true,
and
all-sufficient
for
purposes
of
regeneration
,
how
am
I
to
account
for
the
singular
fact
that
there
is
as
much
wickedness
in
London
in
the
year
1865
A.D.
,
as
there
was
in
Jerusalem
in
the
year
1
B.C.
?
If
the
object
of
the
last
revelation
was
to
take
the
place
of
the
one
before
it
,
and
to
reform
the
world
,
why
are
the
best
modern
Christians
of
my
acquaintance
no
holier
than
the
best
modern
Jews
whom
I
have
the
honour
to
know
?
"
"
But
the
object
of
the
last
revelation
was
not
to
reform
the
world
,
but
to
save
it
,
"
he
replied
.
"
Thanks
,
Broadhem
,
for
having
put
in
rather
too
epigrammatic
a
form
,
perhaps
,
to
please
those
who
believe
it
,
the
most
diabolical
sophism
that
was
ever
invented
to
beguile
a
Church
—
the
doctrine
that
men
can
be
saved
by
opinion
without
practice
:
that
a
man
's
practice
may
be
bad
,
and
yet
because
his
faith
is
good
his
salvation
is
sure
—
that
he
can
,
by
such
a
miserable
philosophy
as
would
disgrace
the
justice
of
the
earth
,
escape
the
just
sentence
to
be
passed
upon
all
his
deeds
.
The
results
of
so
fatal
a
dogma
must
be
a
Church
that
tends
to
atheism
,
and
that
loves
corruption
.
There
is
in
every
heart
a
something
that
speaks
against
this
,
and
speaks
with
a
burning
language
that
sweeps
the
invisible
chords
of
the
inmost
consciousness
,
and
awakens
a
torrent
of
indignant
denial
of
the
shallow
sophistry
that
a
man
can
be
saved
if
his
thoughts
and
life
are
bad
.
If
he
cherish
self-love
,
and
the
love
of
ruling
others
,
though
he
intrench
the
intellect
in
the
midst
of
all
creeds
,
and
span
the
reason
with
all
faiths
,
making
a
sacred
public
profession
before
all
men
,
he
but
adds
to
the
heinousness
of
his
crime
,
and
makes
more
terrible
the
fast-coming
and
final
judgment
.
"
Broadhem
stopped
suddenly
in
the
street
as
I
finished
in
a
somewhat
excited
tone
,
and
gasped
rather
than
spoke
,
"
Frank
,
you
literally
astound
me
.
I
could
never
have
believed
it
possible
you
would
have
come
out
in
that
line
.
Are
those
your
own
ideas
or
another
's
?
"
"
Another
's
,
"
I
replied
,
coolly
.
"
I
believe
they
are
rather
unsound
,
but
I
commend
them
to
your
notice
,
because
,
if
they
are
not
correct
,
Christianity
will
soon
cease
to
exist
,
even
in
name
;
but
if
they
are
,
then
it
contains
within
it
a
regenerating
power
hitherto
undeveloped
,
whereby
the
world
may
be
absolutely
reformed
.
I
will
venture
to
assert
that
Christian
nations
will
make
no
moral
progress
so
long
as
they
continue
to
cherish
the
pagan
superstition
that
religion
consists
in
trying
to
save
themselves
by
virtue
of
a
creed
,
instead
of
in
trying
to
save
others
by
the
virtues
of
a
life
.
"
"
But
that
's
works
,
"
said
Broadhem
.
"
Yes
,
"
I
repeated
,
"
that
's
works
,
but
of
a
kind
only
possible
when
accompanied
by
intuitive
living
faith
,
which
I
have
just
endeavoured
to
describe
.
There
is
a
promise
that
'
greater
works
than
these
shall
they
do
'
who
'
believe
.
'
Why
,
I
want
to
know
,
have
these
'
works
,
'
greater
than
any
that
were
then
accomplished
,
and
which
would
reform
the
world
,
never
been
attempted
?
Because
people
do
n't
believe
in
the
tremendous
power
of
disinterestedness
,
and
they
ca
n't
face
the
severe
training
which
the
perfection
of
self-sacrifice
involves
.
So
one
set
of
'
worldly-holies
'
regard
all
personal
discipline
as
a
tempting
snare
to
be
avoided
,
and
entertain
a
great
horror
of
what
they
conceitedly
term
'
their
own
merits
.
'
This
very
superfluous
sentiment
,
combined
with
a
selfish
belief
in
certain
doctrinals
(
of
which
they
usually
do
make
a
merit
)
,
is
enough
,
they
imagine
—
the
'
works
'
will
follow
;
and
so
they
do
,
and
take
the
form
we
have
just
seen
in
your
mother
's
drawing-room
.
Another
set
delight
in
a
mild
—
sthetic
sort
of
training
,
to
be
performed
in
a
particular
costume
,
according
to
the
obsolete
ceremonial
rules
of
a
Church
'
which
is
divided
against
itself
,
'
and
their
works
take
the
fatuous
form
of
ecclesiastical
high
art
.
Others
,
again
,
go
to
a
still
further
extreme
,
and
consider
discipline
not
the
means
but
the
end
.
Hence
they
go
through
their
drill
in
seclusion
,
exclusively
for
their
own
benefit
,
and
their
works
take
the
form
of
scourgings
and
horse-hair
shirts
,
and
other
mortifications
of
the
flesh
,
which
do
no
good
to
themselves
nor
to
anybody
else
.
And
then
,
in
strong
contrast
,
are
those
who
train
enough
in
all
conscience
with
'
gloves
,
'
single-stick
,
sculls
,
and
all
suchlike
appliances
,
and
whose
works
take
the
form
of
tubbing
,
volunteering
,
and
a
general
jovial
philanthropy
.
I
am
not
sure
that
they
are
not
the
most
hopeful
set
after
all
;
they
believe
in
severe
muscular
training
as
necessary
to
produce
great
physical
results
.
Get
them
to
accept
,
the
possibility
of
the
world
's
regeneration
by
a
divinely-directed
effort
of
heroic
spiritual
discipline
on
the
part
of
its
inhabitants
,
and
you
might
convert
them
from
'
physical
'
into
'
moral
force
'
Christians
.
They
understand
the
efficacy
of
'
a
long
pull
,
and
a
strong
pull
,
and
a
pull
all
together
;
'
and
they
might
be
shown
that
the
real
place
for
a
'
biceps
'
is
the
will
,
not
the
arms
;
and
instead
of
a
body
'
as
hard
as
nails
,
'
the
chief
aim
of
one
's
life
should
be
to
bring
one
's
spirit
to
that
condition
—
'
hard
,
'
be
it
understood
,
in
the
sense
of
being
impervious
to
the
influences
which
weaken
and
demoralise
it
—
hard
in
its
resistance
to
the
tyranny
of
society
,
to
the
claims
of
family
or
friends
,
and
to
the
force
of
'
natural
'
ties
,
where
any
of
these
things
interfere
with
the
'
spiritual
'
training
.
It
is
only
by
thus
remaining
in
the
world
,
and
yet
refusing
to
concede
a
jot
to
it
upon
any
pretence
,
however
plausible
,
that
it
is
possible
to
acquire
the
internal
isolation
and
strength
of
will
necessary
to
the
achievement
of
'
these
greater
works
.
'
Depend
upon
it
,
the
task
of
performing
them
is
not
hopeless
because
it
seems
stupendous
.
There
are
spiritual
forces
now
latent
in
humanity
powerful
enough
to
restore
a
fallen
universe
;
but
they
want
to
be
called
into
action
by
fire
.
They
are
in
a
cold
fluid
state
,
and
must
be
turned
into
stone
.
Sublime
moment
!
when
,
conscious
of
the
Titanic
agency
within
them
,
and
burning
with
desire
to
give
it
expression
,
men
first
unite
to
embody
,
and
then
with
irresistible
potency
to
impart
to
others
that
'
Life
'
which
is
'
the
Light
of
men
.
'
"
As
I
was
thus
speaking
,
we
turned
into
Piccadilly
,
and
an
arm
was
passed
through
mine
.
"
Why
is
it
,
"
asked
Broadhem
,
"
that
men
are
not
yet
at
all
conscious
of
possessing
this
spiritual
agency
?
"
"
Why
is
it
,
ask
you
?
"
—
and
the
clear
solemn
voice
of
my
new
companion
startled
Broadhem
,
who
had
not
seen
him
join
me
,
so
that
I
felt
his
arm
tremble
upon
mine
.
"
Ask
rather
why
sects
are
fierce
and
intolerant
;
why
worship
is
formal
and
irreverent
;
why
zealots
run
to
fierce
frenzies
and
react
to
atheistic
chills
;
why
piety
is
constrained
and
lifeless
,
like
antique
pictures
painted
by
the
old
Byzantines
upon
a
golden
ground
;
why
Puseyism
tries
to
whip
piety
to
life
with
scourges
,
and
starve
out
sin
with
fasts
;
why
the
altar
is
made
a
stage
where
Ritualists
delight
a
gaping
crowd
,
and
the
pulpit
a
place
where
the
sleek
official
drones
away
the
sleepy
hour
;
why
religious
books
are
the
dullest
;
why
the
clergyman
is
looked
upon
by
the
millions
as
a
barrel-organ
,
whom
the
sect
turns
like
the
wandering
Savoyard
,
unable
to
evolve
a
free-born
note
.
There
is
but
one
answer
—
—
"
and
he
stopped
abruptly
.
"
What
is
it
?
"
I
said
,
timidly
,
for
I
was
overwhelmed
by
the
torrent
of
his
eloquence
.
"
We
have
lost
our
God
!
That
is
why
men
are
unconscious
of
His
force
within
them
.
It
is
a
terrible
thing
for
a
nation
to
lose
its
God
.
History
shows
that
all
nations
wherein
the
religious
inspiration
has
gone
down
beneath
formalism
,
infidelity
,
a
warlike
spirit
,
an
enslaving
spirit
,
or
a
trading
spirit
,
have
burst
like
so
many
gilded
bubbles
,
most
enlarged
and
gorgeous
at
the
moment
of
their
close
.
Think
of
the
old
Scripture
,
'
The
wicked
shall
be
turned
into
hell
,
and
all
the
nations
that
forget
God
.
'
"
"
Who
is
that
?
"
whispered
Broadhem
.
"
I
never
saw
him
before
.
"
"
I
want
to
be
alone
with
him
,
"
I
replied
.
"
Good
night
,
Broadhem
.
You
had
better
go
back
now
,
or
you
will
find
your
friends
gone
.
Think
over
what
I
have
said
.
Once
realise
the
'
mystery
of
godliness
,
'
and
the
martyrdom
which
it
must
entail
will
lose
its
terrors
.
"
"
Let
him
sacrifice
us
if
He
will
,
"
said
he
who
had
before
spoken
.
"
The
true
man
is
but
a
cannon-shot
,
rejoicing
most
of
all
when
the
Divine
Artillerist
shall
send
him
irresistible
and
flaming
against
some
foeman
of
the
race
risen
from
Pandemonium
.
Man
—
the
true
man
—
is
like
the
Parthian
's
arrow
,
kindling
into
fiery
flames
as
it
leaves
the
bow
.
Man
—
the
true
man
—
is
the
Spirit-sword
,
but
the
sword-arm
is
moved
by
the
heart
of
the
Almighty
.
"
Ah
Piccadilly
!
hallowed
recollections
may
attach
to
those
stones
worn
by
the
feet
of
the
busy
idiots
in
this
vast
asylum
,
for
one
sane
man
has
trodden
them
,
and
I
listened
to
the
words
of
wisdom
as
they
dropped
from
the
lips
of
one
so
obscure
that
his
name
is
still
unknown
in
the
land
,
but
I
doubted
not
who
at
that
moment
was
the
greatest
man
in
Piccadilly
.
CONCLUSION
.
MORAL
.
Piccadilly
,
July
15
.
It
will
be
seen
by
the
date
at
which
I
am
writing
this
,
that
I
have
been
compelled
to
increase
the
pace
I
have
been
keeping
up
during
the
season
.
The
fact
is
,
my
episode
,
like
those
of
my
neighbours
,
seems
likely
to
be
prematurely
concluded
by
the
course
of
political
events
,
which
will
no
doubt
act
prejudicially
this
year
upon
the
happiness
of
many
interesting
members
of
society
.
Towards
the
close
of
the
London
season
it
is
only
natural
that
everything
should
culminate
;
but
generally
the
actors
in
the
scenes
of
real
life
so
calculate
that
the
curtain
falls
just
at
the
right
moment
;
or
rather
,
that
they
shall
be
doing
just
the
right
thing
when
the
curtain
falls
.
The
artists
insensibly
group
themselves
for
the
grand
tableau
.
All
over
the
stage
episodes
are
occurring
,
any
one
of
which
taken
separately
would
make
a
good
sensation
finale
.
There
are
wily
mothers
and
desperate
daughters
throwing
with
unerring
aim
their
nets
over
youths
who
have
become
reckless
or
imbecile
.
And
there
are
unprincipled
poachers
setting
snares
for
the
pretty
game
they
hope
to
destroy
.
Look
at
the
poor
victims
,
both
male
and
female
,
trying
to
get
disentangled
.
What
a
rush
,
and
shuffle
,
and
conflict
of
feelings
and
affections
it
is
!
The
hearts
that
for
the
first
time
feel
they
have
been
touched
as
the
moment
of
separation
draws
near
;
the
"
histories
"
which
in
all
future
time
will
form
the
most
marked
page
in
his
or
her
life
,
and
which
have
begun
and
ended
in
the
season
;
the
intimacies
that
have
been
formed
,
and
which
are
to
last
for
ever
;
those
that
have
been
broken
;
the
fatal
friendships
which
have
been
cemented
this
year
,
and
the
disastrous
results
of
which
,
suspected
on
neither
side
,
we
shall
read
of
in
the
newspapers
years
to
come
.
What
a
curious
picture
would
be
the
mind
of
London
society
if
we
could
photograph
it
in
February
,
and
how
strangely
different
would
it
be
from
a
photograph
of
the
same
subject
taken
in
July
,
more
especially
when
,
as
now
,
the
elections
throw
everything
into
confusion
;
and
little
Haultort
gets
so
bewildered
,
that
he
encloses
,
by
mistake
,
his
address
to
his
constituents
to
Wild
Harrie
,
instead
of
his
proposal
to
her
,
which
he
has
forwarded
to
his
local
attorney
for
publication
in
the
Liberal
organ
of
that
borough
which
is
honoured
by
possessing
him
as
a
representative
!
In
these
days
when
good
taste
requires
that
our
affections
should
be
as
shallow
as
our
convictions
,
we
are
puzzled
,
at
a
crisis
like
this
,
to
know
which
we
love
most
,
our
seats
or
our
mistresses
.
There
is
a
general
disposition
on
the
part
of
the
lavender-gloved
tribe
to
resent
the
extra
wear
and
tear
of
mind
suddenly
imposed
upon
them
this
hot
weather
.
Why
should
they
unexpectedly
be
called
away
from
the
corners
devoted
to
tête-à-têtes
,
to
stand
on
hotel
balconies
,
and
stammer
,
in
unintelligible
language
,
their
views
upon
Reform
to
crowds
of
free
and
independent
electors
?
"
For
goodness
'
sake
,
"
says
Larkington
to
Lady
Veriphast
,
"
give
me
some
ideas
;
I
've
got
to
go
and
meet
these
wretched
constituents
of
mine
,
and
I
had
promised
myself
a
much
more
agreeable
occupation
with
you
at
Richmond
.
Could
n't
you
get
Veriphast
to
go
down
?
I
should
be
delighted
to
retire
in
his
favour
;
and
with
his
abilities
it
is
ridiculous
his
not
being
in
Parliament
.
"
"
How
absurdly
you
talk
about
my
persuading
Veriphast
to
do
anything
?
the
only
person
,
as
you
know
,
who
has
any
influence
over
him
is
Mrs
Loveton
,
"
responds
her
ladyship
,
with
a
sigh
—
arising
from
dyspepsia
.
"
I
have
hit
it
;
"
and
for
a
moment
Larkington
looks
animated
.
"
Squabbleton
is
close
to
the
coast
,
and
we
will
make
a
party
,
and
I
will
take
you
all
round
in
my
yacht
,
the
Lovetons
and
you
and
Veriphast
;
we
'll
go
and
do
the
electioneering
business
together
,
and
keep
the
yacht
as
a
sort
of
pied
—
terre
,
or
rather
pied
à
mer
;
"
and
Larkington
chuckled
,
partly
at
his
joke
,
and
partly
at
this
brilliant
solution
of
his
dilemma
.
And
so
,
while
all
the
world
is
trying
to
reconcile
their
pleasure
with
what
they
are
pleased
to
term
their
duty
,
being
always
the
duty
they
owe
to
themselves
,
my
thoughts
are
diverted
into
a
very
different
channel
.
I
am
beginning
daily
to
feel
,
while
in
the
world
,
that
I
am
less
of
it
.
Already
I
have
cut
myself
off
from
the
one
great
source
of
interest
which
Parliament
afforded
me
,
and
I
have
not
succeeded
in
my
love
as
a
compensation
—
that
is
why
Larkington
's
arrangement
to
secure
both
seemed
a
sort
of
mockery
of
my
misery
.
For
it
was
impossible
to
resist
the
occasional
fits
of
depression
which
reduced
my
mind
to
the
condition
of
white
paper
,
and
the
world
to
that
of
a
doll
stuffed
with
sawdust
.
I
was
suffering
in
this
manner
the
day
following
the
evening
entertainment
at
Lady
Broadhem
's
,
which
I
have
already
described
.
The
interview
which
impended
inspired
me
with
vague
terrors
.
The
night
before
I
had
looked
forward
to
it
with
positive
enjoyment
.
There
is
no
greater
bore
than
to
get
up
morally
and
physically
unhinged
,
upon
the
very
day
that
you
expect
an
unusual
strain
upon
your
faculties
.
The
days
it
does
not
matter
,
you
feel
up
to
anything
;
but
nature
too
often
perversely
deserts
you
at
the
most
critical
moment
.
Now
,
upon
the
morning
in
question
it
was
necessary
as
a
preliminary
measure
for
me
to
go
into
the
City
and
acquire
some
information
essential
to
the
success
of
my
interview
with
Lady
Broadhem
,
but
before
starting
I
was
anxious
to
gain
a
few
particulars
from
Grandon
,
the
knowledge
of
which
would
materially
aid
me
in
disentangling
the
complicated
skein
of
our
joint
affairs
.
I
therefore
looked
in
upon
him
for
a
moment
en
passant
.
"
I
went
to
Lady
Broadhem
's
last
night
,
Grandon
,
"
I
said
,
"
and
I
have
reasons
for
wishing
to
know
whether
you
have
had
any
communication
with
the
family
lately
.
I
think
the
time
is
coming
when
I
shall
be
able
to
explain
much
of
my
conduct
which
I
can
well
understand
has
perplexed
and
distressed
you
.
"
"
It
would
be
a
relief
to
me
to
feel
that
there
was
no
more
mystery
between
us
,
"
he
replied
.
"
You
have
certainly
at
last
most
effectually
contradicted
the
report
you
were
the
means
of
originating
,
but
the
reparation
was
tardy
,
and
should
never
have
been
rendered
necessary
.
However
,
there
is
no
use
in
recurring
to
the
past
;
but
I
am
entitled
to
ask
what
your
object
is
in
making
your
present
inquiries
?
"
"
I
am
to
see
Lady
Broadhem
this
afternoon
,
"
I
said
,
"
and
I
wish
to
be
prepared
on
all
points
.
I
heard
something
last
night
which
may
influence
your
future
far
more
seriously
than
mine
;
and
it
is
in
fact
in
your
interests
,
and
not
in
my
own
,
that
I
wish
to
be
well
informed
.
"
"
What
do
you
want
to
know
?
"
"
I
want
to
know
whether
you
have
ever
actually
proposed
to
Lady
Ursula
,
and
,
if
so
,
what
was
the
result
?
"
"
Frank
,
"
said
Grandon
,
"
after
what
has
passed
you
are
pushing
my
confidence
in
you
,
and
my
friendship
for
you
,
to
their
utmost
limits
,
in
expecting
me
to
answer
you
in
this
matter
.
Still
I
cannot
believe
your
motives
to
be
unworthy
,
though
they
may
be
unintentionally
perverted
;
nor
do
I
think
that
it
is
in
your
power
to
affect
the
position
of
affairs
either
for
good
or
harm
.
The
fact
is
,
then
,
that
Lady
Ursula
does
know
precisely
the
state
of
my
feelings
towards
her
,
and
I
feel
that
,
though
there
may
be
insuperable
obstacles
to
our
union
at
present
,
she
would
never
consent
to
yield
to
any
pressure
exercised
by
her
mother
in
favour
of
another
.
"
"
In
other
words
,
the
situation
is
unchanged
,
for
I
think
I
knew
as
much
as
that
before
.
Have
you
never
spoken
to
Lady
Broadhem
directly
on
the
subject
?
"
"
No
,
"
said
Grandon
—
"
never
.
"
"
I
think
,
"
said
I
,
"
the
time
is
coming
when
you
will
be
able
to
do
so
with
advantage
.
I
cannot
tell
you
more
now
,
but
this
afternoon
I
shall
hope
to
retrieve
myself
in
your
estimation
by
being
the
bearer
of
some
good
news
.
By
the
way
,
what
are
you
going
to
do
about
your
election
?
—
they
say
your
prospects
are
getting
cloudy
.
"
"
Say
rather
utterly
obscured
,
"
he
replied
.
"
You
know
the
borough
I
sit
for
is
in
Lord
Scilly
's
pocket
,
and
he
says
I
have
not
sufficiently
stuck
to
my
party
.
They
have
never
forgiven
me
for
understanding
the
Schleswig-Holstein
question
;
and
Scilly
has
extracted
a
promise
from
his
new
nominee
that
he
is
never
to
inform
himself
upon
any
question
of
foreign
politics
.
The
Government
is
so
weak
in
this
department
that
they
are
more
afraid
of
their
own
enfants
terribles
than
they
are
of
the
Opposition
,
which
is
not
saying
much
for
the
latter
.
"
"
Who
is
Scilly
's
new
nominee
?
"
I
asked
.
"
No
less
a
person
than
our
old
friend
Chundango
,
"
he
replied
.
"
It
seems
Lady
Broadhem
put
pressure
upon
his
lordship
in
his
favour
,
and
he
at
last
consented
,
though
I
suspect
it
was
with
a
bad
grace
.
"
"
Well
,
I
do
n't
think
the
Government
need
be
afraid
of
Chundango
on
foreign
policy
,
though
he
probably
knows
as
much
as
the
others
.
"
It
required
no
little
effort
to
reach
Bodwinkle
's
office
at
10
A.M.
I
found
that
great
millionaire
in
a
peculiarly
amiable
frame
of
mind
.
Though
two
or
three
of
his
neighbours
had
been
smashing
around
him
,
his
superior
foresight
had
enabled
him
to
escape
the
calamities
which
had
overtaken
them
;
and
he
was
sitting
chuckling
in
that
rather
dingy
alley
,
from
the
recesses
of
which
he
had
dug
his
fortune
,
when
I
entered
.
"
Ah
,
Lord
Frank
,
"
he
said
,
affably
;
"
come
to
give
me
some
of
your
valuable
advice
and
assistance
in
my
election
affairs
,
I
feel
sure
.
Do
n't
forget
your
promise
about
Stepton
.
I
have
already
given
the
necessary
instructions
about
that
matter
of
Lady
Broadhem
's
;
there
is
nothing
going
to
be
done
about
it
for
the
present
.
"
"
It
is
just
with
reference
to
Lady
Broadhem
's
affairs
that
I
have
come
to
consult
you
,
"
I
said
.
"
You
have
a
pretty
extensive
Indian
connection
,
I
think
?
"
"
Rather
,
"
said
Bodwinkle
,
in
a
tone
which
meant
to
imply
gigantic
.
"
Now
I
have
reason
to
believe
that
her
ladyship
is
interested
in
some
Bombay
houses
,
and
I
shall
be
able
to
throw
some
light
upon
her
affairs
which
may
be
of
use
to
us
both
,
if
you
will
give
me
the
benefit
of
a
little
of
that
exclusive
information
with
reference
to
cotton
and
those
who
are
embarked
in
its
trade
which
I
know
you
possess
.
"
Bodwinkle
was
loath
at
first
to
let
me
into
those
mysteries
which
he
speedily
revealed
to
me
on
my
explaining
more
fully
my
reasons
for
requiring
to
know
them
,
and
I
jumped
into
a
hansom
and
drove
off
to
Grosvenor
Square
,
planning
a
little
plot
which
I
completed
ere
I
arrived
,
and
the
construction
of
which
had
acted
as
beneficially
upon
my
nerves
as
one
of
Lady
Broadhem
's
own
"
pick-me-ups
.
"
Drippings
let
me
in
,
and
his
countenance
wore
an
expression
of
anxious
consciousness
.
As
he
led
the
way
up-stairs
he
whispered
,
"
I
trust
,
my
lord
,
that
under
the
circumstances
your
lordship
will
not
betray
me
—
my
own
livelihood
,
not
to
say
that
of
my
wife
and
little
ones
,
depends
upon
my
keeping
this
place
;
and
I
would
not
have
mentioned
what
had
come
to
my
knowledge
with
respect
to
her
ladyship
if
it
had
not
been
that
,
knowing
the
interest
your
lordship
takes
in
the
family
,
and
more
especially
when
I
come
to
consider
Lady
Ursula
—
—
"
"
Hold
your
tongue
,
"
I
interrupted
,
angrily
.
"
If
you
wish
me
to
reduce
you
and
your
family
to
beggary
,
dare
to
open
your
lips
to
me
again
unless
you
're
spoken
to
.
"
I
felt
savage
with
him
for
ruffling
my
temper
at
the
moment
when
I
desired
to
have
my
faculties
completely
under
control
;
and
as
my
readers
will
have
perceived
,
though
my
intentions
are
always
excellent
,
my
course
is
occasionally
,
under
any
unusual
strain
,
erratic
.
I
never
saw
Lady
Broadhem
looking
better
.
One
or
two
wrinkles
were
positively
missing
altogether
,
and
an
expression
of
cheerful
benevolence
seemed
to
play
about
the
corners
of
her
mouth
.
She
greeted
me
with
an
empressement
totally
at
variance
with
the
terms
on
which
we
had
parted
upon
the
previous
evening
.
I
must
say
that
,
when
Lady
Broadhem
chooses
,
there
is
nobody
of
my
acquaintance
whose
manner
is
more
attractive
,
and
whose
conversation
is
more
agreeable
.
She
had
been
a
belle
in
her
day
,
and
had
achieved
some
renown
among
the
"
wholly-worldlies
"
when
she
first
married
the
late
lord
.
Her
"
history
,
"
connected
chiefly
with
another
lord
of
that
period
,
is
not
yet
altogether
forgotten
.
The
end
of
it
was
,
that
the
world
looked
coldly
upon
her
ladyship
for
a
few
seasons
,
and
she
scrambled
with
some
difficulty
into
the
society
of
the
"
worldly-holies
,
"
among
whom
she
has
ever
since
remained
.
There
are
occasions
when
a
certain
amount
of
coquetry
of
manner
betrays
the
existence
of
some
of
those
"
devil
's
leavings
"
which
she
is
still
engaged
in
sacrificing
.
Had
it
not
been
for
the
information
I
had
derived
from
Drippings
,
her
cordial
reception
and
unembarrassed
manner
would
have
puzzled
me
.
As
it
was
,
I
felt
assured
by
the
indications
they
furnished
,
that
the
butler
had
told
me
the
truth
.
"
My
dear
Lady
Broadhem
,
"
I
said
,
with
enthusiasm
,
"
how
well
you
are
looking
!
I
am
sure
you
must
have
some
charming
news
to
tell
me
.
Is
some
near
and
wealthy
relation
dead
,
or
what
?
"
"
For
shame
,
Frank
!
what
a
satirical
creature
you
are
!
Do
you
know
I
only
discovered
lately
that
irony
was
your
strong
point
?
I
am
positively
beginning
to
be
afraid
of
you
.
"
"
Come
now
,
"
I
said
,
"
own
frankly
,
what
you
have
to
tell
me
to-day
makes
you
feel
more
afraid
of
me
than
you
ever
did
before
.
"
Lady
Broadhem
blushed
—
yes
,
actually
blushed
.
It
was
not
the
flush
of
anger
which
I
had
often
seen
dye
her
cheeks
,
or
of
shame
,
which
I
never
did
;
but
it
was
a
blush
of
maiden
consciousness
,
if
I
may
so
express
it
,
though
it
is
occasionally
to
be
observed
in
widows
.
It
mounted
slowly
and
suffused
her
whole
neck
and
face
,
even
unto
the
roots
of
her
hair
;
it
was
a
blush
of
that
kind
which
I
have
seen
technically
described
by
a
German
philosopher
as
a
"
rhythm
of
exquisite
sweetness
.
"
The
effect
of
this
hardened
old
lady
indulging
in
a
rhythm
of
this
description
struck
me
as
so
ludicrous
that
I
was
compelled
to
resort
to
my
pocket-handkerchief
and
pretend
to
sneeze
behind
it
.
At
the
same
moment
Lady
Broadhem
resorted
to
hers
,
and
applied
it
with
equal
sincerity
to
her
eyes
.
"
Dear
Frank
,
"
she
said
,
and
sobbed
.
"
Dear
Lady
Broadhem
,
"
I
responded
,
and
nearly
choked
with
suppressed
laughter
,
for
I
knew
what
was
coming
.
"
All
my
money
difficulties
are
at
an
end
at
last
,
and
if
I
am
affected
,
it
is
that
I
feel
I
am
not
worthy
of
the
happiness
that
is
in
store
for
me
,
"
and
she
lifted
up
her
eyes
,
in
which
real
tears
were
actually
glistening
,
and
said
,
"
What
have
I
done
to
deserve
it
?
"
"
Well
,
really
,
"
I
replied
,
"
if
you
ask
me
that
question
honestly
,
I
must
wait
till
I
know
what
'
it
'
is
;
perhaps
you
would
have
been
better
without
—
'
it
.
'
"
"
I
assure
you
,
Frank
,
one
of
the
uppermost
feelings
in
my
mind
is
that
of
relief
.
I
fully
appreciate
the
warm-hearted
generosity
which
has
prompted
you
to
take
so
much
interest
in
my
affairs
;
but
when
it
was
all
over
between
you
and
Ursula
,
my
conscience
would
not
allow
me
to
let
you
make
pecuniary
sacrifices
on
so
large
a
scale
for
my
sake
.
When
Broadhem
told
me
that
you
had
determined
to
persevere
in
your
munificence
,
notwithstanding
Ursula
's
most
inexplicable
conduct
,
I
made
up
my
mind
at
once
to
adopt
a
course
which
,
I
am
happy
to
say
,
not
merely
my
sense
of
propriety
but
my
feelings
told
me
was
the
right
one
.
I
must
therefore
relieve
you
from
all
further
anxiety
about
my
business
matters
.
You
have
,
I
think
,
still
got
some
papers
of
mine
,
which
you
may
return
to
me
;
and
I
will
see
that
my
solicitor
not
only
releases
you
from
any
engagements
which
you
may
have
entered
into
for
me
,
but
will
repay
those
sums
which
you
have
so
kindly
advanced
on
my
account
already
.
"
There
was
a
tone
of
triumph
pervading
this
speech
which
clearly
meant
,
"
Now
we
are
quits
.
I
do
n't
forget
the
time
when
you
drank
my
'
pick-me-up
'
first
,
and
biologised
me
afterwards
.
And
this
is
my
revenge
.
"
I
must
say
I
looked
at
Lady
Broadhem
with
a
certain
feeling
of
admiration
.
She
was
a
woman
made
up
of
"
forces
.
"
Last
night
passionate
and
intemperate
under
the
influence
of
the
society
she
had
called
round
her
:
to-day
calm
and
wily
,
using
her
advantages
of
situation
with
a
judgment
and
a
moderation
worthy
of
a
great
strategist
.
She
is
only
arrogant
and
insolent
in
the
hour
of
disaster
;
but
she
can
conquer
magnanimously
.
I
assumed
an
air
of
the
deepest
regret
and
disappointment
.
"
Of
course
,
Lady
Broadhem
,
any
change
in
your
circumstances
which
makes
you
independent
,
even
of
your
friends
,
must
be
agreeable
to
you
;
but
I
cannot
say
how
deeply
disappointed
I
feel
that
my
labour
of
love
is
over
,
and
that
I
shall
no
longer
have
the
pleasure
of
spending
my
resources
in
a
cause
so
precious
to
me
.
"
The
last
words
almost
stuck
in
my
throat
;
but
I
wanted
to
overdo
it
,
to
see
the
effect
.
"
My
dear
Frank
,
"
she
said
,
laughing
,
and
her
eyes
would
have
twinkled
had
they
not
become
too
watery
from
age
,
"
I
shall
never
make
you
out
;
I
am
so
stupid
at
reading
character
,
and
I
suppose
so
dull
altogether
,
that
sometimes
I
am
not
sure
when
you
're
joking
and
when
you
are
in
earnest
.
Now
I
want
you
seriously
to
answer
me
truly
one
question
,
not
as
people
of
the
world
,
you
know
,
making
pledges
to
each
other
,
but
as
old
friends
,
as
we
are
,
who
may
dispense
with
mystery
.
"
She
held
out
her
hand
with
an
air
of
charming
candour
.
"
Tell
me
,
"
she
said
,
as
she
pressed
mine
,
—
"
tell
me
honestly
,
what
could
possibly
have
been
your
motive
in
being
prepared
to
go
on
sacrificing
your
fortune
for
me
when
you
had
no
chance
of
Ursula
?
"
"
Tell
me
honestly
,
Lady
Broadhem
,
"
I
said
,
and
pressed
her
hand
in
return
,
"
how
you
are
going
to
render
yourself
independent
of
my
assistance
hence-forward
,
and
I
will
tell
you
the
motives
which
have
actuated
me
in
proffering
it
.
"
"
It
is
only
just
settled
,
and
I
have
not
even
told
it
yet
either
to
Broadhem
or
my
daughters
.
I
am
quite
prepared
for
the
sensation
it
will
make
when
it
is
known
,
and
the
ill-natured
things
people
will
say
of
me
;
but
my
mind
is
made
up
,
and
we
are
told
to
expect
persecution
.
I
am
going
to
be
married
to
Mr
Chundango
!
"
Lady
Broadhem
evidently
expected
to
stun
me
with
this
announcement
,
but
as
I
had
already
been
prepared
for
it
by
Drippings
on
the
occasion
of
our
first
private
interview
,
which
the
reader
will
remember
,
I
received
it
with
perfect
equanimity
.
"
I
had
no
conception
,
"
her
ladyship
went
on
,
"
of
the
sterling
worth
and
noble
character
of
that
man
until
I
had
an
opportunity
of
observing
it
closely
.
The
munificence
of
his
liberality
,
and
the
good
uses
to
which
he
applies
his
enormous
wealth
,
the
cultivation
of
his
mind
,
the
excellence
of
his
principles
,
and
the
perfect
harmony
of
feeling
upon
religious
subjects
which
exists
between
us
,
all
convince
me
that
I
shall
best
consult
my
own
happiness
and
the
interests
of
my
dear
children
by
uniting
my
fate
to
his
.
I
suppose
you
know
Lord
Scilly
is
going
to
put
him
into
Parliament
for
the
Scilly
boroughs
instead
of
Lord
Grandon
?
"
"
No
one
could
congratulate
you
more
sincerely
than
I
do
,
Lady
Broadhem
,
"
I
said
.
"
I
can
conceive
no
greater
happiness
than
an
alliance
in
which
that
perfect
harmony
of
thought
and
feeling
you
describe
reigns
paramount
;
and
now
it
is
my
turn
to
tell
you
why
I
have
acted
the
part
which
seems
so
incomprehensible
to
you
.
Grandon
is
,
as
you
know
,
my
dearest
friend
,
but
he
is
poor
.
Ursula
cares
for
him
more
,
if
possible
,
than
I
do
.
And
I
need
not
tell
you
that
my
own
attachment
to
your
daughter
is
the
strongest
sentiment
of
my
nature
.
Now
,
I
determined
to
prove
the
depth
of
my
affection
for
these
two
people
by
making
them
both
happy
,
and
when
all
my
arrangements
were
completed
I
intended
to
make
a
final
stipulation
with
you
,
that
you
should
give
your
consent
to
their
marriage
,
and
that
I
should
play
the
part
of
a
bountiful
prince
in
the
Arabian
Nights
,
and
that
we
should
all
live
happy
ever
after
.
"
"
A
very
pretty
little
plot
indeed
,
"
said
Lady
Broadhem
,
with
a
sneer
.
"
You
are
too
good
and
disinterested
for
this
planet
,
Frank
.
So
you
thought
you
could
coerce
me
into
giving
my
consent
to
a
marriage
I
never
have
approved
,
and
never
shall
?
"
"
Do
n't
be
too
sure
of
that
,
"
I
said
,
and
I
allowed
the
faintest
tinge
of
insolence
to
appear
in
my
manner
,
for
the
sentiments
and
the
sneer
that
accompanied
it
both
irritated
me
,
and
I
felt
that
we
were
morally
drawing
our
revolvers
,
and
looking
at
the
caps
.
"
Why
not
?
What
do
you
mean
?
"
she
said
,
sharply
.
"
Who
do
you
suppose
is
to
dictate
to
me
upon
such
a
subject
?
Ursula
will
be
very
well
off
,
and
I
shall
take
care
that
she
marries
suitably
.
"
"
I
do
n't
know
where
she
is
to
get
her
money
from
,
"
I
said
,
calmly
.
"
You
need
give
yourself
no
anxiety
about
her
for
the
future
,
I
assure
you
.
Mr
Chundango
has
been
most
liberal
in
his
arrangements
about
both
my
girls
.
"
"
But
,
unfortunately
,
it
is
not
in
Mr
Chundango
's
power
to
make
any
such
arrangements
,
"
I
retorted
.
"
I
am
sure
nothing
will
alter
your
feelings
towards
a
man
you
really
love
,
and
that
your
own
personal
conduct
will
not
be
influenced
by
the
fact
that
Mr
Chundango
is
a
beggar
.
You
could
go
back
to
India
with
him
,
you
know
,
and
make
a
home
for
him
in
a
bungalow
in
the
Bombay
Ghauts
.
"
Lady
Broadhem
's
face
had
become
rigid
and
stony
;
so
had
my
whole
nature
.
I
did
not
feel
a
particle
of
compassion
or
of
triumph
.
I
was
cold
,
hard
,
and
judicial
.
Her
hour
was
come
,
and
I
had
to
pass
the
sentence
.
"
Yes
,
"
I
said
,
"
there
is
no
doubt
about
it
.
I
got
it
from
Bodwinkle
this
moment
.
The
Bombay
mail
arrived
last
night
,
and
you
know
the
way
everything
has
been
crashing
there
through
speculations
in
Back
Bay
shares
,
cotton
,
etc.
Well
,
the
great
Parsee
house
of
Burstupjee
Cockabhoy
has
come
down
with
a
grand
crash
,
and
all
our
friend
Chundango
's
jewels
in
the
back
verandah
,
added
to
everything
else
he
possesses
in
the
world
,
will
fail
to
meet
his
liabilities
.
Terrible
thing
,
is
n't
it
?
but
we
must
bear
up
,
you
know
.
"
But
Lady
Broadhem
had
done
bearing
up
some
time
ago
,
and
had
sunk
gently
back
on
the
couch
,
in
a
dead
faint
.
As
there
was
not
the
slightest
sham
about
it
,
I
rang
the
bell
for
Jenkins
,
and
felt
under
the
pillow
for
the
"
pick-me-up
,
"
which
I
failed
to
make
her
swallow
;
so
I
slapped
the
soles
of
her
feet
with
her
shoes
,
till
her
maid
arrived
,
followed
by
Drippings
,
who
,
I
suspect
,
had
spent
some
portion
of
his
time
in
the
neighbourhood
of
the
keyhole
.
"
I
will
go
and
look
for
Lady
Ursula
,
"
I
said
;
"
where
shall
I
find
her
?
"
"
In
her
own
'
boudwore
,
'
"
said
Jenkins
—
"
first
door
on
the
right
,
at
the
top
of
the
stairs
,
"
and
I
left
Lady
Broadhem
being
ministered
to
with
sal-volatile
,
and
went
in
search
of
her
daughter
.
Lady
Ursula
was
writing
,
and
as
she
looked
up
I
saw
the
traces
of
tears
upon
her
cheeks
,
though
she
smiled
as
she
frankly
gave
me
her
hand
.
"
I
half
expected
you
,
Lord
Frank
,
as
I
knew
you
were
to
call
on
mamma
to-day
,
and
I
thought
you
would
not
leave
without
seeing
me
;
but
I
expected
to
have
been
sent
for
.
Do
n't
you
know
that
this
is
very
sacred
ground
,
and
that
the
privilege
of
treading
upon
it
is
accorded
to
very
few
?
"
"
I
have
that
to
tell
you
,
"
I
said
,
gravely
,
"
which
I
can
only
talk
of
privately
.
I
have
left
Lady
Broadhem
down-stairs
,
and
it
is
the
result
of
my
interview
with
her
that
I
want
to
communicate
to
you
.
Do
you
know
that
she
contemplated
taking
a
very
serious
step
?
"
I
did
not
know
how
to
approach
the
subject
,
and
felt
embarrassed
now
that
I
found
myself
obliged
to
explain
to
a
daughter
that
her
mother
was
going
to
marry
the
man
that
daughter
had
rejected
,
as
an
act
of
revenge
.
"
No
,
"
said
Lady
Ursula
.
"
I
have
suspected
by
her
preoccupied
manner
for
many
days
past
that
mamma
had
decided
upon
something
,
but
I
have
shrunk
from
speaking
to
her
of
her
own
plans
.
Indeed
she
seemed
to
have
avoided
me
in
a
way
which
she
never
did
before
.
"
"
Before
telling
you
what
she
intended
doing
,
I
must
premise
that
she
has
quite
abandoned
the
idea
;
therefore
do
n't
let
yourself
be
distressed
by
what
might
have
been
,
but
wo
n't
be
now
.
"
I
risked
this
assertion
as
,
though
Lady
Broadhem
had
not
told
me
that
she
had
abandoned
the
idea
,
and
was
at
that
moment
in
a
dead
faint
,
I
felt
certain
that
her
first
impulse
on
"
coming
to
"
would
be
to
abandon
it
.
"
Well
,
"
said
Lady
Ursula
,
with
her
lip
trembling
and
her
eye
cast
down
,
"
if
you
think
it
right
that
you
should
tell
me
,
do
so
;
remember
she
is
my
mother
.
"
"
It
was
nothing
so
very
dreadful
after
all
,
"
I
said
,
and
tried
to
reassure
her
by
a
careless
manner
—
for
I
saw
how
much
she
dreaded
the
unknown
.
"
The
fact
is
,
Lady
Broadhem
has
been
driven
to
despair
by
the
family
embarrassments
,
and
we
must
make
allowances
for
her
under
the
circumstances
.
Then
perhaps
she
was
under
the
influence
of
pique
.
At
all
events
,
she
has
made
up
her
mind
to
accept
a
proposal
which
Mr
Chundango
had
the
audacity
to
make
.
"
Lady
Ursula
raised
her
eyes
in
a
bewildered
way
to
mine
.
It
was
evident
that
she
had
failed
even
now
to
comprehend
me
.
What
business
,
I
thought
,
had
I
to
come
up
here
after
all
?
It
is
a
piece
of
impertinence
in
me
;
and
I
trembled
at
my
rashness
.
What
will
she
think
?
I
shall
shock
her
,
and
ruin
myself
in
her
estimation
irretrievably
;
and
I
wished
myself
back
again
,
slapping
the
soles
of
Lady
Broadhem
's
feet
;
but
Lady
Broadhem
was
already
making
use
of
those
very
soles
,
and
was
marching
up-stairs
at
that
identical
moment
;
for
before
I
could
find
words
to
explain
my
meaning
more
fully
to
Lady
Ursula
,
and
while
I
was
yet
doubting
whether
I
should
not
back
out
of
the
whole
subject
,
in
stalked
her
ladyship
,
very
white
,
with
lips
compressed
,
and
an
expression
on
her
face
which
so
terrified
Ursula
that
she
forgot
my
speech
in
the
amazement
and
alarm
which
her
mother
's
aspect
caused
her
.
"
What
are
you
doing
in
my
daughter
's
private
sitting-room
,
Lord
Frank
?
"
said
Lady
Broadhem
,
between
her
teeth
.
"
I
came
to
tell
her
of
your
sudden
illness
,
and
explain
the
cause
of
it
,
"
I
replied
,
calmly
.
"
And
have
you
done
so
?
"
and
I
saw
how
much
depended
on
my
answer
by
the
nervous
way
in
which
Lady
Broadhem
clenched
her
hand
to
control
her
emotion
:
she
has
given
me
a
good
many
mauvais
quarts
d'heures
,
I
thought
—
I
will
give
her
one
now
.
"
I
was
just
telling
Lady
Ursula
,
"
I
said
,
"
that
Mr
Chundango
had
positively
had
the
impudence
to
propose
to
you
"
—
Lady
Broadhem
gave
a
sort
of
suppressed
scream
—
"
when
you
came
in
.
"
"
Then
you
did
not
tell
her
what
he
proposed
?
"
she
said
.
"
No
,
I
leave
that
to
you
,
"
I
said
,
maliciously
.
"
My
dear
Ursula
,
I
would
not
tell
you
,
because
I
know
you
do
not
approve
of
speculations
,
and
I
feel
myself
that
they
are
questionable
,
if
not
actually
sinful
.
My
dear
child
,
I
did
it
for
the
best
;
Chundango
wanted
me
to
join
him
in
one
of
his
Indian
speculations
,
and
proposed
to
me
to
"
—
Lady
Broadhem
paused
,
coloured
,
looked
me
full
in
the
face
,
and
then
said
slowly
—
"
to
unite
my
resources
to
his
.
Fortunately
,
Lord
Frank
has
just
discovered
in
time
that
he
is
a
bankrupt
,
so
of
course
all
partnership
arrangements
between
us
are
at
an
end
,
and
I
am
most
thankful
for
the
lesson
.
You
know
I
promised
you
once
before
that
I
would
give
up
trying
to
retrieve
my
own
fortunes
by
commercial
speculation
,
even
of
the
most
legitimate
description
;
and
now
,
my
dear
Frank
,
and
you
,
my
sweet
child
,
forgive
me
for
having
even
thought
of
yielding
to
this
temptation
.
You
must
have
seen
how
much
it
has
weighed
upon
me
,
Ursula
dear
,
for
some
time
past
;
but
let
us
be
thankful
that
I
have
been
saved
from
it
,
"
and
the
handkerchief
was
again
called
into
requisition
.
Well
done
,
Lady
Broadhem
!
that
was
a
triumph
of
white-lying
,
and
the
best
piece
of
acting
you
have
done
in
my
presence
;
it
so
touched
Lady
Ursula
that
she
threw
herself
on
her
mother
's
neck
.
"
Never
mind
,
mamma
;
I
know
that
whatever
you
do
is
out
of
love
for
us
;
but
indeed
we
do
n't
want
to
be
rich
.
Broadhem
has
no
expensive
tastes
,
and
I
would
only
be
too
glad
to
get
away
from
London
.
Let
us
let
the
house
,
and
take
a
little
cottage
somewhere
in
the
country
,
—
we
shall
be
so
much
happier
;
"
and
Lady
Ursula
nestled
herself
on
her
mother
's
cheek
,
little
dreaming
that
she
had
nearly
had
Chundango
for
a
father-in-law
,
and
evidently
much
relieved
at
finding
that
this
dreadful
intelligence
,
for
which
I
was
preparing
her
,
was
not
some
horrid
crime
,
but
only
another
money
affair
.
As
I
looked
at
the
mother
and
daughter
,
clasped
in
each
other
's
arms
,
and
pictured
to
myself
the
thoughts
that
were
hidden
in
those
hearts
now
palpitating
against
each
other
,
I
felt
that
it
would
almost
be
a
righteous
act
to
tear
them
asunder
for
ever
.
Never
mind
,
you
have
given
me
a
hold
over
you
that
I
shall
turn
to
account
;
that
lie
was
dexterously
worded
,
and
evidenced
infinite
presence
of
mind
;
but
you
will
have
first
to
throw
over
Chundango
,
and
then
to
shut
his
mouth
,
and
then
you
will
have
to
shut
mine
,
and
finally
to
shut
Drippings
his
mouth
.
Oh
,
my
dear
Lady
Broadhem
,
what
a
very
slimy
and
disagreeable
course
you
have
marked
out
for
yourself
!
"
Mr
Chundango
is
in
the
drawing-room
,
my
lady
,
"
said
Drippings
,
appearing
at
the
door
at
this
critical
juncture
;
and
he
took
a
survey
of
the
group
as
one
who
should
say
within
himself
,
"
Here
is
some
new
start
which
I
am
not
yet
up
to
,
but
which
I
soon
shall
be
,
"
and
he
waited
at
the
door
to
observe
the
effect
of
his
intelligence
.
"
I
shall
be
down
immediately
,
"
said
Lady
Broadhem
,
coldly
;
and
Drippings
vanished
.
"
Perhaps
,
under
the
circumstances
,
you
had
better
leave
Mr
Chundango
to
my
tender
mercies
,
"
I
said
,
significantly
.
"
There
can
be
no
reason
why
you
should
ever
see
him
again
.
"
I
emphasised
the
word
"
ever
"
purposely
,
and
assumed
a
tone
of
authority
under
which
Lady
Broadhem
winced
.
Our
eyes
met
for
a
moment
,
and
then
I
looked
at
her
nose
,
and
I
am
sure
she
read
my
thought
,
which
was
"
I
must
keep
it
on
the
grindstone
,
"
for
she
sighed
and
acquiesced
.
"
How
do
,
my
dear
Mr
Chundango
?
"
said
I
,
gaily
,
to
the
Oriental
,
who
seemed
rather
taken
aback
when
he
saw
me
enter
the
drawing-room
instead
of
Lady
Broadhem
,
and
whose
lips
got
paler
than
was
altogether
consistent
with
their
usual
colour
.
"
I
must
congratulate
you
on
the
prospect
of
becoming
a
legislator
.
I
hear
Lord
Scilly
is
going
to
put
you
in
for
his
boroughs
.
"
"
Yes
,
"
said
Chundango
,
affectedly
.
"
His
lordship
has
been
good
enough
to
press
them
upon
me
,
but
I
have
determined
not
to
go
in
as
any
man
's
nominee
.
The
fact
is
,
I
wanted
to
ask
Lady
Broadhem
's
advice
upon
that
very
matter
,
and
have
come
here
expressly
to
do
so
.
"
"
She
is
not
very
well
,
and
has
deputed
me
to
consult
with
you
instead
.
Come
,
"
I
said
,
confidentially
.
"
What
is
it
all
about
?
I
shall
be
too
glad
to
assist
you
.
"
The
puzzled
expression
of
Chundango
's
face
at
this
moment
was
a
study
:
"
Has
Lady
Broadhem
told
him
everything
or
not
?
—
How
much
does
he
know
?
—
What
line
shall
I
take
?
"
and
he
stroked
his
chin
doubtfully
.
"
Come
,
out
with
it
,
"
I
said
,
sharply
;
"
I
have
n't
time
to
stand
here
all
day
waiting
till
you
decide
how
much
you
will
tell
me
and
how
much
you
wo
n't
.
"
Now
this
is
the
kind
of
speech
which
disturbs
a
native
more
than
any
other
,
but
which
would
be
inexcusable
in
polite
society
.
I
had
lived
too
much
in
the
East
to
be
trammelled
with
the
conventionalities
of
Europe
,
and
my
friend
felt
as
much
,
for
he
cringed
at
once
after
the
manner
of
his
race
.
"
I
have
no
intention
of
deceiving
you
,
"
he
said
.
"
I
do
n't
know
whether
Lady
Broadhem
has
told
you
that
we
are
to
be
united
in
matrimony
?
"
"
Yes
,
"
I
said
,
"
she
has
.
"
"
Well
,
I
want
to
make
arrangements
by
which
the
ceremony
may
be
accomplished
without
delay
,
for
I
feel
the
suspense
is
trying
.
Might
I
ask
you
to
find
out
the
earliest
moment
which
would
suit
her
convenience
?
I
need
not
say
that
I
hope
you
will
be
present
.
"
"
I
suppose
you
would
prefer
it
,
if
possible
,
before
the
arrival
of
the
next
mail
from
Bombay
?
"
I
said
.
Chundango
,
who
is
by
no
means
deficient
in
intelligence
,
saw
at
a
glance
that
it
was
useless
to
attempt
to
deceive
me
.
"
I
see
that
you
know
,
"
he
said
,
meekly
,
"
the
terrible
misfortune
by
which
I
have
been
overtaken
,
through
no
fault
of
my
own
.
I
am
quite
sure
it
will
not
affect
Lady
Broadhem
's
resolution
.
"
"
I
am
quite
sure
it
will
,
"
I
said
;
"
and
the
fact
is
,
as
she
did
not
want
a
scene
,
she
sent
me
down
to
give
you
to
understand
that
everything
is
at
an
end
between
you
.
You
look
surprised
,
"
I
went
on
,
for
Chundango
was
not
yet
so
familiar
with
the
customs
of
polite
society
,
as
to
believe
such
heartless
conduct
on
the
part
of
Lady
Broadhem
possible
;
"
but
I
assure
you
this
is
the
usual
form
among
ladies
in
London
.
I
am
well
aware
no
Hindoo
woman
would
have
done
it
;
but
you
must
remember
,
Mr
Chundango
,
that
you
are
in
a
Christian
and
a
civilised
country
,
where
money
is
essential
to
make
the
pot
boil
—
not
in
a
tropical
heathen
land
where
a
pocket-handkerchief
is
sufficient
for
clothing
,
and
a
few
plantains
for
sustenance
.
We
do
n't
keep
our
hearts
in
a
state
of
nature
in
this
country
a
bit
more
than
our
bodies
—
it
would
not
be
considered
proper
;
you
'll
soon
get
over
it
"
—
but
Chundango
's
eyes
were
gleaming
with
revenge
.
"
Ah
!
"
he
said
,
drawing
his
breath
with
a
sibilant
sound
,
"
everybody
in
London
shall
hear
how
I
have
got
over
it
.
"
"
Nobody
would
believe
you
,
and
you
would
only
be
laughed
at
.
Lady
Broadhem
would
flatly
deny
it
.
We
always
do
deny
those
little
episodes
.
My
good
innocent
Chundango
,
how
much
you
have
to
learn
,
and
how
simple
and
guileless
they
are
in
your
native
country
to
what
we
are
here
!
No
,
no
!
come
with
me
;
I
will
do
the
best
for
everybody
,
and
send
you
back
to
your
mother
dutiful
and
repentant
—
you
had
no
business
ever
to
desert
her
;
"
and
I
rang
the
bell
.
"
Tell
Lady
Broadhem
,
"
I
said
to
Drippings
,
"
that
I
have
gone
with
Mr
Chundango
into
the
City
,
and
will
call
again
to-morrow
.
"
I
took
Chundango
straight
to
Bodwinkle
's
,
and
found
the
millionaire
in
close
confabulation
with
Spiffy
Goldtip
.
Between
them
was
the
address
to
the
electors
of
Shuffleborough
,
with
which
my
readers
are
already
familiar
.
"
We
must
alter
it
slightly
,
"
said
Spiffy
as
I
entered
.
"
What
!
have
n't
you
issued
it
yet
?
"
I
asked
.
"
No
,
"
he
said
;
"
we
were
just
going
to
send
it
out
to-day
.
"
"
Then
I
am
in
time
to
stop
you
.
Your
address
,
Spiffy
,
so
outraged
Stepton
,
that
he
has
determined
to
stand
himself
,
and
neither
you
nor
Bodwinkle
have
a
chance
;
so
I
would
advise
you
to
keep
that
document
back
,
"
I
said
,
turning
to
Bodwinkle
,
who
looked
dumbfounded
and
crestfallen
.
"
A
nice
mess
you
have
got
me
into
between
you
,
"
he
said
,
sulkily
gazing
at
us
both
.
"
Spiffy
has
,
but
my
turn
has
yet
to
come
.
Bodwinkle
,
I
think
you
know
more
of
Mr
Chundango
's
affairs
than
any
one
else
;
in
fact
,
I
suppose
you
have
what
the
tradesmen
call
'
a
little
account
'
between
you
.
He
wishes
to
say
a
few
words
confidentially
to
you
,
while
I
want
to
have
a
moment
alone
with
Spiffy
.
"
"
You
know
all
about
him
?
"
I
said
,
nodding
towards
Chundango
.
"
Collapsed
,
has
n't
he
?
"
said
Spiffy
.
"
Yes
,
"
I
said
,
"
but
it
wo
n't
be
known
for
a
day
or
two
.
At
present
he
is
Lord
Scilly
's
nominee
.
Bodwinkle
wants
a
borough
.
He
may
either
ignore
his
last
programme
,
as
it
is
not
yet
issued
,
and
adopt
Scilly
's
political
views
,
or
,
if
he
is
too
conscientious
,
when
Chundango
retires
at
the
last
moment
,
he
may
snatch
the
seat
.
All
that
is
your
affair
—
you
know
Scilly
and
Bodwinkle
both
better
than
I
do
.
Now
I
have
reasons
for
wanting
Chundango
shipped
back
at
once
to
Bombay
,
and
for
wishing
to
close
this
long-standing
affair
of
Lady
Broadhem
's
with
Bodwinkle
.
Make
the
best
terms
you
can
for
Chundango
,
and
see
what
Bodwinkle
is
disposed
to
do
in
the
other
matter
;
and
let
me
know
the
result
to-morrow
.
Keep
Chundango
here
now
to
refer
to
.
Good-bye
,
Bodwinkle
,
"
I
called
out
;
"
Spiffy
has
got
some
good
news
to
give
you
,
but
be
merciful
to
our
friend
here
,
"
and
I
passed
my
arm
through
Chundango
's
and
drew
him
to
a
corner
.
"
Now
,
look
here
,
"
I
said
,
in
a
whisper
,
"
if
you
will
bury
the
recollection
of
what
has
passed
between
you
and
Lady
Broadhem
,
and
never
breathe
a
word
of
it
even
in
your
dreams
,
I
will
get
Bodwinkle
to
start
you
again
in
Bombay
,
but
you
must
go
back
at
once
and
stay
there
.
Now
you
may
stay
here
,
for
you
will
be
wanted
.
"
I
saw
Spiffy
meantime
imparting
to
Bodwinkle
his
projects
for
turning
to
account
the
new
prospects
I
had
been
the
means
of
opening
out
to
him
.
"
Dear
me
,
"
I
thought
,
as
I
for
the
second
time
that
day
threaded
my
way
westwards
from
the
City
,
"
all
this
is
unravelling
itself
very
neatly
,
considering
how
much
dirt
is
mixed
up
in
it
,
but
it
is
not
quite
far
enough
advanced
to
be
communicated
to
Grandon
.
"
The
fact
is
,
I
had
a
sort
of
suspicion
that
he
would
not
altogether
approve
of
my
mode
of
carrying
my
point
,
even
when
my
only
desire
was
to
secure
his
and
Ursula
's
happiness
.
No
,
I
thought
;
he
would
have
scruples
,
and
object
,
and
bother
.
I
wo
n't
tell
him
anything
till
it
is
all
done
;
but
I
must
tell
him
something
,
as
I
promised
him
some
good
news
to-day
,
and
he
is
waiting
at
home
on
purpose
.
"
Well
,
old
fellow
,
I
think
I
have
got
a
borough
for
you
,
after
all
.
It
stupidly
did
not
occur
to
me
before
,
but
you
are
just
the
man
for
the
constituency
.
"
"
I
thought
you
had
been
to
Lady
Broadhem
's
,
and
were
to
bring
me
back
some
good
news
,
"
said
Grandon
,
with
a
disappointed
air
.
"
So
I
have
,
"
I
replied
,
"
but
I
am
bound
to
secrecy
for
another
twenty-four
hours
;
meantime
,
listen
!
I
am
going
to
retire
from
Dunderhead
.
I
wrote
my
address
a
few
days
ago
,
but
did
not
send
it
.
They
are
therefore
quite
unprepared
.
I
will
retire
to-morrow
;
the
nomination
is
to
be
in
two
or
three
days
;
and
what
with
the
suddenness
of
the
affair
and
my
influence
,
your
return
is
certain
.
"
"
You
going
to
retire
!
"
said
Grandon
,
astounded
.
"
Why
,
you
never
told
me
of
this
.
When
did
you
make
up
your
mind
?
"
"
It
made
itself
up
,
as
it
always
does
,
"
I
said
,
laughing
.
"
