andwas
handy
,
and
as
Mary
's
friend
,
the
artist
,
had
gone
to
Italy
for
some
months
,
and
she
had
no
other
patron
of
the
like
kind
,
so
was
out
of
work
as
one
may
say
,
to
him
Joshua
told
the
whole
story
of
both
her
and
Joe
Traill
;
also
how
he
had
kept
them
in
the
best
way
he
could
from
the
evil
to
which
society
had
driven
them
in
former
days
:
he
did
not
add
the
rider
of
how
society
had
revenged
itself
on
him
as
on
them
,
and
cast
us
all
out
in
company
.
But
now
,
he
said
,
he
was
desirous
of
placing
them
both
where
their
temptation
would
be
towards
honesty
;
where
it
would
be
better
for
them
to
be
honest
,
and
where
falling
back
would
plunge
them
into
misery
as
well
as
shame
.
Mr.
C
.
listened
attentively
.
He
was
evidently
touched
by
the
high
spirit
of
the
man
,
but
he
greatly
questioned
the
wisdom
of
his
ways
.
For
Joe
,
he
said
,
he
scarcely
knew
what
to
propose
.
He
shrank
from
committing
himself
to
the
patronage
of
a
convicted
thief
,
who
was
not
a
boy
to
be
sent
to
a
reformatory
and
disciplined
into
good
ways
.
It
was
out
of
his
line
altogether
,
and
he
had
no
machinery
at
hand
for
him
.
Had
he
been
a
broken-down
,
sober
,
honest
,
and
industrious
chap
,
who
had
failed
through
sickness
or
any
blameless
misfortune
,
he
would
then
have
given
him
a
lift
willingly
;
but
a
man
who
had
slipped
into
the
dark
ways
of
crime
,
who
had
got
into
houses
at
dead
of
night
with
a
crowbar
bar
and
a
jimmy
—
he
shook
his
head
,
and
said
he
did
not
like
to
have
anything
to
do
with
him
.
It
was
offering
a
premium
to
vice
to
take
trouble
to
place
this
unsatisfactory
waif
and
stray
,
when
hundreds
of
honest
men
,
who
had
never
gone
wrong
,
were
perishing
for
want
of
aid
.
“
As
for
that
,
”
said
Joshua
,
“
I
ask
nothing
,
whether
this
man
sinned
or
his
parents
;
or
neither
.
He
is
in
want
;
and
,
to
my
way
of
thinking
,
his
need
is
his
claim
,
not
his
respectability
.
”
Mr.
C
.
looked
dubious
.
“
We
must
draw
a
line
,
”
he
said
.
“
Christ
drew
it
at
the
Pharisee
,
”
answered
Joshua
simply
.
“
To
make
no
difference
between
vice
and
virtue
—
to
treat
the
one
as
tenderly
as
the
other
—
would
soon
be
to
obliterate
all
difference
between
them
in
minds
as
well
as
in
practice
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
“
And
what
,
then
,
do
we
say
to
the
parable
of
the
men
who
worked
unequally
,
and
who
got
the
same
wages
at
the
end
?
”
said
Joshua
.
“
My
good
fellow
,
”
cried
Mr.
C
.
a
little
impatiently
,
“
it
would
be
perfectly
impossible
to
try
and
live
strictly
after
the
Bible
.
‘Counsels
of
perfection’
are
all
very
well
,
but
they
are
impracticable
for
the
world
as
it
is
.
”
“
I
have
to
find
that
out
yet
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Then
you
will
not
help
me
with
poor
Joe
?
”
“
Do
not
say
I
will
not
—
I
cannot
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
“
How
can
I
ask
my
poor
,
honest
pensioners
,
or
my
respectable
workmen
,
to
receive
a
convicted
thief
among
them
?
”
“
‘And
forgive
us
our
trespasses
,
as
we
forgive
them
that
trespass
against
us.’
Does
that
mean
only
petty
,
personal
affronts
,
sir
,
or
does
it
mean
trespass
against
our
patience
,
our
hope
,
our
faith
,
our
principles
?
Does
it
not
mean
the
everlasting
Love
,
whether
we
call
it
charity
or
humanity
,
by
which
we
would
raise
the
fallen
and
help
the
weak
?
”
“
As
for
that
,
”
retorted
Mr.
C
.
,
“
there
are
texts
enough
against
consorting
with
evil
.
You
cannot
touch
pitch
,
Mr.
Davidson
,
without
being
defiled
.
”
“
Christ
lodged
in
the
house
of
Simon
the
leper
.
Mary
Magdalene
loved
Him
,
and
He
her
.
I
want
no
other
example
,
sir
.
What
the
Master
did
,
His
followers
and
disciples
may
imitate
!
”
“
You
are
an
enthusiast
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
just
as
the
M.P.
had
said
before
him
,
and
both
meant
that
enthusiasm
was
ridiculous
;
“
and
some
day
these
fine
theories
of
yours
will
come
to
a
cruel
downfall
.
You
will
be
harbouring
some
ruffian
who
will
turn
against
you
,
and
perhaps
cut
your
throat
for
your
pains
.
I
tell
you
I
know
these
people
—
they
are
incorrigible
.
”
“
Then
what
would
you
do
with
them
,
Mr.
C
.
?
”
“
You
can
do
nothing
with
them
!
”
he
answered
.
“
But
they
cannot
be
let
to
starve
,
”
said
Joshua
earnestly
.
“
I
do
not
see
that
it
is
any
one
's
duty
to
feed
them
,
when
they
will
not
feed
themselves
save
by
vice
and
crime
,
”
answered
the
philanthropist
.
“
I
would
make
all
rogues
,
male
and
female
,
show
some
tangible
signs
of
repentance
and
good
living
before
I
would
help
them
or
countenance
them
in
any
way
.
Believe
me
,
your
universal
charity
is
the
most
disastrous
line
you
could
adopt
.
”
“
Then
Christ
was
wrong
,
”
said
Joshua
:
“
and
so
we
have
come
round
to
our
starting-point
again
.
So
this
is
decided
—
you
will
not
give
Joe
Traill
a
trial
?
”
“
No
;
I
would
rather
not
have
anything
to
do
with
him
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
,
who
had
talked
himself
cross
and
determined
.
“
I
should
never
be
easy
with
the
fellow
.
I
have
no
fancy
for
burglars
,
and
I
do
n't
believe
in
their
reformation
.
All
my
men
are
picked
men
;
not
a
loose
character
among
them
.
I
could
not
ask
them
to
admit
a
convicted
thief
as
one
of
them
;
and
if
I
did
,
my
own
influence
over
them
would
be
gone
.
It
is
because
they
know
I
would
never
pardon
the
smallest
dereliction
of
duty
that
I
keep
them
up
to
the
mark
:
with
what
face
then
could
I
place
among
them
such
an
unsatisfactory
companion
as
your
protégé
?
The
thing
would
be
impossible
!
With
the
woman
perhaps
I
can
do
something
.
If
she
is
young
,
she
cannot
be
wholly
hardened
,
and
I
could
get
her
into
the
—
Street
Reformatory
.
”
“
No
,
”
said
Joshua
,
“
I
will
not
consent
to
her
going
into
a
reformatory
.
It
is
not
that
she
needs
.
In
a
reformatory
she
will
be
continually
reminded
of
what
I
want
her
to
forget
.
She
would
be
made
morbid
by
incessant
thought
about
herself
;
taught
to
say
penitential
psalms
when
she
should
be
set
to
learn
some
skilled
employment
that
would
be
of
use
to
her
in
the
future
.
I
wish
her
to
be
kept
virtuous
through
self-respect
,
and
by
being
placed
beyond
the
need
of
going
back
to
such
a
life
.
I
do
not
want
her
to
be
weakened
by
a
self-torturing
contrition
for
the
past
,
or
terrified
at
the
prospect
of
eternal
damnation
for
the
future
.
I
want
her
to
be
lifted
up
,
not
cast
down
.
”
“
You
surely
do
not
make
light
of
repentance
!
”
cried
Mr.
C
.
warmly
.
“
What
other
assurance
have
we
that
she
will
not
fail
again
?
”
“
The
best
assurance
,
sir
,
will
be
to
teach
her
self-respect
and
the
means
of
gaining
an
honest
living
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
You
are
a
rank
materialist
,
Davidson
!
”
said
Mr.
C
.
“
I
cannot
stand
your
referring
sin
to
mere
social
conditions
.
Are
there
no
such
things
as
sins
in
high
places
?
Poverty
and
ignorance
are
not
the
only
roots
of
human
wickedness
!
”
“
About
the
strongest
though
,
”
Joshua
answered
.
“
And
the
sins
of
luxury
—
”
“
Make
Mary
Prinsep
and
her
class
,
”
interrupted
Joshua
.
“
See
here
,
sir
,
what
are
you
asked
to
do
?
—
to
repair
,
in
a
very
small
way
,
the
evil
done
by
society
.
You
represent
society
at
this
moment
,
and
you
are
asked
to
undo
a
portion
of
your
own
bad
work
.
”
“
Pshaw
!
”
said
Mr.
C
.
“
I
have
not
made
Mary
bad
!
”
He
was
an
individual
kind
of
man
,
and
never
saw
beyond
his
own
point
.
“
Well
,
”
he
then
said
,
“
I
will
do
what
I
can
for
the
young
woman
.
My
wife
wants
an
under-servant
;
I
will
put
the
case
to
her
;
but
I
rely
on
you
,
”
he
added
,
old
habits
of
thought
coming
back
to
steady
him
in
this
sudden
taking-off
of
his
feet
,
as
it
were
;
“
I
rely
on
you
that
I
am
dealing
with
a
woman
substantially
repentant
,
and
so
far
purified
;
and
that
she
will
not
corrupt
the
rest
.
For
it
is
a
dangerous
experiment
at
the
best
.
”
“
She
is
good
enough
for
any
one
to
trust
and
to
love
,
”
said
Joshua
warmly
;
and
Mr.
C
.
looked
at
him
with
a
sharp
,
suspicious
glance
that
quite
changed
his
face
.
“
And
I
thank
you
heartily
,
”
Joshua
went
on
to
say
,
unconscious
that
he
had
caused
the
slightest
discomfort
in
the
gentleman
's
mind
;
“
you
have
done
a
good
work
to-day
—
a
work
of
brotherhood
with
Christ
.
”
“
I
trust
I
am
not
doing
wrong
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
doubtfully
;
“
but
it
is
against
my
principles
,
you
know
.
I
cannot
help
feeling
that
I
am
rewarding
a
woman
,
because
she
has
lived
a
life
of
infamy
,
with
a
position
which
hundreds
of
virtuous
girls
would
be
rejoiced
to
fill
.
”
“
If
your
economic
conscience
troubles
you
,
sir
,
lay
it
at
rest
by
the
answer
our
Lord
made
to
Himself
,
when
He
asked
the
Canaanitish
woman
if
it
were
meet
to
cast
the
children
's
bread
to
dogs
.
”
“
For
all
that
,
I
cannot
think
it
a
duty
to
reward
vice
,
”
persisted
Mr.
C
.
“
And
in
doing
what
I
am
doing
now
,
I
wish
it
to
be
distinctly
understood
that
it
is
at
your
instance
.
”
“
Which
means
that
you
refuse
the
responsibility
?
”
“
It
does
.
”
“
So
be
it
,
sir
.
I
accept
it
.
”
“
That
will
not
help
me
much
if
the
thing
turns
out
ill
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
in
a
discomposed
voice
.
“
Oh
,
sir
,
have
faith
in
human
nature
!
”
said
Joshua
earnestly
—
so
earnestly
that
I
believe
the
tears
were
in
his
eyes
:
they
were
in
his
voice
.
“
It
is
because
I
know
human
nature
that
I
have
so
little
faith
in
it
,
”
said
Mr.
C
.
“
Every
one
wants
the
help
of
strict
moral
principle
to
enable
him
to
steer
clear
of
the
temptations
so
sure
to
beset
him
,
and
these
fallen
brothers
and
sisters
are
but
leaky
vessels
at
the
best
.
If
human
nature
was
the
grand
thing
you
say
it
is
,
Mr.
Davidson
,
of
what
need
the
coming
of
Christ
?
You
are
a
Christian
.
”
“
And
it
is
because
Christ
lived
that
I
believe
in
humanity
,
”
said
Joshua
.
On
which
,
Mr.
C
.
said
,
with
a
smile
,
“
There
is
no
doing
anything
with
you
,
Mr.
Davidson
;
you
are
as
unconvinceable
as
a
woman
,
”
shook
hands
with
him
kindly
enough
,
and
left
.
A
day
or
two
after
this
he
came
again
,
with
many
kind
words
,
much
regret
and
I
doubt
not
genuine
,
but
—
his
wife
was
as
afraid
of
our
poor
Mary
as
he
had
been
of
Joe
Traill
,
and
refused
to
take
her
into
her
house
.
If
the
other
servants
should
ever
know
;
if
Mary
had
imposed
on
Joshua
,
and
was
really
of
no
good
;
if
she
should
corrupt
the
younger
ones
;
and
then
the
repute
of
their
house
—
the
duty
they
owed
their
neighbours
to
keep
up
a
stainless
appearance
.
No
,
there
could
be
no
home
for
her
there
;
but
the
lady
sent
a
note
,
full
of
that
half-censorious
advice
a
virtuous
woman
knows
so
well
how
to
administer
to
her
fallen
sisters
—
a
parcel
of
tracts
(
Mary
could
not
read
)
,
and
a
renewal
of
her
husband
's
offer
to
get
her
in
the
—
Street
Reformatory
.
After
which
perhaps
some
kind
Christian
person
would
be
found
to
take
her
,
she
said
,
endorsed
as
she
would
then
be
by
the
Lady
Superintendent
of
the
establishment
.
For
without
casting
any
slur
on
Mr.
Davidson
,
she
went
on
to
say
,
the
voucher
of
only
a
young
man
was
not
quite
satisfactory
to
a
mistress
who
cared
for
the
honour
of
her
house
.
And
perhaps
she
was
right
.
But
then
Joshua
was
not
like
other
young
men
;
only
she
did
not
know
this
and
Christians
think
it
no
sin
to
suspect
all
manner
of
evil
of
each
other
,
unless
they
know
for
certain
it
does
not
exist
.
Well
,
it
was
a
disappointment
;
but
Joshua
was
not
a
man
to
be
cast
down
for
one
blow
or
a
dozen
;
so
he
set
to
work
to
find
some
one
who
would
take
her
,
knowing
her
past
life
;
and
at
last
lighted
on
a
good
,
tender-hearted
,
but
timid
woman
,
who
received
her
in
full
faith
so
far
as
the
girl
herself
was
concerned
,
but
on
the
express
condition
that
no
one
should
ever
know
what
she
had
been
,
and
that
there
was
to
be
no
kind
of
communication
between
her
and
ourselves
,
or
any
of
her
old
Church-court
friends
.
To
these
terms
Joshua
advised
her
to
submit
;
so
with
many
tears
poor
Mary
went
away
to
take
the
place
of
kitchen-maid
in
a
family
living
at
a
little
distance
from
London
,
where
,
as
the
lady
said
,
she
had
a
chance
now
of
redeeming
herself
,
and
a
new
start
given
her
altogether
.
“
And
if
I
do
well
,
Joshua
,
you
will
be
pleased
with
me
?
”
she
said
as
she
was
bidding
us
good-by
.
“
More
than
pleased
,
Mary
,
”
he
said
.
“
You
know
that
I
trust
you
,
and
that
we
both
love
you
—
John
here
as
well
as
I
.
”
Mary
's
face
was
as
white
as
the
frill
round
her
neck
.
“
Joshua
!
”
she
said
,
looking
up
at
him
,
“
give
me
one
kiss
before
I
go
;
it
will
help
me
.
”
Joshua
bent
his
noble
head
and
kissed
her
tenderly
.
“
God
be
with
you
,
sister
!
”
he
said
,
and
his
voice
a
little
failed
him
.
“
And
I
will
say
the
prayer
you
taught
me
,
Joshua
,
regularly
morning
and
evening
when
I
ai
n't
too
sleepy
,
”
said
Mary
simply
.
“
And
you
will
pray
for
me
too
?
”
“
As
I
do
ever
,
my
girl
,
”
said
Joshua
:
“
and
I
believe
that
God
hears
us
!
”
“
Then
He
will
hear
me
!
”
said
Mary
with
a
kindling
face
;
“
and
I
'll
pray
harder
nor
ever
for
the
thing
I
want
!
”
Poor
Mary
!
prayer
was
naught
but
a
“
charm
”
to
her
as
yet
.
She
had
never
heard
one
,
never
offered
one
,
till
Joshua
taught
her
the
Lord
's
Prayer
,
with
a
childish
hymn
and
a
childish
“
God
bless
all
I
love
”
at
the
end
;
and
she
repeated
what
she
had
been
taught
as
a
young
child
might
;
believing
that
it
did
good
because
she
had
been
told
so
by
one
she
loved
and
trusted
,
but
realising
nothing
more
.
Or
if
she
realised
anything
,
it
was
that
she
prayed
to
Joshua
,
grown
very
great
and
strong
,
and
a
long
way
off
.
CHAPTER
VII
.
JOSHUA
'S
life
of
work
and
endeavour
brought
with
it
no
reward
of
praise
or
popularity
.
It
suffered
the
fate
of
all
unsectarianism
,
and
made
him
to
be
as
one
man
in
the
midst
of
foes
.
Had
he
been
a
converted
sinner
like
Ned
Wright
,
preaching
the
doctrine
of
the
Atonement
,
and
Purification
by
the
blood
of
Jesus
,
he
would
have
had
all
the
evangelical
force
at
his
back
,
pivoted
as
they
are
on
the
same
hub
,
whatever
their
special
denomination
.
Had
he
been
a
Ritualist
,
working
under
organised
authority
,
he
would
have
then
been
a
pipe
,
so
to
speak
,
through
which
flowed
the
power
of
the
Church
;
and
this
much
more
had
he
been
a
Roman
Catholic
,
and
of
any
Order
.
Had
he
been
a
Unitarian
,
a
stickler
for
respectability
and
that
the
poor
he
relieved
should
be
deserving
,
like
Mr.
C
.
and
the
charity-organisation
people
;
or
a
Political
Economist
,
giving
lectures
on
the
law
of
supply
and
demand
,
and
the
immorality
of
large
families
;
had
he
belonged
to
any
body
whatsoever
,
he
would
have
been
supported
.
But
,
as
he
was
—
a
man
working
on
the
Christ
plan
,
and
that
alone
;
dealing
with
Humanity
by
pity
and
love
and
tolerance
—
he
was
as
stranger
and
an
alien
.
The
whole
force
of
home
missionaries
of
every
denomination
discountenanced
him
as
an
infidel
,
unsound
,
irregular
;
and
in
whatsoever
they
disagreed
among
themselves
,
they
all
agreed
in
their
ill
estimate
of
him
.
The
police
were
suspicious
of
him
,
and
set
him
down
as
a
doubtful
character
who
harboured
criminals
;
and
the
very
people
to
whom
he
gave
himself
—
accustomed
as
they
were
to
be
scouted
by
every
man
and
woman
pretending
to
clean
hands
and
a
pure
life
,
or
,
at
the
best
,
to
be
preached
at
and
urged
to
remorse
—
misdoubted
him
.
The
absence
of
abhorrence
in
his
dealings
with
them
looked
to
some
like
a
trap
,
to
others
like
encouragement
.
And
yet
they
could
scarcely
think
that
!
—
with
all
his
endeavours
to
put
them
into
a
better
way
of
life
,
and
to
lift
them
out
of
the
necessity
of
crime
by
giving
them
the
alternative
of
honesty
made
possible
,
because
giving
them
work
sufficient
for
their
daily
wants
.
But
he
soon
began
to
see
that
the
utmost
he
,
or
a
dozen
such
as
he
,
could
do
,
was
only
palliative
and
temporary
.
He
might
save
one
out
of
a
thousand
,
and
he
would
do
well
if
he
did
that
;
but
what
is
one
out
of
a
thousand
cleansed
and
set
in
a
safe
place
,
to
the
nine
hundred
and
ninety-nine
left
in
their
filth
at
the
bottom
of
the
abyss
?
Things
have
gone
too
far
in
England
now
for
private
charities
to
be
of
much
use
.
What
is
wanted
is
a
thorough
reorganisation
of
society
,
so
that
the
distribution
of
wealth
and
knowledge
shall
not
be
so
partial
as
it
is
.
And
this
the
working
classes
must
get
for
themselves
by
combination
.
So
Joshua
turned
to
class-organisation
as
something
more
hopeful
than
private
charity
.
But
do
not
let
me
be
misunderstood
:
he
gave
up
nothing
of
his
own
personal
doings
among
the
poor
,
and
never
wearied
nor
relaxed
laxed
.
If
he
looked
to
organisation
as
the
framework
,
he
did
not
disdain
charity
as
the
enrichment
,
in
the
plan
of
social
amelioration
.
When
the
International
Working
Men
's
Association
was
formed
,
he
joined
it
as
one
of
its
first
members
;
indeed
he
mainly
helped
to
establish
it
.
It
had
been
one
of
his
articles
of
belief
long
before
any
one
else
had
spoken
,
that
the
time
had
passed
for
distinct
and
exclusive
nationalities
;
and
that
if
working
men
would
free
themselves
from
the
fetters
in
which
capital
and
caste
have
bound
them
,
it
must
be
by
their
own
class-fraternisation
all
over
the
world
.
If
labour
is
to
make
its
own
terms
with
capital
,
it
must
be
by
the
coercive
strength
of
the
labourer
.
To
wait
for
the
free
gift
of
the
capitalist
,
through
his
recognition
of
human
duties
,
as
some
among
the
Comtists
urge
,
would
be
to
wait
for
the
millennium
.
Yet
the
International
represented
no
class
enmity
with
him
.
He
had
no
dream
of
barricades
and
high
places
taken
by
assault
.
It
was
to
him
,
as
to
his
other
English
brethren
,
an
organisation
to
strengthen
the
hands
of
the
labourer
everywhere
,
but
not
to
plunge
society
into
a
bloody
war
.
It
was
a
means
of
class-advancement
by
peaceable
and
noble
efforts
,
not
of
universal
destruction
by
violent
or
ignoble
ones
.
The
middle
classes
laugh
at
the
artisan
's
desire
to
rise
in
the
world
,
and
speak
of
his
close
combinations
as
traitorous
and
rebellious
to
the
existing
order
of
things
.
Some
think
it
an
irreligious
contempt
of
a
caste-Providence
;
forgetting
that
their
own
order
was
made
by
the
same
determination
termination
,
and
that
the
recognition
of
the
merchant
class
,
and
its
reception
on
anything
like
terms
of
equality
,
was
forced
from
the
nobles
by
men
who
had
at
heart
the
great
truth
of
human
equality
and
human
rights
;
at
least
,
down
to
that
part
of
the
social
page
where
their
own
names
stood
.
Below
that
paragraph
where
the
artisan
,
the
prolétaire
,
is
to
be
found
,
society
has
as
yet
drawn
a
line
not
to
be
overpassed
.
Demand
rights
and
recognition
for
working
men
,
and
even
the
Liberal
press
gives
forth
an
uncertain
sound
,
and
the
bugbear
of
“
Jack
Cade
”
scares
such
stout
hearts
as
the
Pall
Mall
and
the
Spectator
.
Even
they
,
kings
of
liberal
thought
as
they
are
in
so
many
ways
,
will
not
see
that
the
modern
artisan
stands
in
the
same
relation
to
capital
as
that
in
which
the
ancient
serf
stood
to
the
land
.
The
serf
tilled
the
land
,
which
was
his
master
's
,
for
his
master
.
If
he
could
get
for
himself
a
living
about
as
good
as
that
of
the
hogs
he
forested
,
he
had
all
that
was
considered
necessary
for
a
serf
.
And
the
artisan
represents
the
serf
of
olden
days
,
while
capital
is
the
foretime
baron
.
The
baron
gave
his
villein
disdainful
leave
to
live
because
his
life
was
so
far
requisite
to
his
own
needs
;
but
individually
he
had
neither
rights
nor
value
.
So
the
capitalist
.
He
gives
his
workmen
only
enough
to
keep
them
in
efficient
working
order
—
or
not
that
,
if
the
labour
market
is
so
thronged
that
he
can
replace
without
trouble
those
who
fall
out
.
His
“
hands
”
are
the
mere
parts
of
his
machinery
.
The
sum
of
them
work
to
a
certain
result
;
but
he
is
indifferent
whether
the
work
is
done
with
sorrow
and
insufficiency
ciency
to
the
individual
or
not
.
His
sole
business
is
to
see
that
the
sum
get
through
their
labours
creditably
—
to
the
firm
.
It
is
good
that
the
work
of
the
world
should
be
done
at
all
costs
,
even
by
compulsory
labour
if
need
be
;
but
it
is
better
that
it
should
be
done
by
men
regarded
as
men
,
individual
,
and
having
inalienable
rights
,
rather
than
as
so
many
portions
of
a
vitalised
mechanism
.
And
a
fair
and
proportionate
share
in
the
profits
of
the
business
is
part
of
the
rights
of
the
labourer
.
I
am
speaking
now
as
if
of
myself
;
but
I
am
only
repeating
what
I
have
heard
my
friend
say
scores
of
times
.
Of
course
Joshua
was
an
earnest
Republican
.
Who
that
thinks
for
himself
can
fail
to
be
one
?
Not
that
he
would
have
put
aside
the
reigning
sovereign
by
force
,
but
he
held
that
the
times
were
ripening
for
the
old
monarchical
symbol
and
aristocratic
exclusiveness
to
disappear
now
that
the
reality
had
gone
;
and
that
the
Republic
would
come
about
of
itself
,
thanks
,
in
great
part
,
to
the
monarch
who
has
shown
the
people
that
royalty
can
be
dispensed
with
and
yet
things
go
none
the
worse
for
the
withdrawal
,
and
to
the
aristocracy
which
has
abandoned
its
traditions
of
blood
and
birth
,
and
has
sold
so
many
of
its
blue
ribands
to
money
.
But
he
was
not
a
Republican
of
the
kind
to
rave
and
vilify
,
and
accuse
all
the
higher
classes
of
wilful
misdoing
,
of
vice
and
selfishness
,
and
what
not
.
He
never
abused
anybody
,
but
judged
things
by
their
merits
,
and
gave
to
the
professors
of
any
doctrine
,
no
matter
what
,
at
least
the
credit
of
sincerity
.
By
which
he
made
many
enemies
,
and
was
constantly
accused
of
lukewarmness
to
the
cause
,
and
of
looking
two
ways
at
once
.
“
You
cannot
beat
me
off
my
point
,
”
he
used
to
say
,
when
he
had
put
into
an
uproar
a
little
inner
and
anonymous
society
which
some
few
of
us
had
formed
together
,
by
vindicating
some
man
whose
measures
he
also
had
attacked
.
“
I
say
that
we
do
our
cause
harm
,
and
degrade
ourselves
,
by
all
these
childish
personalities
.
What
we
have
to
do
is
,
to
defend
our
own
principles
,
and
show
the
fallacy
or
the
evil
of
our
opponents
'
;
but
we
must
fight
fair
,
and
give
that
credit
for
honesty
of
purpose
which
we
demand
for
ourselves
.
If
we
are
thieves
and
brigands
to
the
governing
classes
,
and
they
are
thieves
and
brigands
to
us
,
what
kind
of
understanding
can
we
ever
come
to
together
?
”
But
L
.
,
one
of
those
fanatical
men
who
cannot
accept
the
doctrine
of
an
opponent
's
virtue
,
and
whose
zeal
takes
the
form
of
the
wildest
abuse
on
all
who
differ
from
him
,
got
up
and
denounced
Joshua
as
an
“
inherent
traitor
,
”
and
advised
his
expulsion
from
the
society
.
And
more
than
one
of
the
council
looked
grave
,
and
as
if
they
were
giving
their
minds
to
it
,
had
not
Félix
Pyat
risen
,
and
given
his
opinion
so
forcibly
that
the
malcontents
were
silenced
.
Even
the
thin-voiced
little
man
who
had
denounced
Joshua
,
and
whose
ambition
was
to
be
regarded
as
the
Robespierre
of
the
society
—
incorruptible
,
and
not
to
be
moved
by
fear
or
favour
—
even
he
had
to
give
in
.
For
Félix
was
our
giant
;
and
Félix
loved
Joshua
.
This
was
at
the
time
when
he
was
over
here
as
an
exile
,
chiefly
reading
at
the
British
Museum
,
and
when
he
gained
the
love
and
admiration
of
all
who
knew
him
by
the
dignity
,
the
devotion
,
the
earnestness
of
his
life
.
I
mention
this
somewhat
by
the
way
,
as
my
feeble
protest
against
the
terms
in
which
it
is
the
fashion
to
speak
of
one
of
the
finest
fellows
that
ever
lived
—
as
fine
in
his
own
way
as
Delescluze
,
our
martyr
,
—
and
by
those
who
ought
to
know
better
and
who
do
know
better
;
but
who
think
it
politic
to
swim
with
the
stream
,
and
to
curse
those
whom
fortune
has
not
blessed
.
From
his
position
in
the
International
,
and
in
other
political
societies
—
which
abound
among
the
working
men
more
than
the
careless
upper
ten
have
the
least
idea
of
—
Joshua
was
thrown
into
intimate
relations
with
a
great
many
men
,
more
or
less
notorious
torious
.
He
saw
all
sorts
—
the
frothy
ranter
whose
motive
power
was
vanity
;
the
reckless
agitator
whose
conscience
was
obscured
,
and
,
so
long
as
there
was
something
stirring
,
cared
nothing
what
stirred
or
who
suffered
;
the
bilious
antagonist
to
all
men
superior
to
himself
,
and
who
would
pull
down
those
above
to
his
own
level
but
never
raise
up
to
it
those
who
lay
below
;
the
honest
patriot
willing
to
sink
all
minor
differences
in
the
one
great
aim
,
and
ready
to
sacrifice
himself
for
the
good
of
his
cause
and
class
,
but
blind
as
a
beetle
as
to
the
best
methods
:
he
saw
them
all
,
and
he
accepted
all
with
that
broad
human
love
,
that
large
and
liberal
allowance
of
differences
,
which
made
the
charm
of
his
character
.
“
They
are
good
elements
,
”
he
used
to
say
,
“
badly
mixed
.
Does
not
some
one
say
that
dirt
is
only
matter
in
the
wrong
place
?
So
these
men
as
leaders
would
be
pernicious
enough
,
but
a
wise
administration
could
utilise
them
.
When
Fourier
could
find
an
economic
value
in
the
diablotin
,
we
need
not
fear
for
any
one
.
”
It
was
on
this
point
that
Joshua
and
the
chief
man
of
the
London
branch
split
.
He
was
a
purist
,
and
gave
his
mind
to
tares
.
But
Joshua
thought
more
of
the
wheat
,
and
believed
in
the
larger
power
of
good
than
of
evil
.
He
opposed
all
that
narrow
partisanship
which
goes
only
in
one
groove
,
and
said
,
as
the
skilled
workmen
have
lately
said
,
that
he
would
work
with
any
one
,
no
matter
what
his
rank
or
politics
,
who
would
aid
him
and
his
order
in
securing
the
essentials
for
knowledge
and
decency
of
living
.
The
more
rabid
and
ultra
of
the
politicians
attacked
him
,
as
he
had
been
attacked
in
the
other
society
;
but
he
held
on
in
his
own
broad
,
generous
way
.
And
though
he
never
got
the
ear
of
the
International
,
because
he
was
so
truly
liberal
,
he
had
some
little
influence
;
and
what
influence
he
had
ennobled
their
councils
as
they
have
never
been
ennobled
since
.
This
is
not
speaking
against
the
society
.
I
belong
to
it
myself
,
and
I
am
proud
to
do
so
.
But
I
have
learnt
from
my
friend
to
distrust
one-sided
partisans
,
and
to
think
all
questions
best
argued
from
their
principles
,
and
the
men
who
either
support
or
oppose
them
left
out
in
the
shade
.
Men
do
n't
wilfully
uphold
the
thing
they
know
to
be
had
.
Take
the
stiffest
Conservative
of
them
all
—
the
man
who
believes
in
the
divine
ordination
of
caste
,
and
the
absolute
need
of
preserving
the
fetichism
of
society
as
it
is
,
even
though
,
like
Juggernaut
,
the
great
car
of
gentility
crushes
the
whole
working
class
beneath
it
—
he
may
be
,
and
is
,
sorry
for
the
individuals
;
but
he
maintains
the
existing
order
conscientiously
.
And
to
blackguard
him
,
and
call
him
bloodsucker
,
and
all
the
names
that
hysterical
men
do
call
him
,
is
simply
childish
anger
,
not
manly
argument
.
So
,
on
the
other
side
,
the
men
who
would
make
a
revolution
by
fire
and
blood
,
as
has
been
said
,
if
necessary
,
though
they
too
would
be
sorry
for
the
individuals
who
had
to
suffer
,
yet
they
would
feel
the
thing
to
be
done
so
much
more
righteous
than
the
suffering
would
be
unrighteous
,
that
they
would
sacrifice
the
few
and
the
present
to
the
good
of
the
many
and
the
future
.
And
these
are
no
more
“
bloodthirsty
scoundrels
,
”
and
all
the
rest
of
it
,
than
their
opponents
.
After
all
,
it
is
the
same
battle
of
strength
which
goes
on
throughout
creation
—
the
struggle
for
existence
in
class
as
in
individuals
;
and
“
the
good
old
rule
,
the
royal
plan
”
has
its
meaning
and
its
uses
,
in
that
it
necessitates
endeavour
;
which
is
the
sole
way
by
which
things
human
come
to
perfection
.
CHAPTER
VIII
.
WE
were
sitting
one
evening
at
the
night
school
which
Joshua
still
kept
up
,
the
room
full
of
men
and
women
of
what
the
world
calls
the
worst
kind
,
when
the
door
was
flung
open
with
a
clatter
,
and
Joe
Traill
,
shabbier
and
dirtier
than
ever
,
staggered
in
half-drunk
.
I
do
not
know
if
I
have
said
that
Joshua
had
at
last
succeeded
in
getting
him
a
situation
,
where
he
would
have
done
well
enough
had
he
kept
off
drink
;
but
he
had
not
;
and
this
was
the
upshot
after
about
three
months
'
fair
sailing
.
“
It
's
no
use
,
governor
,
”
he
said
to
Joshua
,
in
his
drunken
way
;
“
work
and
no
lush
too
hard
for
me
,
governor
!
I
'd
got
to
fall
soft
!
”
“
Well
Joe
,
my
man
,
it
seems
that
you
have
fallen
soft
enough
this
time
;
as
soft
as
mud
!
”
said
Joshua
.
“
However
,
sit
down
and
make
no
noise
.
I
will
talk
to
you
by-and-by
.
”
“
Not
a
copper
!
”
said
Joe
,
turning
his
pockets
inside
out
and
holding
on
by
the
tips
.
“
I
've
come
back
like
the
devil
,
worse
than
I
went
!
”
“
All
right
,
friend
,
but
not
just
now
;
let
me
go
on
with
what
I
have
in
hand
,
and
then
I
'll
attend
to
you
.
”
But
Joe
was
in
that
state
when
a
man
is
either
maudlin
or
quarrelsome
.
He
was
the
latter
;
and
partly
because
he
had
still
sense
enough
to
be
ashamed
of
himself
,
and
partly
because
he
was
pricking
all
over
like
a
porcupine
with
the
drink
,
and
wanted
to
have
it
out
with
some
one
,
he
chose
to
try
and
fasten
a
quarrel
on
Joshua
.
So
he
set
at
him
again
;
this
time
with
some
ribaldry
I
'll
not
lower
myself
to
repeat
.
And
again
Joshua
answered
him
mildly
,
but
more
authoritatively
than
before
.
“
Sit
down
,
”
he
said
;
and
I
do
n't
think
I
ever
heard
his
voice
sound
so
hard
and
stern
.
“
You
've
made
a
sore
enough
job
of
it
for
one
day
;
do
n't
add
to
your
disgrace
by
folly
.
”
Then
the
bad
blood
,
the
bad
convict
blood
that
never
got
quite
clear
away
,
boiled
up
in
Joe
,
and
he
let
out
from
his
shoulder
and
struck
Joshua
on
his
head
,
at
the
side
just
above
the
ear
.
A
dozen
men
rose
at
once
;
a
dozen
voices
cursed
and
swore
,
some
at
Joe
for
the
blow
,
some
yahing
at
Joshua
for
not
returning
it
;
women
shrieked
;
the
forms
were
upset
as
the
men
scrambled
forward
;
and
the
quiet
night-school
was
turned
into
a
roaring
Babel
of
tumult
and
violence
.
One
brawny
fellow
—
he
too
was
a
burglar
,
a
man
who
might
at
any
time
develop
into
a
murderer
;
but
he
had
more
fibre
in
him
than
poor
,
loose
,
slippery
Joe
,
more
to
go
upon
as
it
were
,
and
so
could
be
held
in
hand
better
if
once
you
could
master
his
brutality
—
he
squared
up
to
the
drunken
creature
,
on
whom
already
half-a-dozen
hands
were
fiercely
laid
.
But
Joshua
,
who
had
turned
white
and
sick-looking
with
the
blow
,
laid
his
left
hand
on
Jim
's
big
arm
,
while
he
held
out
his
right
to
Joe
Traill
,
saying
;
“
Why
Joe
!
strike
at
a
man
,
and
your
friend
,
for
nothing
!
You
must
be
dreaming
,
my
son
,
and
a
bad
dream
too
!
Give
us
your
hand
,
and
wake
up
out
of
it
!
”
I
can
tell
nothing
more
.
There
was
nothing
,
perhaps
in
the
words
,
but
there
was
that
in
the
look
of
him
,
as
he
stood
there
so
white
and
yet
so
kingly
,
with
one
hand
keeping
back
Jim
Graves
,
the
other
offered
to
Joe
squirming
in
the
grasp
of
those
who
held
him
,
that
acted
like
a
spell
on
all
the
room
.
There
were
men
there
,
and
women
too
,
who
would
have
been
ready
to
tear
him
in
pieces
themselves
if
they
had
suspected
for
an
instant
that
his
loving
leniency
was
from
cowardice
;
but
it
was
no
coward
who
confronted
the
drunkard
that
had
struck
him
,
who
confronted
that
roaring
,
yelling
,
crowd
of
desperate
men
and
women
,
and
calmed
them
all
by
his
own
unutterable
dignity
.
The
same
intense
look
that
had
come
into
his
face
when
,
a
little
lad
,
he
had
questioned
the
parson
in
the
church
,
when
,
a
youth
,
he
had
prayed
for
a
miracle
in
the
Rocky
Valley
,
came
into
his
face
now
.
He
was
as
if
raised
into
something
,
more
than
man
—
so
simple
,
so
earnest
as
he
was
—
so
far
above
all
common
weaknesses
,
so
near
to
God
,
so
like
to
Christ
!
Joe
burst
into
tears
,
sobered
and
subdued
many
of
the
women
cried
too
,
even
that
big
coarse-mouthed
Betsy
Lyon
,
one
of
the
most
abandoned
women
of
the
district
;
while
the
men
slunk
together
as
it
were
,
and
most
of
them
said
a
few
rough
words
of
praise
,
which
,
well
meant
as
they
were
,
sounded
very
far
amiss
at
such
a
time
.
And
then
the
police
,
attracted
by
the
tumult
,
came
up
into
the
room
;
and
,
glad
of
an
opportunity
they
had
been
looking
for
—
after
having
been
knocked
about
a
good
deal
,
for
all
that
Joshua
and
I
did
our
best
to
protect
them
—
marched
us
both
off
to
the
station-house
where
we
were
locked
up
for
the
night
,
no
bail
being
at
hand
.
The
magistrate
understood
nothing
of
Joshua
's
defence
next
day
,
when
he
made
it
,
but
put
him
down
with
a
severe
rebuke
.
And
as
we
had
to
be
punished
,
reason
or
none
,
we
were
both
sent
to
prison
for
a
couple
of
weeks
as
a
caution
to
us
to
behave
ourselves
better
in
the
future
.
To
live
according
to
Christ
in
modern
Christendom
was
,
as
we
found
out
,
to
be
next
thing
to
criminal
,
and
at
all
events
qualified
for
prison
discipline
.
We
do
n't
understand
anything
about
the
Lazaruses
and
Simeons
and
Magdalenes
of
our
own
city
.
When
we
read
of
our
Lord
and
Master
going
about
among
the
bad
people
of
His
day
,
we
say
it
was
divine
;
when
Joshua
followed
suit
,
he
was
locked
up
.
Well
,
Christ
was
the
criminal
of
His
day
;
and
Caiaphas
the
high
priest
,
representing
respectability
and
adhesion
to
the
existing
order
of
things
,
took
Him
in
hand
,
and
taught
the
multitude
so
well
to
feel
how
far
He
had
erred
against
the
morality
of
the
day
,
that
they
asked
for
Barabbas
rather
than
for
him
.
And
we
have
our
Caiaphases
in
full
vigour
still
.
We
had
not
done
with
poor
Joe
.
Mr.
C.
's
words
came
too
true
.
The
demon
of
drink
had
got
possession
of
him
,
and
he
was
no
more
his
own
master
than
if
he
had
been
a
lunatic
in
Bedlam
.
During
our
fortnight
's
imprisonment
he
took
everything
he
could
lay
his
hands
on
—
clothes
,
furniture
,
tools
—
every
individual
thing
,
he
did
!
—
and
pawned
them
for
drink
;
and
when
we
were
set
at
liberty
,
we
found
our
place
stripped
.
I
never
had
Joshua
's
patience
,
and
I
confess
I
was
indignant
.
It
did
seem
to
me
such
wicked
ingratitude
,
such
lowness
!
But
when
I
flared
up
with
sudden
passion
,
and
broke
out
against
the
thief
for
a
rascal
and
a
scoundrel
,
Joshua
silenced
me
with
a
rebuke
it
was
not
in
me
to
resist
.
“
Unto
seventy
times
seven
,
John
?
“
he
said
,
“
I
think
we
joined
hands
on
that
line
?
”
Then
he
added
:
“
We
must
look
that
poor
fellow
up
.
He
has
got
on
to
the
incline
,
and
,
if
not
stopped
,
he
will
go
down
to
perdition
.
”
He
took
his
hat
and
went
out
;
and
after
many
hours
'
search
through
all
the
worst
haunts
he
knew
of
,
brought
Joe
Traill
back
:
and
kept
him
.
I
need
not
go
over
the
whole
after-history
of
this
wretched
castaway
.
It
is
enough
to
say
that
again
and
again
he
fell
into
bad
courses
,
and
again
and
again
Joshua
forgave
him
.
No
trial
was
too
severe
for
his
Christian
forbearance
,
his
angelic
patience
.
“
Not
to
the
sinless
,
but
to
the
sinners
,
”
he
used
to
say
;
and
truly
the
sinners
found
it
so
!
This
unwearied
sweetness
,
this
tenderness
and
hope
that
never
failed
,
wrought
their
good
work
before
too
late
;
and
the
convicted
thief
,
who
but
for
Joshua
would
have
ended
his
days
at
the
hulks
,
if
not
at
the
gallows
,
died
,
—
of
the
results
of
former
poverty
and
vice
,
granted
—
so
far
at
peace
with
the
law
as
to
die
out
of
jail
,
and
repeating
softly
,
“
God
bless
me
and
forgive
me
!
”
These
backslidings
and
failures
were
among
the
greatest
difficulties
of
Joshua
's
work
.
Men
and
women
,
whom
he
had
thought
he
had
cleansed
and
set
on
a
wholesome
way
of
living
,
turned
back
again
to
the
drink
and
the
devilry
of
their
lives
.
Excitement
had
become
all
in
all
to
them
;
the
monotony
of
virtue
tired
them
,
and
they
broke
out
into
evil
as
a
relief
.
But
,
fail
as
often
and
as
badly
as
they
might
,
they
never
chilled
Joshua
's
heart
,
if
they
saddened
him
as
indeed
they
did
.
He
forgave
them
everything
;
whether
their
sins
had
been
against
himself
or
against
the
law
;
and
took
them
up
where
they
had
left
him
.
Sometimes
they
laughed
at
him
for
his
patience
with
them
;
sometimes
they
swore
at
him
and
refused
his
friendship
;
sometimes
they
cried
and
clung
about
him
with
pathetic
but
short-lived
gratitude
;
and
sometimes
,
but
not
often
,
they
took
his
better
lessons
to
heart
and
reformed
altogether
.
For
the
most
part
,
they
just
fluctuated
—
now
bad
,
now
good
,
as
the
fit
took
them
and
temptation
was
stronger
than
resolution
.
But
,
bad
or
good
,
he
was
ever
the
same
to
them
—
in
the
first
case
trying
to
win
over
,
in
the
second
helping
to
keep
straight
,
and
thankful
if
he
succeeded
ever
so
little
in
his
endeavours
.
The
different
reasons
given
by
the
various
sectarians
who
came
along
,
when
any
of
his
failures
were
afloat
,
were
what
I
have
said
before
.
The
Evangelicals
said
it
was
because
he
did
not
teach
the
Gospel
;
the
Church
people
,
because
he
was
consecrated
to
the
task
;
the
Unititarians
asked
him
,
in
calm
disdain
,
how
he
could
expect
to
do
good
,
if
he
made
no
difference
between
vice
and
virtue
but
treated
both
alike
?
while
the
Charity
Organization
people
talked
of
prosecuting
him
for
his
encouragement
of
mendicity
dicity
,
and
spoke
of
him
as
the
pest
of
the
district
and
the
cause
of
half
the
pauperism
about
,
because
he
helped
the
poor
in
their
need
without
enquiring
into
the
merits
of
the
case
.
And
they
all
agreed
that
the
weak
spot
in
his
system
,
and
the
cause
of
his
failures
,
was
just
this
—
he
was
not
a
Christian
.
In
the
midst
of
all
Mary
Prinsep
came
back
on
our
hands
.
You
may
perhaps
remember
that
her
mistress
had
made
a
point
of
concealing
her
former
life
from
every
one
;
in
which
she
was
justified
,
and
for
Mary
's
sake
as
much
as
for
her
own
.
Things
had
gone
very
well
so
far
,
and
Mary
had
satisfaction
and
worked
hard
to
deserve
it
,
when
unfortunately
that
man
who
had
known
her
only
too
well
in
the
sorrowful
days
of
her
sin
,
came
with
his
family
to
the
house
,
on
a
visit
of
a
day
or
two
.
All
the
servants
were
marshalled
into
prayers
morning
and
evening
;
and
naturally
Mary
with
them
;
face
to
face
with
the
guests
.
So
there
it
was
—
on
the
one
side
a
dignified
,
handsome
,
well-to-do
gentleman
,
with
respectable
white
hair
and
a
gold
eye-glass
,
a
wife
and
a
fine
young
family
,
a
character
to
lose
,
and
a
reputation
for
piety
;
on
the
other
,
a
poor
ignorant
girl
,
abandoned
by
society
,
driven
by
want
into
bad
ways
,
but
now
doing
her
best
to
get
out
of
them
.
It
was
an
awkward
meeting
for
him
,
and
he
was
afraid
maybe
of
Mary
's
establishing
a
claim
,
or
telling
what
she
knew
.
There
he
was
,
a
guest
in
her
master
's
house
,
with
his
wife
and
eldest
daughter
,
and
under
his
own
name
which
she
had
never
known
,
and
his
private
and
official
addresses
both
to
be
got
at
.
It
was
an
instinct
of
self-preservation
tion
,
no
doubt
;
but
it
was
cowardly
all
the
same
;
and
,
as
usual
,
the
weak
one
had
to
go
to
the
wall
.
He
made
up
an
excellent
story
to
explain
how
it
was
that
he
knew
the
girl
's
former
life
.
It
was
a
story
to
his
credit
as
a
Christian
gentleman
somehow
,
and
he
told
it
out
of
sheer
regard
for
his
good
friends
who
had
been
so
shamefully
imposed
on
.
And
even
when
the
lady
confessed
,
as
she
did
,
that
she
had
known
the
main
fact
of
Mary
's
history
,
she
was
urged
so
strongly
to
get
rid
of
her
that
she
consented
,
partly
in
a
vague
kind
of
belief
that
she
had
been
imposed
on
and
that
Mary
was
worse
than
she
appeared
and
capable
of
all
manners
of
unknown
crimes
,
partly
by
the
force
of
respectability
and
the
need
of
keeping
up
blameless
appearances
.
So
,
as
the
right
thing
to
do
considering
her
position
and
what
she
owed
her
family
and
her
own
character
,
this
lady
—
good
Christian
as
she
was
,
going
to
church
regularly
twice
on
Sunday
,
and
taking
the
sacrament
once
a
month
—
turned
the
poor
creature
out
of
doors
again
and
she
,
keeping
the
gentleman
's
secret
loyally
,
came
back
to
us
,
as
the
only
friends
she
had
.
She
was
something
different
to
us
from
any
other
girl
that
Joshua
had
been
the
means
of
rescuing
,
and
we
both
felt
that
she
had
a
stronger
claim
somehow
,
on
our
exertions
and
affections
.
Other
women
came
and
went
,
and
Joshua
helped
them
and
got
them
work
,
and
did
what
he
could
for
them
,
and
always
kept
up
a
kindly
interest
in
them
,
and
the
like
of
that
;
but
they
were
unto
us
what
Mary
was
;
for
she
was
like
our
own
sister
.
So
,
when
she
came
back
,
it
was
just
a
family
sorrow
somehow
;
but
,
to
me
at
least
,
it
was
a
bit
of
a
joy
too
.
But
you
see
since
we
had
got
into
that
trouble
about
Joe
,
and
had
been
locked
up
,
we
had
been
worse
off
than
ever
.
Masters
would
not
employ
us
;
mates
would
not
work
with
us
—
we
were
“
jail
birds
”
to
them
;
and
the
Union
turned
us
out
.
Joshua
held
on
though
,
and
we
got
day-jobs
;
but
we
were
often
hungry
and
often
weary
;
yet
Joshua
never
let
me
sink
into
despair
,
nor
was
he
ever
near
it
himself
,
and
we
managed
to
scrape
along
somehow
.
Still
,
our
present
poverty
made
poor
Mary
's
return
embarrassing
,
though
she
did
n't
see
it
all
.
“
It
is
of
no
use
,
Joshua
,
”
she
said
,
sitting
on
a
chair
and
leaning
her
head
on
her
hand
disconsolately
:
“
once
lost
,
you
are
done
for
in
this
world
!
There
is
nothing
for
me
but
the
old
way
;
it
is
all
I
have
left
!
”
I
remember
so
well
when
she
said
this
.
The
sun
had
come
round
to
our
window
;
for
it
was
a
summer
's
evening
;
and
it
came
into
the
room
,
and
fell
on
her
,
as
she
sat
with
her
bonnet
off
,
and
her
fair
hair
partly
fallen
about
her
face
.
She
had
very
fine
hair
,
and
she
knew
it
.
I
remember
too
that
her
dress
was
some
kind
of
blue
,
and
that
she
looked
like
a
picture
there
is
in
the
National
Gallery
;
and
I
thought
,
if
only
some
one
who
could
save
her
really
,
and
lift
her
up
for
ever
out
of
the
past
,
could
but
see
her
now
!
“
Courage
,
Mary
,
and
patience
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Yes
,
I
know
all
that
;
but
the
ways
and
means
?
”
said
Mary
,
raising
her
eyes
to
him
.
“
What
can
I
do
,
Joshua
?
To
get
my
bread
any
way
but
the
old
way
I
must
creep
into
a
house
under
false
pretences
,
and
then
be
always
afraid
of
being
found
out
;
and
if
I
am
found
out
I
am
sure
to
be
turned
off
.
No
one
will
have
me
who
knows
about
me
,
if
I
work
ever
so
hard
,
or
try
to
do
my
duty
ever
so
faithfully
.
”
“
One
failure
is
not
final
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
While
we
have
a
home
,
you
have
one
too
;
you
are
our
sister
,
remember
.
Only
have
faith
,
and
as
I
said
before
courage
and
patience
;
and
beware
of
the
first
step
back
!
”
“
Ah
,
Joshua
!
”
said
Mary
,
“
you
are
an
angel
!
”
“
No
,
”
he
answered
smiling
,
“
I
am
only
a
man
trying
to
live
by
principle
.
”
But
if
he
was
not
an
angel
he
was
not
far
off
being
one
.
It
was
difficult
to
know
what
to
do
for
the
best
for
Mary
.
We
kept
her
for
as
long
as
we
could
,
she
doing
our
chores
for
us
in
the
old
way
for
her
meat
and
room
;
and
then
Joshua
raised
funds
—
I
can
scarce
understand
how
,
but
the
poorest
of
the
people
helped
,
as
well
as
the
best
off
—
and
somehow
,
enough
was
got
together
to
establish
her
in
a
small
sweet-stuff
shop
in
East-street
close
to
Church-court
.
To
help
her
with
the
rent
we
went
to
lodge
with
her
;
which
suited
both
her
and
ourselves
;
for
you
see
we
had
got
accustomed
to
her
,
and
she
to
us
,
and
she
knew
our
ways
,
and
was
always
good
and
helpful
.
People
talked
,
of
course
;
but
then
people
talk
about
anything
,
reason
or
none
,
that
is
out
of
the
common
by
ever
so
small
a
line
;
and
no
man
who
has
taken
an
independent
path
can
escape
the
comment
of
the
crowd
accustomed
to
only
one
way
.
The
old
report
that
we
were
living
with
a
woman
of
bad
character
crept
about
again
,
and
got
down
to
our
dear
Cornish
homes
.
You
may
be
sure
it
made
our
mothers
bad
enough
when
they
heard
it
;
but
I
do
n't
think
they
quite
believed
it
,
though
they
thought
it
right
to
send
us
a
warning
,
as
if
they
did
;
and
if
they
did
,
then
they
believed
what
was
not
true
.
As
for
ourselves
,
we
had
our
own
consciences
and
Mary
's
salvation
to
keep
us
up
;
and
with
these
it
mattered
little
what
any
one
else
chose
to
say
.
As
Joshua
said
,
we
had
not
set
out
in
our
endeavour
to
realise
Christ
for
the
sake
of
gain
,
but
for
the
sake
of
the
right
;
and
if
we
had
to
suffer
,
we
must
;
but
the
right
was
not
to
be
abandoned
because
of
it
.
CHAPTER
IX
.
LORD
X
.
,
(
I
may
not
in
common
honour
give
his
name
;
a
man
however
—
so
far
I
may
say
—
notorious
for
his
philanthropy
of
an
unsteady
and
spasmodic
kind
,
and
for
a
certain
restless
curiosity
to
see
into
the
inside
of
different
social
circles
)
—
this
lord
,
in
his
wanderings
among
the
East-end
poor
,
had
come
across
Joshua
in
his
little
kingdom
of
endeavour
in
Church-court
.
And
as
no
one
could
come
in
contact
with
him
,
without
feeling
that
inexplicable
charm
which
is
inseparable
from
great
earnestness
and
self-devotion
,
it
is
to
be
supposed
that
Lord
X
.
among
the
rest
was
attracted
to
the
man
as
he
was
.
Or
maybe
it
was
only
a
poor
kind
of
curiosity
,
not
sympathy
;
as
I
have
since
believed
.
However
that
may
be
,
he
and
Joshua
met
;
and
a
friendship
was
struck
up
between
them
on
the
spot
.
I
use
the
word
advisedly
;
for
though
the
one
was
a
peer
of
the
realm
,
and
the
other
only
an
artisan
—
not
learned
in
the
scholarly
way
of
a
gentleman
;
not
refined
in
the
same
way
perhaps
as
a
gentleman
,
so
far
as
manner
and
little
observances
went
;
a
man
speaking
with
a
provincial
accent
,
and
dressed
in
fustian
and
coarse
clothes
—
yet
he
was
fit
to
take
his
place
with
the
finest
gentleman
in
the
land
;
and
even
the
finest
lady
would
have
found
but
little
in
him
to
ridicule
and
much
to
respect
.
And
I
will
do
both
Lord
and
Lady
X
.
the
credit
of
sincerity
in
the
beginning
,
when
,
as
I
said
,
the
friendship
between
him
and
them
was
struck
up
.
Then
it
must
be
remembered
,
that
Joshua
was
one
of
the
handsomest
men
you
could
see
in
a
long
summer
's
day
;
a
real
man
;
no
sickly
,
effeminate
,
half-woman
,
but
a
tall
,
broad-shouldered
,
deep-chested
fellow
,
largely
framed
,
and
with
that
calm
self-control
,
that
steady
unfeverish
energy
,
which
seemed
as
if
it
could
carry
the
world
before
it
.
And
maybe
his
good
looks
influenced
his
new
acquaintances
in
the
beginning
,
even
more
than
they
themselves
knew
.
However
that
might
be
,
they
made
up
to
him
,
and
seemed
as
though
they
would
have
been
his
best
friends
all
through
.
“
You
want
a
background
,
Mr.
Davidson
,
”
said
Lord
X
.
,
one
day
when
he
called
on
him
at
our
lodgings
.
“
All
human
nature
resolves
itself
into
a
mathematical
formula
;
a
plus
y
represents
a
quantity
unattainable
by
a
alone
.
”
“
But
what
background
can
I
get
,
my
lord
?
”
returned
Joshua
.
“
It
sounds
a
strange
confession
to
make
,
but
no
one
will
work
with
me
.
Sects
keep
only
to
themselves
or
their
affiliations
;
and
I
,
who
belong
to
no
sect
,
am
looked
on
as
an
enemy
by
all
because
I
am
an
enemy
to
none
.
”
“
Putting
sectarianism
aside
for
the
moment
,
you
can
do
nothing
without
the
sanction
of
society
,
”
said
Lord
X
.
“
No
movement
can
succeed
which
is
not
backed
by
men
of
birth
and
money
.
”
Joshua
smiled
.
“
This
remark
does
not
apply
to
the
roots
,
my
lord
,
I
suppose
?
”
he
said
;
“
only
to
the
growth
and
development
?
”
“
Oh
!
”
said
Lord
X
.
,
carelessly
,
“
a
low
fellow
might
strike
out
an
idea
,
but
it
would
want
a
man
of
position
to
develop
it
.
”
“
Well
,
perhaps
you
are
right
,
”
Joshua
answered
.
“
For
,
after
all
,
Christianity
owes
more
to
Paul
than
to
Jesus
;
and
the
Pauline
development
has
struck
deeper
and
spread
wider
than
the
Christ
original
.
”
“
Just
so
,
”
said
Lord
X
.
“
The
one
being
example
,
both
difficult
to
follow
and
subversive
of
the
existing
state
of
things
;
the
other
dogma
which
ranks
