countfor
much
in
the
political
force
of
the
nation
,
but
it
was
not
the
less
determined
as
to
lending
or
not
lending
its
ears
.
No
man
was
permitted
to
speak
from
the
platform
except
Harold
and
his
uncle
Lingon
,
though
,
in
the
interval
of
expectation
,
several
Liberals
had
come
forward
.
Among
these
ill-advised
persons
the
one
whose
attempt
met
the
most
emphatic
resistance
was
Rufus
Lyon
.
This
might
have
been
taken
for
resentment
at
the
unreasonableness
of
the
cloth
,
that
,
not
content
with
pulpits
,
from
whence
to
tyrannise
over
the
ears
of
men
,
wishes
to
have
the
larger
share
of
the
platforms
;
but
it
was
not
so
,
for
Mr
Lingon
was
heard
with
much
cheering
,
and
would
have
been
welcomed
again
.
The
Rector
of
Little
Treby
had
been
a
favourite
in
the
neighbourhood
since
the
beginning
of
the
century
.
A
clergyman
thoroughly
unclerical
in
his
habits
had
a
piquancy
about
him
which
made
him
a
sort
of
practical
joke
.
He
had
always
been
called
Jack
Lingon
,
or
Parson
Jack
—
sometimes
,
in
older
and
less
serious
days
,
even
"
Cock-fighting
Jack
.
"
He
swore
a
little
when
the
point
of
a
joke
seemed
to
demand
it
,
and
was
fond
of
wearing
a
coloured
bandana
tied
loosely
over
his
cravat
,
together
with
large
brown
leather
leggings
;
he
spoke
in
a
pithy
familiar
way
that
people
could
understand
,
and
had
none
of
that
frigid
mincingness
called
dignity
,
which
some
have
thought
a
peculiar
clerical
disease
.
In
fact
,
he
was
"
a
charicter
"
—
something
cheerful
to
think
of
,
not
entirely
out
of
connection
with
Sunday
and
sermons
.
And
it
seemed
in
keeping
that
he
should
have
turned
sharp
round
in
politics
,
his
opinions
being
only
part
of
the
excellent
joke
called
Parson
Jack
.
When
his
red
eagle
face
and
white
hair
were
seen
on
the
platform
,
the
Dissenters
hardly
cheered
this
questionable
Radical
;
but
to
make
amends
,
all
the
Tory
farmers
gave
him
a
friendly
"
hurray
.
"
"
Let
's
hear
what
old
Jack
will
say
for
himself
,
"
was
the
predominant
feeling
among
them
;
"
he
'll
have
something
funny
to
say
,
I
'll
bet
a
penny
.
"
It
was
only
Lawyer
Labron
's
young
clerks
and
their
hangers-on
who
were
sufficiently
dead
to
Trebian
traditions
to
assail
the
parson
with
various
sharp-edged
interjections
,
such
as
broken
shells
,
and
cries
of
"
Cock
—
a
—
doodle-doo
.
"
"
Come
now
,
my
lads
,
"
he
began
,
in
his
full
,
pompous
,
yet
jovial
tones
,
thrusting
his
hands
into
the
stuffed-out
pockets
of
his
greatcoat
,
"
I
'll
tell
you
what
;
I
'm
a
parson
,
you
know
;
I
ought
to
return
good
for
evil
.
So
here
are
some
good
nuts
for
you
to
crack
in
return
for
your
shells
.
"
There
was
a
roar
of
laughter
and
cheering
as
he
threw
handfuls
of
nuts
and
filberts
among
the
crowd
.
"
Come
,
now
,
you
'll
say
I
used
to
be
a
Tory
;
and
some
of
you
,
whose
faces
I
know
as
well
as
I
know
the
head
of
my
own
crab-stick
,
will
say
that
's
why
I
'm
a
good
fellow
.
But
now
I
'll
tell
you
something
else
.
It
's
for
that
very
reason
—
that
I
used
to
be
a
Tory
,
and
am
a
good
fellow
—
that
I
go
along
with
my
nephew
here
,
who
is
a
thoroughgoing
Liberal
.
For
will
anybody
here
come
forward
and
say
,
'
A
good
fellow
has
no
need
to
tack
about
and
change
his
road
'
?
No
,
there
's
not
one
of
you
such
a
Tomnoddy
.
What
's
good
for
one
time
is
bad
for
another
.
If
anybody
contradicts
that
,
ask
him
to
eat
pickled
pork
when
he
's
thirsty
,
and
to
bathe
in
the
Lapp
there
when
the
spikes
of
ice
are
shooting
.
And
that
's
the
reason
why
the
men
who
are
the
best
Liberals
now
are
the
very
men
who
used
to
be
the
best
Tories
.
There
is
n't
a
nastier
horse
than
your
horse
that
'll
jib
and
back
and
turn
round
when
there
is
but
one
road
for
him
to
go
,
and
that
's
the
road
before
him
.
"
And
my
nephew
here
—
he
comes
of
a
Tory
breed
,
you
know
—
I
'll
answer
for
the
Lingons
.
In
the
old
Tory
times
there
was
never
a
pup
belonging
to
a
Lingon
but
would
howl
if
a
Whig
came
near
him
.
The
Lingon
blood
is
good
,
rich
,
old
Tory
blood
—
like
good
rich
milk
—
and
that
's
why
,
when
the
right
time
comes
,
it
throws
up
a
Liberal
cream
.
The
best
sort
of
Tory
turns
to
the
best
sort
of
Radical
.
There
's
plenty
of
Radical
scum
—
I
say
,
beware
of
the
scum
,
and
look
out
for
the
cream
.
And
here
's
my
nephew
—
some
of
the
cream
,
if
there
is
any
:
none
of
your
Whigs
,
none
of
your
painted
water
that
looks
as
if
it
ran
,
and
it
's
standing
still
all
the
while
;
none
of
your
spinning-jenny
fellows
.
A
gentleman
;
but
up
to
all
sorts
of
business
.
I
'm
no
fool
myself
;
I
'm
forced
to
wink
a
good
deal
,
for
fear
of
seeing
too
much
,
for
a
neighbourly
man
must
let
himself
be
cheated
a
little
.
But
though
I
've
never
been
out
of
my
own
country
,
I
know
less
about
it
than
my
nephew
does
.
You
may
tell
what
he
is
,
and
only
look
at
him
.
There
's
one
sort
of
fellow
sees
nothing
but
the
end
of
his
own
nose
,
and
another
sort
that
sees
nothing
but
the
hinder
side
of
the
moon
;
but
my
nephew
Harold
is
of
another
sort
;
he
sees
everything
that
's
at
hitting
distance
,
and
he
's
not
one
to
miss
his
mark
.
A
good-looking
man
in
his
prime
!
Not
a
greenhorn
;
not
a
shrivelled
old
fellow
,
who
'll
come
to
speak
to
you
and
find
he
's
left
his
teeth
at
home
by
mistake
.
Harold
Transome
will
do
you
credit
;
if
anybody
says
the
Radicals
are
a
set
of
sneaks
,
Brummagem
halfpennies
,
scamps
who
want
to
play
pitch
and
toss
with
the
property
of
the
country
,
you
can
say
,
'
Look
at
the
member
for
North
Loamshire
!
'
And
mind
what
you
'll
hear
him
say
;
he
'll
go
in
for
making
everything
right
—
Poor-laws
and
Charities
and
Church
—
he
wants
to
reform
'
em
all
.
Perhaps
you
'll
say
,
'
There
's
that
Parson
Lingon
talking
about
Church
Reform
—
why
,
he
belongs
to
the
Church
himself
—
he
wants
reforming
too
.
'
Well
,
well
,
wait
a
bit
,
and
you
'll
hear
by-and-by
that
old
Parson
Lingon
is
reformed
—
shoots
no
more
,
cracks
his
joke
no
more
,
has
drunk
his
last
bottle
:
the
dogs
,
the
old
pointers
,
will
be
sorry
;
but
you
'll
hear
that
the
Parson
at
Little
Treby
is
a
new
man
.
That
's
what
Church
Reform
is
sure
to
come
to
before
long
.
So
now
here
are
some
more
nuts
for
you
,
lads
,
and
I
leave
you
to
listen
to
your
candidate
.
Here
he
is
—
give
him
a
good
hurray
;
wave
your
hats
,
and
I
'll
begin
.
Hurray
!
"
Harold
had
not
been
quite
confident
beforehand
as
to
the
good
effect
of
his
uncle
's
introduction
;
but
he
was
soon
reassured
.
There
was
no
acrid
partisanship
among
the
old-fashioned
Tories
who
mustered
strong
about
the
Marquis
of
Granby
,
and
Parson
Jack
had
put
them
in
a
good
humour
.
Harold
's
only
interruption
came
from
his
own
party
.
The
oratorical
clerk
at
the
Factory
,
acting
as
the
tribune
of
the
Dissenting
interest
,
and
feeling
bound
to
put
questions
,
might
have
been
troublesome
;
but
his
voice
being
unpleasantly
sharp
,
while
Harold
's
was
full
and
penetrating
,
the
questioning
was
cried
down
.
Harold
's
speech
"
did
:
"
it
was
not
of
the
glib-nonsensical
sort
,
not
ponderous
,
not
hesitating
—
which
is
as
much
to
say
,
that
it
was
remarkable
among
British
speeches
.
Read
in
print
the
next
day
,
perhaps
it
would
be
neither
pregnant
nor
conclusive
,
which
is
saying
no
more
than
that
its
excellence
was
not
of
an
abnormal
kind
,
but
such
as
is
usually
found
in
the
best
efforts
of
eloquent
candidates
.
Accordingly
the
applause
drowned
the
opposition
,
and
content
predominated
.
But
,
perhaps
,
the
moment
of
most
diffusive
pleasure
from
public
speaking
is
that
in
which
the
speech
ceases
and
the
audience
can
turn
to
commenting
on
it
.
The
one
speech
,
sometimes
uttered
under
great
responsibility
as
to
missiles
and
other
consequences
,
has
given
a
text
to
twenty
speakers
who
are
under
no
responsibility
.
Even
in
the
days
of
duelling
a
man
was
not
challenged
for
being
a
bore
,
nor
does
this
quality
apparently
hinder
him
from
being
much
invited
to
dinner
,
which
is
the
great
index
of
social
responsibility
in
a
less
barbarous
age
.
Certainly
the
crowd
in
the
market-place
seemed
to
experience
this
culminating
enjoyment
when
the
speaking
on
the
platform
in
front
of
the
Ram
had
ceased
,
and
there
were
no
less
than
three
orators
holding
forth
from
the
elevation
of
chance
vehicles
,
not
at
all
to
the
prejudice
of
the
talking
among
those
who
were
on
a
level
with
their
neighbours
.
There
was
little
ill-humour
among
the
listeners
,
for
Queen
Bess
was
striking
the
last
quarter
before
two
,
and
a
savoury
smell
from
the
inn
kitchens
inspired
them
with
an
agreeable
consciousness
that
the
speakers
were
helping
to
trifle
away
the
brief
time
before
dinner
.
Two
or
three
of
Harold
's
committee
had
lingered
talking
to
each
other
on
the
platform
,
instead
of
re-entering
;
and
Jermyn
,
after
coming
out
to
speak
to
one
of
them
,
had
turned
to
the
corner
near
which
the
carriages
were
standing
,
that
he
might
tell
the
Transomes
'
coachman
to
drive
round
to
the
side
door
,
and
signal
to
his
own
coachman
to
follow
.
But
a
dialogue
which
was
going
on
below
induced
him
to
pause
,
and
,
instead
of
giving
the
order
,
to
assume
the
air
of
a
careless
gazer
.
Christian
,
whom
the
attorney
had
already
observed
looking
out
of
a
window
at
the
Marquis
of
Granby
,
was
talking
to
Dominic
.
The
meeting
appeared
to
be
one
of
new
recognition
,
for
Christian
was
saying
—
"
You
've
not
got
grey
as
I
have
,
Mr
Lenoni
;
you
're
not
a
day
older
for
the
sixteen
years
.
But
no
wonder
you
did
n't
know
me
;
I
'm
bleached
like
a
dried
bone
.
"
"
Not
so
.
It
is
true
I
was
confused
a
meenute
—
I
could
put
your
face
nowhere
;
but
after
that
,
Naples
came
behind
it
,
and
I
said
,
Mr
Creestian
.
And
so
you
reside
at
the
Manor
,
and
I
am
at
Transome
Court
.
"
"
Ah
!
it
's
a
thousand
pities
you
're
not
on
our
side
,
else
we
might
have
dined
together
at
the
Marquis
,
"
said
Christian
.
"
Eh
,
could
you
manage
it
?
"
he
added
,
languidly
,
knowing
there
was
no
chance
of
a
yes
.
"
No
—
much
obliged
—
could
n't
leave
the
leetle
boy
.
Ahi
!
Arry
,
Arry
,
pinch
not
poor
Moro
.
"
While
Dominic
was
answering
,
Christian
had
stared
about
him
,
as
his
manner
was
when
he
was
being
spoken
to
,
and
had
had
his
eyes
arrested
by
Esther
,
who
was
leaning
forward
to
look
at
Mr
Harold
Transome
's
extraordinary
little
gipsy
of
a
son
.
But
happening
to
meet
Christian
's
stare
,
she
felt
annoyed
,
drew
back
,
and
turned
away
her
head
,
colouring
.
"
Who
are
those
ladies
?
"
said
Christian
,
in
a
low
tone
,
to
Dominic
,
as
if
he
had
been
startled
into
a
sudden
wish
for
this
information
.
"
They
are
Meester
Jermyn
's
daughters
,
"
said
Dominic
,
who
knew
nothing
either
of
the
lawyer
's
family
or
of
Esther
.
Christian
looked
puzzled
a
moment
or
two
,
and
was
silent
.
"
O
,
well
—
au
revoir
,
"
he
said
,
kissing
the
tips
of
his
fingers
,
as
the
coachman
,
having
had
Jermyn
's
order
,
began
to
urge
on
the
horses
.
"
Does
he
see
some
likeness
in
the
girl
?
"
thought
Jermyn
,
as
he
turned
away
.
"
I
wish
I
had
n't
invited
her
to
come
in
the
carriage
,
as
it
happens
.
"
CHAPTER
XX
.
"
Good
earthenware
pitchers
,
sir
!
—
of
an
excellent
quaint
pattern
and
sober
colour
.
"
The
market
dinner
at
"
the
Marquis
"
was
in
high
repute
in
Treby
and
its
neighbourhood
.
The
frequenters
of
this
three-and-sixpenny
ordinary
liked
to
allude
to
it
,
as
men
allude
to
anything
which
implies
that
they
move
in
good
society
,
and
habitually
converse
with
those
who
are
in
the
secret
of
the
highest
affairs
.
The
guests
were
not
only
such
rural
residents
as
had
driven
to
market
,
but
some
of
the
most
substantial
townsmen
,
who
had
always
assured
their
wives
that
business
required
this
weekly
sacrifice
of
domestic
pleasure
.
The
poorer
farmers
,
who
put
up
at
the
Ram
or
the
Seven
Stars
,
where
there
was
no
fish
,
felt
their
disadvantage
,
bearing
it
modestly
or
bitterly
,
as
the
case
might
be
;
and
although
the
Marquis
was
a
Tory
house
,
devoted
to
Debarry
,
it
was
too
much
to
expect
that
such
tenants
of
the
Transomes
as
had
always
been
used
to
dine
there
,
should
consent
to
eat
a
worse
dinner
,
and
sit
with
worse
company
,
because
they
suddenly
found
themselves
under
a
Radical
landlord
,
opposed
to
the
political
party
known
as
Sir
Maxim
's
.
Hence
the
recent
political
divisions
had
not
reduced
the
handsome
length
of
the
table
at
the
Marquis
;
and
the
many
gradations
of
dignity
—
from
Mr
Wace
,
the
brewer
,
to
the
rich
butcher
from
Leek
Malton
,
who
always
modestly
took
the
lowest
seat
,
though
without
the
reward
of
being
asked
to
come
up
higher
—
had
not
been
abbreviated
by
any
secessions
.
To-day
there
was
an
extra
table
spread
for
expected
supernumeraries
,
and
it
was
at
this
that
Christian
took
his
place
with
some
of
the
younger
farmers
,
who
had
almost
a
sense
of
dissipation
in
talking
to
a
man
of
his
questionable
station
and
unknown
experience
.
The
provision
was
especially
liberal
,
and
on
the
whole
the
presence
of
a
minority
destined
to
vote
for
Transome
was
a
ground
for
joking
,
which
added
to
the
good-humour
of
the
chief
talkers
.
A
respectable
old
acquaintance
turned
Radical
rather
against
his
will
,
was
rallied
with
even
greater
gusto
than
if
his
wife
had
had
twins
twice
over
.
The
best
Trebian
Tories
were
far
too
sweet-blooded
to
turn
against
such
old
friends
,
and
to
make
no
distinction
between
them
and
the
Radical
,
Dissenting
,
Papistical
,
Deistical
set
with
whom
they
never
dined
,
and
probably
never
saw
except
in
their
imagination
.
But
the
talk
was
necessarily
in
abeyance
until
the
more
serious
business
of
dinner
was
ended
,
and
the
wine
,
spirits
,
and
tobacco
raised
mere
satisfaction
into
beatitude
.
Among
the
frequent
though
not
regular
guests
,
whom
every
one
was
glad
to
see
,
was
Mr
Nolan
,
the
retired
London
hosier
,
a
wiry
old
gentleman
past
seventy
,
whose
square
tight
forehead
,
with
its
rigid
hedge
of
grey
hair
,
whose
bushy
eyebrows
,
sharp
dark
eyes
,
and
remarkable
hooked
nose
,
gave
a
handsome
distinction
to
his
face
in
the
midst
of
rural
physiognomies
.
He
had
married
a
Miss
Pendrell
early
in
life
,
when
he
was
a
poor
young
Londoner
,
and
the
match
had
been
thought
as
bad
as
ruin
by
her
family
;
but
fifteen
years
ago
he
had
had
the
satisfaction
of
bringing
his
wife
to
settle
amongst
her
own
friends
,
and
of
being
received
with
pride
as
a
brother-in-law
,
retired
from
business
,
possessed
of
unknown
thousands
,
and
of
a
most
agreeable
talent
for
anecdote
and
conversation
generally
.
No
question
had
ever
been
raised
as
to
Mr
Nolan
's
extraction
on
the
strength
of
his
hooked
nose
,
or
of
his
name
being
Baruch
.
Hebrew
names
"
ran
"
in
the
best
Saxon
families
;
the
Bible
accounted
for
them
;
and
no
one
among
the
uplands
and
hedgerows
of
that
district
was
suspected
of
having
an
Oriental
origin
unless
he
carried
a
pedlar
's
jewel-box
.
Certainly
,
whatever
genealogical
research
might
have
discovered
,
the
worthy
Baruch
Nolan
was
so
free
from
any
distinctive
marks
of
religious
persuasion
—
he
went
to
church
with
so
ordinary
an
irregularity
,
and
so
often
grumbled
at
the
sermon
—
that
there
was
no
ground
for
classing
him
otherwise
than
with
good
Trebian
Churchmen
.
He
was
generally
regarded
as
a
good-looking
old
gentleman
,
and
a
certain
thin
eagerness
in
his
aspect
was
attributed
to
the
life
of
the
metropolis
,
where
narrow
space
had
the
same
sort
of
effect
on
men
as
on
thickly-planted
trees
.
Mr
Nolan
always
ordered
his
pint
of
port
,
which
,
after
he
had
sipped
it
a
little
,
was
wont
to
animate
his
recollections
of
the
Royal
Family
,
and
the
various
ministries
which
had
been
contemporary
with
the
successive
stages
of
his
prosperity
.
He
was
always
listened
to
with
interest
:
a
man
who
had
been
born
in
the
year
when
good
old
King
George
came
to
the
throne
—
who
had
been
acquainted
with
the
nude
leg
of
the
Prince
Regent
,
and
hinted
at
private
reasons
for
believing
that
the
Princess
Charlotte
ought
not
to
have
died
—
had
conversational
matter
as
special
to
his
auditors
as
Marco
Polo
could
have
had
on
his
return
from
Asiatic
travel
.
"
My
good
sir
,
"
he
said
to
Mr
Wace
,
as
he
crossed
his
knees
and
spread
his
silk
handkerchief
over
them
,
"
Transome
may
be
returned
,
or
he
may
not
be
returned
—
that
's
a
question
for
North
Loamshire
;
but
it
makes
little
difference
to
the
kingdom
.
I
do
n't
want
to
say
things
which
may
put
younger
men
out
of
spirits
,
but
I
believe
this
country
has
seen
its
best
days
—
I
do
indeed
.
"
"
I
am
sorry
to
hear
it
from
one
of
your
experience
,
Mr
Nolan
,
"
said
the
brewer
,
a
large
happy-looking
man
.
"
I
'd
make
a
good
fight
myself
before
I
'd
leave
a
worse
world
for
my
boys
than
I
've
found
for
myself
.
There
is
n't
a
greater
pleasure
than
doing
a
bit
of
planting
and
improving
one
's
buildings
,
and
investing
one
's
money
in
some
pretty
acres
of
land
,
when
it
turns
up
here
and
there
—
land
you
've
known
from
a
boy
.
It
's
a
nasty
thought
that
these
Radicals
are
to
turn
things
round
so
as
one
can
calculate
no
nothing
.
One
does
n't
like
it
for
one
's
self
,
and
one
does
n't
like
it
for
one
's
neighbours
.
But
somehow
,
I
believe
it
wo
n't
do
:
if
we
ca
n't
trust
the
Government
just
now
,
there
's
Providence
and
the
good
sense
of
the
country
;
and
there
's
a
right
in
things
—
that
's
what
I
've
always
said
—
there
's
a
right
in
things
.
The
heavy
end
will
get
downmost
.
And
if
Church
and
King
,
and
every
man
being
sure
of
his
own
,
are
things
good
for
this
country
,
there
's
a
God
above
will
take
care
of
'
em
.
"
"
It
wo
n't
do
,
my
dear
sir
,
"
said
Mr
Nolan
—
"
it
wo
n't
do
.
When
Peel
and
the
Duke
turned
round
about
the
Catholics
in
'
29
,
I
saw
it
was
all
over
with
us
.
We
could
never
trust
ministers
any
more
.
It
was
to
keep
off
a
rebellion
,
they
said
;
but
I
say
it
was
to
keep
their
places
.
They
're
monstrously
fond
of
place
,
both
of
them
—
that
I
know
.
"
Here
Mr
Nolan
changed
the
crossing
of
his
legs
,
and
gave
a
deep
cough
,
conscious
of
having
made
a
point
.
Then
he
went
on
—
"
What
we
want
is
a
king
with
a
good
will
of
his
own
.
If
we
'd
had
that
,
we
should
n't
have
heard
what
we
've
heard
to-day
;
Reform
would
never
have
come
to
this
pass
.
When
our
good
old
King
George
the
Third
heard
his
ministers
talking
about
Catholic
Emancipation
,
he
boxed
their
ears
all
round
.
Ah
,
poor
soul
!
he
did
indeed
,
gentlemen
,
"
ended
Mr
Nolan
,
shaken
by
a
deep
laugh
of
admiration
.
"
Well
,
now
,
that
's
something
like
a
king
,
"
said
Mr
Crowder
,
who
was
an
eager
listener
.
"
It
was
uncivil
,
though
.
How
did
they
take
it
?
"
said
Mr
Timothy
Rose
,
a
"
gentleman
farmer
"
from
Leek
Malton
,
against
whose
independent
position
nature
had
provided
the
safeguard
of
a
spontaneous
servility
.
His
large
porcine
cheeks
,
round
twinkling
eyes
,
and
thumbs
habitually
twirling
,
expressed
a
concentrated
effort
not
to
get
into
trouble
,
and
to
speak
everybody
fair
except
when
they
were
safely
out
of
hearing
.
"
Take
it
!
they
'd
be
obliged
to
take
it
,
"
said
the
impetuous
young
Joyce
,
a
farmer
of
superior
information
.
"
Have
you
ever
heard
of
the
king
's
prerogative
?
"
"
I
do
n't
say
but
what
I
have
,
"
said
Rose
,
retreating
.
"
I
've
nothing
against
it
—
nothing
at
all
.
"
"
No
,
but
the
Radicals
have
,
"
said
young
Joyce
,
winking
.
"
The
prerogative
is
what
they
want
to
clip
close
.
They
want
us
to
be
governed
by
delegates
from
the
trades-unions
,
who
are
to
dictate
to
everybody
,
and
make
everything
square
to
their
mastery
.
"
"
They
're
a
pretty
set
,
now
,
those
delegates
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
,
with
disgust
.
"
I
once
heard
two
of
'
em
spouting
away
.
They
're
a
sort
of
fellow
I
'd
never
employ
in
my
brewery
,
or
anywhere
else
.
I
've
seen
it
again
and
again
.
If
a
man
takes
to
tongue-work
it
's
all
over
with
him
.
'
Everything
's
wrong
,
'
says
he
.
That
's
a
big
text
.
But
does
he
want
to
make
everything
right
?
Not
he
.
He
'd
lose
his
text
.
'
We
want
every
man
's
good
,
'
say
they
.
Why
,
they
never
knew
yet
what
a
man
's
good
is
.
How
should
they
?
It
's
working
for
his
victual
—
not
getting
a
slice
of
other
people
's
.
"
"
Ay
,
ay
,
"
said
young
Joyce
,
cordially
.
"
I
should
just
have
liked
all
the
delegates
in
the
country
mustered
for
our
yeomanry
to
go
into
—
that
's
all
.
They
'd
see
where
the
strength
of
Old
England
lay
then
.
You
may
tell
what
it
is
for
a
country
to
trust
to
trade
when
it
breeds
such
spindling
fellows
as
those
.
"
"
That
is
n't
the
fault
of
trade
,
my
good
sir
,
"
said
Mr
Nolan
,
who
was
often
a
little
pained
by
the
defects
of
provincial
culture
.
"
Trade
,
properly
conducted
,
is
good
for
a
man
's
constitution
.
I
could
have
shown
you
,
in
my
time
,
weavers
past
seventy
,
with
all
their
faculties
as
sharp
as
a
penknife
,
doing
without
spectacles
.
It
's
the
new
system
of
trade
that
's
to
blame
:
a
country
ca
n't
have
too
much
trade
,
if
it
's
properly
managed
.
Plenty
of
sound
Tories
have
made
their
fortune
by
trade
.
You
've
heard
of
Calibut
+
Co.
—
everybody
has
heard
of
Calibut
.
Well
,
sir
,
I
knew
old
Mr
Calibut
as
well
as
I
know
you
.
He
was
once
a
crony
of
mine
in
a
city
warehouse
;
and
now
,
I
'll
answer
for
it
,
he
has
a
larger
rent-roll
than
Lord
Wyvern
.
Bless
your
soul
!
his
subscriptions
to
charities
would
make
a
fine
income
for
a
nobleman
.
And
he
's
as
good
a
Tory
as
I
am
.
And
as
for
his
town
establishment
—
why
,
how
much
butter
do
you
think
is
consumed
there
annually
?
"
Mr
Nolan
paused
,
and
then
his
face
glowed
with
triumph
as
he
answered
his
own
question
.
"
Why
,
gentlemen
,
not
less
than
two
thousand
pounds
of
butter
during
the
few
months
the
family
is
in
town
!
Trade
makes
property
,
my
good
sir
,
and
property
is
Conservative
,
as
they
say
now
.
Calibut
's
son-in-law
is
Lord
Fortinbras
.
He
paid
me
a
large
debt
on
his
marriage
.
It
's
all
one
web
,
sir
.
The
prosperity
of
the
country
is
one
web
.
"
"
To
be
sure
,
"
said
Christian
,
who
,
smoking
his
cigar
with
his
chair
turned
away
from
the
table
,
was
willing
to
make
himself
agreeable
in
the
conversation
.
"
We
ca
n't
do
without
nobility
.
Look
at
France
.
When
they
got
rid
of
the
old
nobles
they
were
obliged
to
make
new
.
"
"
True
,
very
true
,
"
said
Mr
Nolan
,
who
thought
Christian
a
little
too
wise
for
his
position
,
but
could
not
resist
the
rare
gift
of
an
instance
in
point
.
"
It
's
the
French
Revolution
that
has
done
us
harm
here
.
It
was
the
same
at
the
end
of
the
last
century
,
but
the
war
kept
it
off
—
Mr
Pitt
saved
us
.
I
knew
Mr
Pitt
.
I
had
a
particular
interview
with
him
once
.
He
joked
me
about
getting
the
length
of
his
foot
.
'
Mr
Nolan
,
'
said
he
,
'
there
are
those
on
the
other
side
of
the
water
whose
name
begins
with
N
.
who
would
be
glad
to
know
what
you
know
.
'
I
was
recommended
to
send
an
account
of
that
to
the
newspapers
after
his
death
,
poor
man
!
but
I
'm
not
fond
of
that
kind
of
show
myself
.
"
Mr
Nolan
swung
his
upper
leg
a
little
,
and
pinched
his
lip
between
his
thumb
and
finger
,
naturally
pleased
with
his
own
moderation
.
"
No
,
no
,
very
right
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
,
cordially
.
"
But
you
never
said
a
truer
word
than
that
about
property
.
If
a
man
's
got
a
bit
of
property
,
a
stake
in
the
country
,
he
'll
want
to
keep
things
square
.
Where
Jack
is
n't
safe
,
Tom
's
in
danger
.
But
that
's
what
makes
it
such
an
uncommonly
nasty
thing
that
a
man
like
Transome
should
take
up
with
these
Radicals
.
It
's
my
belief
he
does
it
only
to
get
into
Parliament
;
he
'll
turn
round
when
he
gets
there
.
Come
,
Dibbs
,
there
's
something
to
put
you
in
spirits
,
"
added
Mr
Wace
,
raising
his
voice
a
little
and
looking
at
a
guest
lower
down
.
"
You
've
got
to
vote
for
a
Radical
with
one
side
of
your
mouth
,
and
make
a
wry
face
with
the
other
;
but
he
'll
turn
round
by-and-by
.
As
Parson
Jack
says
,
he
's
got
the
right
sort
of
blood
in
him
.
"
"
I
do
n't
care
two
straws
who
I
vote
for
,
"
said
Dibbs
,
sturdily
.
"
I
'm
not
going
to
make
a
wry
face
.
It
stands
to
reason
a
man
should
vote
for
his
landlord
.
My
farm
's
in
good
condition
,
and
I
've
got
the
best
pasture
on
the
estate
.
The
rot
's
never
come
nigh
me
.
Let
them
grumble
as
are
on
the
wrong
side
of
the
hedge
.
"
"
I
wonder
if
Jermyn
'll
bring
him
in
,
though
,
"
said
Mr
Sircome
,
the
great
miller
.
"
He
's
an
uncommon
fellow
for
carrying
things
through
.
I
know
he
brought
me
through
that
suit
about
my
weir
;
it
cost
a
pretty
penny
,
but
he
brought
me
through
.
"
"
It
's
a
bit
of
a
pill
for
him
,
too
,
having
to
turn
Radical
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
.
"
They
say
he
counted
on
making
friends
with
Sir
Maximus
,
by
this
young
one
coming
home
and
joining
with
Mr
Philip
.
"
"
But
I
'll
bet
a
penny
he
brings
Transome
in
,
"
said
Mr
Sircome
.
"
Folks
say
he
has
n't
got
many
votes
hereabout
;
but
towards
Duffield
,
and
all
there
,
where
the
Radicals
are
,
everybody
's
for
him
.
Eh
,
Mr
Christian
?
Come
—
you
're
at
the
fountainhead
—
what
do
they
say
about
it
now
at
the
Manor
?
"
When
general
attention
was
called
to
Christian
,
young
Joyce
looked
down
at
his
own
legs
and
touched
the
curves
of
his
own
hair
,
as
if
measuring
his
own
approximation
to
that
correct
copy
of
a
gentleman
.
Mr
Wace
turned
his
head
to
listen
for
Christian
's
answer
with
that
tolerance
of
inferiority
which
becomes
men
in
places
of
public
resort
.
"
They
think
it
will
be
a
hard
run
between
Transome
and
Garstin
,
"
said
Christian
.
"
It
depends
on
Transome
's
getting
plumpers
.
"
"
Well
,
I
know
I
shall
not
split
for
Garstin
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
.
"
It
's
nonsense
for
Debarry
's
voters
to
split
for
a
Whig
.
A
man
's
either
a
Tory
or
not
a
Tory
.
"
"
It
seems
reasonable
there
should
be
one
of
each
side
,
"
said
Mr
Timothy
Rose
.
"
I
do
n't
like
showing
favour
either
way
.
If
one
side
ca
n't
lower
the
Poor
's
rates
and
take
off
the
Tithe
,
let
the
other
try
.
"
"
But
there
's
this
in
it
,
Wace
,
"
said
Mr
Sircome
.
"
I
'm
not
altogether
against
the
Whigs
.
For
they
do
n't
want
to
go
so
far
as
the
Radicals
do
,
and
when
they
find
they
've
slipped
a
bit
too
far
,
they
'll
hold
on
all
the
tighter
.
And
the
Whigs
have
got
the
upper
hand
now
,
and
it
's
no
use
fighting
with
the
current
.
I
run
with
the
—
"
Mr
Sircome
checked
himself
,
looked
furtively
at
Christian
,
and
,
to
divert
criticism
,
ended
with
—
"
eh
,
Mr
Nolan
?
"
"
There
have
been
eminent
Whigs
,
sir
.
Mr
Fox
was
a
Whig
,
"
said
Mr
Nolan
.
"
Mr
Fox
was
a
great
orator
.
He
gambled
a
good
deal
.
He
was
very
intimate
with
the
Prince
of
Wales
.
I
've
seen
him
,
and
the
Duke
of
York
too
,
go
home
by
daylight
with
their
hats
crushed
.
Mr
Fox
was
a
great
leader
of
Opposition
:
Government
requires
an
Opposition
.
The
Whigs
should
always
be
in
opposition
,
and
the
Tories
on
the
ministerial
side
.
That
's
what
the
country
used
to
like
.
'
The
Whigs
for
salt
and
mustard
,
the
Tories
for
meat
,
'
Mr
Gottlib
the
banker
used
to
say
to
me
.
Mr
Gottlib
was
a
worthy
man
.
When
there
was
a
great
run
on
Gottlib
's
bank
in
'
16
,
I
saw
a
gentleman
come
in
with
bags
of
gold
,
and
say
,
'
Tell
Mr
Gottlib
there
's
plenty
more
where
that
came
from
.
'
It
stopped
the
run
,
gentlemen
—
it
did
indeed
.
"
This
anecdote
was
received
with
great
admiration
,
but
Mr
Sircome
returned
to
the
previous
question
.
"
There
now
,
you
see
,
Wace
—
it
's
right
there
should
be
Whigs
as
well
as
Tories
—
Pitt
and
Fox
—
I
've
always
heard
them
go
together
.
"
"
Well
,
I
do
n't
like
Garstin
,
"
said
the
brewer
.
"
I
did
n't
like
his
conduct
about
the
Canal
Company
.
Of
the
two
,
I
like
Transome
best
.
If
a
nag
is
to
throw
me
,
I
say
,
let
him
have
some
blood
.
"
"
As
for
blood
,
Wace
,
"
said
Mr
Salt
,
the
woolfactor
,
a
bilious
man
,
who
only
spoke
when
there
was
a
good
opportunity
of
contradicting
,
"
ask
my
brother-in-law
Labron
a
little
about
that
.
These
Transomes
are
not
the
old
blood
.
"
"
Well
,
they
're
the
oldest
that
's
forthcoming
,
I
suppose
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
,
laughing
.
"
Unless
you
believe
in
mad
old
Tommy
Trounsem
.
I
wonder
where
that
old
poaching
fellow
is
now
.
"
"
I
saw
him
half-drunk
the
other
day
,
"
said
young
Joyce
.
"
He
'd
got
a
flag-basket
with
hand-bills
in
it
over
his
shoulder
.
"
"
I
thought
the
old
fellow
was
dead
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
.
"
Hey
!
why
,
Jermyn
,
"
he
went
on
merrily
,
as
he
turned
round
and
saw
the
attorney
entering
;
"
you
Radical
!
how
dare
you
show
yourself
in
this
Tory
house
?
Come
,
this
is
going
a
bit
too
far
.
We
do
n't
mind
Old
Harry
managing
our
law
for
us
—
that
's
his
proper
business
from
time
immemorial
;
but
—
"
"
But
—
a
—
"
said
Jermyn
,
smiling
,
always
ready
to
carry
on
a
joke
,
to
which
his
slow
manner
gave
the
piquancy
of
surprise
,
"
if
he
meddles
with
politics
he
must
be
a
Tory
.
"
Jermyn
was
not
afraid
to
show
himself
anywhere
in
Treby
.
He
knew
many
people
were
not
exactly
fond
of
him
,
but
a
man
can
do
without
that
,
if
he
is
prosperous
.
A
provincial
lawyer
in
those
oldfashioned
days
was
as
independent
of
personal
esteem
as
if
he
had
been
a
Lord
Chancellor
.
There
was
a
good-humoured
laugh
at
this
upper
end
of
the
room
as
Jermyn
seated
himself
at
about
an
equal
angle
between
Mr
Wace
and
Christian
.
"
We
were
talking
about
old
Tommy
Trounsem
;
you
remember
him
?
They
say
he
's
turned
up
again
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
.
"
Ah
?
"
said
Jermyn
,
indifferently
.
"
But
—
a
—
Wace
—
I
'm
very
busy
to-day
—
but
I
wanted
to
see
you
about
that
bit
of
land
of
yours
at
the
corner
of
Pod
's
End
.
I
've
had
a
handsome
offer
for
you
—
I
'm
not
at
liberty
to
say
from
whom
—
but
an
offer
that
ought
to
tempt
you
.
"
"
It
wo
n't
tempt
me
,
"
said
Mr
Wace
,
peremptorily
;
"
if
I
've
got
a
bit
of
land
,
I
'll
keep
it
.
It
's
hard
enought
to
get
hereabouts
.
"
"
Then
I
'm
to
understand
that
you
refuse
all
negotiation
?
"
said
Jermyn
,
who
had
ordered
a
glass
of
sherry
,
and
was
looking
round
slowly
as
he
sipped
it
,
till
his
eyes
seemed
to
rest
for
the
first
time
on
Christian
,
though
he
had
seen
him
at
once
on
entering
the
room
.
"
Unless
one
of
the
confounded
railways
should
come
.
But
then
I
'll
stand
out
and
make
'
em
bleed
for
it
.
"
There
was
a
murmur
of
approbation
;
the
railways
were
a
public
wrong
much
denunciated
in
Treby
.
"
A
—
Mr
Philip
Debarry
at
the
Manor
now
?
"
said
Jermyn
,
suddenly
questioning
Christian
,
in
a
haughty
tone
of
superiority
which
he
often
chose
to
use
.
"
No
,
"
said
Christian
,
"
he
is
expected
to-morrow
morning
.
"
"
Ah
!
—
"
Jermyn
paused
a
moment
or
two
,
and
then
said
,
"
You
are
sufficiently
in
his
confidence
,
I
think
,
to
carry
a
message
to
him
with
a
small
document
?
"
"
Mr
Debarry
has
often
trusted
me
so
far
,
"
said
Christian
,
with
much
coolness
;
"
but
if
the
business
is
yours
,
you
can
probably
find
some
one
you
know
better
.
"
There
was
a
little
winking
and
grimacing
among
those
of
the
company
who
heard
this
answer
.
"
A
—
true
—
a
,
"
said
Jermyn
,
not
showing
any
offence
;
"
if
you
decline
.
But
I
think
,
if
you
will
do
me
the
favour
to
step
round
to
my
residence
on
your
way
back
,
and
learn
the
business
,
you
will
prefer
carrying
it
yourself
.
At
my
residence
,
if
you
please
—
not
my
office
.
"
"
O
very
well
,
"
said
Christian
.
"
I
shall
be
very
happy
.
"
Christian
never
allowed
himself
to
be
treated
as
a
servant
by
any
one
but
his
master
,
and
his
master
treated
a
servant
more
deferentially
than
an
equal
.
"
Will
it
be
five
o'clock
?
what
hour
shall
we
say
?
"
said
Jermyn
.
Christian
looked
at
his
watch
and
said
,
"
About
five
I
can
be
there
.
"
"
Very
good
,
"
said
Jermyn
,
finishing
his
sherry
.
"
Well
—
a
—
Wace
—
a
—
so
you
will
hear
nothing
about
Pod
's
End
?
"
"
Not
I
.
"
"
A
mere
pocket-handkerchief
,
not
enough
to
swear
by
—
a
—
"
here
Jermyn
's
face
broke
into
a
smile
—
"
without
a
magnifying-glass
.
"
"
Never
mind
.
It
's
mine
into
the
bowels
of
the
earth
and
up
to
the
sky
.
I
can
build
the
Tower
of
Babel
on
it
if
I
like
—
eh
,
Mr
Nolan
?
"
"
A
bad
investment
,
my
good
sir
,
"
said
Mr
Nolan
,
who
enjoyed
a
certain
flavour
of
infidelity
in
this
smart
reply
,
and
laughed
much
at
it
in
his
inward
way
.
"
See
now
,
how
blind
you
Tories
are
,
"
said
Jermyn
,
rising
;
"
if
I
had
been
you
lawyer
,
I
'd
have
had
you
make
another
forty-shilling
freeholder
with
that
land
,
and
all
in
time
for
this
election
.
But
—
a
—
the
verbum
sapientibus
comes
a
little
too
late
now
.
"
Jermyn
was
moving
away
as
he
finished
speaking
,
but
Mr
Wace
called
out
after
him
,
"
We
're
not
so
badly
off
for
votes
as
you
are
—
good
sound
votes
,
that
'll
stand
the
Revising
Barrister
.
Debarry
at
the
top
of
the
poll
!
"
The
lawyer
was
already
out
of
the
doorway
.
CHAPTER
XXI
.
'
Tis
grievous
,
that
with
all
amplification
of
travel
both
by
sea
and
land
,
a
man
can
never
separate
himself
from
his
past
history
.
Mr
Jermyn
's
handsome
house
stood
a
little
way
out
of
the
town
,
surrounded
by
garden
and
lawn
and
plantations
of
hopeful
trees
.
As
Christian
approached
it
he
was
in
a
perfectly
easy
state
of
mind
:
the
business
he
was
going
on
was
none
of
his
,
otherwise
than
as
he
was
well
satisfied
with
any
opportunity
of
making
himself
valuable
to
Mr
Philip
Debarry
.
As
he
looked
at
Jermyn
's
length
of
wall
and
iron
railing
,
he
said
to
himself
,
"
These
lawyers
are
the
fellows
for
getting
on
in
the
world
with
the
least
expense
of
civility
.
With
this
cursed
conjuring
secret
of
theirs
called
Law
,
they
think
everybody
's
frightened
at
them
.
My
Lord
Jermyn
seems
to
have
his
insolence
as
ready
as
his
soft
sawder
.
He
's
as
sleek
as
a
rat
,
and
has
as
vicious
a
tooth
.
I
know
the
sort
of
vermin
well
enough
.
I
've
helped
to
fatten
one
or
two
.
"
In
this
mood
of
conscious
,
contemptuous
penetration
,
Christian
was
shown
by
the
footman
into
Jermyn
's
private
room
,
where
the
attorney
sat
surrounded
with
massive
oaken
bookcases
,
and
other
furniture
to
correspond
,
from
the
thickest-legged
library-table
to
the
calendar
frame
and
card-rack
.
It
was
the
sort
of
room
a
man
prepares
for
himself
when
he
feels
sure
of
a
long
and
respectable
future
.
He
was
leaning
back
in
his
leather
chair
,
against
the
broad
window
opening
on
the
lawn
,
and
had
just
taken
off
his
spectacles
and
let
the
newspaper
fall
on
his
knees
,
in
despair
of
reading
by
the
fading
light
.
When
the
footman
opened
the
door
and
said
,
"
Mr
Christian
,
"
Jermyn
said
,
"
Good
evening
,
Mr
Christian
.
Be
seated
,
"
pointing
to
a
chair
opposite
himself
and
the
window
.
"
Light
the
candles
on
the
shelf
,
John
,
but
leave
the
blinds
alone
.
"
He
did
not
speak
again
till
the
man
was
gone
out
,
but
appeared
to
be
referring
to
a
document
which
lay
on
the
bureau
before
him
.
When
the
door
was
closed
he
drew
himself
up
again
,
began
to
rub
his
hands
,
and
turned
towards
his
visitor
,
who
seemed
perfectly
indifferent
to
the
fact
that
the
attorney
was
in
shadow
,
and
that
the
light
fell
on
himself
.
"
A
—
your
name
—
a
—
is
Henry
Scaddon
.
"
There
was
a
start
through
Christian
's
frame
which
he
was
quick
enough
,
almost
simultaneously
,
to
try
and
disguise
as
a
change
of
position
.
He
uncrossed
his
legs
and
unbuttoned
his
coat
.
But
before
he
had
time
to
say
anything
,
Jermyn
went
on
with
slow
emphasis
.
"
You
were
born
on
the
16th
of
December
1782
,
at
Blackheath
.
Your
father
was
a
cloth-merchant
in
London
:
he
died
when
you
were
barely
of
age
,
leaving
an
extensive
business
;
before
you
were
five-and-twenty
you
had
run
through
the
greater
part
of
the
property
,
and
had
compromised
your
safety
by
an
attempt
to
defraud
your
creditors
.
Subsequently
you
forged
a
cheque
on
your
father
's
elder
brother
,
who
had
intended
to
make
you
his
heir
"
Here
Jermyn
paused
a
moment
and
referred
to
the
document
.
Christian
was
silent
.
"
In
1808
you
found
it
expedient
to
leave
this
country
in
a
military
disguise
,
and
were
taken
prisoner
by
the
French
.
On
the
occasion
of
an
exchange
of
prisoners
you
had
the
opportunity
of
returning
to
your
own
country
,
and
to
the
bosom
of
your
own
family
.
You
were
generous
enough
to
sacrifice
that
prospect
in
favour
of
a
fellow-prisoner
,
of
about
your
own
age
and
figure
,
who
had
more
pressing
reasons
than
yourself
for
wishing
to
be
on
this
side
of
the
water
.
You
exchanged
dress
,
luggage
,
and
names
with
him
,
and
he
passed
to
England
instead
of
you
as
Henry
Scaddon
.
Almost
immediately
afterwards
you
escaped
from
your
imprisonment
,
after
feigning
an
illness
which
prevented
your
exchange
of
names
from
being
discovered
;
and
it
was
reported
that
you
—
that
is
,
you
under
the
name
of
your
fellow-prisoner
—
were
drowned
in
an
open
boat
,
trying
to
reach
a
Neapolitan
vessel
bound
for
Malta
.
Nevertheless
I
have
to
congratulate
you
on
the
falsehood
of
that
report
,
and
on
the
certainty
that
you
are
now
,
after
the
lapse
of
more
than
twenty
years
,
seated
here
in
perfect
safety
.
"
Jermyn
paused
so
long
that
he
was
evidently
awaiting
some
answer
.
At
last
Christian
replied
,
in
a
dogged
tone
,
"
Well
,
sir
,
I
've
heard
much
longer
stories
than
that
told
quite
as
solemnly
,
when
there
was
not
a
word
of
truth
in
them
.
Suppose
I
deny
the
very
peg
you
hang
your
statement
on
.
Suppose
I
say
I
am
not
Henry
Scaddon
.
"
"
A
—
in
that
case
—
a
,
"
said
Jermyn
,
with
wooden
indifference
,
"
you
would
lose
the
advantage
which
—
a
—
may
attach
to
your
possession
of
Henry
Scaddon
's
knowledge
.
And
at
the
same
time
,
if
it
were
in
the
least
—
a
—
inconvenient
to
you
that
you
should
be
recognised
as
Henry
Scaddon
,
your
denial
would
not
prevent
me
from
holding
the
knowledge
and
evidence
which
I
possess
on
that
point
;
it
would
only
prevent
us
from
pursuing
the
present
conversation
.
"
"
Well
,
sir
,
suppose
we
admit
,
for
the
sake
of
the
conversation
,
that
your
account
of
the
matter
is
the
true
one
:
what
advantage
have
you
to
offer
the
man
named
Henry
Scaddon
?
"
"
The
advantage
—
a
—
is
problematical
;
but
it
may
be
considerable
.
It
might
,
in
fact
,
release
you
from
the
necessity
of
acting
as
courier
,
or
—
a
—
valet
,
or
whatever
other
office
you
may
occupy
which
prevents
you
from
being
your
own
master
.
On
the
other
hand
,
my
acquaintance
with
your
secret
is
not
necessarily
a
disadvantage
to
you
.
To
put
the
matter
in
a
nutshell
,
I
am
not
inclined
—
a
—
gratuitously
—
to
do
you
any
harm
,
and
I
may
be
able
to
do
you
a
considerable
service
.
"
"
Which
you
want
me
to
earn
somehow
?
"
said
Christian
.
"
You
offer
me
a
turn
in
a
lottery
?
"
"
Precisely
.
The
matter
in
question
is
of
no
earthly
interest
to
you
,
except
—
a
—
as
it
may
yield
you
a
prize
.
We
lawyers
have
to
do
with
complicated
questions
,
and
—
a
—
legal
subtleties
,
which
are
never
—
a
—
fully
known
even
to
the
parties
immediately
interested
,
still
less
to
the
witnesses
.
Shall
we
agree
,
then
,
that
you
continue
to
retain
two-thirds
of
the
name
which
you
gained
by
exchange
,
and
that
you
oblige
me
by
answering
certain
questions
as
to
the
experience
of
Henry
Scaddon
?
"
"
Very
good
.
Go
on
.
"
"
What
articles
of
property
,
once
belonging
to
your
fellow-prisoner
,
Maurice
Christian
Bycliffe
,
do
you
still
retain
?
"
"
This
ring
,
"
said
Christian
,
twirling
round
the
fine
seal-ring
on
his
finger
,
"
his
watch
,
and
the
little
matters
that
hung
with
it
,
and
a
case
of
papers
.
I
got
rid
of
a
gold
snuff-box
once
when
I
was
hard-up
.
The
clothes
are
all
gone
,
of
course
.
We
exchanged
everything
;
it
was
all
done
in
a
hurry
.
Bycliffe
thought
we
should
meet
again
in
England
before
long
,
and
he
was
mad
to
get
there
.
But
that
was
impossible
—
I
mean
that
we
should
meet
soon
after
.
I
do
n't
know
what
's
become
of
him
,
else
I
would
give
him
up
his
papers
and
the
watch
,
and
so
on
—
though
,
you
know
,
it
was
I
who
did
him
the
service
,
and
he
felt
that
.
"
"
You
were
at
Vesoul
together
before
being
moved
to
Verdun
?
"
"
Yes
.
"
"
What
else
do
you
know
about
Bycliffe
?
"
"
O
,
nothing
very
particular
,
"
said
Christian
,
pausing
,
and
rapping
his
boot
with
his
cane
.
"
He
'd
been
in
the
Hanoverian
army
—
a
high-spirited
fellow
,
took
nothing
easily
;
not
overstrong
in
health
.
He
made
a
fool
of
himself
with
marrying
at
Vesoul
;
and
there
was
the
devil
to
pay
with
the
girl
's
relations
;
and
then
,
when
the
prisoners
were
ordered
off
,
they
had
to
part
.
Whether
they
ever
got
together
again
I
do
n't
know
.
"
"
Was
the
marriage
all
right
,
then
?
"
"
O
,
all
on
the
square
—
civil
marriage
,
church
—
everything
.
Bycliffe
was
a
fool
—
a
good-natured
,
proud
,
headstrong
fellow
.
"
"
How
long
did
the
marriage
take
place
before
you
left
Vesoul
?
"
"
About
three
months
.
I
was
a
witness
to
the
marriage
.
"
"
And
you
know
no
more
about
the
wife
?
"
"
Not
afterwards
.
I
knew
her
very
well
before
—
pretty
Annette
—
Annette
Ledru
was
her
name
.
She
was
of
a
good
family
,
and
they
had
made
up
a
fine
match
for
her
.
But
she
was
one
of
your
meek
little
diablesses
,
who
have
a
will
of
their
own
once
in
their
lives
—
the
will
to
choose
their
own
master
.
"
"
Bycliffe
was
not
open
to
you
about
his
other
affairs
?
"
"
O
no
—
a
fellow
you
would
n't
dare
to
ask
a
question
of
.
People
told
him
everything
,
but
he
told
nothing
in
return
.
If
Madame
Annette
ever
found
him
again
,
she
found
her
lord
and
master
with
a
vengeance
;
but
she
was
a
regular
lapdog
.
However
,
her
family
shut
her
up
—
made
a
prisoner
of
her
—
to
prevent
her
running
away
.
"
"
Ah
—
good
.
Much
of
what
you
have
been
so
obliging
as
to
say
is
irrelevant
to
any
possible
purpose
of
mine
,
which
,
in
fact
,
has
to
do
only
with
a
mouldy
law-case
that
might
be
aired
some
day
.
You
will
doubtless
,
on
your
own
account
,
maintain
perfect
silence
on
what
has
passed
between
us
,
and
with
that
condition
duly
preserved
—
a
—
it
is
possible
that
—
a
—
the
lottery
you
have
put
into
—
as
you
observe
—
may
turn
up
a
prize
.
"
"
This
,
then
,
is
all
the
business
you
have
with
me
?
"
said
Christian
,
rising
.
"
All
.
You
will
,
of
course
,
preserve
carefully
all
the
papers
and
other
articles
which
have
so
many
—
a
—
recollections
—
a
—
attached
to
them
?
"
"
O
yes
.
If
there
's
any
chance
of
Bycliffe
turning
up
again
,
I
shall
be
sorry
to
have
parted
with
the
snuff-box
;
but
I
was
hard-up
at
Naples
.
In
fact
,
as
you
see
,
I
was
obliged
at
last
to
turn
courier
.
"
"
An
exceedingly
agreeable
life
for
a
man
of
some
—
a
—
accomplishments
and
—
a
—
no
income
,
"
said
Jermyn
,
rising
,
and
reaching
a
candle
,
which
he
placed
against
his
desk
.
Christian
knew
this
was
a
sign
that
he
was
expected
to
go
,
but
he
lingered
standing
,
with
one
hand
on
the
back
of
his
chair
.
At
last
he
said
,
rather
sulkily
,
"
I
think
you
're
too
clever
,
Mr
Jermyn
,
not
to
perceive
that
I
'm
not
a
man
to
be
made
a
fool
of
.
"
"
Well
—
a
—
it
may
perhaps
be
a
still
better
guarantee
for
you
,
"
said
Jermyn
,
smiling
,
"
that
I
see
no
use
in
attempting
that
—
a
—
metamorphosis
.
"
"
The
old
gentleman
,
who
ought
never
to
have
felt
himself
injured
,
is
dead
now
,
and
I
'm
not
afraid
of
creditors
after
more
than
twenty
years
.
"
"
Certainly
not
;
—
a
—
there
may
indeed
be
claims
which
ca
n't
assert
themselves
—
a
—
legally
,
which
yet
are
molesting
to
a
man
of
some
reputation
.
But
you
may
perhaps
be
happily
free
from
such
fears
.
"
Jermyn
drew
round
his
chair
towards
the
bureau
,
and
Christian
,
too
acute
to
persevere
uselessly
,
said
,
"
Good-day
,
"
and
left
the
room
.
After
leaning
back
in
his
chair
to
reflect
a
few
minutes
,
Jermyn
wrote
the
following
letter
:
—
Dear
Johnson
,
—
I
learn
from
your
letter
,
received
this
morning
,
that
you
intend
returning
to
town
on
Saturday
.
While
you
are
there
,
be
so
good
as
to
see
Medwin
,
who
used
to
be
with
Batt
+
Cowley
,
and
ascertain
from
him
indirectly
,
and
in
the
course
of
conversation
on
other
topics
,
whether
in
that
old
business
in
1810-11
,
Scaddon
alias
Bycliffe
,
or
Bycliffe
alias
Scaddon
,
before
his
imprisonment
,
gave
Batt
+
Cowley
any
reason
to
believe
that
he
was
married
and
expected
to
have
a
child
.
The
question
,
as
you
know
,
is
of
no
practical
importance
;
but
I
wish
to
draw
up
an
abstract
of
the
Bycliffe
case
,
and
the
exact
position
in
which
it
stood
before
the
suit
was
closed
by
the
death
of
the
plaintiff
,
in
order
that
,
if
Mr
Harold
Transome
desires
it
,
he
may
see
how
the
failure
of
the
last
claim
has
secured
the
Durfey-Transome
title
,
and
whether
there
is
a
hair's-breadth
of
chance
that
another
claim
should
be
set
up
.
Of
course
there
is
not
a
shadow
of
such
a
chance
.
For
even
if
Batt
+
Cowley
were
to
suppose
that
they
had
alighted
on
a
surviving
representative
of
the
Bycliffes
,
it
would
not
enter
into
their
heads
to
set
up
a
new
claim
,
since
they
brought
evidence
that
the
last
life
which
suspended
the
Bycliffe
remainder
was
extinct
before
the
case
was
closed
,
a
good
twenty
years
ago
.
Still
,
I
want
to
show
the
present
heir
of
the
Durfey-Transomes
the
exact
condition
of
the
family
title
to
the
estates
.
So
get
me
an
answer
from
Medwin
on
the
above-mentioned
point
.
I
shall
meet
you
at
Duffield
next
week
.
We
must
get
Transome
returned
.
Never
mind
his
having
been
a
little
rough
the
other
day
,
but
go
on
doing
what
you
know
is
necessary
for
his
interest
.
His
interest
is
mine
,
which
I
need
not
say
is
John
Johnson
's
.
Yours
faithfully
,
MATTHEW
JERMYN
.
When
the
attorney
had
sealed
this
letter
and
leaned
back
in
his
chair
again
,
he
was
inwardly
saying
,
"
Now
,
Mr
Harold
,
I
shall
shut
up
this
affair
in
a
private
drawer
till
you
choose
to
take
any
extreme
measures
which
will
force
me
to
bring
it
out
.
I
have
the
matter
entirely
in
my
own
power
.
No
one
but
old
Lyon
knows
about
the
girl
's
birth
.
No
one
but
Scaddon
can
clench
the
evidence
about
Bycliffe
,
and
I
've
got
Scaddon
under
my
thumb
.
No
soul
except
myself
and
Johnson
,
who
is
a
limb
of
myself
,
knows
that
there
is
one
half-dead
life
which
may
presently
leave
the
girl
a
new
claim
to
the
Bycliffe
heirship
.
I
shall
learn
through
Methurst
whether
Batt
+
Cowley
knew
,
through
Bycliffe
,
of
this
woman
having
come
to
England
.
I
shall
hold
all
the
threads
between
my
thumb
and
finger
.
I
can
use
the
evidence
or
I
can
nullify
it
.
"
And
so
,
if
Mr
Harold
pushes
me
to
extremity
,
and
threatens
me
with
Chancery
and
ruin
,
I
have
an
opposing
threat
,
which
will
either
save
me
or
turn
into
a
punishment
for
him
.
"
He
rose
,
put
out
his
candles
,
and
stood
with
his
back
to
the
fire
,
looking
out
on
the
dim
lawn
,
with
its
black
twilight
fringe
of
shrubs
,
still
meditating
.
Quick
thought
was
gleaming
over
five-and-thirty
years
filled
with
devices
more
or
less
clever
,
more
or
less
desirable
to
be
avowed
.
Those
which
might
be
avowed
with
impunity
were
not
always
to
be
distinguished
as
innocent
by
comparison
with
those
which
it
was
advisable
to
conceal
.
In
a
profession
where
much
that
is
noxious
may
be
done
without
disgrace
,
is
a
conscience
likely
to
be
without
balm
when
circumstances
have
urged
a
man
to
overstep
the
line
where
his
good
technical
information
makes
him
aware
that
(
with
discovery
)
disgrace
is
likely
to
begin
?
With
regard
to
the
Transome
affairs
,
the
family
had
been
in
pressing
need
of
money
,
and
it
had
lain
with
him
to
get
it
for
them
:
was
it
to
be
expected
that
he
would
not
consider
his
own
advantage
where
he
had
rendered
services
such
as
are
never
fully
paid
?
If
it
came
to
a
question
of
right
and
wrong
instead
of
law
,
the
least
justifiable
things
he
had
ever
done
had
been
done
on
behalf
of
the
Transomes
.
It
had
been
a
deucedly
unpleasant
thing
for
him
to
get
Bycliffe
arrested
and
thrown
into
prison
as
Henry
Scaddon
—
perhaps
hastening
the
man
's
death
in
that
way
.
But
if
it
had
not
been
done
by
dint
of
his
(
Jermyn
