
does
like
some
one
,
she
must
marry
him
directly
she
's
bidden
.
I
have
n't
much
of
my
own
way
at
present
;
but
you
see
,
when
I
'm
married
I
sha
n't
have
it
at
all
.
You
ca
n't
wonder
that
I
should
n't
be
in
a
hurry
.
"
"
I
am
not
advocating
anything
like
hurry
,
my
dear
.
But
,
goodness
gracious
me
!
I
've
been
here
twenty-eight
minutes
,
and
that
horrid
man
will
impose
upon
me
.
Good-bye
;
God
bless
you
!
Mind
you
write
.
"
And
Lady
Macleod
hurried
out
of
the
room
more
intent
at
the
present
moment
upon
saving
her
sixpence
than
she
was
on
any
other
matter
whatsoever
.
And
then
John
Grey
came
up
to
town
,
arriving
a
day
or
two
after
the
time
that
he
had
fixed
.
It
is
not
,
perhaps
,
improbable
that
Alice
had
used
some
diplomatic
skill
in
preventing
a
meeting
between
Lady
Macleod
and
her
lover
.
They
both
were
very
anxious
to
obtain
the
same
object
,
and
Alice
was
to
some
extent
opposed
to
their
views
.
Had
Lady
Macleod
and
John
Grey
put
their
forces
together
she
might
have
found
herself
unable
to
resist
their
joint
endeavours
.
She
was
resolved
that
she
would
not
at
any
rate
name
any
day
for
her
marriage
before
her
return
from
Switzerland
;
and
she
may
therefore
have
thought
it
wise
to
keep
Mr.
Grey
in
the
country
till
after
Lady
Macleod
had
gone
,
even
though
she
thereby
cut
down
the
time
of
his
sojourn
in
London
to
four
days
.
On
the
occasion
of
that
visit
Mr.
Vavasor
did
a
very
memorable
thing
.
He
dined
at
home
with
the
view
of
welcoming
his
future
son-in-law
.
He
dined
at
home
,
and
asked
,
or
rather
assented
to
Alice
's
asking
,
George
and
Kate
Vavasor
to
join
the
dinner-party
.
"
What
an
auspicious
omen
for
the
future
nuptials
!
"
said
Kate
,
with
her
little
sarcastic
smile
.
"
Uncle
John
dines
at
home
,
and
Mr.
Grey
joins
in
the
dissipation
of
a
dinner-party
.
We
shall
all
be
changed
soon
,
I
suppose
,
and
George
and
I
will
take
to
keeping
a
little
cottage
in
the
country
.
"
"
Kate
,
"
said
Alice
,
angrily
,
"
I
think
you
are
about
the
most
unjust
person
I
ever
met
.
I
would
forgive
your
raillery
,
however
painful
it
might
be
,
if
it
were
only
fair
.
"
"
And
to
whom
is
it
unfair
on
the
present
occasion
;
—
to
your
father
?
"
"
It
was
not
intended
for
him
.
"
"
To
yourself
?
"
"
I
care
nothing
as
to
myself
;
you
know
that
very
well
.
"
"
Then
it
must
have
been
unfair
to
Mr.
Grey
.
"
"
Yes
;
it
was
Mr.
Grey
whom
you
meant
to
attack
.
If
I
can
forgive
him
for
not
caring
for
society
,
surely
you
might
do
so
.
"
"
Exactly
;
but
that
's
just
what
you
ca
n't
do
,
my
dear
.
You
do
n't
forgive
him
.
If
you
did
you
might
be
quite
sure
that
I
should
say
nothing
.
And
if
you
choose
to
bid
me
hold
my
tongue
I
will
say
nothing
.
But
when
you
tell
me
all
your
own
thoughts
about
this
thing
you
can
hardly
expect
but
that
I
should
let
you
know
mine
in
return
.
I
'm
not
particular
;
and
if
you
are
ready
for
a
little
good
,
wholesome
,
useful
hypocrisy
,
I
wo
n't
balk
you
.
I
may
n't
be
quite
so
dishonest
as
you
call
me
,
but
I
'm
not
so
wedded
to
truth
but
what
I
can
look
,
and
act
,
and
speak
a
few
falsehoods
if
you
wish
it
.
Only
let
us
understand
each
other
.
"
"
You
know
I
wish
for
no
falsehood
,
Kate
.
"
"
I
know
it
's
very
hard
to
understand
what
you
do
wish
.
I
know
that
for
the
last
year
or
two
I
have
been
trying
to
find
out
your
wishes
,
and
,
upon
my
word
,
my
success
has
been
very
indifferent
.
I
suppose
you
wish
to
marry
Mr.
Grey
,
but
I
'm
by
no
means
certain
.
I
suppose
the
last
thing
on
earth
you
'd
wish
would
be
to
marry
George
?
"
"
The
very
last
.
You
're
right
there
at
any
rate
.
"
"
Alice
—
!
sometimes
you
drive
me
too
hard
;
you
do
,
indeed
.
You
make
me
doubt
whether
I
hate
or
love
you
most
.
Knowing
what
my
feelings
are
about
George
,
I
cannot
understand
how
you
can
bring
yourself
to
speak
of
him
to
me
with
such
contempt
!
"
Kate
Vavasor
,
as
she
spoke
these
words
,
left
the
room
with
a
quick
step
,
and
hurried
up
to
her
own
chamber
.
There
Alice
found
her
in
tears
,
and
was
driven
by
her
friend
's
real
grief
into
the
expression
of
an
apology
,
which
she
knew
was
not
properly
due
from
her
.
Kate
was
acquainted
with
all
the
circumstances
of
that
old
affair
between
her
brother
and
Alice
.
She
had
given
in
her
adhesion
to
the
propriety
of
what
Alice
had
done
.
She
had
allowed
that
her
brother
George
's
behaviour
had
been
such
as
to
make
any
engagement
between
them
impossible
.
The
fault
,
therefore
,
had
been
hers
in
making
any
reference
to
the
question
of
such
a
marriage
.
Nor
had
it
been
by
any
means
her
first
fault
of
the
same
kind
.
Till
Alice
had
become
engaged
to
Mr.
Grey
she
had
spoken
of
George
only
as
her
brother
,
or
as
her
friend
's
cousin
,
but
now
she
was
constantly
making
allusion
to
those
past
occurrences
,
which
all
of
them
should
have
striven
to
forget
.
Under
these
circumstances
was
not
Lady
Macleod
right
in
saying
that
George
Vavasor
should
not
have
been
accepted
as
a
companion
for
the
Swiss
tour
?
The
little
dinner-party
went
off
very
quietly
;
and
if
no
other
ground
existed
for
charging
Mr.
Grey
with
London
dissipation
than
what
that
afforded
,
he
was
accused
most
unjustly
.
The
two
young
men
had
never
before
met
each
other
;
and
Vavasor
had
gone
to
his
uncle
's
house
,
prepared
not
only
to
dislike
but
to
despise
his
successor
in
Alice
's
favour
.
But
in
this
he
was
either
disappointed
or
gratified
,
as
the
case
may
be
.
"
He
has
plenty
to
say
for
himself
,
"
he
said
to
Kate
on
his
way
home
.
"
Oh
yes
;
he
can
talk
.
"
"
And
he
does
n't
talk
like
a
prig
either
,
which
was
what
I
expected
.
He
's
uncommonly
handsome
.
"
"
I
thought
men
never
saw
that
in
each
other
.
I
never
see
it
in
any
man
.
"
"
I
see
it
in
every
animal
—
in
men
,
women
,
horses
,
dogs
,
and
even
pigs
.
I
like
to
look
on
handsome
things
.
I
think
people
always
do
who
are
ugly
themselves
.
"
"
And
so
you
're
going
into
raptures
in
favour
of
John
Grey
.
"
"
No
,
I
'm
not
.
I
very
seldom
go
into
raptures
about
anything
.
But
he
talks
in
the
way
I
like
a
man
to
talk
.
How
he
bowled
my
uncle
over
about
those
actors
;
and
yet
if
my
uncle
knows
anything
about
anything
it
is
about
the
stage
twenty
years
ago
.
"
There
was
nothing
more
said
then
about
John
Grey
;
but
Kate
understood
her
brother
well
enough
to
be
aware
that
this
praise
meant
very
little
.
George
Vavasor
spoke
sometimes
from
his
heart
,
and
did
so
more
frequently
to
his
sister
than
to
any
one
else
;
but
his
words
came
generally
from
his
head
.
On
the
day
after
the
little
dinner
in
Queen
Anne
Street
,
John
Grey
came
to
say
good-bye
to
his
betrothed
;
—
for
his
betrothed
she
certainly
was
,
in
spite
of
those
very
poor
arguments
which
she
had
used
in
trying
to
convince
herself
that
she
was
still
free
if
she
wished
to
claim
her
freedom
.
Though
he
had
been
constantly
with
Alice
during
the
last
three
days
,
he
had
not
hitherto
said
anything
as
to
the
day
of
their
marriage
.
He
had
been
constantly
with
her
alone
,
sitting
for
hours
in
that
ugly
green
drawing-room
,
but
he
had
never
touched
the
subject
.
He
had
told
her
much
of
Switzerland
,
which
she
had
never
yet
seen
but
which
he
knew
well
.
He
had
told
her
much
of
his
garden
and
house
,
whither
she
had
once
gone
with
her
father
,
whilst
paying
a
visit
nominally
to
the
colleges
at
Cambridge
.
And
he
had
talked
of
various
matters
,
matters
bearing
in
no
immediate
way
upon
his
own
or
her
affairs
;
for
Mr.
Grey
was
a
man
who
knew
well
how
to
make
words
pleasant
;
but
previous
to
this
last
moment
he
had
said
nothing
on
that
subject
on
which
he
was
so
intent
.
"
Well
,
Alice
,
"
he
said
,
when
the
last
hour
had
come
,
"
and
about
that
question
of
home
affairs
?
"
"
Let
us
finish
off
the
foreign
affairs
first
.
"
"
We
have
finished
them
;
have
n't
we
?
"
"
Finished
them
!
why
we
have
n't
started
yet
.
"
"
No
;
you
have
n't
started
.
But
we
've
had
the
discussion
.
Is
there
any
reason
why
you
'd
rather
not
have
this
thing
settled
.
"
"
No
;
no
special
reason
.
"
"
Then
why
not
let
it
be
fixed
?
Do
you
fear
coming
to
me
as
my
wife
?
"
"
No.
"
"
I
cannot
think
that
you
repent
your
goodness
to
me
.
"
"
No
;
I
do
n't
repent
it
;
—
what
you
call
my
goodness
?
I
love
you
too
entirely
for
that
.
"
"
My
darling
!
"
And
now
he
passed
his
arm
round
her
waist
as
they
stood
near
the
empty
fireplace
.
"
And
if
you
love
me
—
"
"
I
do
love
you
.
"
"
Then
why
should
you
not
wish
to
come
to
me
?
"
"
I
do
wish
it
.
I
think
I
wish
it
.
"
"
But
,
Alice
,
you
must
have
wished
it
altogether
when
you
consented
to
be
my
wife
.
"
"
A
person
may
wish
for
a
thing
altogether
,
and
yet
not
wish
for
it
instantly
.
"
"
Instantly
!
Come
;
I
have
not
been
hard
on
you
.
This
is
still
June
.
Will
you
say
the
middle
of
September
,
and
we
shall
still
be
in
time
for
warm
pleasant
days
among
the
lakes
?
Is
that
asking
for
too
much
?
"
"
It
is
not
asking
for
anything
.
"
"
Nay
,
but
it
is
,
love
.
Grant
it
,
and
I
will
swear
that
you
have
granted
me
everything
.
"
She
was
silent
,
having
things
to
say
but
not
knowing
in
what
words
to
put
them
.
Now
that
he
was
with
her
she
could
not
say
the
things
which
she
had
told
herself
that
she
would
utter
to
him
.
She
could
not
bring
herself
to
hint
to
him
that
his
views
of
life
were
so
unlike
her
own
,
that
there
could
be
no
chance
of
happiness
between
them
,
unless
each
could
strive
to
lean
somewhat
towards
the
other
.
No
man
could
be
more
gracious
in
word
and
manner
than
John
Grey
;
no
man
more
chivalrous
in
his
carriage
towards
a
woman
;
but
he
always
spoke
and
acted
as
though
there
could
be
no
question
that
his
manner
of
life
was
to
be
adopted
,
without
a
word
or
thought
of
doubting
,
by
his
wife
.
When
two
came
together
,
why
should
not
each
yield
something
,
and
each
claim
something
?
This
she
had
meant
to
say
to
him
on
this
day
;
but
now
that
he
was
with
her
she
could
not
say
it
.
"
John
,
"
she
said
at
last
,
"
do
not
press
me
about
this
till
I
return
.
"
"
But
then
you
will
say
the
time
is
short
.
It
would
be
short
then
.
"
"
I
cannot
answer
you
now
;
—
indeed
,
I
cannot
.
That
is
I
cannot
answer
in
the
affirmative
.
It
is
such
a
solemn
thing
.
"
"
Will
it
ever
be
less
solemn
,
dearest
?
"
"
Never
,
I
hope
never
.
"
He
did
not
press
her
further
then
,
but
kissed
her
and
bade
her
farewell
.
CHAPTER
IV
.
George
Vavasor
,
the
Wild
Man
.
It
will
no
doubt
be
understood
that
George
Vavasor
did
not
roam
about
in
the
woods
unshorn
,
or
wear
leathern
trappings
and
sandals
,
like
Robinson
Crusoe
,
instead
of
coats
and
trousers
.
His
wildness
was
of
another
kind
.
Indeed
,
I
do
n't
know
that
he
was
in
truth
at
all
wild
,
though
Lady
Macleod
had
called
him
so
,
and
Alice
had
assented
to
her
use
of
the
word
.
George
Vavasor
had
lived
in
London
since
he
was
twenty
,
and
now
,
at
the
time
of
the
beginning
of
my
story
,
he
was
a
year
or
two
over
thirty
.
He
was
and
ever
had
been
the
heir
to
his
grandfather
's
estate
;
but
that
estate
was
small
,
and
when
George
first
came
to
London
his
father
was
a
strong
man
of
forty
,
with
as
much
promise
of
life
in
him
as
his
son
had
.
A
profession
had
therefore
been
absolutely
necessary
to
him
;
and
he
had
,
at
his
uncle
John
's
instance
,
been
placed
in
the
office
of
a
parliamentary
land
agent
.
With
this
parliamentary
land
agent
he
had
quarrelled
to
the
knife
,
but
not
before
he
had
by
his
talents
made
himself
so
useful
that
he
had
before
him
the
prospects
of
a
lucrative
partnership
in
the
business
.
George
Vavasor
had
many
faults
,
but
idleness
—
absolute
idleness
—
was
not
one
of
them
.
He
would
occasionally
postpone
his
work
to
pleasure
.
He
would
be
at
Newmarket
when
he
should
have
been
at
Whitehall
.
But
it
was
not
usual
with
him
to
be
in
bed
when
he
should
be
at
his
desk
,
and
when
he
was
at
his
desk
he
did
not
whittle
his
ruler
,
or
pick
his
teeth
,
or
clip
his
nails
.
Upon
the
whole
his
friends
were
pleased
with
the
first
five
years
of
his
life
in
London
—
in
spite
of
his
having
been
found
to
be
in
debt
on
more
than
one
occasion
.
But
his
debts
had
been
paid
;
and
all
was
going
on
swimmingly
,
when
one
day
he
knocked
down
the
parliamentary
agent
with
a
blow
between
the
eyes
,
and
then
there
was
an
end
of
that
.
He
himself
was
wont
to
say
that
he
had
known
very
well
what
he
was
about
,
that
it
had
behoved
him
to
knock
down
the
man
who
was
to
have
been
his
partner
,
and
that
he
regretted
nothing
in
the
matter
.
At
any
rate
the
deed
was
looked
upon
with
approving
eyes
by
many
men
of
good
standing
,
—
or
,
at
any
rate
,
sufficient
standing
to
help
George
to
another
position
;
and
within
six
weeks
of
the
time
of
his
leaving
the
office
at
Whitehall
,
he
had
become
a
partner
in
an
established
firm
of
wine
merchants
.
A
great-aunt
had
just
then
left
him
a
couple
of
thousand
pounds
,
which
no
doubt
assisted
him
in
his
views
with
the
wine
merchants
.
In
this
employment
he
remained
for
another
period
of
five
years
,
and
was
supposed
by
all
his
friends
to
be
doing
very
well
.
And
indeed
he
did
not
do
badly
,
only
that
he
did
not
do
well
enough
to
satisfy
himself
.
He
was
ambitious
of
making
the
house
to
which
he
belonged
the
first
house
in
the
trade
in
London
,
and
scared
his
partners
by
the
boldness
and
extent
of
his
views
.
He
himself
declared
that
if
they
would
only
have
gone
along
with
him
he
would
have
made
them
princes
in
the
wine
market
.
But
they
were
men
either
of
more
prudence
or
of
less
audacity
than
he
,
and
they
declined
to
walk
in
his
courses
.
At
the
end
of
the
five
years
Vavasor
left
the
house
,
not
having
knocked
any
one
down
on
this
occasion
,
and
taking
with
him
a
very
nice
sum
of
money
.
The
two
last
of
these
five
years
had
certainly
been
the
best
period
of
his
life
,
for
he
had
really
worked
very
hard
,
like
a
man
,
giving
up
all
pleasure
that
took
time
from
him
,
—
and
giving
up
also
most
pleasures
which
were
dangerous
on
account
of
their
costliness
.
He
went
to
no
races
,
played
no
billiards
,
and
spoke
of
Cremorne
as
a
childish
thing
,
which
he
had
abandoned
now
that
he
was
no
longer
a
child
.
It
was
during
these
two
years
that
he
had
had
his
love
passages
with
his
cousin
;
and
it
must
be
presumed
that
he
had
,
at
any
rate
,
intended
at
one
time
to
settle
himself
respectably
as
a
married
man
.
He
had
,
however
,
behaved
very
badly
to
Alice
,
and
the
match
had
been
broken
off
.
He
had
also
during
the
last
two
years
quarrelled
with
his
grandfather
.
He
had
wished
to
raise
a
sum
of
money
on
the
Vavasor
estate
,
which
,
as
it
was
unentailed
,
he
could
only
do
with
his
grandfather
's
concurrence
.
The
old
gentleman
would
not
hear
of
it
,
—
would
listen
with
no
patience
to
the
proposition
.
It
was
in
vain
that
George
attempted
to
make
the
squire
understand
that
the
wine
business
was
going
on
very
well
,
that
he
himself
owed
no
man
anything
,
that
everything
with
him
was
flourishing
;
—
but
that
his
trade
might
be
extended
indefinitely
by
the
use
of
a
few
thousand
pounds
at
moderate
interest
.
Old
Mr.
Vavasor
was
furious
.
No
documents
and
no
assurances
could
make
him
lay
aside
a
belief
that
the
wine
merchants
,
and
the
business
,
and
his
grandson
were
all
ruined
and
ruinous
together
.
No
one
but
a
ruined
man
would
attempt
to
raise
money
on
the
family
estate
!
So
they
had
quarrelled
,
and
had
never
spoken
or
seen
each
other
since
.
"
He
shall
have
the
estate
for
his
life
,
"
the
squire
said
to
his
son
John
.
"
I
do
n't
think
I
have
a
right
to
leave
it
away
from
him
.
It
never
has
been
left
away
from
the
heir
.
But
I
'll
tie
it
up
so
that
he
sha
n't
cut
a
tree
on
it
.
"
John
Vavasor
perhaps
thought
that
the
old
rule
of
primogeniture
might
under
such
circumstances
have
been
judiciously
abandoned
—
in
this
one
instance
,
in
his
own
favour
.
But
he
did
not
say
so
.
Nor
would
he
have
said
it
had
there
been
a
chance
of
his
doing
so
with
success
.
He
was
a
man
from
whom
no
very
noble
deed
could
be
expected
;
but
he
was
also
one
who
would
do
no
ignoble
deed
.
After
that
George
Vavasor
had
become
a
stockbroker
,
and
a
stockbroker
he
was
now
.
In
the
first
twelve
months
after
his
leaving
the
wine
business
,
—
the
same
being
the
first
year
after
his
breach
with
Alice
,
—
he
had
gone
back
greatly
in
the
estimation
of
men
.
He
had
lived
in
open
defiance
of
decency
.
He
had
spent
much
money
and
had
apparently
made
none
,
and
had
been
,
as
all
his
friends
declared
,
on
the
high
road
to
ruin
.
Aunt
Macleod
had
taken
her
judgement
from
this
period
of
his
life
when
she
had
spoken
of
him
as
a
man
who
never
did
anything
.
But
he
had
come
forth
again
suddenly
as
a
working
man
;
and
now
they
who
professed
to
know
,
declared
that
he
was
by
no
means
poor
.
He
was
in
the
City
every
day
;
and
during
the
last
two
years
had
earned
the
character
of
a
shrewd
fellow
who
knew
what
he
was
about
,
who
might
not
perhaps
be
very
mealy-mouthed
in
affairs
of
business
,
but
who
was
fairly
and
decently
honourable
in
his
money
transactions
.
In
fact
,
he
stood
well
on
'
Change
.
And
during
these
two
years
he
had
stood
a
contest
for
a
seat
in
Parliament
,
having
striven
to
represent
the
metropolitan
borough
of
Chelsea
,
on
the
extremely
Radical
interest
.
It
is
true
that
he
had
failed
,
and
that
he
had
spent
a
considerable
sum
of
money
in
the
contest
.
"
Where
on
earth
does
your
nephew
get
his
money
?
"
men
said
to
John
Vavasor
at
his
club
.
"
Upon
my
word
I
do
n't
know
,
"
said
Vavasor
.
"
He
does
n't
get
it
from
me
,
and
I
'm
sure
he
does
n't
get
it
from
my
father
.
"
But
George
Vavasor
,
though
he
failed
at
Chelsea
,
did
not
spend
his
money
altogether
fruitlessly
.
He
gained
reputation
by
the
struggle
,
and
men
came
to
speak
of
him
as
though
he
were
one
who
would
do
something
.
He
was
a
stockbroker
,
a
thorough-going
Radical
,
and
yet
he
was
the
heir
to
a
fine
estate
,
which
had
come
down
from
father
to
son
for
four
hundred
years
!
There
was
something
captivating
about
his
history
and
adventures
,
especially
as
just
at
the
time
of
the
election
he
became
engaged
to
an
heiress
,
who
died
a
month
before
the
marriage
should
have
taken
place
.
She
died
without
a
will
,
and
her
money
all
went
to
some
third
cousins
.
George
Vavasor
bore
this
last
disappointment
like
a
man
,
and
it
was
at
this
time
that
he
again
became
fully
reconciled
to
his
cousin
.
Previous
to
this
they
had
met
;
and
Alice
,
at
her
cousin
Kate
's
instigation
,
had
induced
her
father
to
meet
him
.
But
at
first
there
had
been
no
renewal
of
real
friendship
.
Alice
had
given
her
cordial
assent
to
her
cousin
's
marriage
with
the
heiress
,
Miss
Grant
,
telling
Kate
that
such
an
engagement
was
the
very
thing
to
put
him
thoroughly
on
his
feet
.
And
then
she
had
been
much
pleased
by
his
spirit
at
that
Chelsea
election
.
"
It
was
grand
of
him
,
was
n't
it
?
"
said
Kate
,
her
eyes
brimming
full
of
tears
.
"
It
was
very
spirited
,
"
said
Alice
.
"
If
you
knew
all
,
you
would
say
so
.
They
could
get
no
one
else
to
stand
but
that
Mr.
Travers
,
and
he
would
n't
come
forward
,
unless
they
would
guarantee
all
his
expenses
.
"
"
I
hope
it
did
n't
cost
George
much
,
"
said
Alice
.
"
It
did
,
though
;
nearly
all
he
had
got
.
But
what
matters
?
Money
's
nothing
to
him
,
except
for
its
uses
.
My
own
little
mite
is
my
own
now
,
and
he
shall
have
every
farthing
of
it
for
the
next
election
,
even
though
I
should
go
out
as
a
housemaid
the
next
day
.
"
There
must
have
been
something
great
about
George
Vavasor
,
or
he
would
not
have
been
so
idolized
by
such
a
girl
as
his
sister
Kate
.
Early
in
the
present
spring
,
before
the
arrangements
for
the
Swiss
journey
were
made
,
George
Vavasor
had
spoken
to
Alice
about
that
intended
marriage
which
had
been
broken
off
by
the
lady
's
death
.
He
was
sitting
one
evening
with
his
cousin
in
the
drawing-room
in
Queen
Anne
Street
,
waiting
for
Kate
,
who
was
to
join
him
there
before
going
to
some
party
.
I
wonder
whether
Kate
had
had
a
hint
from
her
brother
to
be
late
!
At
any
rate
,
the
two
were
together
for
an
hour
,
and
the
talk
had
been
all
about
himself
.
He
had
congratulated
her
on
her
engagement
with
Mr.
Grey
,
which
had
just
become
known
to
him
,
and
had
then
spoken
of
his
own
last
intended
marriage
.
"
I
grieved
for
her
,
"
he
said
,
"
greatly
.
"
"
I
'm
sure
you
did
,
George
.
"
"
Yes
,
I
did
;
—
for
her
,
herself
.
Of
course
the
world
has
given
me
credit
for
lamenting
the
loss
of
her
money
.
But
the
truth
is
,
that
as
regards
both
herself
and
her
money
,
it
is
much
better
for
me
that
we
were
never
married
.
"
"
Do
you
mean
even
though
she
should
have
lived
?
"
"
Yes
;
—
even
had
she
lived
.
"
"
And
why
so
?
If
you
liked
her
,
her
money
was
surely
no
drawback
.
"
"
No
;
not
if
I
had
liked
her
.
"
"
And
did
you
not
like
her
?
"
"
No.
"
"
Oh
,
George
!
"
"
I
did
not
love
her
as
a
man
should
love
his
wife
,
if
you
mean
that
.
As
for
my
liking
her
,
I
did
like
her
.
I
liked
her
very
much
.
"
"
But
you
would
have
loved
her
?
"
"
I
do
n't
know
.
I
do
n't
find
that
task
of
loving
so
very
easy
.
It
might
have
been
that
I
should
have
learned
to
hate
her
.
"
"
If
so
,
it
is
better
for
you
,
and
better
for
her
,
that
she
has
gone
.
"
"
It
is
better
.
I
am
sure
of
it
.
And
yet
I
grieve
for
her
,
and
in
thinking
of
her
I
almost
feel
as
though
I
were
guilty
of
her
death
.
"
"
But
she
never
suspected
that
you
did
not
love
her
?
"
"
Oh
no.
But
she
was
not
given
to
think
much
of
such
things
.
She
took
all
that
for
granted
.
Poor
girl
!
she
is
at
rest
now
,
and
her
money
has
gone
,
where
it
should
go
,
among
her
own
relatives
.
"
"
Yes
;
with
such
feelings
as
yours
are
about
her
,
her
money
would
have
been
a
burden
to
you
.
"
"
I
would
not
have
taken
it
.
I
hope
,
at
least
,
that
I
would
not
have
taken
it
.
Money
is
a
sore
temptation
,
especially
to
a
poor
man
like
me
.
It
is
well
for
me
that
the
trial
did
not
come
in
my
way
.
"
"
But
you
are
not
such
a
very
poor
man
now
,
are
you
,
George
?
I
thought
your
business
was
a
good
one
.
"
"
It
is
,
and
I
have
no
right
to
be
a
poor
man
.
But
a
man
will
be
poor
who
does
such
mad
things
as
I
do
.
I
had
three
or
four
thousand
pounds
clear
,
and
I
spent
every
shilling
of
it
on
the
Chelsea
election
.
Goodness
knows
whether
I
shall
have
a
shilling
at
all
when
another
chance
comes
round
;
but
if
I
have
I
shall
certainly
spend
it
,
and
if
I
have
not
,
I
shall
go
in
debt
wherever
I
can
raise
a
hundred
pounds
.
"
"
I
hope
you
will
be
successful
at
last
.
"
"
I
feel
sure
that
I
shall
.
But
,
in
the
mean
time
,
I
cannot
but
know
that
my
career
is
perfectly
reckless
.
No
woman
ought
to
join
her
lot
to
mine
unless
she
has
within
her
courage
to
be
as
reckless
as
I
am
.
You
know
what
men
do
when
they
toss
up
for
shillings
?
"
"
Yes
,
I
suppose
I
do
.
"
"
I
am
tossing
up
every
day
of
my
life
for
every
shilling
that
I
have
.
"
"
Do
you
mean
that
you
're
—
gambling
?
"
"
No.
I
have
given
that
up
altogether
.
I
used
to
gamble
,
but
I
never
do
that
now
,
and
never
shall
again
.
What
I
mean
is
this
,
—
that
I
hold
myself
in
readiness
to
risk
everything
at
any
moment
,
in
order
to
gain
any
object
that
may
serve
my
turn
.
I
am
always
ready
to
lead
a
forlorn
hope
.
That
's
what
I
mean
by
tossing
up
every
day
for
every
shilling
that
I
have
.
"
Alice
did
not
quite
understand
him
,
and
perhaps
he
did
not
intend
that
she
should
.
Perhaps
his
object
was
to
mystify
her
imagination
.
She
did
not
understand
him
,
but
I
fear
that
she
admired
the
kind
of
courage
which
he
professed
.
And
he
had
not
only
professed
it
:
in
that
matter
of
the
past
election
he
had
certainly
practised
it
.
In
talking
of
beauty
to
his
sister
he
had
spoken
of
himself
as
being
ugly
.
He
would
not
generally
have
been
called
ugly
by
women
,
had
not
one
side
of
his
face
been
dreadfully
scarred
by
a
cicatrice
,
which
in
healing
,
had
left
a
dark
indented
line
down
from
his
left
eye
to
his
lower
jaw
.
That
black
ravine
running
through
his
cheek
was
certainly
ugly
.
On
some
occasions
,
when
he
was
angry
or
disappointed
,
it
was
very
hideous
;
for
he
would
so
contort
his
face
that
the
scar
would
,
as
it
were
,
stretch
itself
out
,
revealing
all
its
horrors
,
and
his
countenance
would
become
all
scar
.
"
He
looked
at
me
like
the
devil
himself
—
making
the
hole
in
his
face
gape
at
me
,
"
the
old
squire
had
said
to
John
Vavasor
in
describing
the
interview
in
which
the
grandson
had
tried
to
bully
his
grandfather
into
assenting
to
his
own
views
about
the
mortgage
.
But
in
other
respects
George
's
face
was
not
ugly
,
and
might
have
been
thought
handsome
by
many
women
.
His
hair
was
black
,
and
was
parted
in
the
front
.
His
forehead
,
though
low
,
was
broad
.
His
eyes
were
dark
and
bright
,
and
his
eyebrows
were
very
full
,
and
perfectly
black
.
At
those
periods
of
his
anger
,
all
his
face
which
was
not
scar
,
was
eye
and
eyebrow
.
He
wore
a
thick
black
moustache
,
which
covered
his
mouth
,
but
no
whiskers
.
People
said
of
him
that
he
was
so
proud
of
his
wound
that
he
would
not
grow
a
hair
to
cover
it
.
The
fact
,
however
,
was
that
no
whisker
could
be
made
to
come
sufficiently
forward
to
be
of
service
,
and
therefore
he
wore
none
.
The
story
of
that
wound
should
be
told
.
When
he
was
yet
hardly
more
than
a
boy
,
before
he
had
come
up
to
London
,
he
was
living
in
a
house
in
the
country
which
his
father
then
occupied
.
At
the
time
his
father
was
absent
,
and
he
and
his
sister
only
were
in
the
house
with
the
maid-servants
.
His
sister
had
a
few
jewels
in
her
room
,
and
an
exaggerated
report
of
them
having
come
to
the
ears
of
certain
enterprising
burglars
,
a
little
plan
was
arranged
for
obtaining
them
.
A
small
boy
was
hidden
in
the
house
,
a
window
was
opened
,
and
at
the
proper
witching
hour
of
night
a
stout
individual
crept
up-stairs
in
his
stocking-feet
,
and
was
already
at
Kate
Vavasor
's
door
,
—
when
,
in
the
dark
,
dressed
only
in
his
nightshirt
,
wholly
unarmed
,
George
Vavasor
flew
at
the
fellow
's
throat
.
Two
hours
elapsed
before
the
horror-stricken
women
of
the
house
could
bring
men
to
the
place
.
George
's
face
had
then
been
ripped
open
from
the
eye
downwards
,
with
some
chisel
,
or
house-breaking
instrument
.
But
the
man
was
dead
.
George
had
wrenched
from
him
his
own
tool
,
and
having
first
jabbed
him
all
over
with
insufficient
wounds
,
had
at
last
driven
the
steel
through
his
windpipe
.
The
small
boy
escaped
,
carrying
with
him
two
shillings
and
threepence
which
Kate
had
left
upon
the
drawing-room
mantelpiece
.
George
Vavasor
was
rather
low
in
stature
,
but
well
made
,
with
small
hands
and
feet
,
but
broad
in
the
chest
and
strong
in
the
loins
.
He
was
a
fine
horseman
and
a
hard
rider
;
and
men
who
had
known
him
well
said
that
he
could
fence
and
shoot
with
a
pistol
as
few
men
care
to
do
in
these
peaceable
days
.
Since
volunteering
had
come
up
,
he
had
become
a
captain
of
Volunteers
,
and
had
won
prizes
with
his
rifle
at
Wimbledon
.
Such
had
been
the
life
of
George
Vavasor
,
and
such
was
his
character
,
and
such
his
appearance
.
He
had
always
lived
alone
in
London
,
and
did
so
at
present
;
but
just
now
his
sister
was
much
with
him
,
as
she
was
staying
up
in
town
with
an
aunt
,
another
Vavasor
by
birth
,
with
whom
the
reader
will
,
if
he
persevere
,
become
acquainted
in
course
of
time
.
I
hope
he
will
persevere
a
little
,
for
of
all
the
Vavasors
Mrs
.
.
Greenow
was
perhaps
the
best
worth
knowing
.
But
Kate
Vavasor
's
home
was
understood
to
be
in
her
grandfather
's
house
in
Westmoreland
.
On
the
evening
before
they
started
for
Switzerland
,
George
and
Kate
walked
from
Queen
Anne
Street
,
where
they
had
been
dining
with
Alice
,
to
Mrs.
Greenow
's
house
.
Everything
had
been
settled
about
luggage
,
hours
of
starting
,
and
routes
as
regarded
their
few
first
days
;
and
the
common
purse
had
been
made
over
to
George
.
That
portion
of
Mr
.
.
Grey
's
letter
had
been
read
which
alluded
to
the
Paynims
and
the
glasses
of
water
,
and
everything
had
passed
in
the
best
of
good-humour
.
"
I
'll
endeavour
to
get
the
cold
water
for
you
,
"
George
had
said
;
"
but
as
to
the
breakfasts
,
I
can
only
hope
you
wo
n't
put
me
to
severe
trials
by
any
very
early
hours
.
When
people
go
out
for
pleasure
it
should
be
pleasure
.
"
The
brother
and
sister
walked
through
two
or
three
streets
in
silence
,
and
then
Kate
asked
a
question
.
"
George
,
I
wonder
what
your
wishes
really
are
about
Alice
?
"
"
That
she
should
n't
want
her
breakfast
too
early
while
we
are
away
.
"
"
That
means
that
I
'm
to
hold
my
tongue
,
of
course
.
"
"
No
,
it
does
n't
.
"
"
Then
it
means
that
you
intend
to
hold
yours
.
"
"
No
;
not
that
either
.
"
"
Then
what
does
it
mean
?
"
"
That
I
have
no
fixed
wishes
on
the
subject
.
Of
course
she
'll
marry
this
man
John
Grey
,
and
then
no
one
will
hear
another
word
about
her
.
"
"
She
will
no
doubt
,
if
you
do
n't
interfere
.
Probably
she
will
whether
you
interfere
or
not
.
But
if
you
wish
to
interfere
—
"
"
She
's
got
four
hundred
a
year
,
and
is
not
so
good-looking
as
she
was
.
"
"
Yes
;
she
has
got
four
hundred
a
year
,
and
she
is
more
handsome
now
than
ever
she
was
.
I
know
that
you
think
so
;
—
and
that
you
love
her
and
love
no
one
else
—
unless
you
have
a
sneaking
fondness
for
me
.
"
"
I
'll
leave
you
to
judge
of
that
last
.
"
"
And
as
for
me
,
—
I
only
love
two
people
in
the
world
;
her
and
you
.
If
ever
you
mean
to
try
,
you
should
try
now
.
"
CHAPTER
V.
The
Balcony
at
Basle
.
I
am
not
going
to
describe
the
Vavasors
'
Swiss
tour
.
It
would
not
be
fair
on
my
readers
.
"
Six
Weeks
in
the
Bernese
Oberland
,
by
party
of
three
,
"
would
have
but
very
small
chance
of
success
in
the
literary
world
at
present
,
and
I
should
consider
myself
to
be
dishonest
if
I
attempt
to
palm
off
such
matter
on
the
public
in
the
pages
of
a
novel
.
It
is
true
that
I
have
just
returned
from
Switzerland
,
and
should
find
such
a
course
of
writing
very
convenient
.
But
I
dismiss
the
temptation
,
strong
as
it
is
.
Retro
age
,
Satanas
.
No
living
man
or
woman
any
longer
wants
to
be
told
anything
of
the
Grimsell
or
of
the
Gemmi
.
Ludgate
Hill
is
now-a-days
more
interesting
than
the
Jungfrau
.
The
Vavasors
were
not
very
energetic
on
their
tour
.
As
George
had
said
,
they
had
gone
out
for
pleasure
and
not
for
work
.
They
went
direct
to
Interlaken
and
then
hung
about
between
that
place
and
Grindelwald
and
Lauterbrunnen
,
It
delighted
him
to
sit
still
on
some
outer
bench
,
looking
at
the
mountains
,
with
a
cigar
in
his
mouth
,
and
it
seemed
to
delight
them
to
be
with
him
.
Much
that
Mr.
Grey
prophesied
had
come
true
.
The
two
girls
were
ministers
to
him
,
instead
of
having
him
as
their
slave
.
"
What
fine
fellows
those
Alpine
club
men
think
themselves
,
"
he
said
on
one
of
these
occasions
,
"
and
how
thoroughly
they
despise
the
sort
of
enjoyment
I
get
from
mountains
.
But
they
're
mistaken
.
"
"
I
do
n't
see
why
either
need
be
mistaken
,
"
said
Alice
.
"
But
they
are
mistaken
,
"
he
continued
.
"
They
rob
the
mountains
of
their
poetry
,
which
is
or
should
be
their
greatest
charm
.
Mont
Blanc
can
have
no
mystery
for
a
man
who
has
been
up
it
half
a
dozen
times
.
It
's
like
getting
behind
the
scenes
at
a
ballet
,
or
making
a
conjuror
explain
his
tricks
.
"
"
But
is
the
exercise
nothing
?
"
said
Kate
.
"
Yes
;
the
exercise
is
very
fine
;
—
but
that
avoids
the
question
.
"
"
And
they
all
botanize
,
"
said
Alice
.
"
I
do
n't
believe
it
.
I
believe
that
the
most
of
them
simply
walk
up
the
mountain
and
down
again
.
But
if
they
did
,
that
avoids
the
question
also
.
The
poetry
and
mystery
of
the
mountains
are
lost
to
those
who
make
themselves
familiar
with
their
details
,
not
the
less
because
such
familiarity
may
have
useful
results
.
In
this
world
things
are
beautiful
only
because
they
are
not
quite
seen
,
or
not
perfectly
understood
.
Poetry
is
precious
chiefly
because
it
suggests
more
than
it
declares
.
Look
in
there
,
through
that
valley
,
where
you
just
see
the
distant
little
peak
at
the
end
.
Are
you
not
dreaming
of
the
unknown
beautiful
world
that
exists
up
there
;
—
beautiful
,
as
heaven
is
beautiful
,
because
you
know
nothing
of
the
reality
?
If
you
make
your
way
up
there
and
back
to-morrow
,
and
find
out
all
about
it
,
do
you
mean
to
say
that
it
will
be
as
beautiful
to
you
when
you
come
back
?
"
"
Yes
;
—
I
think
it
would
,
"
said
Alice
.
"
Then
you
've
no
poetry
in
you
.
Now
I
'm
made
up
of
poetry
.
"
After
that
they
began
to
laugh
at
him
and
were
very
happy
.
I
think
that
Mr.
Grey
was
right
in
answering
Alice
's
letter
as
he
did
;
but
I
think
that
Lady
Macleod
was
also
right
in
saying
that
Alice
should
not
have
gone
to
Switzerland
in
company
with
George
Vavasor
.
A
peculiar
familiarity
sprang
up
,
which
,
had
all
its
circumstances
been
known
to
Mr.
Grey
,
would
not
have
entirely
satisfied
him
,
even
though
no
word
was
said
which
might
in
itself
have
displeased
him
.
During
the
first
weeks
of
their
travelling
no
word
was
said
which
would
have
displeased
him
;
but
at
last
,
when
the
time
for
their
return
was
drawing
nigh
,
when
their
happiness
was
nearly
over
,
and
that
feeling
of
melancholy
was
coming
on
them
which
always
pervades
the
last
hours
of
any
period
that
has
been
pleasant
,
—
then
words
became
softer
than
they
had
been
,
and
references
were
made
to
old
days
,
—
allusions
which
never
should
have
been
permitted
between
them
.
Alice
had
been
very
happy
,
—
more
happy
perhaps
in
that
she
had
been
a
joint
minister
with
Kate
to
her
cousin
George
's
idle
fantasies
,
than
she
would
have
been
hurrying
about
with
him
as
her
slave
.
They
had
tacitly
agreed
to
spoil
him
with
comforts
;
and
girls
are
always
happier
in
spoiling
some
man
than
in
being
spoiled
by
men
.
And
he
had
taken
it
all
well
,
doing
his
despotism
pleasantly
,
exacting
much
,
but
exacting
nothing
that
was
disagreeable
.
And
he
had
been
amusing
always
,
as
Alice
thought
without
any
effort
.
But
men
and
women
,
when
they
show
themselves
at
their
best
,
seldom
do
so
without
an
effort
.
If
the
object
be
near
the
heart
the
effort
will
be
pleasant
to
him
who
makes
it
,
and
if
it
be
made
well
,
it
will
be
hidden
;
but
,
not
the
less
,
will
the
effort
be
there
.
George
Vavasor
had
on
the
present
occasion
done
his
very
best
to
please
his
cousin
.
They
were
sitting
at
Basle
one
evening
in
the
balcony
of
the
big
hotel
which
overlooks
the
Rhine
.
The
balcony
runs
the
length
of
the
house
,
and
is
open
to
all
the
company
;
but
it
is
spacious
,
and
little
parties
can
be
formed
there
with
perfect
privacy
.
The
swift
broad
Rhine
runs
underneath
,
rushing
through
from
the
bridge
which
here
spans
the
river
;
and
every
now
and
then
on
summer
evenings
loud
shouts
come
up
from
strong
swimmers
in
the
water
,
who
are
glorying
in
the
swiftness
of
the
current
.
The
three
were
sitting
there
,
by
themselves
,
at
the
end
of
the
balcony
.
Coffee
was
before
them
on
a
little
table
,
and
George
's
cigar
,
as
usual
,
was
in
his
mouth
.
"
It
's
nearly
all
over
,
"
said
he
,
after
they
had
remained
silent
for
some
minutes
.
"
And
I
do
think
it
has
been
a
success
,
"
said
Kate
.
"
Always
excepting
about
the
money
.
I
'm
ruined
for
ever
.
"
"
I
'll
make
your
money
all
straight
,
"
said
George
.
"
Indeed
you
'll
do
nothing
of
the
kind
,
"
said
Kate
.
"
I
'm
ruined
,
but
you
are
ruineder
.
But
what
signifies
?
It
is
such
a
great
thing
ever
to
have
had
six
weeks
'
happiness
,
that
the
ruin
is
,
in
point
of
fact
,
a
good
speculation
.
What
do
you
say
,
Alice
?
Wo
n't
you
vote
,
too
,
that
we
've
done
it
well
?
"
"
I
think
we
've
done
it
very
well
.
I
have
enjoyed
myself
thoroughly
.
"
"
And
now
you
've
got
to
go
home
to
John
Grey
and
Cambridgeshire
!
It
's
no
wonder
you
should
be
melancholy
.
"
That
was
the
thought
in
Kate
's
mind
,
but
she
did
not
speak
it
out
on
this
occasion
.
"
That
's
good
of
you
,
Alice
,
"
said
Kate
.
"
Is
it
not
,
George
?
I
like
a
person
who
will
give
a
hearty
meed
of
approbation
.
"
"
But
I
am
giving
the
meed
of
approbation
to
myself
.
"
"
I
like
a
person
even
to
do
that
heartily
,
"
said
Kate
.
"
Not
that
George
and
I
are
thankful
for
the
compliment
.
We
are
prepared
to
admit
that
we
owe
almost
everything
to
you
,
—
are
we
not
,
George
?
"
"
I
'm
not
;
by
any
means
,
"
said
George
.
"
Well
,
I
am
,
and
I
expect
to
have
something
pretty
said
to
me
in
return
.
Have
I
been
cross
once
,
Alice
?
"
"
No
;
I
do
n't
think
you
have
.
You
are
never
cross
,
though
you
are
often
ferocious
.
"
"
But
I
have
n't
been
once
ferocious
,
—
nor
has
George
.
"
"
He
would
have
been
the
most
ungrateful
man
alive
if
he
had
,
"
said
Alice
.
"
We
've
done
nothing
since
we
've
started
but
realize
from
him
that
picture
in
'
Punch
'
of
the
young
gentleman
at
Jeddo
who
had
a
dozen
ladies
to
wait
upon
him
.
"
"
And
now
he
has
got
to
go
home
to
his
lodgings
,
and
wait
upon
himself
again
.
Poor
