cuthis
throat
and
put
an
end
to
himself
,
because
he
knew
that
he
had
taught
himself
amiss
.
Again
he
would
sadly
ask
himself
whether
it
was
yet
too
late
;
always
,
however
,
answering
himself
that
it
was
too
late
.
Even
now
,
at
this
moment
,
as
he
went
in
between
the
lamps
,
and
felt
much
of
the
honest
pride
of
which
I
have
spoken
,
he
told
himself
that
it
was
too
late
.
What
could
he
do
now
,
hampered
by
such
a
debt
as
that
which
he
owed
to
his
cousin
,
and
with
the
knowledge
that
it
must
be
almost
indefinitely
increased
,
unless
he
meant
to
give
up
this
seat
in
Parliament
,
which
had
cost
him
so
dearly
,
almost
before
he
had
begun
to
enjoy
it
?
But
his
courage
was
good
,
and
he
was
able
to
resolve
that
he
would
go
on
with
the
business
that
he
had
in
hand
,
and
play
out
his
game
to
the
end
.
He
had
achieved
his
seat
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
and
was
so
far
successful
.
Men
who
had
ever
been
gracious
to
him
were
now
more
gracious
than
ever
,
and
they
who
had
not
hitherto
treated
him
with
courtesy
,
now
began
to
smile
and
to
be
very
civil
.
It
was
,
no
doubt
,
a
great
thing
to
have
the
privilege
of
that
entrance
between
the
lamps
.
Mr.
Bott
had
the
new
Member
now
in
hand
,
not
because
there
had
been
any
old
friendship
between
them
,
but
Mr.
Bott
was
on
the
look-out
for
followers
,
and
Vavasor
was
on
the
look-out
for
a
party
.
A
man
gets
no
great
thanks
for
attaching
himself
to
existing
power
.
Our
friend
might
have
enrolled
himself
among
the
general
supporters
of
the
Government
without
attracting
much
attention
.
He
would
in
such
case
have
been
at
the
bottom
of
a
long
list
.
But
Mr.
Palliser
was
a
rising
man
,
round
whom
,
almost
without
wish
of
his
own
,
a
party
was
forming
itself
.
If
he
came
into
power
,
—
as
come
he
must
,
according
to
Mr.
Bott
and
many
others
,
—
then
they
who
had
acknowledged
the
new
light
before
its
brightness
had
been
declared
,
might
expect
their
reward
.
Vavasor
,
as
he
passed
through
the
lobby
to
the
door
of
the
House
,
leaning
on
Mr.
Bott
's
arm
,
was
very
silent
.
He
had
spoken
but
little
since
they
had
left
their
cab
in
Palace
Yard
,
and
was
not
very
well
pleased
by
the
garrulity
of
his
companion
.
He
was
going
to
sit
among
the
first
men
of
his
nation
,
and
to
take
his
chance
of
making
himself
one
of
them
.
He
believed
in
his
own
ability
;
he
believed
thoroughly
in
his
own
courage
;
but
he
did
not
believe
in
his
own
conduct
.
He
feared
that
he
had
done
,
—
feared
still
more
strongly
that
he
would
be
driven
to
do
,
—
that
which
would
shut
men
's
ears
against
his
words
,
and
would
banish
him
from
high
places
.
No
man
believes
in
himself
who
knows
himself
to
be
a
rascal
,
however
great
may
be
his
talent
,
or
however
high
his
pluck
.
"
Of
course
you
have
heard
a
debate
?
"
said
Mr.
Bott
.
"
Yes
,
"
answered
Vavasor
,
who
wished
to
remain
silent
.
"
Many
,
probably
?
"
"
No.
"
"
But
you
have
heard
debates
from
the
gallery
.
Now
you
'll
hear
them
from
the
body
of
the
House
,
and
you
'll
find
how
very
different
it
is
.
There
's
no
man
can
know
what
Parliament
is
who
has
never
had
a
seat
.
Indeed
no
one
can
thoroughly
understand
the
British
Constitution
without
it
.
I
felt
,
very
early
in
life
,
that
that
should
be
my
line
;
and
though
it
's
hard
work
and
no
pay
,
I
mean
to
stick
to
it
.
How
do
,
Thompson
?
You
know
Vavasor
?
He
's
just
returned
for
the
Chelsea
Districts
,
and
I
'm
taking
him
up
.
We
sha
n't
divide
to-night
;
shall
we
?
Look
!
there
's
Farringcourt
just
coming
out
;
he
's
listened
to
better
than
any
man
in
the
House
now
,
but
he
'll
borrow
half-a-crown
from
you
if
you
'll
lend
him
one
.
How
d'ye
do
,
my
lord
?
I
hope
I
have
the
pleasure
of
seeing
you
well
?
"
and
Bott
bowed
low
to
a
lord
who
was
hurrying
through
the
lobby
as
fast
as
his
shuffling
feet
would
carry
him
.
"
Of
course
you
know
him
?
"
Vavasor
,
however
,
did
not
know
the
lord
in
question
,
and
was
obliged
to
say
so
.
"
I
thought
you
were
up
to
all
these
things
?
"
said
Bott
.
"
Taking
the
peerage
generally
,
I
am
not
up
to
it
,
"
said
Vavasor
,
with
a
curl
on
his
lip
.
"
But
you
ought
to
have
known
him
.
That
was
Viscount
Middlesex
;
he
has
got
something
on
to-night
about
the
Irish
Church
.
His
father
is
past
ninety
,
and
he
's
over
sixty
.
We
'll
go
in
now
;
but
let
me
give
you
one
bit
of
advice
,
my
dear
fellow
—
do
n't
think
of
speaking
this
session
.
A
Member
can
do
no
good
at
that
work
till
he
has
learned
something
of
the
forms
of
the
House
.
The
forms
of
the
House
are
everything
;
upon
my
word
they
are
.
This
is
Mr.
Vavasor
,
the
new
Member
for
the
Chelsea
Districts
.
"
Our
friend
was
thus
introduced
to
the
doorkeeper
,
who
smiled
familiarly
,
and
seemed
to
wink
his
eye
.
Then
George
Vavasor
passed
through
into
the
House
itself
,
under
the
wing
of
Mr.
Bott
.
Vavasor
,
as
he
walked
up
the
House
to
the
Clerk
's
table
and
took
the
oath
and
then
walked
down
again
,
felt
himself
to
be
almost
taken
aback
by
the
little
notice
which
was
accorded
to
him
.
It
was
not
that
he
had
expected
to
create
a
sensation
,
or
that
he
had
for
a
moment
thought
on
the
subject
,
but
the
thing
which
he
was
doing
was
so
great
to
him
,
that
the
total
indifference
of
those
around
him
was
a
surprise
to
him
.
After
he
had
taken
his
seat
,
a
few
men
came
up
by
degrees
and
shook
hands
with
him
;
but
it
seemed
,
as
they
did
so
,
merely
because
they
were
passing
that
way
.
He
was
anxious
not
to
sit
next
to
Mr.
Bott
,
but
he
found
himself
unable
to
avoid
this
contiguity
.
That
gentleman
stuck
to
him
pertinaciously
,
giving
him
directions
which
,
at
the
spur
of
the
moment
,
he
hardly
knew
how
not
to
obey
.
So
he
found
himself
sitting
behind
Mr.
Palliser
,
a
little
to
the
right
,
while
Mr.
Bott
occupied
the
ear
of
the
rising
man
.
There
was
a
debate
in
progress
,
but
it
seemed
to
Vavasor
,
as
soon
as
he
was
able
to
become
critical
,
to
be
but
a
dull
affair
,
and
yet
the
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer
was
on
his
legs
,
and
Mr.
Palliser
was
watching
him
as
a
cat
watches
a
mouse
.
The
speaker
was
full
of
figures
,
as
becomes
a
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer
;
and
as
every
new
budget
of
them
fell
from
him
,
Mr.
Bott
,
with
audible
whispers
,
poured
into
the
ear
of
his
chief
certain
calculations
of
his
own
,
most
of
which
went
to
prove
that
the
financier
in
office
was
altogether
wrong
.
Vavasor
thought
that
he
could
see
that
Mr.
Palliser
was
receiving
more
of
his
assistance
than
was
palatable
to
him
.
He
would
listen
,
if
he
did
listen
,
without
making
any
sign
that
he
heard
,
and
would
occasionally
shake
his
head
with
symptoms
of
impatience
.
But
Mr.
Bott
was
a
man
not
to
be
repressed
by
a
trifle
.
When
Mr.
Palliser
shook
his
head
he
became
more
assiduous
than
ever
,
and
when
Mr.
Palliser
slightly
moved
himself
to
the
left
,
he
boldly
followed
him
.
No
general
debate
arose
on
the
subject
which
the
Minister
had
in
hand
,
and
when
he
sat
down
,
Mr.
Palliser
would
not
get
up
,
though
Mr.
Bott
counselled
him
to
do
so
.
The
matter
was
over
for
the
night
,
and
the
time
had
arrived
for
Lord
Middlesex
.
That
nobleman
got
upon
his
feet
,
with
a
roll
of
papers
in
his
hand
,
and
was
proceeding
to
address
the
House
on
certain
matters
of
church
reform
,
with
great
energy
;
but
,
alas
,
for
him
and
for
his
feelings
!
before
his
energy
had
got
itself
into
full
swing
,
the
Members
were
swarming
away
through
the
doors
like
a
flock
of
sheep
.
Mr.
Palliser
got
up
and
went
,
and
was
followed
at
once
by
Mr.
Bott
,
who
succeeded
in
getting
hold
of
his
arm
in
the
lobby
.
Had
not
Mr.
Palliser
been
an
even-tempered
,
calculating
man
,
with
a
mind
and
spirit
well
under
his
command
,
he
must
have
learned
to
hate
Mr.
Bott
before
this
time
.
Away
streamed
the
Members
,
but
still
the
noble
lord
went
on
speaking
,
struggling
hard
to
keep
up
his
fire
as
though
no
such
exodus
were
in
process
.
There
was
but
little
to
console
him
.
He
knew
that
the
papers
would
not
report
one
sentence
in
twenty
of
those
he
uttered
.
He
knew
that
no
one
would
listen
to
him
willingly
.
He
knew
that
he
had
worked
for
weeks
and
months
to
get
up
his
facts
,
and
he
was
beginning
to
know
that
he
had
worked
in
vain
.
As
he
summoned
courage
to
look
round
,
he
began
to
fear
that
some
enemy
would
count
the
House
,
and
that
all
would
be
over
.
He
had
given
heart
and
soul
to
this
affair
.
His
cry
was
not
as
Vavasor
's
cry
about
the
River
Bank
.
He
believed
in
his
own
subject
with
a
great
faith
,
thinking
that
he
could
make
men
happier
and
better
,
and
bring
them
nearer
to
their
God
.
I
said
that
he
had
worked
for
weeks
and
months
.
I
might
have
said
that
he
had
been
all
his
life
at
this
work
.
Though
he
shuffled
with
his
feet
when
he
walked
,
and
knocked
his
words
together
when
he
talked
,
he
was
an
earnest
man
,
meaning
to
do
well
,
seeking
no
other
reward
for
his
work
than
the
appreciation
of
those
whom
he
desired
to
serve
.
But
this
was
never
to
be
his
.
For
him
there
was
in
store
nothing
but
disappointment
.
And
yet
he
will
work
on
to
the
end
,
either
in
this
House
or
in
the
other
,
labouring
wearily
,
without
visible
wages
of
any
kind
,
and
,
one
may
say
,
very
sadly
.
But
when
he
has
been
taken
to
his
long
rest
,
men
will
acknowledge
that
he
has
done
something
,
and
there
will
be
left
on
the
minds
of
those
who
shall
remember
him
a
conviction
that
he
served
a
good
cause
diligently
,
and
not
altogether
inefficiently
.
Invisible
are
his
wages
,
yet
in
some
coin
are
they
paid
.
Invisible
is
the
thing
he
does
,
and
yet
it
is
done
.
Let
us
hope
that
some
sense
of
this
tardy
appreciation
may
soothe
his
spirit
beyond
the
grave
.
On
the
present
occasion
there
was
nothing
to
soothe
his
spirit
.
The
Speaker
sat
,
urbane
and
courteous
,
with
his
eyes
turned
towards
the
unfortunate
orator
;
but
no
other
ears
in
the
House
seemed
to
listen
to
him
.
The
corps
of
reporters
had
dwindled
down
to
two
,
and
they
used
their
pens
very
listlessly
,
taking
down
here
a
sentence
and
there
a
sentence
,
knowing
that
their
work
was
naught
.
Vavasor
sat
it
out
to
the
last
,
as
it
taught
him
a
lesson
in
those
forms
of
the
House
which
Mr.
Bott
had
truly
told
him
it
would
be
well
that
he
should
learn
.
And
at
last
he
did
learn
the
form
of
a
"
count-out
.
"
Some
one
from
a
back
seat
muttered
something
,
which
the
Speaker
understood
;
and
that
high
officer
,
having
had
his
attention
called
to
a
fact
of
which
he
would
never
have
taken
cognizance
without
such
calling
,
did
count
the
House
,
and
finding
that
it
contained
but
twenty-three
Members
,
he
put
an
end
to
his
own
labours
and
to
those
of
poor
Lord
Middlesex
.
With
what
feelings
that
noble
lord
must
have
taken
himself
home
,
and
sat
himself
down
in
his
study
,
vainly
opening
a
book
before
his
eyes
,
can
we
not
all
imagine
?
A
man
he
was
with
ample
means
,
with
children
who
would
do
honour
to
his
name
;
one
whose
wife
believed
in
him
,
if
no
one
else
would
do
so
;
a
man
,
let
us
say
,
with
a
clear
conscience
,
to
whom
all
good
things
had
been
given
.
But
of
whom
now
was
he
thinking
with
envy
?
Early
on
that
same
day
Farringcourt
had
spoken
in
the
House
,
—
a
man
to
whom
no
one
would
lend
a
shilling
,
whom
the
privilege
of
that
House
kept
out
of
gaol
,
whose
word
no
man
believed
;
who
was
wifeless
,
childless
,
and
unloved
.
But
three
hundred
men
had
hung
listening
upon
his
words
.
When
he
laughed
in
his
speech
,
they
laughed
;
when
he
was
indignant
against
the
Minister
,
they
sat
breathless
,
as
the
Spaniard
sits
in
the
critical
moment
of
the
bull-killing
.
Whichever
way
he
turned
himself
,
he
carried
them
with
him
.
Crowds
of
Members
flocked
into
the
House
from
libraries
and
smoking-rooms
when
it
was
known
that
this
ne'er-do-well
was
on
his
legs
.
The
Strangers
'
Gallery
was
filled
to
overflowing
.
The
reporters
turned
their
rapid
pages
,
working
their
fingers
wearily
till
the
sweat
drops
stood
upon
their
brows
.
And
as
the
Premier
was
attacked
with
some
special
impetus
of
redoubled
irony
,
men
declared
that
he
would
be
driven
to
enrol
the
speaker
among
his
colleagues
,
in
spite
of
dishonoured
bills
and
evil
reports
.
A
man
who
could
shake
the
thunderbolts
like
that
must
be
paid
to
shake
them
on
the
right
side
.
It
was
of
this
man
,
and
of
his
success
,
that
Lord
Middlesex
was
envious
,
as
he
sat
,
wretched
and
respectable
,
in
his
solitary
study
!
Mr.
Bott
had
left
the
House
with
Mr.
Palliser
;
and
Vavasor
,
after
the
count-out
,
was
able
to
walk
home
by
himself
,
and
think
of
the
position
which
he
had
achieved
.
He
told
himself
over
and
over
again
that
he
had
done
a
great
thing
in
obtaining
that
which
he
now
possessed
,
and
he
endeavoured
to
teach
himself
that
the
price
he
was
paying
for
it
was
not
too
dear
.
But
already
there
had
come
upon
him
something
of
that
feeling
,
—
that
terribly
human
feeling
,
—
which
deprives
every
prize
that
is
gained
of
half
its
value
.
The
mere
having
it
robs
the
diamond
of
its
purity
,
and
mixes
vile
alloy
with
the
gold
.
Lord
Middlesex
,
as
he
had
floundered
on
into
terrible
disaster
,
had
not
been
a
subject
to
envy
.
There
had
been
nothing
of
brilliance
in
the
debate
,
and
the
Members
had
loomed
no
larger
than
ordinary
men
at
ordinary
clubs
.
The
very
doorkeepers
had
hardly
treated
them
with
respect
.
The
great
men
with
whose
names
the
papers
are
filled
had
sat
silent
,
gloomy
,
and
apparently
idle
.
As
soon
as
a
fair
opportunity
was
given
them
they
escaped
out
of
the
House
,
as
boys
might
escape
from
school
.
Everybody
had
rejoiced
in
the
break-up
of
the
evening
,
except
that
one
poor
old
lord
who
had
worked
so
hard
.
Vavasor
had
spent
everything
that
he
had
to
become
a
Member
of
that
House
,
and
now
,
as
he
went
alone
to
his
lodgings
,
he
could
not
but
ask
himself
whether
the
thing
purchased
was
worth
the
purchase-money
.
But
his
courage
was
still
high
.
Though
he
was
gloomy
,
and
almost
sad
,
he
knew
that
he
could
trust
himself
to
fight
out
the
battle
to
the
last
.
On
the
morrow
he
would
go
to
Queen
Anne
Street
,
and
would
demand
sympathy
there
from
her
who
had
professed
to
sympathize
with
him
so
strongly
in
his
political
desires
.
With
her
,
at
any
rate
,
the
glory
of
his
Membership
would
not
be
dimmed
by
any
untoward
knowledge
of
the
realities
.
She
had
only
seen
the
play
acted
from
the
boxes
;
and
to
her
eyes
the
dresses
would
still
be
of
silk
velvet
,
and
the
swords
of
bright
steel
.
CHAPTER
XLVI
.
A
Love
Gift
.
When
Alice
heard
of
her
cousin
's
success
,
and
understood
that
he
was
actually
Member
of
Parliament
for
the
Chelsea
Districts
,
she
resolved
that
she
would
be
triumphant
.
She
had
sacrificed
nearly
everything
to
her
desire
for
his
success
in
public
life
,
and
now
that
he
had
achieved
the
first
great
step
towards
that
success
,
it
would
have
been
madness
on
her
part
to
decline
her
share
in
the
ovation
.
If
she
could
not
rejoice
in
that
,
what
source
of
joy
would
then
be
left
for
her
?
She
had
promised
to
be
his
wife
,
and
at
present
she
was
under
the
bonds
of
that
promise
.
She
had
so
promised
because
she
had
desired
to
identify
her
interests
with
his
,
—
because
she
wished
to
share
his
risks
,
to
assist
his
struggles
,
and
to
aid
him
in
his
public
career
.
She
had
done
all
this
,
and
he
had
been
successful
.
She
strove
,
therefore
,
to
be
triumphant
on
his
behalf
,
but
she
knew
that
she
was
striving
ineffectually
.
She
had
made
a
mistake
,
and
the
days
were
coming
in
which
she
would
have
to
own
to
herself
that
she
had
done
so
in
sackcloth
,
and
to
repent
with
ashes
.
But
yet
she
struggled
to
be
triumphant
.
The
tidings
were
first
brought
to
her
by
her
servant
,
and
then
she
at
once
sat
down
to
write
him
a
word
or
two
of
congratulation
.
But
she
found
the
task
more
difficult
than
she
had
expected
,
and
she
gave
it
up
.
She
had
written
no
word
to
him
since
the
day
on
which
he
had
left
her
almost
in
anger
,
and
now
she
did
not
know
how
she
was
to
address
him
.
"
I
will
wait
till
he
comes
,
"
she
said
,
putting
away
from
her
the
paper
and
pens
.
"
It
will
be
easier
to
speak
than
to
write
.
"
But
she
wrote
to
Kate
,
and
contrived
to
put
some
note
of
triumph
into
her
letter
.
Kate
had
written
to
her
at
length
,
filling
her
sheet
with
a
loud
pæan
of
sincere
rejoicing
.
To
Kate
,
down
in
Westmoreland
,
it
had
seemed
that
her
brother
had
already
done
everything
.
He
had
already
tied
Fortune
to
his
chariot
wheels
.
He
had
made
the
great
leap
,
and
had
overcome
the
only
obstacle
that
Fate
had
placed
in
his
way
.
In
her
great
joy
she
almost
forgot
whence
had
come
the
money
with
which
the
contest
had
been
won
.
She
was
not
enthusiastic
in
many
things
;
—
about
herself
she
was
never
so
;
but
now
she
was
elated
with
an
enthusiasm
which
seemed
to
know
no
bounds
.
"
I
am
proud
,
"
she
said
,
in
her
letter
to
Alice
.
"
No
other
thing
that
he
could
have
done
would
have
made
me
so
proud
of
him
.
Had
the
Queen
sent
for
him
and
made
him
an
earl
,
it
would
have
been
as
nothing
to
this
.
When
I
think
that
he
has
forced
his
way
into
Parliament
without
any
great
friend
,
with
nothing
to
back
him
but
his
own
wit
"
—
she
had
,
in
truth
,
forgotten
Alice
's
money
as
she
wrote
;
—
"
that
he
has
achieved
his
triumph
in
the
metropolis
,
among
the
most
wealthy
and
most
fastidious
of
the
richest
city
in
the
world
,
I
do
feel
proud
of
my
brother
.
And
,
Alice
,
I
hope
that
you
are
proud
of
your
lover
.
"
Poor
girl
!
One
cannot
but
like
her
pride
,
nay
,
almost
love
her
for
it
,
though
it
was
so
sorely
misplaced
.
It
must
be
remembered
that
she
had
known
nothing
of
Messrs.
Grimes
and
Scruby
,
and
the
River
Bank
,
and
that
the
means
had
been
wanting
to
her
of
learning
the
principles
upon
which
some
metropolitan
elections
are
conducted
.
"
And
,
Alice
,
I
hope
that
you
are
proud
of
your
lover
!
"
"
He
is
not
my
lover
,
"
Alice
said
to
herself
.
"
He
knows
that
he
is
not
.
He
understands
it
,
though
she
may
not
.
"
And
if
not
your
lover
,
Alice
Vavasor
,
what
is
he
then
to
you
?
And
what
are
you
to
him
,
if
not
his
love
?
She
was
beginning
to
understand
that
she
had
put
herself
in
the
way
of
utter
destruction
;
—
that
she
had
walked
to
the
brink
of
a
precipice
,
and
that
she
must
now
topple
over
it
.
"
He
is
not
my
lover
,
"
she
said
;
and
then
she
sat
silent
and
moody
,
and
it
took
her
hours
to
get
her
answer
written
to
Kate
.
On
the
same
afternoon
she
saw
her
father
for
a
moment
or
two
.
"
So
George
has
got
himself
returned
,
"
he
said
,
raising
his
eyebrows
.
"
Yes
,
he
has
been
successful
.
I
'm
sure
you
must
be
glad
,
papa
.
"
"
Upon
my
word
,
I
'm
not
.
He
has
bought
a
seat
for
three
months
;
and
with
whose
money
has
he
purchased
it
?
"
"
Do
n't
let
us
always
speak
of
money
,
papa
.
"
"
When
you
discuss
the
value
of
a
thing
just
purchased
,
you
must
mention
the
price
before
you
know
whether
the
purchaser
has
done
well
or
badly
.
They
have
let
him
in
for
his
money
because
there
are
only
a
few
months
left
before
the
general
election
.
Two
thousand
pounds
he
has
had
,
I
believe
?
"
"
And
if
as
much
more
is
wanted
for
the
next
election
he
shall
have
it
.
"
"
Very
well
,
my
dear
;
—
very
well
,
If
you
choose
to
make
a
beggar
of
yourself
,
I
cannot
help
it
.
Indeed
,
I
shall
not
complain
though
he
should
spend
all
your
money
,
if
you
do
not
marry
him
at
last
.
"
In
answer
to
this
,
Alice
said
nothing
.
On
that
point
her
father
's
wishes
were
fast
growing
to
be
identical
with
her
own
.
"
I
tell
you
fairly
what
are
my
feelings
and
my
wishes
,
"
he
continued
.
"
Nothing
,
in
my
opinion
,
would
be
so
deplorable
and
ruinous
as
such
a
marriage
.
You
tell
me
that
you
have
made
up
your
mind
to
take
him
,
and
I
know
well
that
nothing
that
I
can
say
will
turn
you
.
But
I
believe
that
when
he
has
spent
all
your
money
he
will
not
take
you
,
and
that
thus
you
will
be
saved
.
Thinking
as
I
do
about
him
,
you
can
hardly
expect
that
I
should
triumph
because
he
has
got
himself
into
Parliament
with
your
money
!
"
Then
he
left
her
,
and
it
seemed
to
Alice
that
he
had
been
very
cruel
.
There
had
been
little
,
she
thought
,
nay
,
nothing
of
a
father
's
loving
tenderness
in
his
words
to
her
.
If
he
had
spoken
to
her
differently
,
might
she
not
even
now
have
confessed
everything
to
him
?
But
herein
Alice
accused
him
wrongfully
.
Tenderness
from
him
on
this
subject
had
,
we
may
say
,
become
impossible
.
She
had
made
it
impossible
.
Nor
could
he
tell
her
the
extent
of
his
wishes
without
damaging
his
own
cause
.
He
could
not
let
her
know
that
all
that
was
done
was
so
done
with
the
view
of
driving
her
into
John
Grey
's
arms
.
But
what
words
were
those
for
a
father
to
speak
to
a
daughter
!
Had
she
brought
herself
to
such
a
state
that
her
own
father
desired
to
see
her
deserted
and
thrown
aside
?
And
was
it
probable
that
this
wish
of
his
should
come
to
pass
?
As
to
that
,
Alice
had
already
made
up
her
mind
.
She
thought
that
she
had
made
up
her
mind
that
she
would
never
become
her
cousin
's
wife
.
It
needed
not
her
father
's
wish
to
accomplish
her
salvation
,
if
her
salvation
lay
in
being
separated
from
him
.
On
the
next
morning
George
went
to
her
.
The
reader
will
,
perhaps
,
remember
their
last
interview
.
He
had
come
to
her
after
her
letter
to
him
from
Westmoreland
,
and
had
asked
her
to
seal
their
reconciliation
with
a
kiss
;
but
she
had
refused
him
.
He
had
offered
to
embrace
her
,
and
she
had
shuddered
before
him
,
fearing
his
touch
,
telling
him
by
signs
much
more
clear
than
any
words
,
that
she
felt
for
him
none
of
the
love
of
a
woman
.
Then
he
had
turned
from
her
in
anger
,
declaring
to
her
honestly
that
he
was
angry
.
Since
that
he
had
borrowed
her
money
,
—
had
made
two
separate
assaults
upon
her
purse
,
—
and
was
now
come
to
tell
her
of
the
results
.
How
was
he
to
address
her
?
I
beg
that
it
may
be
also
remembered
that
he
was
not
a
man
to
forget
the
treatment
he
had
received
.
When
he
entered
the
room
,
Alice
looked
at
him
,
at
first
,
almost
furtively
.
She
was
afraid
of
him
.
It
must
be
confessed
that
she
already
feared
him
.
Had
there
been
in
the
man
anything
of
lofty
principle
he
might
still
have
made
her
his
slave
,
though
I
doubt
whether
he
could
ever
again
have
forced
her
to
love
him
.
She
looked
at
him
furtively
,
and
perceived
that
the
gash
on
his
face
was
nearly
closed
.
The
mark
of
existing
anger
was
not
there
.
He
had
come
to
her
intending
to
be
gentle
,
if
it
might
be
possible
.
He
had
been
careful
in
his
dress
,
as
though
he
wished
to
try
once
again
if
the
rôle
of
lover
might
be
within
his
reach
.
Alice
was
the
first
to
speak
.
"
George
,
I
am
so
glad
that
you
have
succeeded
!
I
wish
you
joy
with
my
whole
heart
.
"
"
Thanks
,
dearest
.
But
before
I
say
another
word
,
let
me
acknowledge
my
debt
.
Unless
you
had
aided
me
with
your
money
,
I
could
not
have
succeeded
.
"
"
Oh
,
George
!
pray
do
n't
speak
of
that
!
"
"
Let
me
rather
speak
of
it
at
once
,
and
have
done
.
If
you
will
think
of
it
,
you
will
know
that
I
must
speak
of
it
sooner
or
later
.
"
He
smiled
and
looked
pleasant
,
as
he
used
to
do
in
those
Swiss
days
.
"
Well
,
then
,
speak
and
have
done
.
"
"
I
hope
you
have
trusted
me
in
thus
giving
me
the
command
of
your
fortune
?
"
"
Oh
,
yes
.
"
"
I
do
believe
that
you
have
.
I
need
hardly
say
that
I
could
not
have
stood
for
this
last
election
without
it
;
and
I
must
try
to
make
you
understand
that
if
I
had
not
come
forward
at
this
vacancy
,
I
should
have
stood
no
chance
for
the
next
;
otherwise
,
I
should
not
have
been
justified
in
paying
so
dearly
for
a
seat
for
one
session
.
You
can
understand
that
;
eh
,
Alice
?
"
"
Yes
;
I
think
so
?
"
Anybody
,
even
your
father
,
would
tell
you
that
;
though
,
probably
,
he
regards
my
ambition
to
be
a
Member
of
Parliament
as
a
sign
of
downright
madness
.
But
I
was
obliged
to
stand
now
,
if
I
intended
to
go
on
with
it
,
as
that
old
lord
died
so
inopportunely
.
Well
,
about
the
money
!
It
is
quite
upon
the
cards
that
I
may
be
forced
to
ask
for
another
loan
when
the
autumn
comes
.
"
"
You
shall
have
it
,
George
.
"
"
Thanks
,
Alice
.
And
now
I
will
tell
you
what
I
propose
.
You
know
that
I
have
been
reconciled
,
—
with
a
sort
of
reconciliation
,
—
to
my
grandfather
?
Well
,
when
the
next
affair
is
over
,
I
propose
to
tell
him
exactly
how
you
and
I
then
stand
.
"
"
Do
not
go
into
that
now
,
George
.
It
is
enough
for
you
at
present
to
be
assured
that
such
assistance
as
I
can
give
you
is
at
your
command
.
I
want
you
to
feel
the
full
joy
of
your
success
,
and
you
will
do
so
more
thoroughly
if
you
will
banish
all
these
money
troubles
from
your
mind
for
a
while
.
"
"
They
shall
,
at
any
rate
,
be
banished
while
I
am
with
you
,
"
said
he
.
"
There
;
let
them
go
!
"
And
he
lifted
up
his
right
hand
,
and
blew
at
the
tips
of
his
fingers
.
"
Let
them
vanish
,
"
said
he
.
"
It
is
always
well
to
be
rid
of
such
troubles
for
a
time
.
"
It
is
well
to
be
rid
of
them
at
any
time
,
or
at
all
times
,
if
only
they
can
be
banished
without
danger
.
But
when
a
man
has
overused
his
liver
till
it
will
not
act
for
him
any
longer
,
it
is
not
well
for
him
to
resolve
that
he
will
forget
the
weakness
of
his
organ
just
as
he
sits
down
to
dinner
.
It
was
a
pretty
bit
of
acting
,
that
of
Vavasor
's
,
when
he
blew
away
his
cares
;
and
,
upon
the
whole
,
I
do
not
know
that
he
could
have
done
better
.
But
Alice
saw
through
it
,
and
he
knew
that
she
did
so
.
The
whole
thing
was
uncomfortable
to
him
,
except
the
fact
that
he
had
the
promise
of
her
further
moneys
.
But
he
did
not
intend
to
rest
satisfied
with
this
.
He
must
extract
from
her
some
meed
of
approbation
,
some
show
of
sympathy
,
some
spark
of
affection
,
true
or
pretended
,
in
order
that
he
might
at
least
affect
to
be
satisfied
,
and
be
enabled
to
speak
of
the
future
without
open
embarrassment
.
How
could
even
he
take
her
money
from
her
,
unless
he
might
presume
that
he
stood
with
her
upon
some
ground
that
belonged
mutually
to
them
both
?
"
I
have
already
taken
my
seat
,
"
said
he
.
"
Yes
;
I
saw
that
in
the
newspapers
.
My
acquaintance
among
Members
of
Parliament
is
very
small
,
but
I
see
that
you
were
introduced
,
as
they
call
it
,
by
one
of
the
few
men
that
I
do
know
.
Is
Mr.
Bott
a
friend
of
yours
?
"
"
No
,
—
certainly
not
a
friend
.
I
may
probably
have
to
act
with
him
in
public
.
"
"
Ah
,
that
's
just
what
they
said
of
Mr.
Palliser
when
they
felt
ashamed
of
his
having
such
a
man
as
his
guest
.
I
think
if
I
were
in
public
life
I
should
try
to
act
with
people
that
I
could
like
.
"
"
Then
you
dislike
Mr.
Bott
?
"
"
I
do
not
like
him
,
but
my
feelings
about
him
are
not
violent
.
"
"
He
is
a
vulgar
ass
,
"
said
George
,
"
with
no
more
pretensions
to
rank
himself
a
gentleman
than
your
footman
.
"
"
If
I
had
one
.
"
"
But
he
will
get
on
in
Parliament
,
to
a
certain
extent
.
"
"
I
'm
afraid
I
do
n't
quite
understand
what
are
the
requisites
for
Parliamentary
success
,
or
indeed
of
what
it
consists
.
Is
his
ambition
,
do
you
suppose
,
the
same
as
yours
?
"
"
His
ambition
,
I
take
it
,
does
not
go
beyond
a
desire
to
be
Parliamentary
flunkey
to
a
big
man
,
—
with
wages
,
if
possible
,
but
without
,
if
the
wages
are
impossible
.
"
"
And
yours
?
"
"
Oh
,
as
to
mine
;
—
there
are
some
things
,
Alice
,
that
a
man
does
not
tell
to
any
one
.
"
"
Are
there
?
They
must
be
very
terrible
things
.
"
"
The
schoolboy
,
when
he
sits
down
to
make
his
rhymes
,
dares
not
say
,
even
to
his
sister
,
that
he
hopes
to
rival
Milton
;
but
he
nurses
such
a
hope
.
The
preacher
,
when
he
preaches
his
sermon
,
does
not
whisper
,
even
to
his
wife
,
his
belief
that
thousands
may
perhaps
be
turned
to
repentance
by
the
strength
of
his
words
;
but
he
thinks
that
the
thousand
converts
are
possible
.
"
"
And
you
,
though
you
will
not
say
so
,
intend
to
rival
Chatham
,
and
to
make
your
thousand
converts
in
politics
.
"
"
I
like
to
hear
you
laugh
at
me
,
—
I
do
,
indeed
.
It
does
me
good
to
hear
your
voice
again
with
some
touch
of
satire
in
it
.
It
brings
back
the
old
days
,
—
the
days
to
which
I
hope
we
may
soon
revert
without
pain
.
Shall
it
not
be
so
,
dearest
?
"
Her
playful
manner
at
once
deserted
her
.
Why
had
he
made
this
foolish
attempt
to
be
tender
?
"
I
do
not
know
,
"
she
said
,
gloomily
.
For
a
few
minutes
he
sat
silent
,
fingering
some
article
belonging
to
her
which
was
lying
on
the
table
.
It
was
a
small
steel
paper-knife
,
of
which
the
handle
was
cast
and
gilt
;
a
thing
of
no
great
value
,
of
which
the
price
may
have
been
five
shillings
.
He
sat
with
it
,
passing
it
through
his
fingers
,
while
she
went
on
with
her
work
.
"
Who
gave
you
this
paper-cutter
?
"
he
said
,
suddenly
.
"
Goodness
me
,
why
do
you
ask
?
and
especially
,
why
do
you
ask
in
that
way
?
"
"
I
asked
simply
because
if
it
is
a
present
to
you
from
any
one
,
I
will
take
up
something
else
.
"
"
It
was
given
me
by
Mr.
Grey
.
"
He
let
it
drop
from
his
fingers
on
to
the
table
with
a
noise
,
and
then
pushed
it
from
him
,
so
that
it
fell
on
the
other
side
,
near
to
where
she
sat
.
"
George
,
"
she
said
,
as
she
stooped
and
picked
it
up
,
"
your
violence
is
unreasonable
;
pray
do
not
repeat
it
.
"
"
I
did
not
mean
it
,
"
he
said
,
"
and
I
beg
your
pardon
.
I
was
simply
unfortunate
in
the
article
I
selected
.
And
who
gave
you
this
?
"
In
saying
which
he
took
up
a
little
ivory
foot-rule
that
was
folded
up
so
as
to
bring
it
within
the
compass
of
three
inches
.
"
It
so
happens
that
no
one
gave
me
that
;
I
bought
it
at
a
stupid
bazaar
.
"
"
Then
this
will
do
.
You
shall
give
it
me
as
a
present
,
on
the
renewal
of
our
love
.
"
"
It
is
too
poor
a
thing
to
give
,
"
said
she
,
speaking
still
more
gloomily
than
she
had
done
before
.
"
By
no
means
;
nothing
is
too
poor
,
if
given
in
that
way
.
Anything
will
do
;
a
ribbon
,
a
glove
,
a
broken
sixpence
.
Will
you
give
me
something
that
I
may
take
,
and
,
taking
it
,
may
know
that
your
heart
is
given
with
it
?
"
"
Take
the
rule
,
if
you
please
,
"
she
said
.
"
And
about
the
heart
?
"
he
asked
.
He
should
have
been
more
of
a
rascal
or
less
.
Seeing
how
very
much
of
a
rascal
he
was
already
,
I
think
it
would
have
been
better
that
he
should
have
been
more
,
—
that
he
should
have
been
able
to
content
his
spirit
with
the
simple
acquisition
of
her
money
,
and
that
he
should
have
been
free
from
all
those
remains
of
a
finer
feeling
which
made
him
desire
her
love
also
.
But
it
was
not
so
.
It
was
necessary
for
his
comfort
that
she
should
,
at
any
rate
,
say
she
loved
him
.
"
Well
,
Alice
,
and
what
about
the
heart
?
"
he
asked
again
.
"
I
would
so
much
rather
talk
about
politics
,
George
,
"
said
she
.
The
cicatrice
began
to
make
itself
very
visible
in
his
face
,
and
the
debonair
manner
was
fast
vanishing
.
He
had
fixed
his
eyes
upon
her
,
and
had
inserted
his
thumbs
in
the
armholes
of
his
waistcoat
.
"
Alice
,
that
is
not
quite
fair
,
"
he
said
.
"
I
do
not
mean
to
be
unfair
.
"
"
I
am
not
so
sure
of
that
.
I
almost
think
that
you
do
mean
it
.
You
have
told
me
that
you
intend
to
become
my
wife
.
If
,
after
that
,
you
wilfully
make
me
miserable
,
will
not
that
be
unfair
?
"
"
I
am
not
making
you
miserable
,
—
certainly
not
wilfully
.
"
"
Did
that
letter
which
you
wrote
to
me
from
Westmoreland
mean
anything
?
"
"
George
,
do
not
strive
to
make
me
think
that
it
meant
too
much
.
"
"
If
it
did
,
you
had
better
say
so
at
once
.
"
But
Alice
,
though
she
would
have
said
so
had
she
dared
,
made
no
answer
to
this
.
She
sat
silent
,
turning
her
face
away
from
his
gaze
,
longing
that
the
meeting
might
be
over
,
and
feeling
that
she
had
lost
her
own
self-respect
.
"
Look
here
,
Alice
,
"
he
said
,
"
I
find
it
very
hard
to
understand
you
.
When
I
look
back
over
all
that
has
passed
between
us
,
and
to
that
other
episode
in
your
life
,
summing
it
all
up
with
your
conduct
to
me
at
present
,
I
find
myself
at
a
loss
to
read
your
character
.
"
"
I
fear
I
cannot
help
you
in
the
reading
of
it
.
"
"
When
you
first
loved
me
;
—
for
you
did
love
me
.
I
understood
that
well
enough
.
There
is
no
young
man
who
in
early
life
does
not
read
with
sufficient
clearness
that
sweetest
morsel
of
poetry
.
—
And
when
you
quarrelled
with
me
,
judging
somewhat
harshly
of
my
offences
,
I
understood
that
also
;
for
it
is
the
custom
of
women
to
be
hard
in
their
judgement
on
such
sins
.
When
I
heard
that
you
had
accepted
the
offer
made
to
you
by
that
gentleman
in
Cambridgeshire
,
I
thought
that
I
understood
you
still
,
—
knowing
how
natural
it
was
that
you
should
seek
some
cure
for
your
wound
.
I
understood
it
,
and
accused
myself
,
not
you
,
in
that
I
had
driven
you
to
so
fatal
a
remedy
.
"
Here
Alice
turned
round
towards
him
sharply
,
as
though
she
were
going
to
interrupt
him
,
but
she
said
nothing
,
though
he
paused
for
her
to
speak
;
and
then
he
went
on
.
"
And
I
understood
it
well
when
I
heard
that
this
cure
had
been
too
much
for
you
.
By
heavens
,
yes
!
there
was
no
misunderstanding
that
.
I
meant
no
insult
to
the
man
when
I
upset
his
little
toy
just
now
.
I
have
not
a
word
to
say
against
him
.
For
many
women
he
would
make
a
model
husband
,
but
you
are
not
one
of
them
.
And
when
you
discovered
this
yourself
,
as
you
did
,
I
understood
that
without
difficulty
.
Yes
,
by
heavens
!
if
ever
woman
had
been
driven
to
a
mistake
,
you
had
been
driven
to
one
there
.
"
Here
she
looked
at
him
again
,
and
met
his
eyes
.
She
looked
at
him
with
something
of
his
own
fierceness
in
her
face
,
as
though
she
were
preparing
herself
to
fight
with
him
;
but
she
said
nothing
at
the
moment
,
and
then
he
again
went
on
.
"
And
,
Alice
,
I
understood
it
also
when
you
again
consented
to
be
my
wife
.
I
thought
that
I
still
understood
you
then
.
I
may
have
been
vain
to
think
so
,
but
surely
it
was
natural
.
I
believed
that
the
old
love
had
come
back
upon
you
,
and
again
warmed
your
heart
.
I
thought
that
it
had
been
cold
during
our
separation
,
and
I
was
pleased
to
think
so
.
Was
that
unnatural
?
Put
yourself
in
my
place
,
and
say
if
you
would
not
have
thought
so
.
I
told
myself
that
I
understood
you
then
,
and
I
told
myself
that
in
all
that
you
had
done
you
had
acted
as
a
true
,
and
good
,
and
loving
woman
.
I
thought
of
you
much
,
and
I
saw
that
your
conduct
,
as
a
whole
,
was
intelligible
and
becoming
.
"
The
last
word
grated
on
Alice
's
ears
,
and
she
showed
her
anger
by
the
motion
of
her
foot
upon
the
floor
.
Her
cousin
noted
it
all
,
but
went
on
as
though
he
had
not
noted
it
.
"
But
now
your
present
behaviour
makes
all
the
rest
a
riddle
.
You
have
said
that
you
would
be
my
wife
,
declaring
thereby
that
you
had
forgiven
my
offences
,
and
,
as
I
suppose
,
reassuring
me
of
your
love
;
and
yet
you
receive
me
with
all
imaginable
coldness
.
What
am
I
to
think
of
it
,
and
in
what
way
would
you
have
me
behave
to
you
?
When
last
I
was
here
I
asked
you
for
a
kiss
.
"
As
he
said
this
he
looked
at
her
with
all
his
eyes
,
with
his
mouth
just
open
,
so
as
to
show
the
edges
of
his
white
teeth
,
with
the
wound
down
his
face
all
wide
and
purple
.
The
last
word
came
with
a
stigmatizing
hiss
from
his
lips
.
Though
she
did
not
essay
to
speak
,
he
paused
again
,
as
if
he
were
desirous
that
she
might
realize
the
full
purport
of
such
a
request
.
I
think
that
,
in
the
energy
of
his
speaking
,
a
touch
of
true
passion
had
come
upon
him
;
that
he
had
forgotten
his
rascaldom
,
and
his
need
of
her
money
,
and
that
he
was
punishing
her
with
his
whole
power
of
his
vengeance
for
the
treatment
which
he
had
received
from
her
.
"
I
asked
you
for
a
kiss
.
If
you
are
to
be
my
wife
you
can
have
no
shame
in
granting
me
such
a
request
.
Within
the
last
two
months
you
have
told
me
that
you
would
marry
me
.
What
am
I
to
think
of
such
a
promise
if
you
deny
me
all
customary
signs
of
your
affection
?
"
Then
he
paused
again
,
and
she
found
that
the
time
had
come
in
which
she
must
say
something
to
him
.
"
I
wonder
you
cannot
understand
,
"
she
said
,
"
that
I
have
suffered
much
.
"
"
And
is
that
to
be
my
answer
?
"
"
I
do
n't
know
what
answer
you
want
.
"
"
Come
,
Alice
,
do
not
be
untrue
;
you
do
know
what
answer
I
want
,
and
you
know
also
whether
my
wanting
it
is
unreasonable
.
"
"
No
one
ever
told
me
that
I
was
untrue
before
,
"
she
said
.
"
You
do
know
what
it
is
that
I
desire
.
I
desire
to
learn
that
the
woman
who
is
to
be
my
wife
,
in
truth
,
loves
me
.
"
She
was
standing
up
,
and
so
was
he
also
,
but
still
she
said
nothing
.
He
had
in
his
hand
the
little
rule
which
she
had
told
him
that
he
might
take
,
but
he
held
it
as
though
in
doubt
what
he
would
do
with
it
.
"
Well
,
Alice
,
am
I
to
hear
anything
from
you
?
"
"
Not
now
,
George
;
you
are
angry
,
and
I
will
not
speak
to
you
in
your
anger
.
"
"
Have
I
not
cause
to
be
angry
?
Do
you
not
know
that
you
are
treating
me
badly
?
"
"
I
know
that
my
head
aches
,
and
that
I
am
very
wretched
.
I
wish
you
would
leave
me
.
"
"
There
,
then
,
is
your
gift
,
"
said
he
,
and
he
threw
the
rule
over
on
to
the
sofa
behind
her
.
"
And
there
is
the
trumpery
trinket
which
I
had
hoped
you
would
have
worn
for
my
sake
.
"
Whereupon
something
which
he
had
taken
from
his
waistcoat-pocket
was
thrown
violently
into
the
fender
,
beneath
the
fire-grate
.
He
then
walked
with
quick
steps
to
the
door
;
but
when
his
hand
was
on
the
handle
,
he
turned
.
"
Alice
,
"
he
said
,
"
when
I
am
gone
,
try
to
think
honestly
of
your
conduct
to
me
.
"
Then
he
went
,
and
she
remained
still
,
till
she
heard
the
front
door
close
behind
him
.
When
she
was
sure
that
he
was
gone
,
her
first
movement
was
made
in
search
of
the
trinket
.
I
fear
that
this
was
not
dignified
on
her
part
;
but
I
think
that
it
was
natural
.
It
was
not
that
she
had
any
desire
for
the
jewel
,
or
any
curiosity
even
to
see
it
.
She
would
very
much
have
preferred
that
he
should
have
brought
nothing
of
the
kind
to
her
.
But
she
had
a
feminine
reluctance
that
anything
of
value
should
be
destroyed
without
a
purpose
.
So
she
took
the
shovel
,
and
poked
among
the
ashes
,
and
found
the
ring
which
her
cousin
had
thrown
there
.
It
was
a
valuable
ring
,
bearing
a
ruby
on
it
between
two
small
diamonds
.
Such
at
least
,
she
became
aware
,
had
been
its
bearing
;
but
one
of
the
side
stones
had
been
knocked
out
by
the
violence
with
which
the
ring
had
been
flung
.
She
searched
even
for
this
,
scorching
her
face
and
eyes
,
but
in
vain
.
Then
she
made
up
her
mind
that
the
diamond
should
be
lost
for
ever
,
and
that
it
should
go
out
among
the
cinders
into
the
huge
dust-heaps
of
the
metropolis
.
Better
that
,
though
it
was
distasteful
to
her
feminine
economy
,
than
the
other
alternative
of
setting
the
servants
to
search
,
and
thereby
telling
them
something
of
what
had
been
done
.
When
her
search
was
over
,
she
placed
the
ring
on
the
mantelpiece
;
but
she
knew
that
it
would
not
do
to
leave
it
there
,
—
so
she
folded
it
up
carefully
in
a
new
sheet
of
note-paper
,
and
put
it
in
the
drawer
of
her
desk
.
After
that
she
sat
herself
down
at
the
table
to
think
what
she
would
do
;
but
her
head
was
,
in
truth
,
racked
with
pain
,
and
on
that
occasion
she
could
bring
her
thoughts
to
no
conclusion
.
CHAPTER
XLVII
.
Mr.
Cheesacre
's
Disappointment
.
When
Mrs.
Greenow
was
left
alone
in
her
lodgings
,
after
the
little
entertainment
which
she
had
given
to
her
two
lovers
,
she
sat
herself
down
to
think
seriously
over
her
affairs
.
There
were
three
paths
open
before
her
.
She
might
take
Mr.
Cheesacre
,
or
she
might
take
Captain
Bellfield
—
or
she
might
decide
that
she
would
have
nothing
more
to
say
to
either
of
them
in
the
way
of
courting
.
They
were
very
persistent
,
no
doubt
;
but
she
thought
that
she
would
know
how
to
make
them
understand
her
,
if
she
should
really
make
up
her
mind
that
she
would
have
neither
one
nor
the
other
.
She
was
going
to
leave
Norwich
after
Easter
,
and
they
knew
that
such
was
her
purpose
.
Something
had
been
said
of
her
returning
to
Yarmouth
in
the
summer
.
She
was
a
just
woman
at
heart
,
and
justice
required
that
each
of
them
should
know
what
was
to
be
his
prospect
if
she
did
so
return
.
There
was
a
good
deal
to
be
said
on
Mr.
Cheesacre
's
behalf
.
Mahogany-furnitured
bedrooms
assist
one
's
comfort
in
this
life
;
and
heaps
of
manure
,
though
they
are
not
brilliant
in
romance
,
are
very
efficacious
in
farming
.
Mrs.
Greenow
by
no
means
despised
these
things
;
and
as
for
the
owner
of
them
,
though
she
saw
that
there
was
much
amiss
in
his
character
,
she
thought
that
his
little
foibles
were
of
such
a
nature
that
she
,
as
his
wife
,
or
any
other
woman
of
spirit
,
might
be
able
to
repress
them
,
if
not
to
cure
them
.
But
she
had
already
married
for
money
once
,
as
she
told
herself
very
plainly
on
this
occasion
,
and
she
thought
that
she
might
now
venture
on
a
little
love
.
Her
marriage
for
money
had
been
altogether
successful
.
The
nursing
of
old
Greenow
had
not
been
very
disagreeable
to
her
,
nor
had
it
taken
longer
than
she
had
anticipated
.
She
had
now
got
all
the
reward
that
she
had
ever
promised
herself
,
and
she
really
did
feel
grateful
to
his
memory
.
I
almost
think
that
among
those
plentiful
tears
some
few
drops
belonged
to
sincerity
.
She
was
essentially
a
happy-tempered
woman
,
blessed
with
a
good
digestion
,
who
looked
back
upon
her
past
life
with
contentment
,
and
forward
to
her
future
life
with
confidence
.
She
would
not
be
greedy
,
she
said
to
herself
.
She
did
not
want
more
money
,
and
therefore
she
would
have
none
of
Mr.
Cheesacre
.
So
far
she
resolved
,
—
resolving
also
that
,
if
possible
,
the
mahogany-furnitured
bedrooms
should
be
kept
in
the
family
,
and
made
over
to
her
niece
,
Kate
Vavasor
.
But
should
she
marry
for
love
;
and
if
so
,
should
Captain
Bellfield
be
the
man
?
Strange
to
say
,
his
poverty
and
his
scampishness
and
his
lies
almost
recommended
him
to
her
.
At
any
rate
,
it
was
not
of
those
things
that
she
was
afraid
.
She
had
a
woman
's
true
belief
in
her
own
power
,
and
thought
that
she
could
cure
them
,
—
as
far
as
they
needed
cure
.
As
for
his
stories
about
Inkerman
,
and
his
little
debts
,
she
cared
nothing
about
that
.
She
also
had
her
Inkermans
,
and
was
quite
aware
that
she
made
as
good
use
of
them
as
the
Captain
did
of
his
.
And
as
for
the
debts
,
—
what
was
a
man
to
do
who
had
n't
got
any
money
?
She
also
had
owed
for
her
gloves
and
corsets
in
the
ante-Greenow
days
of
her
adventures
.
But
there
was
this
danger
,
—
that
there
might
be
more
behind
of
which
she
had
never
heard
.
Another
Mrs.
Bellfield
was
not
impossible
;
and
what
,
if
instead
of
being
a
real
captain
at
all
,
he
should
be
a
returned
ticket-of-leave
man
!
Such
things
had
happened
.
Her
chief
security
was
in
this
,
—
that
Cheesacre
had
known
the
man
for
many
years
,
and
would
certainly
have
told
anything
against
him
that
he
did
know
.
Under
all
these
circumstances
,
she
could
not
quite
make
up
her
mind
either
for
or
against
Captain
Bellfield
.
Between
nine
and
ten
in
the
evening
,
an
hour
or
so
after
Mr.
Cheesacre
had
left
her
,
Jeannette
brought
to
her
some
arrowroot
with
a
little
sherry
in
it
.
She
usually
dined
early
,
and
it
was
her
habit
to
take
a
light
repast
before
she
retired
for
the
night
.
"
Jeannette
,
"
she
said
,
as
she
stirred
the
lumps
of
white
sugar
in
the
bowl
,
"
I
'm
afraid
those
two
gentlemen
have
quarrelled
.
"
"
Oh
,
laws
,
ma'am
,
in
course
they
have
!
How
was
they
to
help
it
?
"
Jeannette
,
on
these
occasions
,
was
in
the
habit
of
standing
beside
the
chair
of
her
mistress
,
and
chatting
with
her
;
and
then
,
if
the
chatting
was
much
prolonged
,
she
would
gradually
sink
down
upon
the
corner
of
a
chair
herself
,
—
and
then
the
two
women
would
be
very
comfortable
together
over
the
fire
,
Jeannette
never
forgetting
that
she
was
the
servant
,
and
Mrs.
Greenow
never
forgetting
that
she
was
the
mistress
.
"
And
why
should
they
quarrel
,
Jeannette
?
It
's
very
foolish
.
"
"
I
do
n't
know
about
being
foolish
,
ma'am
;
but
it
's
the
most
natural
thing
in
life
.
If
I
had
two
beaux
as
was
a-courting
me
together
,
in
course
I
should
expect
as
they
would
punch
each
other
's
heads
.
There
's
some
girls
do
it
a
purpose
,
because
they
like
to
see
it
.
One
at
a
time
's
what
I
say
.
"
"
You
're
a
young
thing
,
Jeannette
.
"
"
Well
,
ma'am
—
yes
;
I
am
young
,
no
doubt
.
But
I
wo
n't
say
but
what
I
've
had
a
beau
,
young
as
I
look
.
"
"
But
you
do
n't
suppose
that
I
want
beaux
,
as
you
call
them
?
"
"
I
do
n't
know
,
ma'am
,
as
you
wants
'
em
exactly
.
That
's
as
may
be
.
There
they
are
;
and
if
they
was
to
blow
each
other
's
brains
out
in
the
gig
to-night
,
I
should
n't
be
a
bit
surprised
for
one
.
There
's
nothing
wo
n't
quiet
them
at
Oileymead
to-night
,
if
brandy-and-water
do
n't
do
it
.
"
As
she
said
this
,
Jeannette
slipt
into
her
chair
,
and
held
up
her
hands
in
token
of
the
intensity
of
her
fears
.
"
Why
,
you
silly
child
,
they
're
not
going
home
together
at
all
.
Did
not
the
Captain
go
away
first
?
"
"
The
Captain
did
go
away
first
,
certainly
;
but
I
thought
perhaps
it
was
to
get
his
pistols
and
fighting
things
ready
.
"
"
They
wo
n't
fight
,
Jeannette
.
Gentlemen
have
given
over
fighting
.
"
"
Have
they
,
ma'am
?
That
makes
it
much
easier
for
ladies
,
no
doubt
.
Perhaps
them
peaceable
ways
will
come
down
to
such
as
us
in
time
.
It
'd
be
a
comfort
,
I
know
,
to
them
as
are
quiet
given
,
like
me
.
I
hate
to
see
men
knocking
each
other
's
heads
about
,
—
I
do
.
So
Mr.
Cheesacre
and
the
Captain
wo
n't
fight
,
ma'am
?
"
"
Of
course
they
wo
n't
,
you
little
fool
,
you
.
"
"
Dear
,
dear
;
I
was
so
sure
we
should
have
had
the
papers
all
full
of
it
,
—
and
perhaps
one
of
them
stretched
upon
his
bloody
bier
!
I
wonder
which
it
would
have
been
?
I
always
made
up
my
mind
that
the
Captain
would
n't
be
wounded
in
any
of
his
wital
parts
—
unless
it
was
his
heart
,
you
know
,
ma'am
.
"
"
But
why
should
they
quarrel
at
all
,
Jeannette
?
It
is
the
most
foolish
thing
.
"
"
Well
,
ma'am
,
I
do
n't
know
about
that
.
What
else
is
they
to
do
?
There
's
some
things
as
you
can
cry
halves
about
,
but
there
's
no
crying
halves
about
this
.
"
"
About
what
,
Jeannette
?
"
—
"
Why
,
about
you
,
ma'am
.
"
"
Jeannette
,
I
wonder
how
you
can
say
such
things
;
as
if
I
,
in
my
position
,
had
ever
said
a
word
to
encourage
either
of
them
.
You
know
it
's
not
true
,
Jeannette
,
and
you
should
n't
say
so
.
"
Whereupon
Mrs.
Greenow
put
her
handkerchief
to
her
eyes
,
and
Jeannette
,
probably
in
token
of
contrition
,
put
her
apron
to
hers
.
"
To
be
sure
,
ma'am
,
no
lady
could
have
behaved
better
