therights
and
calming
the
anxieties
of
one
of
our
ancient
houses
.
I
would
recommend
your
lordship
to
instruct
your
lawyers
to
appear
to
this
writ
as
a
matter
of
course
.
But
enter
into
no
details
,
no
unnecessary
confidence
with
them
.
They
are
needless
.
Treat
the
matter
lightly
,
especially
to
them
.
You
will
hear
no
more
of
it
.
”
“
You
feel
confidence
?
”
“
Perfect
.
Walter
Gerard
has
no
documents
of
any
kind
.
Whatever
his
claim
might
be
,
good
or
bad
,
the
only
evidence
that
can
prove
his
pedigree
is
in
your
possession
and
the
only
use
to
which
it
ever
will
be
put
,
will
be
in
due
time
to
seat
your
grandson
in
the
House
of
Lords
.
”
“
I
am
glad
I
called
upon
you
,
”
said
Lord
Mowbray
.
“
To
be
sure
.
Your
lordship
can
speak
to
me
without
reserve
,
and
I
am
used
to
these
start-ups
.
It
is
part
of
the
trade
;
but
an
old
soldier
is
not
to
be
deceived
by
such
feints
.
”
“
Clearly
a
feint
,
you
think
?
”
“
A
feint
!
a
feint
.
”
“
Good
morning
.
I
am
glad
I
have
called
.
How
goes
on
my
friend
Sir
Vavasour
?
”
“
Oh
!
I
shall
land
him
at
last
.
”
“
Well
,
he
is
an
excellent
,
neighbourly
,
man
.
I
have
a
great
respect
for
Sir
Vavasour
.
Would
you
dine
with
me
,
Mr
Hatton
,
on
Thursday
?
It
would
give
me
and
Lady
de
Mowbray
great
pleasure
.
”
“
Your
lordship
is
extremely
kind
,
”
said
Mr
Hatton
bowing
with
a
slight
sarcastic
smile
,
“
but
I
am
an
hermit
.
”
“
But
your
friends
should
see
you
sometimes
,
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
.
“
Your
lordship
is
too
good
,
but
I
am
a
mere
man
of
business
and
know
my
position
.
I
feel
I
am
not
at
home
in
ladies’
society
.
”
“
Well
then
come
to-morrow
:
I
am
alone
,
and
I
will
ask
some
persons
to
meet
you
whom
you
know
and
like
,
—
Sir
Vavasour
and
Lord
Shaftesbury
and
a
most
learned
Frenchman
who
is
over
here
—
a
Vicomte
de
Narbonne
,
who
is
very
anxious
to
make
your
acquaintance
.
Your
name
is
current
I
can
tell
you
at
Paris
.
”
“
Your
lordship
is
too
good
;
another
day
:
I
have
a
great
pressure
of
affairs
at
present
.
”
“
Well
,
well
;
so
be
it
.
Good
morning
,
Mr
Hatton
.
”
Hatton
bowed
lowly
.
The
moment
the
door
was
shut
,
rubbing
his
hands
,
he
said
,
“
In
the
same
box
and
in
the
same
cabinet
:
the
muniment
room
in
the
great
tower
of
Mowbray
Castle
!
They
exist
and
I
know
their
whereabouts
.
I’ll
have
‘em
.
”
CHAPTER
XIV
.
Two
and
even
three
days
had
rolled
over
since
Mr
Tadpole
had
reported
Sir
Robert
on
his
way
to
the
palace
,
and
marvellously
little
had
transpired
.
It
was
of
course
known
that
a
cabinet
was
in
formation
,
and
the
daily
papers
reported
to
the
public
the
diurnal
visits
of
certain
noble
lords
and
right
honourable
gentlemen
to
the
new
first
minister
.
But
the
world
of
high
politics
had
suddenly
become
so
cautious
that
nothing
leaked
out
.
Even
gossip
was
at
fault
.
Lord
Marney
had
not
received
the
Buckhounds
,
though
he
never
quitted
his
house
for
ride
or
lounge
without
leaving
precise
instructions
with
Captain
Grouse
as
to
the
identical
time
he
should
return
home
,
so
that
his
acceptance
should
not
be
delayed
.
Ireland
was
not
yet
governed
by
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
,
and
the
Earl
de
Mowbray
was
still
ungartered
.
These
three
distinguished
noblemen
were
all
of
them
anxious
—
a
little
fidgetty
;
but
at
the
same
time
it
was
not
even
whispered
that
Lord
Rambrooke
or
any
other
lord
had
received
the
post
which
Lord
Marney
had
appropriated
to
himself
;
nor
had
Lord
Killcroppy
had
a
suspicious
interview
with
the
prime
minister
,
which
kept
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
quiet
though
not
easy
;
while
not
a
shadow
of
coming
events
had
glanced
over
the
vacant
stall
of
Lord
Ribbonville
in
St
George’s
Chapel
,
and
this
made
Lord
de
Mowbray
tranquil
,
though
scarcely
content
.
In
the
meantime
,
daily
and
hourly
they
all
pumped
Mr
Tadpole
,
who
did
not
find
it
difficult
to
keep
up
his
reputation
for
discretion
;
for
knowing
nothing
,
and
beginning
himself
to
be
perplexed
at
the
protracted
silence
,
he
took
refuge
in
oracular
mystery
,
and
delivered
himself
of
certain
Delphic
sentences
which
adroitly
satisfied
those
who
consulted
him
while
they
never
committed
himself
.
At
length
one
morning
there
was
an
odd
whisper
in
the
circle
of
first
initiation
.
The
blood
mantled
on
the
cheek
of
Lady
St
Julians
;
Lady
Deloraine
turned
pale
.
Lady
Firebrace
wrote
confidential
notes
with
the
same
pen
to
Mr
Tadpole
and
Lord
Masque
.
Lord
Marney
called
early
in
the
morning
on
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
,
and
already
found
Lord
de
Mowbray
there
.
The
clubs
were
crowded
even
at
noon
.
Everywhere
a
mysterious
bustle
and
an
awful
stir
.
What
could
be
the
matter
?
What
has
happened
?
“
It
is
true
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
to
Mr
Berners
at
Brookes’
.
“
Is
it
true
?
”
asked
Mr
Jermyn
of
Lord
Valentine
at
the
Canton
.
“
I
heard
it
last
night
at
Crockford’s
,
”
said
Mr
Ormsby
;
“
one
always
hears
things
there
four-and-twenty
hours
before
other
places
.
”
The
world
was
employed
the
whole
of
the
morning
in
asking
and
answering
this
important
question
“
Is
it
true
?
”
Towards
dinner
time
,
it
was
settled
universally
in
the
affirmative
,
and
then
the
world
went
out
to
dine
and
to
ascertain
why
it
was
true
and
how
it
was
true
.
And
now
what
really
had
happened
?
What
had
happened
was
what
is
commonly
called
a
“
hitch
.
”
There
was
undoubtedly
a
hitch
somewhere
and
somehow
;
a
hitch
in
the
construction
of
the
new
cabinet
.
Who
could
have
thought
it
?
The
whig
ministers
it
seems
had
resigned
,
but
somehow
or
other
had
not
entirely
and
completely
gone
out
.
What
a
constitutional
dilemma
?
The
Houses
must
evidently
meet
,
address
the
throne
,
and
impeach
its
obstinate
counsellors
.
Clearly
the
right
course
,
and
party
feeling
ran
so
high
,
that
it
was
not
impossible
that
something
might
be
done
.
At
any
rate
,
it
was
a
capital
opportunity
for
the
House
of
Lords
to
pluck
up
a
little
courage
and
take
what
is
called
,
in
high
political
jargon
,
the
initiative
.
Lord
Marney
at
the
suggestion
of
Mr
Tadpole
was
quite
ready
to
do
this
;
and
so
was
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
,
and
almost
the
Earl
de
Mowbray
.
But
then
when
all
seemed
ripe
and
ready
,
and
there
appeared
a
probability
of
the
“
Independence
of
the
House
of
Lords
”
being
again
the
favourite
toast
of
conservative
dinners
,
the
oddest
rumour
in
the
world
got
about
,
which
threw
such
a
ridicule
on
these
great
constitutional
movements
in
petto
,
that
even
with
the
Buckhounds
in
the
distance
and
Tadpole
at
his
elbow
,
Lord
Marney
hesitated
.
It
seemed
,
though
of
course
no
one
could
for
a
moment
credit
it
,
that
these
wrong-headed
,
rebellious
ministers
who
would
not
go
out
,
wore
—
petticoats
!
And
the
great
Jamaica
debate
that
had
been
cooked
so
long
,
and
the
anxiously
expected
,
yet
almost
despaired
of
,
defection
of
the
independent
radical
section
,
and
the
full-dressed
visit
to
the
palace
that
had
gladdened
the
heart
of
Tadpole
—
were
they
all
to
end
in
this
?
Was
Conservatism
,
that
mighty
mystery
of
the
nineteenth
century
—
was
it
after
all
to
be
brained
by
a
fan
!
Since
the
farce
of
the
“
Invincibles
”
nothing
had
ever
been
so
ludicrously
successful
.
Lady
Deloraine
consoled
herself
for
the
“
Bedchamber
Plot
”
by
declaring
that
Lady
St
Julians
was
indirectly
the
cause
of
it
,
and
that
had
it
not
been
for
the
anticipation
of
her
official
entrance
into
the
royal
apartments
the
conspiracy
would
not
have
been
more
real
than
the
Meal-tub
plot
or
any
other
of
the
many
imaginary
machinations
that
still
haunt
the
page
of
history
,
and
occasionally
flit
about
the
prejudiced
memory
of
nations
.
Lady
St
Julians
on
the
contrary
wrung
her
hands
over
the
unhappy
fate
of
her
enthralled
sovereign
,
deprived
of
her
faithful
presence
and
obliged
to
put
up
with
the
society
of
personages
of
whom
she
knew
nothing
and
who
called
themselves
the
friends
of
her
youth
.
The
ministers
who
had
missed
,
especially
those
who
had
received
their
appointments
,
looked
as
all
men
do
when
they
are
jilted
—
embarrassed
and
affecting
an
awkward
ease
;
as
if
they
knew
something
which
,
if
they
told
,
would
free
them
from
the
supreme
ridicule
of
their
situation
,
but
which
,
as
men
of
delicacy
and
honour
,
they
refrained
from
revealing
.
All
those
who
had
been
in
fluttering
hopes
,
however
faint
,
of
receiving
preferment
,
took
courage
now
that
the
occasion
had
passed
,
and
loudly
complained
of
their
cruel
and
undeniable
deprivation
.
The
constitution
was
wounded
in
their
persons
.
Some
fifty
gentlemen
who
had
not
been
appointed
under
secretaries
of
state
,
moaned
over
the
martyrdom
of
young
ambition
.
“
Peel
ought
to
have
taken
office
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
What
are
the
women
to
us
?
”
“
Peel
ought
to
have
taken
office
,
”
said
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
.
“
He
should
have
remembered
how
much
he
owed
to
Ireland
.
”
“
Peel
ought
to
have
taken
office
,
”
said
Lord
de
Mowbray
.
“
The
garter
will
become
now
a
mere
party
badge
.
”
Perhaps
it
may
be
allowed
to
the
impartial
pen
that
traces
these
memoirs
of
our
times
to
agree
,
though
for
a
different
reason
,
with
these
distinguished
followers
of
Sir
Robert
Peel
.
One
may
be
permitted
to
think
that
,
under
all
circumstances
,
he
should
have
taken
office
in
1839.
His
withdrawal
seems
to
have
been
a
mistake
.
In
the
great
heat
of
parliamentary
faction
which
had
prevailed
since
1831
,
the
royal
prerogative
,
which
,
unfortunately
for
the
rights
and
liberties
and
social
welfare
of
the
people
,
had
since
1688
been
more
or
less
oppressed
,
had
waned
fainter
and
fainter
.
A
youthful
princess
on
the
throne
,
whose
appearance
touched
the
imagination
,
and
to
whom
her
people
were
generally
inclined
to
ascribe
something
of
that
decision
of
character
which
becomes
those
born
to
command
,
offered
a
favourable
opportunity
to
restore
the
exercise
of
that
regal
authority
,
the
usurpation
of
whose
functions
has
entailed
on
the
people
of
England
so
much
suffering
and
so
much
degradation
.
It
was
unfortunate
that
one
who
,
if
any
,
should
have
occupied
the
proud
and
national
position
of
the
leader
of
the
tory
party
,
the
chief
of
the
people
and
the
champion
of
the
throne
,
should
have
commenced
his
career
as
minister
under
Victoria
by
an
unseemly
contrariety
to
the
personal
wishes
of
the
Queen
.
The
reaction
of
public
opinion
,
disgusted
with
years
of
parliamentary
tumult
and
the
incoherence
of
party
legislation
,
the
balanced
state
in
the
kingdom
of
political
parties
themselves
,
the
personal
character
of
the
sovereign
—
these
were
all
causes
which
intimated
that
a
movement
in
favour
of
prerogative
was
at
hand
.
The
leader
of
the
tory
party
should
have
vindicated
his
natural
position
,
and
availed
himself
of
the
gracious
occasion
:
he
missed
it
;
and
as
the
occasion
was
inevitable
,
the
whigs
enjoyed
its
occurrence
.
And
thus
England
witnessed
for
the
first
time
the
portentous
anomaly
of
the
oligarchical
or
Venetian
party
,
which
had
in
the
old
days
destroyed
the
free
monarchy
of
England
,
retaining
power
merely
by
the
favour
of
the
Court
.
But
we
forget
,
Sir
Robert
Peel
is
not
the
leader
of
the
Tory
party
:
the
party
that
resisted
the
ruinous
mystification
that
metamorphosed
direct
taxation
by
the
Crown
into
indirect
taxation
by
the
Commons
;
that
denounced
the
system
that
mortgaged
industry
to
protect
property
;
the
party
that
ruled
Ireland
by
a
scheme
which
reconciled
both
churches
,
and
by
a
series
of
parliaments
which
counted
among
them
lords
and
commons
of
both
religions
;
that
has
maintained
at
all
times
the
territorial
constitution
of
England
as
the
only
basis
and
security
for
local
government
,
and
which
nevertheless
once
laid
on
the
table
of
the
House
of
Commons
a
commercial
tariff
negociated
at
Utrecht
,
which
is
the
most
rational
that
was
ever
devised
by
statesmen
;
a
party
that
has
prevented
the
Church
from
being
the
salaried
agent
of
the
state
,
and
has
supported
through
many
struggles
the
parochial
polity
of
the
country
which
secures
to
every
labourer
a
home
.
In
a
parliamentary
sense
,
that
great
party
has
ceased
to
exist
;
but
I
will
believe
it
still
lives
in
the
thought
and
sentiment
and
consecrated
memory
of
the
English
nation
.
It
has
its
origin
in
great
principles
and
in
noble
instincts
;
it
sympathises
with
the
lowly
,
it
looks
up
to
the
Most
High
;
it
can
count
its
heroes
and
its
martyrs
;
they
have
met
in
its
behalf
plunder
,
proscription
,
and
death
.
Nor
when
it
finally
yielded
to
the
iron
progress
of
oligarchical
supremacy
,
was
its
catastrophe
inglorious
.
Its
genius
was
vindicated
in
golden
sentences
and
with
fervent
arguments
of
impassioned
logic
by
St
John
;
and
breathed
in
the
intrepid
eloquence
and
patriot
soul
of
William
Wyndham
.
Even
now
it
is
not
dead
,
but
sleepeth
;
and
in
an
age
of
political
materialism
,
of
confused
purposes
and
perplexed
intelligence
,
that
aspires
only
to
wealth
because
it
has
faith
in
no
other
accomplishment
,
as
men
rifle
cargoes
on
the
verge
of
shipwreck
,
Toryism
will
yet
rise
from
the
tomb
over
which
Bolingbroke
shed
his
last
tear
,
to
bring
back
strength
to
the
Crown
,
liberty
to
the
Subject
,
and
to
announce
that
power
has
only
one
duty
—
to
secure
the
social
welfare
of
the
PEOPLE
.
CHAPTER
XV
.
During
the
week
of
political
agitation
which
terminated
with
the
inglorious
catastrophe
of
the
Bedchamber
plot
,
Sybil
remained
tranquil
,
and
would
have
been
scarcely
conscious
of
what
was
disturbing
so
many
right
honourable
hearts
,
had
it
not
been
for
the
incidental
notice
of
their
transactions
by
her
father
and
his
friends
.
To
the
chartists
indeed
the
factious
embroilment
at
first
was
of
no
great
moment
,
except
as
the
breaking
up
and
formation
of
cabinets
might
delay
the
presentation
of
the
National
Petition
.
They
had
long
ceased
to
distinguish
between
the
two
parties
who
then
and
now
contend
for
power
.
And
they
were
tight
.
Between
the
noble
lord
who
goes
out
and
the
right
honourable
gentleman
who
comes
in
,
where
is
the
distinctive
principle
?
A
shadowy
difference
may
be
simulated
in
opposition
,
to
serve
a
cry
and
stimulate
the
hustings
:
but
the
mask
is
not
even
worn
in
Downing
Street
:
and
the
conscientious
conservative
seeks
in
the
pigeon-holes
of
a
whig
bureau
for
the
measures
against
which
for
ten
years
he
has
been
sanctioning
by
the
speaking
silence
of
an
approving
nod
,
a
general
wail
of
frenzied
alarm
.
Once
it
was
otherwise
;
once
the
people
recognised
a
party
in
the
state
whose
principles
identified
them
with
the
rights
and
privileges
of
the
multitude
:
but
when
they
found
the
parochial
constitution
of
the
country
sacrificed
without
a
struggle
,
and
a
rude
assault
made
on
all
local
influences
in
order
to
establish
a
severely
organised
centralisation
,
a
blow
was
given
to
the
influence
of
the
priest
and
of
the
gentleman
,
the
ancient
champions
of
the
people
against
arbitrary
courts
and
rapacious
parliaments
,
from
which
they
will
find
that
it
requires
no
ordinary
courage
and
wisdom
to
recover
.
The
unexpected
termination
of
the
events
of
May
,
1839
,
in
the
re-establishment
in
power
of
a
party
confessedly
too
weak
to
carry
on
the
parliamentary
government
of
the
country
,
was
viewed
however
by
the
chartists
in
a
very
different
spirit
to
that
with
which
they
had
witnessed
the
outbreak
of
these
transactions
.
It
had
unquestionably
a
tendency
to
animate
their
efforts
,
and
imparted
a
bolder
tone
to
their
future
plans
and
movements
.
They
were
encouraged
to
try
a
fall
with
a
feeble
administration
.
Gerard
from
this
moment
became
engrossed
in
affairs
;
his
correspondence
greatly
increased
;
and
he
was
so
much
occupied
that
Sybil
saw
daily
less
and
less
of
her
father
.
It
was
on
the
morning
after
the
day
that
Hatton
had
made
his
first
and
unlooked-for
visit
in
Smith’s
Square
,
some
of
the
delegates
who
had
caught
the
rumour
of
the
resignation
of
the
whigs
had
called
early
on
Gerard
,
and
he
had
soon
after
left
the
house
in
their
company
;
and
Sybil
was
alone
.
The
strange
incidents
of
the
preceding
day
were
revolving
in
her
mind
,
as
her
eye
wandered
vaguely
over
her
book
.
The
presence
of
that
Hatton
who
had
so
often
and
in
such
different
scenes
occupied
their
conversation
;
the
re-appearance
of
that
stranger
,
whose
unexpected
entrance
into
their
little
world
had
eighteen
months
ago
so
often
lent
interest
and
pleasure
to
their
life
—
these
were
materials
for
pensive
sentiment
.
Mr
Franklin
had
left
some
gracious
memories
with
Sybil
;
the
natural
legacy
of
one
so
refined
,
intelligent
,
and
gentle
,
whose
temper
seemed
never
ruffled
,
and
who
evidently
so
sincerely
relished
their
society
.
Mowedale
rose
before
her
in
all
the
golden
beauty
of
its
autumnal
hour
;
their
wild
rambles
and
hearty
greetings
and
earnest
converse
,
when
her
father
returned
from
his
daily
duties
and
his
eye
kindled
with
pleasure
as
the
accustomed
knock
announced
the
arrival
of
his
almost
daily
companion
.
In
spite
of
the
excitement
of
the
passing
moment
,
its
high
hopes
and
glorious
aspirations
,
and
visions
perchance
of
greatness
and
of
power
,
the
eye
of
Sybil
was
dimmed
with
emotion
as
she
recalled
that
innocent
and
tranquil
dream
.
Her
father
had
heard
from
Franklin
after
his
departure
more
than
once
;
but
his
letters
,
though
abounding
in
frank
expressions
of
deep
interest
in
the
welfare
of
Gerard
and
his
daughter
,
were
in
some
degree
constrained
:
a
kind
of
reserve
seemed
to
envelope
him
;
they
never
learnt
anything
of
his
life
and
duties
:
he
seemed
sometimes
as
it
were
meditating
a
departure
from
his
country
.
There
was
undoubtedly
about
him
something
mysterious
and
unsatisfactory
.
Morley
was
of
opinion
that
he
was
a
spy
;
Gerard
,
less
suspicious
,
ultimately
concluded
that
he
was
harassed
by
his
creditors
,
and
when
at
Mowedale
was
probably
hiding
from
them
.
And
now
the
mystery
was
at
length
dissolved
.
And
what
an
explanation
!
A
Norman
,
a
noble
,
an
oppressor
of
the
people
,
a
plunderer
of
the
church
—
all
the
characters
and
capacities
that
Sybil
had
been
bred
up
to
look
upon
with
fear
and
aversion
,
and
to
recognise
as
the
authors
of
the
degradation
of
her
race
.
Sybil
sighed
:
the
door
opened
and
Egremont
stood
before
her
.
The
blood
rose
to
her
cheek
,
her
heart
trembled
;
for
the
first
time
in
his
presence
she
felt
embarrassed
and
constrained
.
His
countenance
on
the
contrary
was
collected
;
serious
and
pale
.
“
I
am
an
intruder
,
”
he
said
advancing
,
“
but
I
wish
much
to
speak
to
you
,
”
and
he
seated
himself
near
her
.
There
was
a
momentary
pause
.
“
You
seemed
to
treat
with
scorn
yesterday
,
”
resumed
Egremont
in
accents
less
sustained
,
“
the
belief
that
sympathy
was
independent
of
the
mere
accidents
of
position
.
Pardon
me
,
Sybil
,
but
even
you
may
be
prejudiced
.
”
He
paused
.
“
I
should
be
sorry
to
treat
anything
you
said
with
scorn
,
”
replied
Sybil
in
a
subdued
tone
.
“
Many
things
happened
yesterday
,
”
she
added
,
“
which
might
be
offered
as
some
excuse
for
an
unguarded
word
.
”
“
Would
that
it
had
been
unguarded
!
”
said
Egremont
in
a
voice
of
melancholy
.
“
I
could
have
endured
it
with
less
repining
.
No
,
Sybil
,
I
have
known
you
,
I
have
had
the
happiness
and
the
sorrow
of
knowing
you
too
well
to
doubt
the
convictions
of
your
mind
,
or
to
believe
that
they
can
be
lightly
removed
,
and
yet
I
would
strive
to
remove
them
.
You
look
upon
me
as
an
enemy
,
as
a
natural
foe
,
because
I
am
born
among
the
privileged
.
I
am
a
man
,
Sybil
,
as
well
as
a
noble
.
”
Again
he
paused
;
she
looked
down
,
but
did
not
speak
.
“
And
can
I
not
feel
for
men
,
my
fellows
,
whatever
be
their
lot
?
I
know
you
will
deny
it
;
but
you
are
in
error
,
Sybil
;
you
have
formed
your
opinions
upon
tradition
,
not
upon
experience
.
The
world
that
exists
is
not
the
world
of
which
you
have
read
;
the
class
that
calls
itself
your
superior
is
not
the
same
class
as
ruled
in
the
time
of
your
fathers
.
There
is
a
change
in
them
as
in
all
other
things
,
and
I
participate
that
change
.
I
shared
it
before
I
knew
you
,
Sybil
;
and
if
it
touched
me
then
,
at
least
believe
it
does
not
influence
me
less
now
.
”
“
If
there
be
a
change
,
”
said
Sybil
,
“
it
is
because
in
some
degree
the
People
have
learnt
their
strength
.
”
“
Ah
!
dismiss
from
your
mind
those
fallacious
fancies
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
The
People
are
not
strong
;
the
People
never
can
be
strong
.
Their
attempts
at
self-vindication
will
end
only
in
their
suffering
and
confusion
.
It
is
civilisation
that
has
effected
,
that
is
effecting
this
change
.
It
is
that
increased
knowledge
of
themselves
that
teaches
the
educated
their
social
duties
.
There
is
a
dayspring
in
the
history
of
this
nation
which
those
who
are
on
the
mountain
tops
can
as
yet
perhaps
only
recognize
.
You
deem
you
are
in
darkness
,
and
I
see
a
dawn
.
The
new
generation
of
the
aristocracy
of
England
are
not
tyrants
,
not
oppressors
,
Sybil
,
as
you
persist
in
believing
.
Their
intelligence
,
better
than
that
,
their
hearts
are
open
to
the
responsibility
of
their
position
.
But
the
work
that
is
before
them
is
no
holiday-work
.
It
is
not
the
fever
of
superficial
impulse
that
can
remove
the
deep-fixed
barriers
of
centuries
of
ignorance
and
crime
.
Enough
that
their
sympathies
are
awakened
;
time
and
thought
will
bring
the
rest
.
They
are
the
natural
leaders
of
the
People
,
Sybil
;
believe
me
they
are
the
only
ones
.
”
“
The
leaders
of
the
People
are
those
whom
the
People
trust
,
”
said
Sybil
rather
haughtily
.
“
And
who
may
betray
them
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
Betray
them
!
”
exclaimed
Sybil
.
“
And
can
you
believe
that
my
father
—
”
“
No
,
no
;
you
can
feel
,
Sybil
,
though
I
cannot
express
,
how
much
I
honour
your
father
.
But
he
stands
alone
in
the
singleness
and
purity
of
his
heart
.
Who
surround
him
?
”
“
Those
whom
the
People
have
also
chosen
;
and
from
a
like
confidence
in
their
virtues
and
abilities
.
They
are
a
senate
supported
by
the
sympathy
of
millions
,
with
only
one
object
in
view
—
the
emancipation
of
their
race
.
It
is
a
sublime
spectacle
,
these
delegates
of
labour
advocating
the
sacred
cause
in
a
manner
which
might
shame
your
haughty
factions
.
What
can
resist
a
demonstration
so
truly
national
!
What
can
withstand
the
supremacy
of
its
moral
power
!
”
Her
eye
met
the
glance
of
Egremont
.
That
brow
full
of
thought
and
majesty
was
fixed
on
his
.
He
encountered
that
face
radiant
as
a
seraph’s
;
those
dark
eyes
flashing
with
the
inspiration
of
the
martyr
.
Egremont
rose
,
moved
slowly
to
the
window
,
gazed
in
abstraction
for
a
few
moments
on
the
little
garden
with
its
dank
turf
that
no
foot
ever
trod
,
its
mutilated
statue
and
its
mouldering
frescoes
.
What
a
silence
;
how
profound
!
What
a
prospect
:
how
drear
!
Suddenly
he
turned
,
and
advancing
with
a
more
rapid
pace
:
he
approached
Sybil
.
Her
head
was
averted
,
and
leaning
on
her
left
arm
she
seemed
lost
in
reverie
.
Egremont
fell
upon
his
knee
and
gently
taking
her
hand
he
pressed
it
to
his
lips
.
She
started
,
she
looked
round
,
agitated
,
alarmed
,
while
he
breathed
forth
in
tremulous
accents
,
“
Let
me
express
to
you
my
adoration
!
“
Ah
!
not
now
for
the
first
time
,
but
for
ever
;
from
the
moment
I
first
beheld
you
in
the
starlit
arch
of
Marney
has
your
spirit
ruled
my
being
and
softened
every
spring
of
my
affections
.
I
followed
you
to
your
home
,
and
lived
for
a
time
content
in
the
silent
worship
of
your
nature
.
When
I
came
the
last
morning
to
the
cottage
,
it
was
to
tell
,
and
to
ask
,
all
.
Since
then
for
a
moment
your
image
has
never
been
absent
from
my
consciousness
;
your
picture
consecrates
my
hearth
and
your
approval
has
been
the
spur
of
my
career
.
Do
not
reject
my
love
;
it
is
deep
as
your
nature
,
and
fervent
as
my
own
.
Banish
those
prejudices
that
have
embittered
your
existence
,
and
if
persisted
in
may
wither
mine
.
Deign
to
retain
this
hand
!
If
I
be
a
noble
I
have
none
of
the
accidents
of
nobility
:
I
cannot
offer
you
wealth
,
splendour
,
or
power
;
but
I
can
offer
you
the
devotion
of
an
entranced
being
—
aspirations
that
you
shall
guide
—
an
ambition
that
you
shall
govern
!
”
“
These
words
are
mystical
and
wild
,
”
said
Sybil
with
an
amazed
air
;
“
they
come
upon
me
with
convulsive
suddenness
.
”
And
she
paused
for
an
instant
,
collecting
as
it
were
her
mind
with
an
expression
almost
of
pain
upon
her
countenance
.
“
These
changes
of
life
are
so
strange
and
rapid
that
it
seems
to
me
I
can
scarcely
meet
them
.
You
are
Lord
Marney’s
brother
;
it
was
but
yesterday
—
only
but
yesterday
—
I
learnt
it
.
I
thought
then
I
had
lost
your
friendship
,
and
now
you
speak
of
—
love
!
“
Love
of
me
!
Retain
your
hand
and
share
your
life
and
fortunes
!
You
forget
what
I
am
.
But
though
I
learnt
only
yesterday
what
you
are
,
I
will
not
be
so
remiss
.
Once
you
wrote
upon
a
page
you
were
my
faithful
friend
:
and
I
have
pondered
over
that
line
with
kindness
often
.
I
will
be
your
faithful
friend
;
I
will
recall
you
to
yourself
.
I
will
at
least
not
bring
you
shame
and
degradation
.
”
“
O
!
Sybil
,
beloved
,
beautiful
Sybil
—
not
such
bitter
words
;
no
,
no
!
”
“
No
bitterness
to
you
!
that
would
indeed
be
harsh
,
”
and
she
covered
with
her
hand
her
streaming
eyes
.
“
Why
what
is
this
?
”
after
a
pause
and
with
an
effort
she
exclaimed
.
“
An
union
between
the
child
and
brother
of
nobles
and
a
daughter
of
the
people
!
Estrangement
from
your
family
,
and
with
cause
,
their
hopes
destroyed
,
their
pride
outraged
;
alienation
from
your
order
,
and
justly
,
all
their
prejudices
insulted
.
You
will
forfeit
every
source
of
worldly
content
and
cast
off
every
spring
of
social
success
.
Society
for
you
will
become
a
great
confederation
to
deprive
you
of
self-complacency
.
And
rightly
.
Will
you
not
be
a
traitor
to
the
cause
?
No
,
no
,
kind
friend
,
for
such
I’ll
call
you
.
Your
opinion
of
me
,
too
good
and
great
as
I
feel
it
,
touches
me
deeply
.
I
am
not
used
to
such
passages
in
life
;
I
have
read
of
such
.
Pardon
me
,
feel
for
me
,
if
I
receive
them
with
some
disorder
.
They
sound
to
me
for
the
first
time
—
and
for
the
last
.
Perhaps
they
ought
never
to
have
reached
my
ear
.
No
matter
now
—
I
have
a
life
of
penitence
before
me
,
and
I
trust
I
shall
be
pardoned
.
”
And
she
wept
.
“
You
have
indeed
punished
me
for
the
fatal
accident
of
birth
,
if
it
deprives
me
of
you
.
”
“
Not
so
,
”
she
added
weeping
;
“
I
shall
never
be
the
bride
of
earth
;
and
but
for
one
whose
claims
though
earthly
are
to
me
irresistible
,
I
should
have
ere
this
forgotten
my
hereditary
sorrows
in
the
cloister
.
”
All
this
time
Egremont
had
retained
her
hand
,
which
she
had
not
attempted
to
withdraw
.
He
had
bent
his
head
over
it
as
she
spoke
—
it
was
touched
with
his
tears
.
For
some
moments
there
was
silence
;
then
looking
up
and
in
a
smothered
voice
Egremont
made
one
more
effort
to
induce
Sybil
to
consider
his
suit
.
He
combated
her
views
as
to
the
importance
to
him
of
the
sympathies
of
his
family
and
of
society
;
he
detailed
to
her
his
hopes
and
plans
for
their
future
welfare
;
he
dwelt
with
passionate
eloquence
on
his
abounding
love
.
But
with
a
solemn
sweetness
,
and
as
it
were
a
tender
inflexibility
,
the
tears
trickling
down
her
beautiful
cheek
,
and
pressing
his
hand
in
both
of
hers
,
she
subdued
and
put
aside
all
his
efforts
.
“
Believe
me
,
”
she
said
,
“
the
gulf
is
impassable
.
”
END
OF
THE
FOURTH
BOOK
BOOK
V
CHAPTER
I
.
“
Terrible
news
from
Birmingham
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
at
Brookes’
.
“
They
have
massacred
the
police
,
beat
off
the
military
,
and
sacked
the
town
.
News
just
arrived
.
”
“
I
have
known
it
these
two
hours
,
”
said
a
grey-headed
gentleman
,
speaking
without
taking
his
eyes
off
the
newspaper
.
“
There
is
a
cabinet
sitting
now
.
”
“
Well
I
always
said
so
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
,
“
our
fellows
ought
to
have
put
down
that
Convention
.
”
“
It
is
deuced
lucky
,
”
said
Mr
Berners
,
“
that
the
Bedchamber
business
is
over
,
and
we
are
all
right
.
This
affair
in
the
midst
of
the
Jamaica
hitch
would
have
been
fatal
to
us
.
”
“
These
chartists
evidently
act
upon
a
system
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
.
“
You
see
they
were
perfectly
quiet
till
the
National
Petition
was
presented
and
debated
;
and
now
,
almost
simultaneously
with
our
refusing
to
consider
their
petition
,
we
have
news
of
this
outbreak
.
”
“
I
hope
they
will
not
spread
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
.
“
There
are
not
troops
enough
in
the
country
if
there
be
anything
like
a
general
movement
.
I
hear
they
have
sent
the
guards
down
by
a
special
train
,
and
a
hundred
more
of
the
police
.
London
is
not
over-garrisoned
.
”
“
They
are
always
ready
for
a
riot
at
Birmingham
,
”
said
a
Warwickshire
peer
.
“
Trade
is
very
bad
there
and
they
suffer
a
good
deal
.
But
I
should
think
it
would
not
go
farther
.
”
“
I
am
told
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
,
“
that
business
is
getting
slack
in
all
the
districts
.
”
“
It
might
be
better
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
,
“
but
they
have
got
work
.
”
Here
several
gentlemen
entered
,
enquiring
whether
the
evening
papers
were
in
and
what
was
the
news
from
Birmingham
.
“
I
am
told
,
”
said
one
of
them
,
“
that
the
police
were
regularly
smashed
.
”
“
Is
it
true
that
the
military
were
really
beat
off
?
”
“
Quite
untrue
:
the
fact
is
there
were
no
proper
preparations
;
the
town
was
taken
by
surprise
,
the
magistrates
lost
their
heads
;
the
people
were
masters
of
the
place
;
and
when
the
police
did
act
,
they
were
met
by
a
triumphant
populace
,
who
two
hours
before
would
have
fled
before
them
.
They
say
they
have
burnt
down
above
forty
houses
.
”
“
It
is
a
bad
thing
—
this
beating
the
police
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
.
“
But
what
is
the
present
state
of
affairs
?
”
enquired
Mr
Berners
.
“
Are
the
rioters
put
down
?
”
“
Not
in
the
least
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
,
“
as
I
hear
.
They
are
encamped
in
the
Bull
Ring
amid
smoking
ruins
,
and
breathe
nothing
but
havoc
.
”
“
Well
,
I
voted
for
taking
the
National
Petition
into
consideration
,
”
said
Mr
Berners
.
“
It
could
do
us
no
harm
,
and
would
have
kept
things
quiet
.
”
“
So
did
every
fellow
on
our
side
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
,
“
who
was
not
in
office
or
about
to
be
.
Well
,
Heaven
knows
what
may
come
next
.
The
Charter
may
some
day
be
as
popular
in
this
club
as
the
Reform
Act
.
”
“
The
oddest
thing
in
that
debate
,
”
said
Mr
Berners
,
“
was
Egremont’s
move
.
”
“
I
saw
Marney
last
night
at
Lady
St
Julians
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
,
“
and
congratulated
him
on
his
brother’s
speech
.
He
looked
daggers
,
and
grinned
like
a
ghoul
.
”
“
It
was
a
very
remarkable
speech
—
that
of
Egremont
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
.
“
I
wonder
what
he
wants
.
”
“
I
think
he
must
be
going
to
turn
radical
,
”
said
the
Warwickshire
peer
.
“
Why
the
whole
speech
was
against
radicalism
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
.
“
Ah
,
then
he
is
going
to
turn
whig
,
I
suppose
.
”
“
He
is
ultra
anti-whig
,
”
said
Egerton
.
“
Then
what
the
deuce
is
he
?
”
said
Mr
Berners
.
“
Not
a
conservative
certainly
,
for
Lady
St
Julians
does
nothing
but
abuse
him
.
”
“
I
suppose
he
is
crotchetty
,
”
suggested
the
Warwickshire
noble
.
“
That
speech
of
Egremont
was
the
most
really
democratic
speech
that
I
ever
read
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
.
“
How
was
it
listened
to
?
”
“
Oh
capitally
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
.
“
He
has
very
seldom
spoken
before
and
always
slightly
though
well
.
He
was
listened
to
with
mute
attention
;
never
was
a
better
house
.
I
should
say
made
a
great
impression
,
though
no
one
knew
exactly
what
he
was
after
.
”
“
What
does
he
mean
by
obtaining
the
results
of
the
charter
without
the
intervention
of
its
machinery
?
”
enquired
Lord
Loraine
,
a
mild
,
middle-aged
,
lounging
,
languid
man
,
who
passed
his
life
in
crossing
from
Brookes’
to
Boodle’s
and
from
Boodle’s
to
Brookes’
,
and
testing
the
comparative
intelligence
of
these
two
celebrated
bodies
;
himself
gifted
with
no
ordinary
abilities
cultivated
with
no
ordinary
care
,
but
the
victim
of
sauntering
,
his
sultana
queen
,
as
it
was
,
according
to
Lord
Halifax
,
of
the
second
Charles
Stuart
.
“
He
spoke
throughout
in
an
exoteric
vein
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
,
“
and
I
apprehend
was
not
very
sure
of
his
audience
;
but
I
took
him
to
mean
,
indeed
it
was
the
gist
of
the
speech
,
that
if
you
wished
for
a
time
to
retain
your
political
power
,
you
could
only
effect
your
purpose
by
securing
for
the
people
greater
social
felicity
.
”
“
Well
,
that
is
sheer
radicalism
,
”
said
the
Warwickshire
peer
,
“
pretending
that
the
People
can
be
better
off
than
they
are
,
is
radicalism
and
nothing
else
.
”
“
I
fear
,
if
that
be
radicalism
,
”
said
Lord
Loraine
,
“
we
must
all
take
a
leaf
out
of
the
same
book
.
Sloane
was
saying
at
Boodle’s
just
now
that
he
looked
forward
to
the
winter
in
his
country
with
horror
.
”
“
And
they
have
no
manufactures
there
,
”
said
Mr
Egerton
.
“
Sloane
was
always
a
croaker
,
”
said
the
Warwickshire
peer
.
“
He
always
said
the
New
Poor
Law
would
not
act
,
and
there
is
no
part
of
the
country
where
it
works
so
well
as
his
own
.
”
“
They
say
at
Boodle’s
there
is
to
be
an
increase
to
the
army
,
”
said
Lord
Loraine
,
“
ten
thousand
men
immediately
;
decided
on
by
the
cabinet
this
afternoon
.
”
“
It
could
hardly
have
leaked
out
by
this
time
,
”
said
the
grey-headed
gentleman
.
“
The
cabinet
were
sitting
less
than
an
hour
ago
.
”
“
They
have
been
up
a
good
hour
,
”
said
Lord
Loraine
,
“
quite
long
enough
for
their
decisions
to
be
known
in
St
James’s
Street
.
In
the
good
old
times
,
George
Farnley
used
always
to
walk
from
Downing
Street
to
this
place
the
moment
the
council
was
up
and
tell
us
everything
.
”
“
Ah
!
those
were
the
good
old
gentleman-like
times
,
”
said
Mr
Berners
,
“
when
members
of
Parliament
had
nobody
to
please
and
ministers
of
State
nothing
to
do
.
”
The
riots
of
Birmingham
occurred
two
months
after
the
events
that
closed
our
last
volume
.
That
period
,
as
far
as
the
obvious
movements
of
the
chartists
were
concerned
,
had
been
passed
in
preparations
for
the
presentation
and
discussion
of
the
National
Petition
,
which
the
parliamentary
embroilments
of
the
spring
of
that
year
had
hitherto
procrastinated
and
prevented
.
The
petition
was
ultimately
carried
down
to
Westminster
on
a
triumphal
car
accompanied
by
all
the
delegates
of
the
Convention
in
solemn
procession
.
It
was
necessary
to
construct
a
machine
in
order
to
introduce
the
huge
bulk
of
parchment
signed
by
a
million
and
a
half
of
persons
,
into
the
House
of
Commons
,
and
thus
supported
,
its
vast
form
remained
on
the
floor
of
the
House
during
the
discussion
.
The
House
after
a
debate
which
was
not
deemed
by
the
people
commensurate
with
the
importance
of
the
occasion
,
decided
on
rejecting
the
prayer
of
the
Petition
,
and
from
that
moment
the
party
in
the
Convention
who
advocated
a
recourse
to
physical
force
in
order
to
obtain
their
purpose
,
was
in
the
ascendant
.
The
National
Petition
and
the
belief
that
although
its
objects
would
not
at
present
be
obtained
,
still
that
a
solemn
and
prolonged
debate
on
its
prayer
would
at
least
hold
out
to
the
working
classes
the
hope
that
their
rights
might
from
that
date
rank
among
the
acknowledged
subjects
of
parliamentary
discussion
and
ultimately
by
the
force
of
discussion
be
recognized
,
as
other
rights
of
other
portions
of
the
people
once
equally
disputed
,
had
been
the
means
by
which
the
party
in
the
Convention
who
upheld
on
all
occasions
the
supremacy
of
moral
power
had
been
able
to
curb
the
energetic
and
reckless
minority
,
who
derided
from
the
first
all
other
methods
but
terror
and
violence
as
effective
of
their
end
.
The
hopes
of
all
,
the
vanity
of
many
,
were
frustrated
and
shocked
by
finding
that
the
exertions
and
expenditure
of
long
months
were
not
only
fruitless
,
but
had
not
even
attracted
as
numerous
an
assembly
or
excited
as
much
interest
,
as
an
ordinary
party
struggle
on
some
petty
point
of
factitious
interest
forgotten
as
soon
as
fought
.
The
attention
of
the
working
classes
was
especially
called
by
their
leaders
to
the
contrast
between
the
interest
occasioned
by
the
endangered
constitution
of
Jamaica
,
a
petty
and
exhausted
colony
,
and
the
claims
for
the
same
constitutional
rights
by
the
working
millions
of
England
.
In
the
first
instance
,
not
a
member
was
absent
from
his
place
;
men
were
brought
indeed
from
distant
capitals
to
participate
in
the
struggle
and
to
decide
it
;
the
debate
lasted
for
days
,
almost
for
weeks
;
not
a
public
man
of
light
and
leading
in
the
country
withheld
the
expression
of
his
opinion
;
the
fate
of
governments
was
involved
in
it
;
cabinets
were
overthrown
and
reconstructed
in
the
throes
and
tumult
of
the
strife
,
and
for
the
first
time
for
a
long
period
the
Sovereign
personally
interposed
in
public
transactions
with
a
significance
of
character
,
which
made
the
working
classes
almost
believe
that
the
privileged
had
at
last
found
a
master
,
and
the
unfranchished
regained
their
natural
chief
.
The
mean
position
which
the
Saxon
multitude
occupied
as
distinguished
from
the
Jamaica
planters
sunk
deep
into
their
hearts
.
From
that
moment
all
hope
of
relief
from
the
demonstration
of
a
high
moral
conduct
in
the
millions
,
and
the
exhibition
of
that
well-regulated
order
of
public
life
which
would
intimate
their
fitness
for
the
possession
and
fulfilment
of
public
rights
,
vanished
.
The
party
of
violence
,
a
small
minority
as
is
usually
the
case
,
but
consisting
of
men
of
determined
character
,
triumphed
;
and
the
outbreak
at
Birmingham
was
the
first
consequence
of
those
reckless
councils
that
were
destined
in
the
course
of
the
ensuing
years
to
inflict
on
the
working
classes
of
this
country
so
much
suffering
and
disaster
.
It
was
about
this
time
,
a
balmy
morning
of
July
,
that
Sybil
,
tempted
by
the
soft
sunshine
,
and
a
longing
for
the
sight
of
flowers
and
turf
and
the
spread
of
winding
waters
,
went
forth
from
her
gloomy
domicile
to
those
beautiful
gardens
that
bloom
in
that
once
melancholy
region
of
marsh
,
celebrated
in
old
days
only
for
its
Dutch
canal
and
its
Chinese
bridge
,
and
now
not
unworthy
of
the
royal
park
that
incloses
them
.
.
Except
here
and
there
a
pretty
nursery-maid
with
her
interesting
charge
;
some
beautiful
child
with
nodding
plume
,
immense
bow
,
and
gorgeous
sash
;
the
gardens
were
vacant
.
Indeed
it
was
only
at
this
early
hour
,
that
Sybil
found
from
experience
,
that
it
was
agreeable
in
London
for
a
woman
unaccompanied
to
venture
abroad
.
There
is
no
European
city
where
our
fair
sisters
are
so
little
independent
as
in
our
metropolis
;
to
our
shame
.
Something
of
the
renovating
influence
of
a
beautiful
nature
was
needed
by
the
daughter
of
Gerard
.
She
was
at
this
moment
anxious
and
dispirited
.
The
outbreak
at
Birmingham
,
the
conviction
that
such
proceedings
must
ultimately
prove
fatal
to
the
cause
to
which
she
was
devoted
,
the
dark
apprehension
that
her
father
was
in
some
manner
implicated
in
this
movement
,
that
had
commenced
with
so
much
public
disaster
,
and
which
menaced
consequences
still
more
awful
,
all
these
events
,
and
fears
,
and
sad
forebodings
,
acted
with
immense
influence
on
a
temperament
which
,
though
gifted
with
even
a
sublime
courage
,
was
singularly
sensitive
.
The
quick
and
teeming
imagination
of
Sybil
conjured
up
a
thousand
fears
which
were
in
some
degree
unfounded
,
in
a
great
degree
exaggerated
,
but
this
is
the
inevitable
lot
of
the
creative
mind
practising
on
the
inexperienced
.
The
shock
too
had
been
sudden
.
The
two
months
that
had
elapsed
since
she
had
parted
,
as
she
supposed
for
ever
,
from
Egremont
,
while
they
had
not
less
abounded
than
the
preceding
time
in
that
pleasing
public
excitement
which
her
father’s
career
,
in
her
estimation
alike
useful
,
honourable
,
and
distinguished
,
occasioned
her
,
had
been
fruitful
in
some
sources
of
satisfaction
of
a
softer
and
more
domestic
character
.
The
acquaintance
of
Hatton
,
of
whom
they
saw
a
great
deal
,
had
very
much
contributed
to
the
increased
amenity
of
her
life
.
He
was
a
most
agreeable
,
instructive
,
and
obliging
companion
;
who
seemed
peculiarly
to
possess
the
art
of
making
life
pleasant
by
the
adroit
management
of
unobtrusive
resources
.
He
lent
Sybil
books
;
and
all
that
he
recommended
to
her
notice
,
were
of
a
kind
that
harmonized
with
her
sentiment
and
taste
.
He
furnished
her
from
his
library
with
splendid
works
of
art
,
illustrative
of
those
periods
of
our
history
and
those
choice
and
costly
edifices
which
were
associated
with
her
fondest
thought
and
fancy
.
He
placed
in
her
room
the
best
periodical
literature
of
the
day
,
which
for
her
was
a
new
world
;
he
furnished
her
with
newspapers
whose
columns
of
discussion
taught
her
,
that
the
opinions
she
had
embraced
were
not
unquestioned
:
as
she
had
never
seen
a
journal
in
her
life
before
,
except
a
stray
number
of
the
“
Mowbray
Phalanx
,
”
or
the
metropolitan
publication
which
was
devoted
to
the
cause
of
the
National
Convention
,
and
reported
her
father’s
speeches
,
the
effect
of
this
reading
on
her
intelligence
was
,
to
say
the
least
,
suggestive
.
Many
a
morning
too
when
Gerard
was
disengaged
,
Hatton
would
propose
that
they
should
show
Sybil
something
of
the
splendour
or
the
rarities
of
the
metropolis
;
its
public
buildings
,
museums
,
and
galleries
of
art
.
Sybil
,
though
uninstructed
in
painting
,
had
that
native
taste
which
requires
only
observation
to
arrive
at
true
results
.
She
was
much
interested
with
all
she
saw
and
all
that
occurred
,
and
her
gratification
was
heightened
by
the
society
of
an
individual
who
not
only
sympathised
with
all
she
felt
,
but
who
,
if
she
made
an
inquiry
,
was
ever
ready
with
an
instructive
reply
.
Hatton
poured
forth
the
taste
and
treasures
of
a
well-stored
and
refined
intelligence
.
And
then
too
,
always
easy
,
bland
,
and
considerate
;
and
though
with
luxuries
and
conveniences
at
his
command
,
to
participate
in
which
,
under
any
other
circumstances
,
might
have
been
embarrassing
to
his
companions
,
with
so
much
tact
,
that
either
by
an
allusion
to
early
days
,
happy
days
when
he
owed
so
much
to
Gerard’s
father
,
or
some
other
mode
equally
felicitous
,
he
contrived
completely
to
maintain
among
them
the
spirit
of
social
equality
.
In
the
evening
,
Hatton
generally
looked
in
when
Gerard
was
at
home
,
and
on
Sundays
they
were
always
together
.
Their
common
faith
was
a
bond
of
union
which
led
them
to
the
same
altar
,
and
on
that
day
Hatton
had
obtained
their
promise
always
to
dine
with
him
.
He
was
careful
to
ascertain
each
holy
day
at
what
chapel
the
music
was
most
exquisite
,
that
the
most
passionate
taste
of
Sybil
might
be
gratified
.
Indeed
,
during
this
residence
in
London
,
the
opportunity
it
afforded
of
making
her
acquainted
with
some
of
the
great
masters
of
the
human
voice
was
perhaps
to
Sybil
a
source
of
pleasure
not
the
least
important
.
For
though
it
was
not
deemed
consistent
with
the
future
discipline
which
she
contemplated
to
enter
a
theatre
,
there
were
yet
occasions
which
permitted
her
,
under
every
advantage
,
to
listen
to
the
performance
of
the
master-pieces
of
sacred
melody
.
Alone
,
with
Hatton
and
her
father
,
she
often
poured
forth
those
tones
of
celestial
sweetness
and
etherial
power
that
had
melted
the
soul
of
Egremont
amid
the
ruins
of
Marney
Abbey
.
More
intimately
acquainted
with
Sybil
Gerard
,
Hatton
had
shrunk
from
the
project
that
he
had
at
first
so
crudely
formed
.
There
was
something
about
her
that
awed
,
while
it
fascinated
him
.
He
did
not
relinquish
his
purpose
,
for
it
was
a
rule
of
his
life
never
to
do
that
;
but
he
postponed
the
plans
of
its
fulfilment
.
Hatton
was
not
,
what
is
commonly
understood
by
the
phrase
,
in
love
with
Sybil
:
certainly
not
passionately
in
love
with
her
.
With
all
his
daring
and
talents
and
fine
taste
,
there
was
in
Hatton
such
a
vein
of
thorough
good
sense
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
act
or
even
to
think
anything
that
was
ridiculous
.
He
wished
still
to
marry
Sybil
for
the
great
object
that
we
have
stated
;
he
had
a
mind
quite
equal
to
appreciate
her
admirable
qualities
,
but
sense
enough
to
wish
that
she
were
a
less
dazzling
creature
,
because
then
he
would
have
a
better
chance
of
accomplishing
his
end
.
He
perceived
when
he
had
had
a
due
opportunity
to
study
her
character
,
that
the
cloister
was
the
natural
catastrophe
impending
over
a
woman
who
,
with
an
exalted
mind
,
great
abilities
,
a
fine
and
profound
education
and
almost
supernatural
charms
,
found
herself
born
and
rooted
in
the
ranks
of
a
degraded
population
.
All
this
Hatton
understood
;
it
was
a
conclusion
he
had
gradually
arrived
at
by
a
gradual
process
of
induction
and
by
a
vigilant
observation
that
in
its
study
of
character
had
rarely
been
deceived
;
and
when
one
evening
with
an
art
that
could
not
be
suspected
,
he
sounded
Gerard
on
the
future
of
his
daughter
,
he
found
that
the
clear
intellect
and
straight-forward
sagacity
of
the
father
had
arrived
at
the
same
result
.
“
She
wishes
,
”
said
Gerard
,
“
to
take
the
veil
,
and
I
only
oppose
it
for
a
time
,
that
she
may
have
some
knowledge
of
life
and
a
clear
conception
of
what
she
is
about
to
do
.
I
wish
not
that
she
should
hereafter
reproach
her
father
.
But
,
to
my
mind
,
Sybil
is
right
.
She
cannot
look
to
marriage
:
no
man
that
she
could
marry
would
be
worthy
of
her
.
”
During
these
two
months
,
and
especially
during
the
last
,
Morley
was
rarely
in
London
,
though
ever
much
with
Gerard
,
and
often
with
his
daughter
during
his
visits
.
The
necessary
impulse
had
been
given
to
the
affairs
of
the
Convention
,
the
delegates
had
visited
the
members
,
the
preparations
for
the
presentation
of
the
National
Petition
had
been
completed
;
the
overthrow
of
the
whig
government
,
the
abortive
effort
of
Sir
Robert
Peel
,
the
return
of
the
whig
administration
,
and
the
consequent
measures
,
had
occasioned
a
delay
of
two
months
in
the
presentation
of
the
great
document
:
it
was
well
for
Gerard
to
remain
,
who
was
a
leader
in
debate
,
and
whose
absence
for
a
week
would
have
endangered
his
position
as
the
head
of
a
party
,
but
these
considerations
did
not
influence
Morley
,
who
had
already
found
great
inconvenience
in
managing
his
journal
at
a
distance
;
so
,
about
the
middle
of
May
,
he
had
returned
to
Mowbray
,
coming
up
occasionally
by
the
train
if
anything
important
were
stirring
,
or
his
vote
could
be
of
service
to
his
friend
and
colleague
.
The
affair
of
Birmingham
however
had
alarmed
Morley
and
he
had
written
up
to
Gerard
that
he
should
instantly
repair
to
town
.
Indeed
he
was
expected
the
very
morning
that
Sybil
,
her
father
having
gone
to
the
Convention
where
there
were
at
this
very
moment
very
fiery
debates
,
went
forth
to
take
the
morning
air
of
summer
in
the
gardens
of
St
James’
Park
.
It
was
a
real
summer
day
;
large
,
round
,
glossy
,
fleecy
clouds
,
as
white
and
shining
as
glaciers
,
studded
with
their
immense
and
immoveable
forms
the
deep
blue
sky
.
There
was
not
even
a
summer
breeze
,
though
the
air
was
mellow
,
balmy
,
and
exhilarating
.
There
was
a
bloom
upon
the
trees
,
the
waters
glittered
,
the
prismatic
wild-fowl
dived
,
breathed
again
,
and
again
disappeared
.
Beautiful
children
,
fresh
and
sweet
as
the
new-born
rose
,
glanced
about
with
the
gestures
and
sometimes
the
voices
of
Paradise
.
And
in
the
distance
rose
the
sacred
towers
of
the
great
Western
Minster
.
How
fair
is
a
garden
amid
the
toils
and
passions
of
existence
!
A
curse
upon
those
who
vulgarize
and
desecrate
these
holy
haunts
;
breaking
the
hearts
of
nursery
maids
,
and
smoking
tobacco
in
the
palace
of
the
rose
!
The
mental
clouds
dispelled
as
Sybil
felt
the
freshness
and
fragrance
of
nature
.
The
colour
came
to
her
cheek
;
the
deep
brightness
returned
to
her
eye
;
her
step
that
at
first
had
been
languid
and
if
not
melancholy
,
at
least
contemplative
,
became
active
and
animated
.
She
forgot
the
cares
of
life
and
was
touched
by
all
the
sense
of
its
enjoyment
.
To
move
,
to
breathe
,
to
feel
the
sunbeam
,
were
sensible
and
surpassing
pleasures
.
Cheerful
by
nature
,
notwithstanding
her
stately
thoughts
and
solemn
life
,
a
brilliant
smile
played
on
her
seraphic
face
,
as
she
marked
the
wild
passage
of
the
daring
birds
,
or
watched
the
thoughtless
grace
of
infancy
.
She
rested
herself
on
a
bench
beneath
a
branching
elm
,
and
her
eye
,
that
for
some
time
had
followed
the
various
objects
that
had
attracted
it
,
was
now
fixed
in
abstraction
on
the
sunny
waters
.
The
visions
of
past
life
rose
before
her
.
It
was
one
of
those
reveries
when
the
incidents
of
our
existence
are
mapped
before
us
,
when
each
is
considered
with
relation
to
the
rest
,
and
assumes
in
our
knowledge
its
distinct
and
absolute
position
;
when
,
as
it
were
,
we
take
stock
of
our
experience
,
and
ascertain
how
rich
sorrow
and
pleasure
,
feeling
and
thought
,
intercourse
with
our
fellow
creatures
and
the
fortuitous
mysteries
of
life
,
—
have
made
us
in
wisdom
.
The
quick
intelligence
and
the
ardent
imagination
of
Sybil
had
made
her
comprehend
with
fervor
the
two
ideas
that
had
been
impressed
on
her
young
mind
;
the
oppression
of
her
church
and
the
degradation
of
her
people
.
Educated
in
solitude
and
exchanging
thoughts
only
with
individuals
of
the
same
sympathies
,
these
impression
had
resolved
themselves
into
one
profound
and
gloomy
conviction
,
that
the
world
was
divided
only
between
the
oppressors
and
the
oppressed
.
With
her
,
to
be
one
of
the
people
,
was
to
be
miserable
and
innocent
;
one
of
the
privileged
,
a
luxurious
tyrant
.
In
the
cloister
,
in
her
garden
,
amid
the
scenes
of
suffering
which
she
often
visited
and
always
solaced
,
she
had
raised
up
two
phantoms
which
with
her
represented
human
nature
.
But
the
experience
of
the
last
few
months
had
operated
a
great
change
in
these
impressions
.
She
had
seen
enough
to
suspect
that
the
world
was
a
more
complicated
system
than
she
had
preconceived
.
There
was
not
that
strong
and
rude
simplicity
in
its
organization
she
had
supposed
.
The
characters
were
more
various
,
the
motives
more
mixed
,
the
classes
more
blended
,
the
elements
of
each
more
subtle
and
diversified
,
than
she
had
imagined
.
The
People
she
found
was
not
that
pure
embodiment
of
unity
of
feeling
,
of
interest
,
and
of
purpose
,
which
she
had
pictured
in
her
abstractions
.
The
people
had
enemies
among
the
people
:
their
own
passions
;
which
made
them
often
sympathize
,
often
combine
,
with
the
privileged
.
Her
father
,
with
all
his
virtues
,
all
his
abilities
,
singleness
of
purpose
and
simplicity
of
aim
,
encountered
rivals
in
their
own
Convention
,
and
was
beset
by
open
or
,
still
worse
,
secret
foes
.
Sybil
,
whose
mind
had
been
nurtured
with
great
thoughts
,
and
with
whom
success
or
failure
alike
partook
of
the
heroic
,
who
had
hoped
for
triumph
,
but
who
was
prepared
for
sacrifice
,
found
to
her
surprise
that
great
thoughts
have
very
little
to
do
with
the
business
of
the
world
;
that
human
affairs
,
even
in
an
age
of
revolution
,
are
the
subject
of
compromise
;
and
that
the
essence
of
compromise
is
littleness
.
She
thought
that
the
People
,
calm
and
collected
,
conscious
at
last
of
their
strength
and
confident
in
their
holy
cause
,
had
but
to
express
their
pure
and
noble
convictions
by
the
delegates
of
their
choice
,
and
that
an
antique
and
decrepid
authority
must
bow
before
the
irresistible
influence
of
their
moral
power
.
These
delegates
of
their
choice
turned
out
to
be
a
plebeian
senate
of
wild
ambitions
and
sinister
and
selfish
ends
,
while
the
decrepid
authority
that
she
had
been
taught
existed
only
by
the
sufferance
of
the
millions
was
compact
and
organized
,
with
every
element
of
physical
power
at
its
command
,
and
supported
by
the
interests
,
the
sympathies
,
the
honest
convictions
,
and
the
strong
prejudices
of
classes
influential
not
merely
from
their
wealth
but
even
by
their
numbers
.
Nor
could
she
resist
the
belief
that
the
feeling
of
the
rich
towards
the
poor
was
not
that
sentiment
of
unmingled
hate
and
scorn
which
she
associated
with
Norman
conquerors
and
feudal
laws
.
She
