down:
it
will
do
you
good
after
your
long
stroll
.
You
should
eat
your
own
trout
if
you
would
wait
?
”
“
By
no
means
.
You
will
miss
your
friend
,
I
should
think
?
”
“
We
shall
see
a
good
deal
of
him
,
I
doubt
not
,
what
with
the
garden
and
neighbourhood
and
so
on
;
besides
,
in
a
manner
,
he
is
master
of
his
own
time
.
His
work
is
not
like
ours
;
and
though
the
pull
on
the
brain
is
sometimes
great
,
I
have
often
wished
I
had
a
talent
that
way
.
It’s
a
drear
life
to
do
the
same
thing
every
day
at
the
same
hour
.
But
I
never
could
express
my
ideas
except
with
my
tongue
;
and
there
I
feel
tolerably
at
home
.
”
“
It
will
be
a
pity
to
see
this
room
without
these
books
,
”
said
Egremont
,
encouraging
conversation
on
domestic
subjects
.
“
So
it
will
,
”
said
Gerard
.
“
I
have
got
very
few
of
my
own
.
But
my
daughter
will
be
able
to
fill
the
shelves
in
time
,
I
warrant
.
”
“
Your
daughter
—
she
is
coming
to
live
with
you
?
”
“
Yes
;
that
is
the
reason
why
Stephen
quits
us
.
He
only
remained
here
until
Sybil
could
keep
my
house
,
and
that
happy
day
is
at
hand
.
”
“
That
is
a
great
compensation
for
the
loss
of
your
friend
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
And
yet
she
talks
of
flitting
,
”
said
Gerard
,
in
a
rather
melancholy
tone
.
“
She
hankers
after
the
cloister
.
She
has
passed
a
still
,
sweet
life
in
the
convent
here
;
the
Superior
is
the
sister
of
my
employer
and
a
very
saint
on
earth
;
and
Sybil
knows
nothing
of
the
real
world
except
its
sufferings
.
No
matter
,
”
he
added
more
cheerfully
;
“
I
would
not
have
her
take
the
veil
rashly
,
but
if
I
lose
her
it
may
be
for
the
best
.
For
the
married
life
of
a
woman
of
our
class
in
the
present
condition
of
our
country
is
a
lease
of
woe
,
”
he
added
shaking
his
head
,
“
slaves
,
and
the
slaves
of
slaves
?
Even
woman’s
spirit
cannot
stand
against
it
;
and
it
can
bear
against
more
than
we
can
,
master
.
”
“
Your
daughter
is
not
made
for
the
common
cares
of
life
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
We’ll
not
talk
of
them
,
”
said
Gerard
.
“
Sybil
has
an
English
heart
,
and
that’s
not
easily
broken
.
And
you
,
comrade
,
you
are
a
traveller
in
these
parts
,
eh
?
”
“
A
kind
of
traveller
;
something
in
the
way
of
your
friend
Morley
—
connected
with
the
press
.
”
“
Indeed
!
a
reporter
,
eh
?
I
thought
you
had
something
about
you
a
little
more
knowing
than
we
provincials
.
”
“
Yes
;
a
reporter
;
they
want
information
in
London
as
to
the
real
state
of
the
country
,
and
this
time
of
the
year
,
Parliament
not
sitting
—
Ah
;
I
understand
,
a
flying
commission
and
a
summer
tour
.
Well
,
I
often
wish
I
were
a
penman
;
but
I
never
could
do
it
.
I’ll
read
any
day
as
long
as
you
like
,
but
that
writing
,
I
could
never
manage
.
My
friend
Morley
is
a
powerful
hand
at
it
.
His
journal
circulates
a
good
deal
about
here
;
and
if
as
I
often
tell
him
he
would
only
sink
his
high-flying
philosophy
and
stick
to
old
English
politics
,
he
might
make
a
property
of
it
.
You’ll
like
to
know
him
?
”
“
Much
.
”
“
And
what
first
took
you
to
the
press
,
if
I
may
ask
!
”
“
Why
—
my
father
was
a
gentleman
—
“
,
said
Egremont
in
a
hesitating
tone
,
“
and
I
was
a
younger
son
.
”
“
Ah
!
”
said
Gerard
,
“
that
is
as
bad
as
being
a
woman
.
”
“
I
had
no
patrimony
,
”
continued
Egremont
,
“
and
I
was
obliged
to
work
;
I
had
no
head
I
believe
for
the
law
;
the
church
was
not
exactly
in
my
way
;
and
as
for
the
army
,
how
was
I
to
advance
without
money
or
connexions
!
I
had
had
some
education
,
and
so
I
thought
I
would
turn
it
to
account
.
”
“
Wisely
done
!
you
are
one
of
the
working
classes
,
and
will
enlist
I
hope
in
the
great
struggle
against
the
drones
.
The
natural
friends
of
the
people
are
younger
sons
,
though
they
are
generally
enlisted
against
us
.
The
more
fools
they
;
to
devote
their
energies
to
the
maintenance
of
a
system
which
is
founded
on
selfishness
and
which
leads
to
fraud
;
and
of
which
they
are
the
first
victims
.
But
every
man
thinks
he
will
be
an
exception
.
”
“
And
yet
,
”
said
Egremont
,
“
a
great
family
rooted
in
the
land
,
has
been
deemed
to
be
an
element
of
political
strength
.
”
“
I’ll
tell
you
what
,
”
said
Gerard
,
“
there
is
a
great
family
in
this
country
and
rooted
in
it
,
of
which
we
have
heard
much
less
than
they
deserved
,
but
of
which
I
suspect
we
shall
hear
very
soon
enough
to
make
us
all
think
a
bit
.
”
“
In
this
county
?
”
“
Ay
;
in
this
county
and
every
other
one
;
I
mean
the
PEOPLE
.
”
“
Ah
!
”
said
Egremont
,
“
that
family
has
existed
for
a
long
time
.
”
“
But
it
has
taken
to
increase
rapidly
of
late
,
my
friend
—
how
may
I
call
you
?
”
“
They
call
me
,
Franklin
.
”
“
A
good
English
name
of
a
good
English
class
that
has
disappeared
.
Well
,
Mr
Franklin
,
be
sure
of
this
,
that
the
Population
Returns
of
this
country
are
very
instructive
reading
.
”
“
I
can
conceive
so
.
”
“
I
became
a
man
when
the
bad
times
were
beginning
,
”
said
Gerard
;
“
I
have
passed
through
many
doleful
years
.
I
was
a
Franklin’s
son
myself
,
and
we
had
lived
on
this
island
at
least
no
worse
for
a
longer
time
than
I
care
to
recollect
as
little
as
what
I
am
now
.
But
that’s
nothing
;
I
am
not
thinking
of
myself
.
I
am
prosperous
in
a
fashion
;
it
is
the
serfs
I
live
among
of
whom
I
am
thinking
.
Well
,
I
have
heard
,
in
the
course
of
years
,
of
some
specifics
for
this
constant
degradation
of
the
people
;
some
thing
or
some
person
that
was
to
put
all
right
;
and
for
my
part
,
I
was
not
unready
to
support
any
proposal
or
follow
any
leader
.
There
was
reform
,
and
there
was
paper
money
,
and
no
machinery
,
and
a
thousand
other
remedies
;
and
there
were
demagogues
of
all
kinds
,
some
as
had
as
myself
,
and
some
with
blood
in
their
veins
almost
as
costly
as
flows
in
those
of
our
great
neighbour
here
.
Earl
de
Mowbray
,
and
I
have
always
heard
that
was
very
choice
:
but
I
will
frankly
own
to
you
,
I
never
had
much
faith
in
any
of
these
proposals
or
proposers
;
but
they
were
a
change
,
and
that
is
something
.
But
I
have
been
persuaded
of
late
that
there
is
something
going
on
in
this
country
of
more
efficacy
;
a
remedial
power
,
as
I
believe
,
and
irresistible
;
but
whether
remedial
or
not
,
at
any
rate
a
power
that
will
mar
all
or
cure
all
.
You
apprehend
me
?
I
speak
of
the
annual
arrival
of
more
than
three
hundred
thousand
strangers
in
this
island
.
How
will
you
feed
them
?
How
will
you
clothe
them
?
How
will
you
house
them
?
They
have
given
up
butcher’s
meat
;
must
they
give
up
bread
?
And
as
for
raiment
and
shelter
,
the
rags
of
the
kingdom
are
exhausted
and
your
sinks
and
cellars
already
swarm
like
rabbit
warrens
.
“
‘Tis
an
awful
consideration
,
”
said
Egremont
musing
.
“
Awful
,
”
said
Gerard
;
“
‘tis
the
most
solemn
thing
since
the
deluge
.
What
kingdom
can
stand
against
it
?
Why
go
to
your
history
—
you’re
a
scholar
,
—
and
see
the
fall
of
the
great
Roman
empire
—
what
was
that
?
Every
now
and
then
,
there
came
two
or
three
hundred
thousand
strangers
out
of
the
forests
and
crossed
the
mountains
and
rivers
.
They
come
to
us
every
year
and
in
greater
numbers
.
What
are
your
invasions
of
the
barbarous
nations
,
your
Goths
and
Visigoths
,
your
Lombards
and
Huns
,
to
our
Population
Returns
!
”
END
OF
THE
SECOND
BOOK
BOOK
III
.
CHAPTER
I
.
The
last
rays
of
the
sun
,
contending
with
clouds
of
smoke
that
drifted
across
the
country
,
partially
illumined
a
peculiar
landscape
.
Far
as
the
eye
could
reach
,
and
the
region
was
level
,
except
where
a
range
of
limestone
hills
formed
its
distant
limit
,
a
wilderness
of
cottages
or
tenements
that
were
hardly
entitled
to
a
higher
name
,
were
scattered
for
many
miles
over
the
land
;
some
detached
,
some
connected
in
little
rows
,
some
clustering
in
groups
,
yet
rarely
forming
continuous
streets
,
but
interspersed
with
blazing
furnaces
,
heaps
of
burning
coal
,
and
piles
of
smouldering
ironstone
;
while
forges
and
engine
chimneys
roared
and
puffed
in
all
directions
,
and
indicated
the
frequent
presence
of
the
mouth
of
the
mine
and
the
bank
of
the
coal-pit
.
Notwithstanding
the
whole
country
might
be
compared
to
a
vast
rabbit
warren
,
it
was
nevertheless
intersected
with
canals
crossing
each
other
at
various
levels
,
and
though
the
subterranean
operations
were
prosecuted
with
so
much
avidity
that
it
was
not
uncommon
to
observe
whole
rows
of
houses
awry
,
from
the
shifting
and
hollow
nature
of
the
land
,
still
,
intermingled
with
heaps
of
mineral
refuse
or
of
metallic
dross
,
patches
of
the
surface
might
here
and
there
be
recognised
,
covered
,
as
if
in
mockery
,
with
grass
and
corn
,
looking
very
much
like
those
gentlemen’s
sons
that
we
used
to
read
of
in
our
youth
,
stolen
by
the
chimneysweeps
and
giving
some
intimations
of
their
breeding
beneath
their
grimy
livery
.
But
a
tree
or
a
shrub
—
such
an
existence
was
unknown
in
this
dingy
rather
than
dreary
region
.
It
was
the
twilight
hour
;
the
hour
at
which
in
southern
climes
the
peasant
kneels
before
the
sunset
image
of
the
blessed
Hebrew
maiden
;
when
caravans
halt
in
their
long
course
over
vast
deserts
,
and
the
turbaned
traveller
bending
in
the
sand
,
pays
his
homage
to
the
sacred
stone
and
the
sacred
city
;
the
hour
,
not
less
holy
,
that
announces
the
cessation
of
English
toil
,
and
sends
forth
the
miner
and
the
collier
to
breathe
the
air
of
earth
,
and
gaze
on
the
light
of
heaven
.
They
come
forth
:
the
mine
delivers
its
gang
and
the
pit
its
bondsmen
;
the
forge
is
silent
and
the
engine
is
still
.
The
plain
is
covered
with
the
swarming
multitude
:
bands
of
stalwart
men
,
broad-chested
and
muscular
,
wet
with
toil
,
and
black
as
the
children
of
the
tropics
;
troops
of
youth
—
alas
!
of
both
sexes
,
—
though
neither
their
raiment
nor
their
language
indicates
the
difference
;
all
are
clad
in
male
attire
;
and
oaths
that
men
might
shudder
at
,
issue
from
lips
born
to
breathe
words
of
sweetness
.
Yet
these
are
to
be
—
some
are
—
the
mothers
of
England
!
But
can
we
wonder
at
the
hideous
coarseness
of
their
language
when
we
remember
the
savage
rudeness
of
their
lives
?
Naked
to
the
waist
,
an
iron
chain
fastened
to
a
belt
of
leather
runs
between
their
legs
clad
in
canvas
trousers
,
while
on
hands
and
feet
an
English
girl
,
for
twelve
,
sometimes
for
sixteen
hours
a-day
,
hauls
and
hurries
tubs
of
coals
up
subterranean
roads
,
dark
,
precipitous
,
and
plashy
:
circumstances
that
seem
to
have
escaped
the
notice
of
the
Society
for
the
Abolition
of
Negro
Slavery
.
Those
worthy
gentlemen
too
appear
to
have
been
singularly
unconscious
of
the
sufferings
of
the
little
Trappers
,
which
was
remarkable
,
as
many
of
them
were
in
their
own
employ
.
See
too
these
emerge
from
the
bowels
of
the
earth
!
Infants
of
four
and
five
years
of
age
,
many
of
them
girls
,
pretty
and
still
soft
and
timid
;
entrusted
with
the
fulfilment
of
most
responsible
duties
,
and
the
nature
of
which
entails
on
them
the
necessity
of
being
the
earliest
to
enter
the
mine
and
the
latest
to
leave
it
.
Their
labour
indeed
is
not
severe
,
for
that
would
be
impossible
,
but
it
is
passed
in
darkness
and
in
solitude
.
They
endure
that
punishment
which
philosophical
philanthropy
has
invented
for
the
direst
criminals
,
and
which
those
criminals
deem
more
terrible
than
the
death
for
which
it
is
substituted
.
Hour
after
hour
elapses
,
and
all
that
reminds
the
infant
Trappers
of
the
world
they
have
quitted
and
that
which
they
have
joined
,
is
the
passage
of
the
coal-waggons
for
which
they
open
the
air-doors
of
the
galleries
,
and
on
keeping
which
doors
constantly
closed
,
except
at
this
moment
of
passage
,
the
safety
of
the
mine
and
the
lives
of
the
persons
employed
in
it
entirely
depend
.
Sir
Joshua
,
a
man
of
genius
and
a
courtly
artist
,
struck
by
the
seraphic
countenance
of
Lady
Alice
Gordon
,
when
a
child
of
very
tender
years
,
painted
the
celestial
visage
in
various
attitudes
on
the
same
canvass
,
and
styled
the
group
of
heavenly
faces
—
guardian
angels
!
We
would
say
to
some
great
master
of
the
pencil
,
Mr
Landseer
or
Mr
Etty
,
go
thou
to
the
little
trappers
and
do
likewise
!
A
small
party
of
miners
approached
a
house
of
more
pretension
than
the
generality
of
the
dwellings
,
and
announcing
its
character
by
a
very
flagrant
sign
of
the
Rising
Sun
.
They
entered
it
as
men
accustomed
,
and
were
greeted
with
smiles
and
many
civil
words
from
the
lady
at
the
bar
,
who
inquired
very
cheerfully
what
the
gentlemen
would
have
.
They
soon
found
themselves
seated
in
the
tap
,
and
,
though
it
was
not
entirely
unoccupied
,
in
their
accustomed
places
,
for
there
seemed
a
general
understanding
that
they
enjoyed
a
prescriptive
right
.
With
hunches
of
white
bread
in
their
black
hands
,
and
grinning
with
their
sable
countenances
and
ivory
teeth
,
they
really
looked
like
a
gang
of
negroes
at
a
revel
.
The
cups
of
ale
circulated
,
the
pipes
were
lighted
,
the
preliminary
puffs
achieved
.
There
was
at
length
silence
,
when
he
who
seemed
their
leader
and
who
filled
a
sort
of
president’s
seat
,
took
his
pipe
from
his
mouth
,
and
then
uttering
the
first
complete
sentence
that
had
yet
been
expressed
aloud
,
thus
delivered
himself
.
“
The
fact
is
we
are
tommied
to
death
.
”
“
You
never
spoke
a
truer
word
,
Master
Nixon
,
”
said
one
of
his
companions
.
“
It’s
gospel
,
every
word
of
it
,
”
said
another
.
“
And
the
point
is
,
”
continued
Master
Nixon
,
“
what
are
we
for
to
do
?
”
“
Ay
,
surely
,
”
said
a
collier
;
“
that’s
the
marrow
.
”
“
Ay
,
ay
,
”
agreed
several
;
“
there
it
is
.
”
“
The
question
is
,
”
said
Nixon
,
looking
round
with
a
magisterial
air
,
“
what
is
wages
?
I
say
,
tayn’t
sugar
,
tayn’t
tea
,
tayn’t
bacon
.
I
don’t
think
it’s
candles
;
but
of
this
I
be
sure
,
tayn’t
waistcoats
.
”
Here
there
was
a
general
groan
.
“
Comrades
,
”
continued
Nixon
,
“
you
know
what
has
happened
;
you
know
as
how
Juggins
applied
for
his
balance
after
his
tommy-book
was
paid
up
,
and
that
incarnate
nigger
Diggs
has
made
him
take
two
waistcoats
.
Now
the
question
rises
,
what
is
a
collier
to
do
with
waistcoats
?
Pawn
‘em
I
s’pose
to
Diggs’
son-in-law
,
next
door
to
his
father’s
shop
,
and
sell
the
ticket
for
sixpence
.
Now
there’s
the
question
;
keep
to
the
question
;
the
question
is
waistcoats
and
tommy
;
first
waistcoats
and
then
tommy
.
”
“
I
have
been
making
a
pound
a-week
these
two
months
past
,
”
said
another
,
“
but
as
I’m
a
sinner
saved
,
I
have
never
seen
the
young
queen’s
picture
yet
.
”
“
And
I
have
been
obliged
to
pay
the
doctor
for
my
poor
wife
in
tommy
,
”
said
another
.
“
‘Doctor
,
’
I
said
,
says
I
,
‘I
blush
to
do
it
,
but
all
I
have
got
is
tommy
,
and
what
shall
it
be
,
bacon
or
cheese
?
’
‘Cheese
at
tenpence
a
pound
,
’
says
he
,
‘which
I
buy
for
my
servants
at
sixpence
.
Never
mind
,
’
says
he
,
for
he
is
a
thorough
Christian
,
‘I’ll
take
the
tommy
as
I
find
it.’
”
“
Juggins
has
got
his
rent
to
pay
and
is
afeard
of
the
bums
,
”
said
Nixon
;
“
and
he
has
got
two
waistcoats
!
”
“
Besides
,
”
said
another
,
“
Diggs’
tommy
is
only
open
once
a-week
,
and
if
you’re
not
there
in
time
,
you
go
over
for
another
seven
days
.
And
it’s
such
a
distance
,
and
he
keeps
a
body
there
such
a
time
—
it’s
always
a
day’s
work
for
my
poor
woman
;
she
can’t
do
nothing
after
it
,
what
with
the
waiting
and
the
standing
and
the
cussing
of
Master
Joseph
Diggs
,
—
for
he
do
swear
at
the
women
,
when
they
rush
in
for
the
first
turn
,
most
fearful
.
”
“
They
do
say
he’s
a
shocking
little
dog
.
”
“
Master
Joseph
is
wery
wiolent
,
but
there
is
no
one
like
old
Diggs
for
grabbing
a
bit
of
one’s
wages
.
He
do
so
love
it
!
And
then
he
says
you
never
need
be
at
no
loss
for
nothing
;
you
can
find
everything
under
my
roof
.
I
should
like
to
know
who
is
to
mend
our
shoes
.
Has
Gaffer
Diggs
a
cobbler’s
stall
?
”
“
Or
sell
us
a
penn-orth
of
potatoes
,
”
said
another
.
“
Or
a
ha’porth
of
milk
.
”
“
No
;
and
so
to
get
them
one
is
obliged
to
go
and
sell
some
tommy
,
and
much
one
gets
for
it
.
Bacon
at
ninepence
a-pound
at
Diggs’
,
which
you
may
get
at
a
huckster’s
for
sixpence
,
and
therefore
the
huckster
can’t
be
expected
to
give
you
more
than
fourpence
halfpenny
,
by
which
token
the
tommy
in
our
field
just
cuts
our
wages
atween
the
navel
.
”
“
And
that’s
as
true
as
if
you
heard
it
in
church
,
Master
Waghorn
.
”
“
This
Diggs
seems
to
be
an
oppressor
of
the
people
,
”
said
a
voice
from
a
distant
corner
of
the
room
.
Master
Nixon
looked
around
,
smoked
,
puffed
,
and
then
said
,
“
I
should
think
he
wor
;
as
bloody-a-hearted
butty
as
ever
jingled
.
”
“
But
what
business
has
a
butty
to
keep
a
shop
?
”
inquired
the
stranger
.
“
The
law
touches
him
.
”
“
I
should
like
to
know
who
would
touch
the
law
,
”
said
Nixon
;
“
not
I
for
one
.
Them
tommy
shops
is
very
delicate
things
;
they
won’t
stand
no
handling
,
I
can
tell
you
that
.
”
“
But
he
cannot
force
you
to
take
goods
,
”
said
the
stranger
;
“
he
must
pay
you
in
current
coin
of
the
realm
,
if
you
demand
it
.
”
“
They
only
pay
us
once
in
five
weeks
,
”
said
a
collier
;
“
and
how
is
a
man
to
live
meanwhile
.
And
suppose
we
were
to
make
shift
for
a
month
or
five
weeks
,
and
have
all
our
money
coming
,
and
have
no
tommy
out
of
the
shop
,
what
would
the
butty
say
to
me
?
He
would
say
,
‘do
you
want
e’er
a
note
this
time’
and
if
I
was
to
say
‘no
,
’
then
he
would
say
,
‘you’ve
no
call
to
go
down
to
work
any
more
here.’
And
that’s
what
I
call
forsation
.
”
“
Ay
,
ay
,
”
said
another
collier
;
“
ask
for
the
young
queen’s
picture
,
and
you
would
soon
have
to
put
your
shirt
on
,
and
go
up
the
shaft
.
”
“
It’s
them
long
reckonings
that
force
us
to
the
tommy
shops
,
”
said
another
collier
;
“
and
if
a
butty
turns
you
away
because
you
won’t
take
no
tommy
,
you’re
a
marked
man
in
every
field
about
.
”
*
*
A
Butty
in
the
mining
districts
is
a
middleman
:
a
Doggy
is
his
manager
.
The
Butty
generally
keeps
a
Tommy
or
Truck
shop
and
pays
the
wages
of
his
labourers
in
goods
.
When
miners
and
colliers
strike
they
term
it
,
“
going
to
play
.
”
“
There’s
wus
things
as
tommy
,
”
said
a
collier
who
had
hitherto
been
silent
,
“
and
that’s
these
here
butties
.
What’s
going
on
in
the
pit
is
known
only
to
God
Almighty
and
the
colliers
.
I
have
been
a
consistent
methodist
for
many
years
,
strived
to
do
well
,
and
all
the
harm
I
have
ever
done
to
the
butties
was
to
tell
them
that
their
deeds
would
not
stand
on
the
day
of
judgment
.
“
They
are
deeds
of
darkness
surely
;
for
many’s
the
morn
we
work
for
nothing
,
by
one
excuse
or
another
,
and
many’s
the
good
stint
that
they
undermeasure
.
And
many’s
the
cup
of
their
ale
that
you
must
drink
before
they
will
give
you
any
work
.
If
the
queen
would
do
something
for
us
poor
men
,
it
would
be
a
blessed
job
.
”
“
There
ayn’t
no
black
tyrant
on
this
earth
like
a
butty
,
surely
,
”
said
a
collier
;
“
and
there’s
no
redress
for
poor
men
.
”
“
But
why
do
not
you
state
your
grievances
to
the
landlords
and
lessees
,
”
said
the
stranger
.
“
I
take
it
you
be
a
stranger
in
these
parts
,
sir
,
”
said
Master
Nixon
,
following
up
this
remark
by
a
most
enormous
puff
.
He
was
the
oracle
of
his
circle
,
and
there
was
silence
whenever
he
was
inclined
to
address
them
,
which
was
not
too
often
,
though
when
he
spoke
,
his
words
,
as
his
followers
often
observed
,
were
a
regular
ten-yard
coal
.
“
I
take
it
you
be
a
stranger
in
these
parts
,
sir
,
or
else
you
would
know
that
it’s
as
easy
for
a
miner
to
speak
to
a
mainmaster
,
as
it
is
for
me
to
pick
coal
with
this
here
clay
.
Sir
,
there’s
a
gulf
atween
‘em
.
I
went
into
the
pit
when
I
was
five
year
old
,
and
I
count
forty
year
in
the
service
come
Martinmas
,
and
a
very
good
age
,
sir
,
for
a
man
what
does
his
work
,
and
I
knows
what
I’m
speaking
about
.
In
forty
year
,
sir
,
a
man
sees
a
pretty
deal
,
‘specially
when
he
don’t
move
out
of
the
same
spot
and
keeps
his
‘tention
.
I’ve
been
at
play
,
sir
,
several
times
in
forty
year
,
and
have
seen
as
great
stick-outs
as
ever
happened
in
this
country
.
I’ve
seen
the
people
at
play
for
weeks
together
,
and
so
clammed
that
I
never
tasted
nothing
but
a
potatoe
and
a
little
salt
for
more
than
a
fortnight
.
Talk
of
tommy
,
that
was
hard
fare
,
but
we
were
holding
out
for
our
rights
,
and
that’s
sauce
for
any
gander
.
And
I’ll
tell
you
what
,
sir
,
that
I
never
knew
the
people
play
yet
,
but
if
a
word
had
passed
atween
them
and
the
main-masters
aforehand
,
it
might
not
have
been
settled
;
but
you
can’t
get
at
them
any
way
.
Atween
the
poor
man
and
the
gentleman
there
never
was
no
connection
,
and
that’s
the
wital
mischief
of
this
country
.
“
It’s
a
very
true
word
,
Master
Nixon
,
and
by
this
token
that
when
we
went
to
play
in
—
28
,
and
the
masters
said
they
would
meet
us
;
what
did
they
do
but
walk
about
the
ground
and
speak
to
the
butties
.
The
butties
has
their
ear
.
”
“
We
never
want
no
soldiers
here
if
the
masters
would
speak
with
the
men
;
but
the
sight
of
a
pitman
is
pison
to
a
gentleman
,
and
if
we
go
up
to
speak
with
‘em
,
they
always
run
away
.
”
“
It’s
the
butties
,
”
said
Nixon
;
“
they’re
wusser
nor
tommy
.
”
“
The
people
will
never
have
their
rights
,
”
said
the
stranger
,
“
until
they
learn
their
power
.
Suppose
instead
of
sticking
out
and
playing
,
fifty
of
your
families
were
to
live
under
one
roof
.
You
would
live
better
than
you
live
now
;
you
would
feed
more
fully
,
and
he
lodged
and
clothed
more
comfortably
,
and
you
might
save
half
the
amount
of
your
wages
;
you
would
become
capitalists
;
you
might
yourselves
hire
your
mines
and
pits
from
the
owners
,
and
pay
them
a
better
rent
than
they
now
obtain
,
and
yet
yourselves
gain
more
and
work
less
.
”
“
Sir
,
”
said
Mr
Nixon
,
taking
his
pipe
from
his
mouth
,
and
sending
forth
a
volume
of
smoke
,
“
you
speak
like
a
book
.
”
“
It
is
the
principle
of
association
,
”
said
the
stranger
;
“
the
want
of
the
age
.
”
“
Sir
,
”
said
Mr
Nixon
,
“
this
here
age
wants
a
great
deal
,
but
what
it
principally
wants
is
to
have
its
wages
paid
in
the
current
coin
of
the
realm
.
”
Soon
after
this
there
were
symptoms
of
empty
mugs
and
exhausted
pipes
,
and
the
party
began
to
stir
.
The
stranger
addressing
Nixon
,
enquired
of
him
what
was
their
present
distance
from
Wodgate
.
“
Wodgate
!
”
exclaimed
Mr
Nixon
with
an
unconscious
air
.
“
The
gentleman
means
Hell-house
Yard
,
”
said
one
of
his
companions
.
“
I’m
at
home
,
”
said
Mr
Nixon
,
“
but
‘tis
the
first
time
I
ever
heard
Hell-house
Yard
called
Wodgate
.
”
“
It’s
called
so
in
joggraphy
,
”
said
Juggins
.
“
But
you
hay’nt
going
to
Hell-house
Yard
this
time
of
night
!
”
said
Mr
Nixon
.
“
I’d
as
soon
think
of
going
down
the
pit
with
the
windlass
turned
by
lushy
Bob
.
”
“
Tayn’t
a
journey
for
Christians
,
”
said
Juggins
.
“
They’re
a
very
queer
lot
even
in
sunshine
,
”
said
another
.
“
And
how
far
is
it
?
”
asked
the
stranger
.
“
I
walked
there
once
in
three
hours
,
”
said
a
collier
,
“
but
that
was
to
the
wake
.
If
you
want
to
see
divils
carnal
,
there’s
your
time
of
day
.
They’re
no
less
than
heathens
,
I
be
sure
.
I’d
be
sorry
to
see
even
our
butty
among
them
,
for
he
is
a
sort
of
a
Christian
when
he
has
taken
a
glass
of
ale
.
”
CHAPTER
II
.
Two
days
after
the
visit
of
Egremont
to
the
cottage
of
Walter
Gerard
,
the
visit
of
the
Marney
family
to
Mowbray
terminated
,
and
they
returned
to
the
Abbey
.
There
is
something
mournful
in
the
breaking
up
of
an
agreeable
party
,
and
few
are
the
roofs
in
which
one
has
sojourned
,
which
are
quitted
without
some
feeling
of
depression
.
The
sudden
cessation
of
all
those
sources
of
excitement
which
pervade
a
gay
and
well
arranged
mansion
in
the
country
,
unstrings
the
nervous
system
.
For
a
week
or
so
,
we
have
done
nothing
which
was
not
agreeable
,
and
heard
nothing
which
was
not
pleasant
.
Our
self-love
has
been
respected
;
there
has
been
a
total
cessation
of
petty
cares
;
all
the
enjoyment
of
an
establisnment
without
any
of
its
solicitude
.
We
have
beheld
civilization
only
in
its
favoured
aspect
,
and
tasted
only
the
sunny
side
of
the
fruit
.
Sometimes
there
are
associations
with
our
visit
of
a
still
sweeter
and
softer
character
,
but
on
these
we
need
not
dwell
:
glances
that
cannot
be
forgotten
,
and
tones
that
linger
in
the
ear
;
sentiment
that
subdues
the
soul
,
and
flirtation
that
agitates
the
fancy
.
No
matter
,
whatever
may
be
the
cause
,
one
too
often
drives
away
from
a
country-house
,
rather
hipped
.
The
specific
would
be
immediately
to
drive
to
another
,
and
it
is
a
favourite
remedy
.
But
sometimes
it
is
not
in
our
power
;
sometimes
for
instance
we
must
return
to
our
household
gods
in
the
shape
of
a
nursery
;
and
though
this
was
not
the
form
assumed
by
the
penates
of
Lord
Marney
,
his
presence
,
the
presence
of
an
individual
so
important
and
so
indefatigable
,
was
still
required
.
His
Lordship
had
passed
his
time
at
Mowbray
to
his
satisfaction
.
He
had
had
his
own
way
in
everything
.
His
selfishness
had
not
received
a
single
shock
.
He
had
lain
down
the
law
and
it
had
not
been
questioned
.
He
had
dogmatised
and
impugned
,
and
his
assertions
had
passed
current
,
and
his
doctrines
been
accepted
as
orthodox
.
Lord
Mowbray
suited
him
;
he
liked
the
consideration
of
so
great
a
personage
.
Lord
Marney
also
really
liked
pomp
;
a
curious
table
and
a
luxurious
life
;
but
he
liked
them
under
any
roof
rather
than
his
own
.
Not
that
he
was
what
is
commonly
called
a
Screw
;
that
is
to
say
he
was
not
a
mere
screw
;
but
he
was
acute
and
malicious
;
saw
everybody’s
worth
and
position
at
a
glance
;
could
not
bear
to
expend
his
choice
wines
and
costly
viands
on
hangers-on
and
toad-eaters
,
though
at
the
same
time
no
man
encouraged
and
required
hangers-on
and
toad-eaters
more
.
Lord
Marney
had
all
the
petty
social
vices
,
and
none
of
those
petty
social
weaknesses
which
soften
their
harshness
or
their
hideousness
.
To
receive
a
prince
of
the
blood
or
a
great
peer
he
would
spare
nothing
.
Had
he
to
fulfil
any
of
the
public
duties
of
his
station
,
his
performance
would
baffle
criticism
.
But
he
enjoyed
making
the
Vicar
of
Marney
or
Captain
Grouse
drink
some
claret
that
was
on
the
wane
,
or
praise
a
bottle
of
Burgundy
that
he
knew
was
pricked
.
Little
things
affect
little
minds
.
Lord
Marney
rose
in
no
very
good
humour
;
he
was
kept
at
the
station
,
which
aggravated
his
spleen
.
During
his
journey
on
the
railroad
he
spoke
little
,
and
though
he
more
than
once
laboured
to
get
up
a
controversy
he
was
unable
,
for
Lady
Marney
,
who
rather
dreaded
her
dull
home
,
and
was
not
yet
in
a
tone
of
mind
that
could
hail
the
presence
of
the
little
Poinsett
as
full
compensation
for
the
brilliant
circle
of
Mowbray
,
replied
in
amiable
monosyllables
,
and
Egremont
himself
in
austere
ones
,
for
he
was
musing
over
Sybil
Gerard
and
a
thousand
things
as
wild
and
sweet
.
Everything
went
wrong
this
day
.
Even
Captain
Grouse
was
not
at
the
Abbey
to
welcome
them
back
.
He
was
playing
in
a
cricket
match
,
Marney
against
Marham
.
Nothing
else
would
have
induced
him
to
be
absent
.
So
it
happened
that
the
three
fellow-travellers
had
to
dine
together
,
utterly
weary
of
themselves
and
of
each
other
.
Captain
Grouse
was
never
more
wanted
;
he
would
have
amused
Lord
Marney
,
relieved
his
wife
and
brother
,
reported
all
that
had
been
said
and
done
in
their
neighbourhood
during
their
absence
,
introduced
a
new
tone
,
and
effected
a
happy
diversion
.
Leaving
Mowbray
,
detained
at
the
station
,
Grouse
away
,
some
disagreeable
letters
,
or
letters
which
an
ill-humoured
man
chooses
to
esteem
disagreeable
,
seemed
to
announce
a
climax
.
Lord
Marney
ordered
the
dinner
to
be
served
in
the
small
dining-room
,
which
was
contiguous
to
a
saloon
in
which
Lady
Marney
,
when
they
were
alone
,
generally
passed
the
evening
.
The
dinner
was
silent
and
sombre
;
happily
it
was
also
short
.
Lord
Marney
tasted
several
dishes
,
ate
of
none
;
found
fault
with
his
own
claret
,
though
the
butler
had
given
him
a
choice
bottle
;
praised
Lord
Mowbray’s
,
wondered
where
he
got
it
,
“
all
the
wines
at
Mowbray
were
good
;
”
then
for
the
twentieth
time
wondered
what
could
have
induced
Grouse
to
fix
the
cricket
match
the
day
he
returned
home
,
though
he
chose
to
forget
that
he
had
never
communicated
to
Grouse
even
the
probable
day
on
which
he
might
be
expected
.
As
for
Egremont
it
must
be
admitted
that
he
was
scarcely
in
a
more
contented
mood
than
his
brother
,
though
he
had
not
such
insufficient
cause
for
his
dark
humours
.
In
quitting
Mowbray
,
he
had
quitted
something
else
than
merely
an
agreeable
circle
:
enough
had
happened
in
that
visit
to
stir
up
the
deep
recesses
of
his
heart
,
and
to
prompt
him
to
investigate
in
an
unusual
spirit
the
cause
and
attributes
of
his
position
.
He
had
found
a
letter
on
his
return
to
the
Abbey
,
not
calculated
to
dispel
these
somewhat
morbid
feelings
;
a
letter
from
his
agent
,
urging
the
settlement
of
his
election
accounts
,
the
primary
cause
of
his
visit
to
his
brother
.
Lady
Marney
left
the
dining-room
;
the
brothers
were
alone
.
Lord
Marney
filled
a
bumper
,
which
he
drank
off
rapidly
,
pushed
the
bottle
to
his
brother
,
and
then
said
again
,
“
What
a
cursed
bore
it
is
that
Grouse
is
not
here
.
”
“
Well
,
I
cannot
say
,
George
,
that
I
particularly
miss
the
presence
of
Captain
Grouse
,
”
said
his
brother
.
Lord
Marney
looked
at
Egremont
pugnaciously
,
and
then
observed
,
“
Grouse
is
a
capital
fellow
;
one
is
never
dull
when
Grouse
is
here
.
”
“
Well
,
for
my
part
,
”
said
Egremont
,
“
I
do
not
much
admire
that
amusement
which
is
dependent
on
the
efforts
of
hangers-on
.
”
“
Grouse
is
no
more
a
hanger-on
than
any
one
else
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
rather
fiercely
.
“
Perhaps
not
,
”
said
Egremont
quietly
;
“
I
am
no
judge
of
such
sort
of
people
.
”
“
I
should
like
to
know
what
you
are
a
judge
of
;
certainly
not
of
making
yourself
agreeable
to
young
ladies
.
Arabella
cannot
he
particularly
charmed
with
the
result
of
your
visit
to
Mowbray
,
as
far
as
Lady
Joan
is
concerned
,
Arabella’s
most
intimate
friend
by
the
bye
.
If
for
no
other
reason
,
you
ought
to
have
paid
her
more
attention
.
”
“
I
cannot
pay
attention
unless
I
am
attracted
,
”
said
Egremont
;
“
I
have
not
the
ever-ready
talent
of
your
friend
,
Captain
Grouse
.
”
“
I
do
not
know
what
you
mean
by
my
friend
Captain
Grouse
.
Captain
Grouse
is
no
more
my
friend
than
your
friend
.
One
must
have
people
about
the
house
to
do
a
thousand
things
which
one
cannot
do
oneself
,
and
which
one
cannot
trust
to
servants
,
and
Grouse
does
all
this
capitally
.
”
“
Exactly
;
he
is
just
what
I
said
,
a
capital
hanger-on
if
you
like
,
but
still
a
hanger-on
.
”
“
Well
,
and
what
then
!
Suppose
he
is
a
hanger-on
;
may
I
not
have
hangers-on
as
well
as
any
other
man
?
”
“
Of
course
you
may
;
but
I
am
not
bound
to
regret
their
absence
.
”
“
Who
said
you
were
?
But
I
will
regret
their
absence
,
if
I
choose
.
And
I
regret
the
absence
of
Grouse
,
regret
it
very
much
;
and
if
he
did
happen
to
be
inextricably
engaged
in
this
unfortunate
match
,
I
say
,
and
you
may
contradict
me
if
you
please
,
that
he
ought
to
have
taken
care
that
Slimsey
dined
here
,
to
tell
me
all
that
had
happened
.
”
“
I
am
very
glad
he
omitted
to
do
so
,
”
said
Egremont
;
“
I
prefer
Grouse
to
Slimsey
.
”
“
I
dare
say
you
do
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
filling
his
glass
and
looking
very
black
;
“
you
would
like
,
I
have
no
doubt
,
to
see
a
fine
gentleman-saint
,
like
your
friend
Mr
St
Lys
,
at
Marney
,
preaching
in
cottages
,
filling
the
people
with
discontent
,
lecturing
me
about
low
wages
,
soliciting
plots
of
grounds
for
new
churches
,
and
inveigling
Arabella
into
subscriptions
to
painted
windows
.
”
“
I
certainly
should
like
to
see
a
man
like
Aubrey
St
Lys
at
Marney
,
”
said
Egremont
quietly
,
but
rather
doggedly
.
“
And
if
he
were
here
,
I
would
soon
see
who
should
be
master
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
I
would
not
succumb
like
Mowbray
.
One
might
as
well
have
a
jesuit
in
the
house
at
once
.
”
“
I
dare
say
St
Lys
would
care
very
little
about
entering
your
house
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
I
know
it
was
with
great
reluctance
that
he
ever
came
to
Mowbray
Castle
.
”
“
I
dare
say
;
very
great
reluctance
indeed
.
And
very
reluctant
he
was
,
I
make
no
doubt
,
to
sit
next
to
Lady
Maud
.
I
wonder
he
does
not
fly
higher
,
and
preach
to
Lady
Joan
;
but
she
is
too
sensible
a
woman
for
such
fanatical
tricks
.
”
“
St
Lys
thinks
it
his
duty
to
enter
all
societies
.
That
is
the
reason
why
he
goes
to
Mowbray
Castle
,
as
well
as
to
the
squalid
courts
and
cellars
of
the
town
.
He
takes
care
that
those
who
are
clad
in
purple
and
fine
linen
shall
know
the
state
of
their
neighbours
.
They
cannot
at
least
plead
ignorance
for
the
nonfulfilment
of
their
duty
.
Before
St
Lys’s
time
,
the
family
at
Mowbray
Castle
might
as
well
have
not
existed
,
as
far
as
benefiting
their
miserable
vicinage
.
It
would
be
well
perhaps
for
other
districts
not
less
wretched
,
and
for
other
families
as
high
and
favoured
as
the
Mowbrays
,
if
there
were
a
Mr
St
Lys
on
the
spot
instead
of
a
Mr
Slimsey
.
”
“
I
suppose
that
is
meant
for
a
cut
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
but
I
wish
the
people
were
as
well
off
in
every
part
of
the
country
as
they
are
on
my
estate
.
They
get
here
their
eight
shillings
a
week
,
always
at
least
seven
,
and
every
hand
is
at
this
moment
in
employ
,
except
a
parcel
of
scoundrels
who
prefer
woodstealing
and
poaching
,
and
who
would
prefer
wood-stealing
and
poaching
if
you
gave
them
double
the
wages
.
The
rate
of
wages
is
nothing
:
certainty
is
the
thing
;
and
every
man
at
Marney
may
be
sure
of
his
seven
shillings
a-week
for
at
least
nine
months
in
the
year
;
and
for
the
other
three
,
they
can
go
to
the
House
,
and
a
very
proper
place
for
them
;
it
is
heated
with
hot
air
,
and
has
every
comfort
.
Even
Marney
Abbey
is
not
heated
with
hot
air
.
I
have
often
thought
of
it
;
it
makes
me
mad
sometimes
to
think
of
those
lazy
,
pampered
menials
passing
their
lives
with
their
backs
to
a
great
roaring
fire
;
but
I
am
afraid
of
the
flues
.
”
“
I
wonder
,
talking
of
fires
,
that
you
are
not
more
afraid
of
burning
ricks
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
It’s
an
infernal
lie
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
very
violently
.
“
What
is
?
”
said
Egremont
.
“
That
there
is
any
incendiarism
in
this
neighbourhood
.
”
“
Why
,
there
was
a
fire
the
day
after
I
came
.
”
“
That
had
nothing
to
do
with
wages
;
it
was
an
accident
.
I
examined
into
it
myself
;
so
did
Grouse
,
so
did
Slimsey
;
I
sent
them
about
everywhere
.
I
told
them
I
was
sure
the
fire
was
purely
accidental
,
and
to
go
and
see
about
it
;
and
they
came
back
and
agreed
that
it
was
purely
accidental
.
”
“
I
dare
say
they
did
,
”
said
Egremont
;
“
but
no
one
has
discovered
the
accident
.
”
“
For
my
part
,
I
believe
it
was
spontaneous
combustion
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
That
is
a
satisfactory
solution
.
”
said
Egremont
,
“
but
for
my
part
,
the
fire
being
a
fact
,
and
it
being
painfully
notorious
that
the
people
of
Marney
—
”
“
Well
,
sir
,
the
people
of
Marney
”
—
said
his
lordship
fiercely
.
“
Are
without
question
the
most
miserable
population
in
the
county
.
”
“
Did
Mr
St
Lys
tell
you
that
?
”
interrupted
Lord
Marney
,
white
with
rage
.
“
No
,
not
Mr
Lys
,
but
one
better
acquainted
with
the
neighbourhood
.
”
“
I’ll
know
your
informant’s
name
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
with
energy
.
“
My
informant
was
a
woman
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
Lady
Maud
,
I
suppose
;
second-hand
from
Mr
St
Lys
.
”
“
Mv
informant
was
a
woman
,
and
one
of
the
people
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
Some
poacher’s
drab
!
I
don’t
care
what
women
say
,
high
or
low
,
they
always
exaggerate
.
”
“
The
misery
of
a
family
who
live
upon
seven
or
even
eight
shillings
a-week
can
scarcely
be
exaggerated
.
”
“
What
should
you
know
about
it
?
Did
you
ever
live
on
seven
or
eight
shillings
a-week
?
What
can
you
know
about
the
people
who
pass
your
time
at
London
clubs
or
in
fine
country
houses
?
I
suppose
you
want
the
people
to
live
as
they
do
at
a
house
dinner
at
Boodle’s
.
I
say
that
a
family
can
live
very
well
on
seven
shillings
a-week
,
and
on
eight
shillings
very
well
indeed
.
The
poor
are
very
well
off
,
at
least
the
agricultural
poor
,
very
well
off
indeed
.
Their
incomes
are
certain
,
that
is
a
great
point
,
and
they
have
no
cares
,
no
anxieties
;
they
always
have
a
resource
,
they
always
have
the
House
.
People
without
cares
do
not
require
as
much
food
as
those
whose
life
entails
anxieties
.
See
how
long
they
live
!
Compare
the
rate
of
mortality
among
them
with
that
of
the
manufacturing
districts
.
Incendiarism
indeed
!
If
there
had
been
a
proper
rural
police
,
such
a
thing
as
incendiarism
would
never
have
been
heard
of
!
”
There
was
a
pause
.
Lord
Marney
dashed
off
another
bumper
;
Egremont
sipped
his
wine
.
At
length
he
said
,
“
This
argument
made
me
forget
the
principal
reason
,
George
,
why
I
am
glad
that
we
are
alone
together
to-day
.
I
am
sorry
to
bore
you
,
but
I
am
bored
myself
deucedly
.
I
find
a
letter
from
my
agent
.
These
election
accounts
must
be
settled
.
”
“
Why
,
I
thought
they
were
settled
.
”
“
How
do
you
mean
?
”
“
I
thought
my
mother
had
given
you
a
thousand
pounds
.
”
“
No
doubt
of
that
,
but
that
was
long
ago
disposed
of
.
”
“
In
my
opinion
quite
enough
for
a
seat
in
these
times
.
Instead
of
paying
to
get
into
Parliament
,
a
man
ought
to
be
paid
for
entering
it
.
”
“
There
may
be
a
good
deal
in
what
you
say
,
”
said
Egremont
;
“
but
it
is
too
late
to
take
that
view
of
the
business
.
The
expense
has
been
incurred
and
must
be
met
.
”
“
I
don’t
see
that
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
“
we
have
paid
one
thousand
pounds
and
there
is
a
balance
unsettled
.
When
was
there
ever
a
contest
without
a
balance
being
unsettled
?
I
remember
hearing
my
father
often
say
that
when
he
stood
for
this
county
,
our
grandfather
paid
more
than
a
hundred
thousand
pounds
,
and
yet
I
know
to
this
day
there
are
accounts
unsettled
.
Regularly
every
year
I
receive
anonymous
letters
threatening
me
with
fearful
punishment
if
I
don’t
pay
one
hundred
and
fifty
pounds
for
a
breakfast
at
the
Jolly
Tinkers
.
”
“
You
jest
:
the
matter
indeed
requires
a
serious
vein
.
I
wish
these
accounts
to
be
settled
at
once
.
”
“
And
I
should
like
to
know
where
the
funds
are
to
come
from
!
I
have
none
.
The
quantity
of
barns
I
am
building
now
is
something
tremendous
!
Then
this
rage
for
draining
;
it
would
dry
up
any
purse
.
What
think
you
of
two
million
tiles
this
year
?
And
rents
,
—
to
keep
up
which
we
are
making
these
awful
sacrifices
—
they
are
merely
nominal
,
or
soon
will
be
.
They
never
will
be
satisfied
till
they
have
touched
the
land
.
That
is
clear
to
me
.
I
am
prepared
for
a
reduction
of
five-and-twenty
per
cent
;
if
the
corn
laws
are
touched
,
it
can’t
be
less
than
that
.
My
mother
ought
to
take
it
into
consideration
and
reduce
her
jointure
accordingly
.
But
I
dare
say
she
will
not
;
people
are
so
selfish
;
particularly
as
she
has
given
you
this
thousand
pounds
,
which
in
fact
after
all
comes
out
of
my
pocket
.
”
“
All
this
you
have
said
to
me
before
.
What
does
it
mean
?
I
fought
this
battle
at
the
instigation
of
the
family
,
from
no
feeling
of
my
own
.
You
are
the
head
of
the
family
and
you
were
consulted
on
the
step
.
Unless
I
had
concluded
that
it
was
with
your
sanction
,
I
certainly
should
not
have
made
my
appearance
on
the
hustings
.
”
“
I
am
very
glad
you
did
though
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
Parliament
is
a
great
point
for
our
class
:
in
these
days
especially
,
more
even
than
in
the
old
time
.
I
was
truly
rejoiced
at
your
success
,
and
it
mortified
the
whigs
about
us
most
confoundedly
.
Some
people
thought
there
was
only
one
family
in
the
world
to
have
their
Richmond
or
their
Malton
.
Getting
you
in
for
the
old
borough
was
really
a
coup
.
”
“
Well
now
,
to
retain
our
interest
,
”
said
Egremont
,
“
quick
payment
of
our
expenses
is
the
most
efficient
way
,
believe
me
.
”
“
You
have
got
six
years
,
perhaps
seven
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
“
and
long
before
that
I
hope
to
find
you
the
husband
of
Lady
Joan
Fitz-Warene
.
”
“
I
do
not
wish
to
connect
the
two
contingencies
,
”
said
Egremont
firmly
.
“
They
are
inseparable
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
What
do
you
mean
?
”
“
I
mean
that
I
think
this
pedantic
acquittance
of
an
electioneering
account
is
in
the
highest
degree
ridiculous
,
and
that
I
cannot
interfere
in
it
.
The
legal
expenses
are
you
say
paid
;
and
if
they
were
not
,
I
should
feel
myself
bound
,
as
the
head
of
the
family
,
to
defray
them
,
but
I
can
go
no
further
.
I
cannot
bring
myself
to
sanction
an
expenditure
for
certainly
very
unnecessary
,
perhaps
,
and
I
much
fear
it
,
for
illegal
and
very
immoral
purposes
.
”
“
That
really
is
your
determination
?
”
“
After
the
most
mature
reflection
,
prompted
by
a
sincere
solicitude
for
your
benefit
.
”
“
Well
,
George
,
I
have
often
suspected
it
,
but
now
I
feel
quite
persuaded
,
that
you
are
really
the
greatest
humbug
that
ever
existed
.
”
“
Abuse
is
not
argument
,
Mr
Egremont
.
”
“
You
are
beneath
abuse
,
as
you
are
beneath
every
sentiment
but
one
,
which
I
most
entirely
feel
,
”
and
Egremont
rose
from
the
table
.
“
You
may
thank
your
own
obstinacy
and
conceit
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
I
took
you
to
Mowbray
Castle
,
and
the
cards
were
in
your
own
hands
if
you
chose
to
play
them
.
”
“
You
have
interfered
with
me
once
before
on
such
a
subject
.
Lord
Marney
,
”
said
Egremont
,
with
a
kindling
eye
and
a
cheek
pallid
with
rage
.
“
You
had
better
not
say
that
again
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
in
a
tone
of
menace
.
“
Why
not
?
”
asked
Egremont
fiercely
.
“
Who
and
what
are
you
to
dare
to
address
me
thus
?
”
“
I
am
your
elder
brother
,
sir
,
whose
relationship
to
you
is
your
only
claim
to
the
consideration
of
society
.
”
“
A
curse
on
the
society
that
has
fashioned
such
claims
.
”
said
Egremont
in
an
heightened
tone
—
“
claims
founded
in
selfishness
,
cruelty
,
and
fraud
,
and
leading
to
demoralization
,
misery
,
and
crime
.
”
“
Claims
which
I
will
make
you
respect
,
at
least
in
this
house
,
sir
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
springing
from
his
chair
.
“
Touch
me
at
your
peril
!
”
exclaimed
Egremont
,
“
or
I
will
forget
you
are
my
mother’s
son
,
and
cleave
you
to
the
ground
.
You
have
been
the
blight
of
my
life
;
you
stole
from
me
my
bride
,
and
now
you
would
rob
me
of
my
honour
.
”
“
Liar
and
villain
!
”
exclaimed
Lord
Marney
,
darting
forward
:
but
at
this
moment
his
wife
rushed
into
the
apartment
and
clung
to
him
.
“
For
heaven’s
sake
,
”
she
exclaimed
,
“
What
is
all
this
?
George
,
Charles
,
dearest
George
!
”
“
Let
me
go
,
Arabella
.
”
“
Let
him
come
on
.
”
But
Lady
Marney
gave
a
piercing
shriek
,
and
held
out
her
arms
to
keep
the
brothers
apart
.
A
sound
was
heard
at
the
other
door
;
there
was
nothing
in
the
world
that
Lord
Marney
dreaded
so
much
as
that
his
servants
should
witness
a
domestic
scene
.
He
sprang
forward
to
the
door
to
prevent
any
one
entering
;
partially
opening
it
,
he
said
Lady
Marney
was
unwell
and
desired
her
maid
;
returning
,
he
found
Arabella
insensible
on
the
ground
,
and
Egremont
vanished
!
CHAPTER
III
.
It
was
a
wet
morning
;
there
had
been
a
heavy
rain
since
dawn
,
which
impelled
by
a
gusty
south-wester
came
driving
on
a
crowd
of
women
and
girls
who
were
assembled
before
the
door
of
a
still
unclosed
shop
.
Some
protected
themselves
with
umbrellas
;
some
sought
shelter
beneath
a
row
of
old
elms
that
grew
alongside
the
canal
that
fronted
the
house
.
Notwithstanding
the
weather
,
the
clack
of
tongues
was
incessant
.
“
I
thought
I
saw
the
wicket
of
the
yard
gates
open
,
”
said
a
woman
.
“
So
did
I
,
”
said
her
neighbour
;
“
but
it
was
shut
again
immediately
.
”
“
It
was
only
Master
Joseph
,
”
said
a
third
.
“
He
likes
to
see
us
getting
wet
through
.
”
“
If
they
would
only
let
us
into
the
yard
and
get
under
one
of
the
workshop
sheds
,
as
they
do
at
Simmon’s
,
”
said
another
.
“
You
may
well
say
Simmon’s
,
Mrs
Page
;
I
only
wish
my
master
served
in
his
field
.
”
“
I
have
been
here
since
half-past
four
,
Mrs
Grigsby
,
with
this
chilt
at
my
breast
all
the
time
.
It’s
three
miles
for
me
here
,
and
the
same
back
,
and
unless
I
get
the
first
turn
,
how
are
my
poor
boys
to
find
their
dinner
ready
when
they
come
out
of
the
pit
?
”
“
A
very
true
word
,
Mrs
Page
;
and
by
this
token
,
that
last
Thursday
I
was
here
by
half-past
eleven
,
certainly
afore
noon
,
having
only
called
at
my
mother-in-law’s
in
the
way
,
and
it
was
eight
o’clock
before
I
got
home
.
Ah
!
it’s
cruel
work
,
is
the
tommy
shop
.
”
“
How
d’ye
do
neighbour
Prance
?
”
said
a
comely
dame
with
a
large
white
basket
,
“
And
how’s
your
good
man
?
They
was
saying
at
Belfy’s
he
had
changed
his
service
.
I
hear
there’s
a
new
butty
in
Mr
Parker’s
field
;
but
the
old
doggy
kept
on
;
so
I
always
thought
,
he
was
always
a
favourite
,
and
they
do
say
measured
the
stints
very
fair
.
And
what
do
you
hear
bacon
is
in
town
?
They
do
tell
me
only
sixpence
and
real
home-cured
.
I
wonder
Diggs
has
the
face
to
be
selling
still
at
nine-pence
,
and
so
very
green
!
I
think
I
see
Dame
Toddles
;
how
wonderful
she
do
wear
!
What
are
you
doing
here
,
little
dear
;
very
young
to
fetch
tommy
;
keeping
place
for
mother
,
eh
!
that’s
a
good
girl
;
she’d
do
well
to
be
here
soon
,
for
I
think
the
strike’s
on
eight
.
Diggs
is
sticking
it
on
yellow
soap
very
terrible
.
What
do
you
think
—
Ah
!
the
doors
are
going
to
open
.
No
—
a
false
alarm
.
”
“
How
fare
you
neighbour
?
”
said
a
pale
young
woman
carrying
an
infant
to
the
comely
dame
.
“
Here’s
an
awful
crowd
,
surely
.
The
women
will
be
fighting
and
tearing
to
get
in
,
I
guess
.
I
be
much
afeard
.
”
“
Well
,
‘first
come
,
first
served
,
’
all
the
world
over
,
”
said
the
comely
dame
.
“
And
you
must
put
a
good
heart
on
the
business
and
tie
your
bonnet
.
I
dare
guess
there
are
not
much
less
than
two
hundred
here
.
It’s
grand
tommy
day
you
know
.
And
for
my
part
I
don’t
care
so
much
for
a
good
squeedge
;
one
sees
so
many
faces
one
knows
.
”
“
The
cheese
here
at
sixpence
is
pretty
tidy
,
”
said
a
crone
to
her
companion
;
“
but
you
may
get
as
good
in
town
for
fourpence
.
”
“
What
I
complain
is
the
weights
,
”
replied
her
companion
.
“
I
weighed
my
pound
of
butter
bought
last
tommy
day
,
and
it
was
two
penny
pieces
too
light
.
Indeed
!
I
have
been
,
in
my
time
,
to
all
the
shops
about
here
,
for
the
lads
or
their
father
,
but
never
knew
tommy
so
bad
as
this
.
I
have
two
children
at
home
ill
from
their
flour
;
I
have
been
very
poorly
myself
;
one
is
used
to
a
little
white
clay
,
but
when
they
lay
it
on
thick
,
it’s
very
grave
.
”
“
Are
your
girls
in
the
pit
?
”
“
No
;
we
strive
to
keep
them
out
,
and
my
man
has
gone
scores
of
days
on
bread
and
water
for
that
purpose
;
and
if
we
were
not
forced
to
take
so
much
tommy
,
one
might
manage
—
but
tommy
will
beat
anything
;
Health
first
,
and
honesty
afterwards
,
that’s
my
say
.
”
“
Well
,
for
my
part
,
”
said
the
crone
,
“
meat’s
my
grievance
:
all
the
best
bits
go
to
the
butties
,
and
the
pieces
with
bone
in
are
chopped
off
for
the
colliers’
wives
.
”
“
Dame
,
when
will
the
door
open
?
”
asked
a
very
little
palefaced
boy
.
“
I
have
been
here
all
this
morn
,
and
never
broke
my
fast
.
”
“
And
what
do
you
want
,
chilt
?
”
“
I
want
a
loaf
for
mother
;
but
I
don’t
feel
I
shall
ever
get
home
again
,
I’m
all
in
a
way
so
dizzy
.
”
“
Liza
Gray
,
”
said
a
woman
with
black
beady
eyes
and
a
red
nose
,
speaking
in
a
sharp
voice
and
rushing
up
to
a
pretty
slatternly
woman
in
a
straw
bonnet
with
a
dirty
fine
ribbon
,
and
a
babe
at
her
breast
;
“
you
know
the
