frombusiness
;
and
in
no
country
town
of
the
same
small
size
as
Treby
was
there
a
larger
proportion
of
families
who
had
handsome
sets
of
china
without
handles
,
hereditary
punch-bowls
,
and
large
silver
ladles
with
a
Queen
Anne
's
guinea
in
the
centre
.
Such
people
naturally
took
tea
and
supped
together
frequently
;
and
as
there
was
no
professional
man
or
tradesman
in
Treby
who
was
not
connected
by
business
,
if
not
by
blood
,
with
the
farmers
of
the
district
,
the
richer
sort
of
these
were
much
invited
,
and
gave
invitations
in
their
turn
.
They
played
at
whist
,
ate
and
drank
generously
,
praised
Mr
Pitt
and
the
war
as
keeping
up
prices
and
religion
,
and
were
very
humorous
about
each
other
's
property
,
having
much
the
same
coy
pleasure
in
allusions
to
their
secret
ability
to
purchase
,
as
blushing
lasses
sometimes
have
in
jokes
about
their
secret
preferences
.
The
Rector
was
always
of
the
Debarry
family
,
associated
only
with
county
people
,
and
was
much
respected
for
his
affability
;
a
clergyman
who
would
have
taken
tea
with
the
towns-people
would
have
given
a
dangerous
shock
to
the
mind
of
a
Treby
Churchman
.
Such
was
the
old-fashioned
,
grazing
,
brewing
,
wool-packing
,
cheese-loading
life
of
Treby
Magna
,
until
there
befell
new
conditions
,
complicating
its
relation
with
the
rest
of
the
world
,
and
gradually
awakening
in
it
that
higher
consciousness
which
is
known
to
bring
higher
pains
.
First
came
the
canal
;
next
,
the
working
of
the
coal-mines
at
Sproxton
,
two
miles
off
the
town
;
and
,
thirdly
,
the
discovery
of
a
saline
spring
,
which
suggested
to
a
too
constructive
brain
the
possibility
of
turning
Treby
Magna
into
a
fashionable
watering-place
.
So
daring
an
idea
was
not
originated
by
a
native
Trebian
,
but
by
a
young
lawyer
who
came
from
a
distance
,
knew
the
dictionary
by
heart
,
and
was
probably
an
illegitimate
son
of
somebody
or
other
.
The
idea
,
although
it
promised
an
increase
of
wealth
to
the
town
,
was
not
well
received
at
first
;
ladies
objected
to
seeing
"
objects
"
drawn
about
in
hand-carriages
,
the
doctor
foresaw
the
advent
of
unsound
practitioners
,
and
most
retail
tradesmen
concurred
with
him
that
new
doings
were
usually
for
the
advantage
of
new
people
.
The
more
unanswerable
reasoners
urged
that
Treby
had
prospered
without
baths
,
and
it
was
yet
to
be
seen
how
it
would
prosper
with
them
;
while
a
report
that
the
proposed
name
for
them
was
Bethesda
Spa
,
threatened
to
give
the
whole
affair
a
blasphemous
aspect
.
Even
Sir
Maximus
Debarry
,
who
was
to
have
an
unprecedented
return
for
the
thousands
he
would
lay
out
on
a
pump-room
and
hotel
,
regarded
the
thing
as
a
little
too
new
,
and
held
back
for
some
time
.
But
the
persuasive
powers
of
the
young
lawyer
,
Mr
Matthew
Jermyn
,
together
with
the
opportune
opening
of
a
stone-quarry
,
triumphed
at
last
;
the
handsome
buildings
were
erected
,
an
excellent
guide-book
and
descriptive
cards
,
surmounted
by
vignettes
,
were
printed
,
and
Treby
Magna
became
conscious
of
certain
facts
in
its
own
history
,
of
which
it
had
previously
been
in
contented
ignorance
.
But
it
was
all
in
vain
.
The
Spa
,
for
some
mysterious
reason
,
did
not
succeed
.
Some
attributed
the
failure
to
the
coal-mines
and
the
canal
,
others
to
the
peace
,
which
had
had
ruinous
effects
on
the
country
,
and
others
,
who
disliked
Jermyn
,
to
the
original
folly
of
the
plan
.
Among
these
last
was
Sir
Maximus
himself
,
who
never
forgave
the
too
persuasive
attorney
:
it
was
Jermyn
's
fault
not
only
that
a
useless
hotel
had
been
built
,
but
that
he
,
Sir
Maximus
,
being
straitened
for
money
,
had
at
last
let
the
building
,
with
the
adjacent
land
lying
on
the
river
,
on
a
long
lease
,
on
the
supposition
that
it
was
to
be
turned
into
a
benevolent
college
,
and
had
seen
himself
subsequently
powerless
to
prevent
its
being
turned
into
a
tape
manufactory
—
a
bitter
thing
to
any
gentleman
,
and
especially
to
the
representative
of
one
of
the
oldest
families
in
England
.
In
this
way
it
happened
that
Treby
Magna
gradually
passed
from
being
simply
a
respectable
market-town
—
the
heart
of
a
great
rural
district
,
where
the
trade
was
only
such
as
had
close
relations
with
the
local
landed
interest
—
and
took
on
the
more
complex
life
brought
by
mines
and
manufactures
,
which
belong
more
directly
to
the
great
circulating
system
of
the
nation
than
to
the
local
system
to
which
they
have
been
superadded
;
and
in
this
way
it
was
that
Trebian
Dissent
gradually
altered
its
character
.
Formerly
it
had
been
of
a
quiescent
,
well-to-do
kind
,
represented
architecturally
by
a
small
,
venerable
,
dark-pewed
chapel
,
built
by
Presbyterians
,
but
long
occupied
by
a
sparse
congregation
of
Independents
,
who
were
as
little
moved
by
doctrinal
zeal
as
their
church-going
neighbours
,
and
did
not
feel
themselves
deficient
in
religious
liberty
,
inasmuch
as
they
were
not
hindered
from
occasionally
slumbering
in
their
pews
,
and
were
not
obliged
to
go
regularly
to
the
weekly
prayer-meeting
.
But
when
stone-pits
and
coal-pits
made
new
hamlets
that
threatened
to
spread
up
to
the
very
town
,
when
the
tape-weavers
came
with
their
news-reading
inspectors
and
book-keepers
,
the
Independent
chapel
began
to
be
filled
with
eager
men
and
women
,
to
whom
the
exceptional
possession
of
religious
truth
was
the
condition
which
reconciled
them
to
a
meagre
existence
,
and
made
them
feel
in
secure
alliance
with
the
unseen
but
supreme
rule
of
a
world
in
which
their
own
visible
part
was
small
.
There
were
Dissenters
in
Treby
now
who
could
not
be
regarded
by
the
Church
people
in
the
light
of
old
neighbours
to
whom
the
habit
of
going
to
chapel
was
an
innocent
,
unenviable
inheritance
along
with
a
particular
house
and
garden
,
a
tan-yard
,
or
a
grocery
business
—
Dissenters
who
,
in
their
turn
,
without
meaning
to
be
in
the
least
abusive
,
spoke
of
the
high-bred
Rector
as
a
blind
leader
of
the
blind
.
And
Dissent
was
not
the
only
thing
that
the
times
had
altered
;
prices
had
fallen
,
poor-rates
had
risen
,
rent
and
tithe
were
not
elastic
enough
,
and
the
farmer
's
fat
sorrow
had
become
lean
;
he
began
to
speculate
on
causes
,
and
to
trace
things
back
to
that
causeless
mystery
,
the
cessation
of
one-pound
notes
.
Thus
,
when
political
agitation
swept
in
a
great
current
through
the
country
,
Treby
Magna
was
prepared
to
vibrate
.
The
Catholic
Emancipation
Bill
opened
the
eyes
of
neighbours
,
and
made
them
aware
how
very
injurious
they
were
to
each
other
and
to
the
welfare
of
mankind
generally
.
Mr
Tiliot
,
the
Church
spirit-merchant
,
knew
now
that
Mr
Nuttwood
,
the
obliging
grocer
,
was
one
of
those
Dissenters
,
Deists
,
Socinians
,
Papists
,
and
Radicals
,
who
were
in
league
to
destroy
the
Constitution
.
A
retired
old
London
tradesman
,
who
was
believed
to
understand
politics
,
said
that
thinking
people
must
wish
George
the
Third
alive
again
in
all
his
early
vigour
of
mind
;
and
even
the
farmers
became
less
materialistic
in
their
view
of
causes
,
and
referred
much
to
the
agency
of
the
devil
and
the
Irish
Romans
.
The
Rector
,
the
Rev.
Augustus
Debarry
,
really
a
fine
specimen
of
the
old-fashioned
aristocratic
clergyman
,
preaching
short
sermons
,
understanding
business
,
and
acting
liberally
about
his
tithe
,
had
never
before
found
himself
in
collision
with
Dissenters
;
but
now
he
began
to
feel
that
these
people
were
a
nuisance
in
the
parish
,
that
his
brother
Sir
Maximus
must
take
care
lest
they
should
get
land
to
build
more
chapels
,
and
that
it
might
not
have
been
a
bad
thing
if
the
law
had
furnished
him
as
a
magistrate
with
a
power
of
putting
a
stop
to
the
political
sermons
of
the
Independent
preacher
,
which
,
in
their
way
,
were
as
pernicious
sources
of
intoxication
as
the
beerhouses
.
The
Dissenters
,
on
their
side
,
were
not
disposed
to
sacrifice
the
cause
of
truth
and
freedom
to
a
temporising
mildness
of
language
;
but
they
defended
themselves
from
the
charge
of
religious
indifference
,
and
solemnly
disclaimed
any
lax
expectations
that
Catholics
were
likely
to
be
saved
—
urging
,
on
the
contrary
,
that
they
were
not
too
hopeful
about
Protestants
who
adhered
to
a
bloated
and
worldly
Prelacy
.
Thus
Treby
Magna
,
which
had
lived
quietly
through
the
great
earthquakes
of
the
French
Revolution
and
the
Napoleonic
wars
,
which
had
remained
unmoved
by
the
'
Rights
of
Man
,
'
and
saw
little
in
Mr
Cobbett
's
'
Weekly
Register
'
except
that
he
held
eccentric
views
about
potatoes
,
began
at
last
to
know
the
higher
pains
of
a
dim
political
consciousness
;
and
the
development
had
been
greatly
helped
by
the
recent
agitation
about
the
Reform
Bill
.
Tory
,
Whig
,
and
Radical
did
not
perhaps
become
clearer
in
their
definition
of
each
other
;
but
the
names
seemed
to
acquire
so
strong
a
stamp
of
honour
or
infamy
,
that
definitions
would
only
have
weakened
the
impression
.
As
to
the
short
and
easy
method
of
judging
opinions
by
the
personal
character
of
those
who
held
them
,
it
was
liable
to
be
much
frustrated
in
Treby
.
It
so
happened
in
that
particular
town
that
the
Reformers
were
not
all
of
them
large-hearted
patriots
or
ardent
lovers
of
justice
;
indeed
,
one
of
them
,
in
the
very
midst
of
the
agitation
,
was
detected
in
using
unequal
scales
—
a
fact
to
which
many
Tories
pointed
with
disgust
as
showing
plainly
enough
,
without
further
argument
,
that
the
cry
for
a
change
in
the
representative
system
was
hollow
trickery
.
Again
,
the
Tories
were
far
from
being
all
oppressors
,
disposed
to
grind
down
the
working
classes
into
serfdom
;
and
it
was
undeniable
that
the
inspector
at
the
tape
manufactory
,
who
spoke
with
much
eloquence
on
the
extension
of
the
suffrage
,
was
a
more
tyrannical
personage
than
open-handed
Mr
Wace
,
whose
chief
political
tenet
was
,
that
it
was
all
nonsense
giving
men
votes
when
they
had
no
stake
in
the
country
.
On
the
other
hand
,
there
were
some
Tories
who
gave
themselves
a
great
deal
of
leisure
to
abuse
hypocrites
,
Radicals
,
Dissenters
,
and
atheism
generally
,
but
whose
inflamed
faces
,
theistic
swearing
,
and
frankness
in
expressing
a
wish
to
borrow
,
certainly
did
not
mark
them
out
strongly
as
holding
opinions
likely
to
save
society
.
The
Reformers
had
triumphed
:
it
was
clear
that
the
wheels
were
going
whither
they
were
pulling
,
and
they
were
in
fine
spirits
for
exertion
.
But
if
they
were
pulling
towards
the
country
's
ruin
,
there
was
the
more
need
for
others
to
hang
on
behind
and
get
the
wheels
to
stick
if
possible
.
In
Treby
,
as
elsewhere
,
people
were
told
they
must
"
rally
"
at
the
coming
election
;
but
there
was
now
a
large
number
of
waverers
—
men
of
flexible
,
practical
minds
,
who
were
not
such
bigots
as
to
cling
to
any
views
when
a
good
tangible
reason
could
be
urged
against
them
;
while
some
regarded
it
as
the
most
neighbourly
thing
to
hold
a
little
with
both
sides
,
and
were
not
sure
that
they
should
rally
or
vote
at
all
.
It
seemed
an
invidious
thing
to
vote
for
one
gentleman
rather
than
another
.
These
social
changes
in
Treby
parish
are
comparatively
public
matters
,
and
this
history
is
chiefly
concerned
with
the
private
lot
of
a
few
men
and
women
;
but
there
is
no
private
life
which
has
not
been
determined
by
a
wider
public
life
,
from
the
time
when
the
primeval
milkmaid
had
to
wander
with
the
wanderings
of
her
clan
,
because
the
cow
she
milked
was
one
of
a
herd
which
had
made
the
pastures
bare
.
Even
in
that
conservatory
existence
where
the
fair
Camelia
is
sighed
for
by
the
noble
young
Pine-apple
,
neither
of
them
needing
to
care
about
the
frost
or
rain
outside
,
there
is
a
nether
apparatus
of
hot-water
pipes
liable
to
cool
down
on
a
strike
of
the
gardeners
or
a
scarcity
of
coal
.
And
the
lives
we
are
about
to
look
back
upon
do
not
belong
to
those
conservatory
species
;
they
are
rooted
in
the
common
earth
,
having
to
endure
all
the
ordinary
chances
of
past
and
present
weather
.
As
to
the
weather
of
1832
,
the
Zadkiel
of
that
time
had
predicted
that
the
electrical
condition
of
the
clouds
in
the
political
hemisphere
would
produce
unusual
perturbations
in
organic
existence
,
and
he
would
perhaps
have
seen
a
fulfilment
of
his
remarkable
prophecy
in
that
mutual
influence
of
dissimilar
destinies
which
we
shall
see
gradually
unfolding
itself
.
For
if
the
mixed
political
conditions
of
Treby
Magna
had
not
been
acted
on
by
the
passing
of
the
Reform
Bill
,
Mr
Harold
Transome
would
not
have
presented
himself
as
a
candidate
for
North
Loamshire
,
Treby
would
not
have
been
a
polling-place
,
Mr
Matthew
Jermyn
would
not
have
been
on
affable
terms
with
a
Dissenting
preacher
and
his
flock
,
and
the
venerable
town
would
not
have
been
placarded
with
handbills
,
more
or
less
complimentary
and
retrospective
—
conditions
in
this
case
essential
to
the
"
where
,
"
and
the
"
what
,
"
without
which
,
as
the
learned
know
,
there
can
be
no
event
whatever
.
For
example
,
it
was
through
these
conditions
that
a
young
man
named
Felix
Holt
made
a
considerable
difference
in
the
life
of
Harold
Transome
,
though
nature
and
fortune
seemed
to
have
done
what
they
could
to
keep
the
lots
of
the
two
men
quite
aloof
from
each
other
.
Felix
was
heir
to
nothing
better
than
a
quack
medicine
;
his
mother
lived
up
a
back
street
in
Treby
Magna
,
and
her
sitting-room
was
ornamented
with
her
best
tea-tray
and
several
framed
testimonials
to
the
virtues
of
Holt
's
Cathartic
Lozenges
and
Holt
's
Restorative
Elixir
.
There
could
hardly
have
been
a
lot
less
like
Harold
Transome
's
than
this
of
the
quack
doctor
's
son
,
except
in
the
superficial
facts
that
he
called
himself
a
Radical
,
that
he
was
the
only
son
of
his
mother
,
and
that
he
had
lately
returned
to
his
home
with
ideas
and
resolves
not
a
little
disturbing
to
that
mother
's
mind
.
But
Mrs
Holt
,
unlike
Mrs
Transome
,
was
much
disposed
to
reveal
her
troubles
,
and
was
not
without
a
counsellor
into
whose
ear
she
could
pour
them
.
On
this
2d
of
September
,
when
Mr
Harold
Transome
had
had
his
first
interview
with
Jermyn
,
and
when
the
attorney
went
back
to
his
office
with
new
views
of
canvassing
in
his
mind
,
Mrs
Holt
had
put
on
her
bonnet
as
early
as
nine
o'clock
in
the
morning
,
and
had
gone
to
see
the
Rev.
Rufus
Lyon
,
minister
of
the
Independent
Chapel
usually
spoken
of
as
"
Malthouse
Yard
.
"
CHAPTER
IV
.
"
A
pious
and
painful
preacher
.
"
—
Fuller
.
Mr
Lyon
lived
in
a
small
house
,
not
quite
so
good
as
the
parish
clerk
's
,
adjoining
the
entry
which
led
to
the
Chapel
Yard
.
The
new
prosperity
of
Dissent
at
Treby
had
led
to
an
enlargement
of
the
chapel
,
which
absorbed
all
extra
funds
and
left
none
for
the
enlargement
of
the
minister
's
income
.
He
sat
this
morning
,
as
usual
,
in
a
low
up-stairs
room
,
called
his
study
,
which
,
by
means
of
a
closet
capable
of
holding
his
bed
,
served
also
as
a
sleeping-room
.
The
book-shelves
did
not
suffice
for
his
store
of
old
books
,
which
lay
about
him
in
piles
so
arranged
as
to
leave
narrow
lanes
between
them
;
for
the
minister
was
much
given
to
walking
about
during
his
hours
of
meditation
,
and
very
narrow
passages
would
serve
for
his
small
legs
,
unencumbered
by
any
other
drapery
than
his
black
silk
stockings
and
the
flexible
,
though
prominent
,
bows
of
black
ribbon
that
tied
his
knee-breeches
.
He
was
walking
about
now
,
with
his
hands
clasped
behind
him
,
an
attitude
in
which
his
body
seemed
to
bear
about
the
same
proportion
to
his
head
as
the
lower
part
of
a
stone
Hermes
bears
to
the
carven
image
that
crowns
it
.
His
face
looked
old
and
worn
,
yet
the
curtain
of
hair
that
fell
from
his
bald
crown
and
hung
about
his
neck
retained
much
of
its
original
auburn
tint
,
and
his
large
,
brown
,
shortsighted
eyes
were
still
clear
and
bright
.
At
the
first
glance
,
every
one
thought
him
a
very
odd-looking
rusty
old
man
;
the
free-school
boys
often
hooted
after
him
,
and
called
him
"
Revelations
;
"
and
to
many
respectable
Church
people
,
old
Lyon
's
little
legs
and
large
head
seemed
to
make
Dissent
additionally
preposterous
.
But
he
was
too
shortsighted
to
notice
those
who
tittered
at
him
—
too
absent
from
the
world
of
small
facts
and
petty
impulses
in
which
titterers
live
.
With
Satan
to
argue
against
on
matters
of
vital
experience
as
well
as
of
church
government
,
with
great
texts
to
meditate
on
,
which
seemed
to
get
deeper
as
he
tried
to
fathom
them
,
it
had
never
occurred
to
him
to
reflect
what
sort
of
image
his
small
person
made
on
the
retina
of
a
light-minded
beholder
.
The
good
Rufus
had
his
ire
and
his
egoism
;
but
they
existed
only
as
the
red
heat
which
gave
force
to
his
belief
and
his
teaching
.
He
was
susceptible
concerning
the
true
office
of
deacons
in
the
primitive
church
,
and
his
small
nervous
body
was
jarred
from
head
to
foot
by
the
concussion
of
an
argument
to
which
he
saw
no
answer
.
In
fact
,
the
only
moments
when
he
could
be
said
to
be
really
conscious
of
his
body
,
were
when
he
trembled
under
the
pressure
of
some
agitating
thought
.
He
was
meditating
on
the
text
for
his
Sunday
morning
sermon
:
"
And
all
the
people
said
,
Amen
"
—
a
mere
mustard-seed
of
a
text
,
which
had
split
at
first
only
into
two
divisions
,
"
What
was
said
,
"
and
"
Who
said
it
;
"
but
these
were
growing
into
a
many-branched
discourse
,
and
the
preacher
's
eyes
dilated
,
and
a
smile
played
about
his
mouth
till
,
as
his
manner
was
,
when
he
felt
happily
inspired
,
he
had
begun
to
utter
his
thoughts
aloud
in
the
varied
measure
and
cadence
habitual
to
him
,
changing
from
a
rapid
but
distinct
undertone
to
a
loud
emphatic
rallentando
.
"
My
brethren
,
do
you
think
that
great
shout
was
raised
in
Israel
by
each
man
's
waiting
to
say
'
amen
'
till
his
neighbours
had
said
amen
?
Do
you
think
there
will
ever
be
a
great
shout
for
the
right
—
the
shout
of
a
nation
as
of
one
man
,
rounded
and
whole
,
like
the
voice
of
the
archangel
that
bound
together
all
the
listeners
of
earth
and
heaven
—
if
every
Christian
of
you
peeps
round
to
see
what
his
neighbours
in
good
coats
are
doing
,
or
else
puts
his
hat
before
his
face
that
he
may
shout
and
never
be
heard
?
But
this
is
what
you
do
:
when
the
servant
of
God
stands
up
to
deliver
his
message
,
do
you
lay
your
souls
beneath
the
Word
as
you
set
out
your
plants
beneath
the
falling
rain
?
No
;
one
of
you
sends
his
eyes
to
all
corners
,
he
smothers
his
soul
with
small
questions
,
'
What
does
brother
Y
.
think
?
'
'
Is
this
doctrine
high
enough
for
brother
Z
.
?
'
'
Will
the
church
members
be
pleased
?
'
And
another
—
"
Here
the
door
was
opened
,
and
old
Lyddy
,
the
minister
's
servant
,
put
in
her
head
to
say
,
in
a
tone
of
despondency
,
finishing
with
a
groan
,
"
Here
is
Mrs
Holt
wanting
to
speak
to
you
;
she
says
she
comes
out
of
season
,
but
she
's
in
trouble
.
"
"
Lyddy
,
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
falling
at
once
into
a
quiet
conversational
tone
,
"
if
you
are
wrestling
with
the
enemy
,
let
me
refer
you
to
Ezekiel
the
thirteenth
and
twenty-second
,
and
beg
of
you
not
to
groan
.
It
is
a
stumbling-block
and
offence
to
my
daughter
;
she
would
take
no
broth
yesterday
,
because
she
said
you
had
cried
into
it
.
Thus
you
cause
the
truth
to
be
lightly
spoken
of
,
and
make
the
enemy
rejoice
.
If
your
face-ache
gives
him
an
advantage
,
take
a
little
warm
ale
with
your
meat
—
I
do
not
grudge
the
money
.
"
"
If
I
thought
my
drinking
warm
ale
would
hinder
poor
dear
Miss
Esther
from
speaking
light
—
but
she
hates
the
smell
of
it
.
"
"
Answer
not
again
,
Lyddy
,
but
send
up
Mistress
Holt
to
me
.
"
Lyddy
closed
the
door
immediately
.
"
I
lack
grace
to
deal
with
these
weak
sisters
,
"
said
the
minister
,
again
thinking
aloud
,
and
walking
.
"
Their
needs
lie
too
much
out
of
the
track
of
my
meditations
,
and
take
me
often
unawares
.
Mistress
Holt
is
another
who
darkens
counsel
by
words
without
knowledge
,
and
angers
the
reason
of
the
natural
man
.
Lord
,
give
me
patience
.
My
sins
were
heavier
to
bear
than
this
woman
's
folly
.
Come
in
,
Mistress
Holt
,
come
in
.
"
He
hastened
to
disencumber
a
chair
of
Matthew
Henry
's
Commentary
,
and
begged
his
visitor
to
be
seated
.
She
was
a
tall
elderly
woman
,
dressed
in
black
,
with
a
light-brown
front
and
a
black
band
over
her
forehead
.
She
moved
the
chair
a
little
and
seated
herself
in
it
with
some
emphasis
,
looking
fixedly
at
the
opposite
wall
with
a
hurt
and
argumentative
expression
.
Mr
Lyon
had
placed
himself
in
the
chair
against
his
desk
,
and
waited
with
the
resolute
resignation
of
a
patient
who
is
about
to
undergo
an
operation
.
But
his
visitor
did
not
speak
.
"
You
have
something
on
your
mind
,
Mistress
Holt
?
"
he
said
,
at
last
.
"
Indeed
I
have
,
sir
,
else
I
should
n't
be
here
.
"
"
Speak
freely
.
"
"
It
's
well
known
to
you
,
Mr
Lyon
,
that
my
husband
,
Mr
Holt
,
came
from
the
north
,
and
was
a
member
in
Malthouse
Yard
long
before
you
began
to
be
pastor
of
it
,
which
was
seven
year
ago
last
Michaelmas
.
It
's
the
truth
,
Mr
Lyon
,
and
I
'm
not
that
woman
to
sit
here
and
say
it
if
it
was
n't
true
.
"
"
Certainly
,
it
is
true
.
"
"
And
if
my
husband
had
been
alive
when
you
'd
come
to
preach
upon
trial
,
he
'd
have
been
as
good
a
judge
of
your
gifts
as
Mr
Nuttwood
or
Mr
Muscat
,
though
whether
he
'd
have
agreed
with
some
that
your
doctrine
was
n't
high
enough
,
I
ca
n't
say
.
For
myself
,
I
've
my
opinion
about
high
doctrine
.
"
"
Was
it
my
preaching
you
came
to
speak
about
?
"
said
the
minister
,
hurrying
in
the
question
.
"
No
,
Mr
Lyon
,
I
'm
not
that
woman
.
But
this
I
will
say
,
for
my
husband
died
before
your
time
,
that
he
had
a
wonderful
gift
in
prayer
,
as
the
old
members
well
know
,
if
anybody
likes
to
ask
'
em
,
not
believing
my
words
;
and
he
believed
himself
that
the
receipt
for
the
Cancer
Cure
,
which
I
've
sent
out
in
bottles
till
this
very
last
April
before
September
as
now
is
,
and
have
bottles
standing
by
me
,
—
he
believed
it
was
sent
him
in
answer
to
prayer
;
and
nobody
can
deny
it
,
for
he
prayed
most
regular
,
and
read
out
of
the
green
baize
Bible
.
"
Mrs
Holt
paused
,
appearing
to
think
that
Mr
Lyon
had
been
successfully
confuted
,
and
should
show
himself
convinced
.
"
Has
any
one
been
aspersing
your
husband
's
character
?
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
with
a
slight
initiative
towards
that
relief
of
groaning
for
which
he
had
reproved
Lyddy
.
"
Sir
,
they
dared
n't
.
For
though
he
was
a
man
of
prayer
,
he
did
n't
want
skill
and
knowledge
to
find
things
out
for
himself
;
and
that
was
what
I
used
to
say
to
my
friends
when
they
wondered
at
my
marrying
a
man
from
Lancashire
,
with
no
trade
nor
fortune
but
what
he
'd
got
in
his
head
.
But
my
husband
's
tongue
'
ud
have
been
a
fortune
to
anybody
,
and
there
was
many
a
one
said
it
was
as
good
as
a
dose
of
physic
to
hear
him
talk
;
not
but
what
that
got
him
into
trouble
in
Lancashire
,
but
he
always
said
,
if
the
worst
came
to
the
worst
,
he
could
go
and
preach
to
the
blacks
.
But
he
did
better
than
that
,
Mr
Lyon
,
for
he
married
me
;
and
this
I
will
say
,
that
for
age
,
and
conduct
,
and
managing
—
"
"
Mistress
Holt
,
"
interrupted
the
minister
,
"
these
are
not
the
things
whereby
we
may
edify
one
another
.
Let
me
beg
of
you
to
be
as
brief
as
you
can
.
My
time
is
not
my
own
.
"
"
Well
,
Mr
Lyon
,
I
've
a
right
to
speak
to
my
own
character
;
and
I
'm
one
of
your
congregation
,
though
I
'm
not
a
church
member
,
for
I
was
born
in
the
general
Baptist
connection
:
and
as
for
being
saved
without
works
,
there
's
a
many
,
I
daresay
,
ca
n't
do
without
that
doctrine
;
but
I
thank
the
Lord
I
never
needed
to
put
my
self
on
a
level
with
the
thief
on
the
cross
.
I
've
done
my
duty
,
and
more
,
if
anybody
comes
to
that
;
for
I
've
gone
without
my
bit
of
meat
to
make
broth
for
a
sick
neighbour
:
and
if
there
's
any
of
the
church
members
say
they
've
done
the
same
,
I
'd
ask
them
if
they
had
the
sinking
at
the
stomach
as
I
have
;
for
I
've
ever
strove
to
do
the
right
thing
,
and
more
,
for
good-natured
I
always
was
;
and
I
little
thought
,
after
being
respected
by
everybody
,
I
should
come
to
be
reproached
by
my
own
son
.
And
my
husband
said
,
when
he
was
a-dying
—
'
Mary
,
'
he
said
,
'
the
Elixir
,
and
the
Pills
,
and
the
Cure
will
support
you
,
for
they
've
a
great
name
in
all
the
country
round
,
and
you
'll
pray
for
a
blessing
on
them
.
'
And
so
I
have
done
,
Mr
Lyon
;
and
to
say
they
're
not
good
medicines
,
when
they
've
been
taken
for
fifty
miles
round
by
high
and
low
,
and
rich
and
poor
,
and
nobody
speaking
against
'
em
but
Dr
Lukin
,
it
seems
to
me
it
's
a
flying
in
the
face
of
Heaven
;
for
if
it
was
wrong
to
take
the
medicines
,
could
n't
the
blessed
Lord
have
stopped
it
?
"
Mrs
Holt
was
not
given
to
tears
;
she
was
much
sustained
by
conscious
unimpeachableness
,
and
by
an
argumentative
tendency
which
usually
checks
the
too
great
activity
of
the
lachrymal
gland
;
nevertheless
her
eyes
had
become
moist
,
her
fingers
played
on
her
knee
in
an
agitated
manner
,
and
she
finally
plucked
a
bit
of
her
gown
and
held
it
with
great
nicety
between
her
thumb
and
finger
.
Mr
Lyon
,
however
,
by
listening
attentively
,
had
begun
partly
to
divine
the
source
of
her
trouble
.
"
Am
I
wrong
in
gathering
from
what
you
say
,
Mistress
Holt
,
that
your
son
has
objected
in
some
way
to
your
sale
of
your
late
husband
's
medicines
?
"
"
Mr
Lyon
,
he
's
masterful
beyond
everything
,
and
he
talks
more
than
his
father
did
.
I
've
got
my
reason
,
Mr
Lyon
,
and
if
anybody
talks
sense
I
can
follow
him
;
but
Felix
talks
so
wild
,
and
contradicts
his
mother
.
And
what
do
you
think
he
says
,
after
giving
up
his
'
prenticeship
,
and
going
off
to
study
at
Glasgow
,
and
getting
through
all
the
bit
of
money
his
father
saved
for
his
bringing-up
—
what
has
all
his
learning
come
to
?
He
says
I
'd
better
never
open
my
Bible
,
for
it
's
as
bad
poison
to
me
as
the
pills
are
to
half
the
people
as
swallow
'
em
.
You
'll
not
speak
of
this
again
,
Mr
Lyon
—
I
do
n't
think
ill
enough
of
you
to
believe
that
.
For
I
suppose
a
Christian
can
understand
the
word
o
'
God
without
going
to
Glasgow
,
and
there
's
texts
upon
texts
about
ointment
and
medicine
,
and
there
's
one
as
might
have
been
made
for
a
receipt
of
my
husband
's
—
it
's
just
as
if
it
was
a
riddle
,
and
Holt
's
Elixir
was
the
answer
.
"
"
Your
son
uses
rash
words
,
Mistress
Holt
,
"
said
the
minister
,
"
but
it
is
quite
true
that
we
may
err
in
giving
a
too
private
interpretation
to
the
Scripture
.
The
word
of
God
has
to
satisfy
the
larger
needs
of
His
people
,
like
the
rain
and
the
sunshine
—
which
no
man
must
think
to
be
meant
for
his
own
patch
of
seed-ground
solely
.
Will
it
not
be
well
that
I
should
see
your
son
,
and
talk
with
him
on
these
matters
?
He
was
at
chapel
,
I
observed
,
and
I
suppose
I
am
to
be
his
pastor
.
"
"
That
was
what
I
wanted
to
ask
you
,
Mr
Lyon
.
For
perhaps
he
'll
listen
to
you
,
and
not
talk
you
down
as
he
does
his
poor
mother
.
For
after
we
'd
been
to
chapel
,
he
spoke
better
of
you
than
he
does
of
most
:
he
said
you
was
a
fine
old
fellow
,
and
an
old-fashioned
Puritan
—
he
uses
dreadful
language
,
Mr
Lyon
;
but
I
saw
he
did
n't
mean
you
ill
,
for
all
that
.
He
calls
most
folks
'
religion
rottenness
;
and
yet
another
time
he
'll
tell
me
I
ought
to
feel
myself
a
sinner
,
and
do
God
's
will
and
not
my
own
.
But
it
's
my
belief
he
says
first
one
thing
and
then
another
only
to
abuse
his
mother
.
Or
else
he
's
going
off
his
head
,
and
must
be
sent
to
a
'
sylum
.
But
if
he
writes
to
the
North
Loamshire
Herald
first
,
to
tell
everybody
the
medicines
are
good
for
nothing
,
how
can
I
ever
keep
him
and
myself
?
"
"
Tell
him
I
shall
feel
favoured
if
he
will
come
and
see
me
this
evening
,
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
not
without
a
little
prejudice
in
favour
of
the
young
man
,
whose
language
about
the
preacher
in
Malthouse
Yard
did
not
seem
to
him
to
be
altogether
dreadful
.
"
Meanwhile
,
my
friend
,
I
counsel
you
to
send
up
a
supplication
,
which
I
shall
not
fail
to
offer
also
,
that
you
may
receive
a
spirit
of
humility
and
submission
,
so
that
you
may
not
be
hindered
from
seeing
and
following
the
Divine
guidance
in
this
matter
by
any
false
lights
of
pride
and
obstinacy
.
Of
this
more
when
I
have
spoken
with
your
son
.
"
"
I
'm
not
proud
or
obstinate
,
Mr
Lyon
.
I
never
did
say
I
was
everything
that
was
bad
,
and
I
never
will
.
And
why
this
trouble
should
be
sent
on
me
above
everybody
else
—
for
I
have
n't
told
you
all
.
He
's
made
himself
a
journeyman
to
Mr
Prowd
the
watchmaker
—
after
all
this
learning
—
and
he
says
he
'll
go
with
patches
on
his
knees
,
and
he
shall
like
himself
the
better
.
And
as
for
his
having
little
boys
to
teach
,
they
'll
come
in
all
weathers
with
dirty
shoes
.
If
it
's
madness
,
Mr
Lyon
,
it
's
no
use
your
talking
to
him
.
"
"
We
shall
see
.
Perhaps
it
may
even
be
the
disguised
working
of
grace
within
him
.
We
must
not
judge
rashly
.
Many
eminent
servants
of
God
have
been
led
by
ways
as
strange
.
"
"
Then
I
'm
sorry
for
their
mothers
,
that
's
all
,
Mr
Lyon
;
and
all
the
more
if
they
'd
been
well-spoken-on
women
.
For
not
my
biggest
enemy
,
whether
it
's
he
or
she
,
if
they
'll
speak
the
truth
,
can
turn
round
and
say
I
've
deserved
this
trouble
.
And
when
everybody
gets
their
due
,
and
people
's
doing
are
spoke
of
on
the
house-tops
,
as
the
Bible
says
they
will
be
,
it
'll
be
known
what
I
've
gone
through
with
those
medicines
—
the
pounding
,
and
the
pouring
,
and
the
letting
stand
,
and
the
weighing
—
up
early
and
down
late
—
there
's
nobody
knows
yet
but
One
that
's
worthy
to
know
;
and
the
pasting
o
'
the
printed
labels
right
side
upwards
.
There
's
few
women
would
have
gone
through
with
it
;
and
it
's
reasonable
to
think
it
'll
be
made
up
to
me
;
for
if
there
's
promised
and
purchased
blessings
,
I
should
think
this
trouble
is
purchasing
'
em
.
For
if
my
son
Felix
does
n't
have
a
strait-waistcoat
put
on
him
,
he
'll
have
his
way
.
But
I
say
no
more
.
I
wish
you
good
morning
,
Mr
Lyon
,
and
thank
you
,
though
I
well
know
it
's
your
duty
to
act
as
you
're
doing
.
And
I
never
troubled
you
about
my
own
soul
,
as
some
do
who
look
down
on
me
for
not
being
a
church
member
.
"
"
Farewell
,
Mistress
Holt
,
farewell
.
I
pray
that
a
more
powerful
teacher
than
I
am
may
instruct
you
.
"
The
door
was
closed
,
and
the
much-tried
Rufus
walked
about
again
,
saying
aloud
,
groaningly
,
"
This
woman
has
sat
under
the
Gospel
all
her
life
,
and
she
is
as
blind
as
a
heathen
,
and
as
proud
and
stiff-necked
as
a
Pharisee
;
yet
she
is
one
of
the
souls
I
watch
for
.
'
Tis
true
that
even
Sara
,
the
chosen
mother
of
God
's
people
,
showed
a
spirit
of
unbelief
,
and
perhaps
of
selfish
anger
;
and
it
is
a
passage
that
bears
the
unmistakable
signet
,
'
doing
honour
to
the
wife
or
woman
,
as
unto
the
weaker
vessel
.
'
For
therein
is
the
greatest
check
put
on
the
ready
scorn
of
the
natural
man
.
"
CHAPTER
V.
Sir
,
there
's
a
hurry
in
the
veins
of
youth
That
makes
a
vice
of
virtue
by
excess
.
What
if
the
coolness
of
our
tardier
veins
Be
loss
of
virtue
?
All
things
cool
with
time
—
The
sun
itself
,
they
say
,
till
heat
shall
find
A
general
level
,
nowhere
in
excess
.
'
Tis
a
poor
climax
,
to
my
weaker
thought
,
That
future
middlingness
.
In
the
evening
,
when
Mr
Lyon
was
expecting
the
knock
at
the
door
that
would
announce
Felix
Holt
,
he
occupied
his
cushionless
arm-chair
in
the
sitting-room
,
and
was
skimming
rapidly
,
in
his
short-sighted
way
,
by
the
light
of
one
candle
,
the
pages
of
a
missionary
report
,
emitting
occasionally
a
slight
"
Hm-m
"
that
appeared
to
be
expressive
of
criticism
rather
than
of
approbation
.
The
room
was
dismally
furnished
,
the
only
objects
indicating
an
intention
of
ornament
being
a
bookcase
,
a
map
of
the
Holy
Land
,
an
engraved
portrait
of
Dr
Doddridge
,
and
a
black
bust
with
a
coloured
face
,
which
for
some
reason
or
other
was
covered
with
green
gauze
.
Yet
any
one
whose
attention
was
quite
awake
must
have
been
aware
,
even
on
entering
,
of
certain
things
that
were
incongruous
with
the
general
air
of
sombreness
and
privation
.
There
was
a
delicate
scent
of
dried
rose-leaves
;
the
light
by
which
the
minister
was
reading
was
a
wax-candle
in
a
white
earthenware
candlestick
,
and
the
table
on
the
opposite
side
of
the
fireplace
held
a
dainty
work-basket
frilled
with
blue
satin
.
Felix
Holt
,
when
he
entered
,
was
not
in
an
observant
mood
;
and
when
,
after
seating
himself
,
at
the
minister
's
invitation
,
near
the
little
table
which
held
the
work-basket
,
he
stared
at
the
wax-candle
opposite
to
him
,
he
did
so
without
any
wonder
or
consciousness
that
the
candle
was
not
of
tallow
.
But
the
minister
's
sensitiveness
gave
another
interpretation
to
the
gaze
which
he
divined
rather
than
saw
;
and
in
alarm
lest
this
inconsistent
extravagance
should
obstruct
his
usefulness
,
he
hastened
to
say
—
"
You
are
doubtless
amazed
to
see
me
with
a
wax-light
,
my
young
friend
;
but
this
undue
luxury
is
paid
for
with
the
earnings
of
my
daughter
,
who
is
so
delicately
framed
that
the
smell
of
tallow
is
loathsome
to
her
.
"
"
I
heeded
not
the
candle
,
sir
.
I
thank
Heaven
I
am
not
a
mouse
to
have
a
nose
that
takes
note
of
wax
or
tallow
.
"
The
loud
abrupt
tones
made
the
old
man
vibrate
a
little
.
He
had
been
stroking
his
chin
gently
before
,
with
a
sense
that
he
must
be
very
quiet
and
deliberate
in
his
treatment
of
the
eccentric
young
man
;
but
now
,
quite
unreflectingly
,
he
drew
forth
a
pair
of
spectacles
,
which
he
was
in
the
habit
of
using
when
he
wanted
to
observe
his
interlocutor
more
closely
than
usual
.
"
And
I
myself
,
in
fact
,
am
equally
indifferent
,
"
he
said
,
as
he
opened
and
adjusted
his
glasses
,
"
so
that
I
have
a
sufficient
light
on
my
book
.
"
Here
his
large
eyes
looked
discerningly
through
the
spectacles
.
"
'
Tis
the
quality
of
the
page
you
care
about
,
not
of
the
candle
,
"
said
Felix
,
smiling
pleasantly
enough
at
his
inspector
.
"
You
're
thinking
that
you
have
a
roughly-written
page
before
you
now
.
"
That
was
true
.
The
minister
,
accustomed
to
the
respectable
air
of
provincial
townsmen
,
and
especially
to
the
sleek
well-clipped
gravity
of
his
own
male
congregation
,
felt
a
slight
shock
as
his
glasses
made
perfectly
clear
to
him
the
shaggy-headed
,
large-eyed
,
strong-limbed
person
of
this
questionable
young
man
,
without
waistcoat
or
cravat
.
But
the
possibility
,
supported
by
some
of
Mrs
Holt
's
words
,
that
a
disguised
work
of
grace
might
be
going
forward
in
the
son
of
whom
she
complained
so
bitterly
,
checked
any
hasty
interpretations
.
"
I
abstain
from
judging
by
the
outward
appearance
only
,
"
he
answered
,
with
his
usual
simplicity
.
"
I
myself
have
experienced
that
when
the
spirit
is
much
exercised
it
is
difficult
to
remember
neckbands
and
strings
and
such
small
accidents
of
our
vesture
,
which
are
nevertheless
decent
and
needful
so
long
as
we
sojourn
in
the
flesh
.
And
you
too
,
my
young
friend
,
as
I
gather
from
your
mother
's
troubled
and
confused
report
,
are
undergoing
some
travail
of
mind
.
You
will
not
,
I
trust
,
object
to
open
yourself
fully
to
me
,
as
to
an
aged
pastor
who
has
himself
had
much
inward
wrestling
,
and
has
especially
known
much
temptation
from
doubt
.
"
"
As
to
doubt
,
"
said
Felix
,
loudly
and
brusquely
as
before
,
"
if
it
is
those
absurd
medicines
and
gulling
advertisements
that
my
mother
has
been
talking
of
to
you
—
and
I
suppose
it
is
—
I
've
no
more
doubt
about
them
than
I
have
about
pocket-picking
.
I
know
there
's
a
stage
of
speculation
in
which
a
man
may
doubt
whether
a
pickpocket
is
blameworthy
—
but
I
'm
not
one
of
your
subtle
fellows
who
keep
looking
at
the
world
through
their
own
legs
.
If
I
allowed
the
sale
of
those
medicines
to
go
on
,
and
my
mother
to
live
out
of
the
proceeds
when
I
can
keep
her
by
the
honest
labour
of
my
hands
,
I
've
not
the
least
doubt
that
I
should
be
a
rascal
.
"
"
I
would
fain
inquire
more
particularly
into
your
objection
to
these
medicines
,
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
gravely
.
Notwithstanding
his
conscientiousness
and
a
certain
originality
in
his
own
mental
disposition
,
he
was
too
little
used
to
high
principle
quite
dissociated
from
sectarian
phraseology
to
be
as
immediately
in
sympathy
with
it
as
he
would
otherwise
have
been
.
"
I
know
they
have
been
well
reported
of
,
and
many
wise
persons
have
tried
remedies
providentially
discovered
by
those
who
are
not
regular
physicians
,
and
have
found
a
blessing
in
the
use
of
them
.
I
may
mention
the
eminent
Mr
Wesley
,
who
,
though
I
hold
not
altogether
with
his
Arminian
doctrine
,
nor
with
the
usages
of
his
institution
,
was
nevertheless
a
man
of
God
;
and
the
journals
of
various
Christians
whose
names
have
left
a
sweet
savour
might
be
cited
in
the
same
sense
.
Moreover
,
your
father
,
who
originally
concocted
these
medicines
and
left
them
as
a
provision
for
your
mother
,
was
,
as
I
understand
,
a
man
whose
walk
was
not
unfaithful
.
"
"
My
father
was
ignorant
,
"
said
Felix
,
bluntly
.
"
He
knew
neither
the
complication
of
the
human
system
,
nor
the
way
in
which
drugs
counteract
each
other
.
Ignorance
is
not
so
damnable
as
humbug
,
but
when
it
prescribes
pills
it
may
happen
to
do
more
harm
.
I
know
something
about
these
things
.
I
was
'
prentice
for
five
miserable
years
to
a
stupid
brute
of
a
country
apothecary
—
my
poor
father
left
money
for
that
—
he
thought
nothing
could
be
finer
for
me
.
No
matter
:
I
know
that
the
Cathartic
Pills
are
a
drastic
compound
which
may
be
as
bad
as
poison
to
half
the
people
who
swallow
them
;
that
the
Elixir
is
an
absurd
farrago
of
a
dozen
incompatible
things
;
and
that
the
Cancer
Cure
might
as
well
be
bottled
ditch-water
.
"
Mr
Lyon
rose
and
walked
up
and
down
the
room
.
His
simplicity
was
strongly
mixed
with
sagacity
as
well
as
sectarian
prejudice
,
and
he
did
not
rely
at
once
on
a
loud-spoken
integrity
—
Satan
might
have
flavoured
it
with
ostentation
.
Presently
he
asked
in
a
rapid
low
tone
,
"
How
long
have
you
known
this
,
young
man
?
"
"
Well
put
,
sir
,
"
said
Felix
.
"
I
've
known
it
a
good
deal
longer
than
I
've
acted
on
it
,
like
plenty
of
other
things
.
But
you
believe
in
conversion
?
"
"
Yea
,
verily
.
"
"
So
do
I
.
I
was
converted
by
six
weeks
'
debauchery
.
"
The
minister
started
.
"
Young
man
,
"
he
said
,
solemnly
,
going
up
close
to
Felix
and
laying
a
hand
on
his
shoulder
,
"
speak
not
lightly
of
the
Divine
operations
,
and
restrain
unseemly
words
.
"
"
I
'm
not
speaking
lightly
,
"
said
Felix
.
"
If
I
had
not
seen
that
I
was
making
a
hog
of
myself
very
fast
,
and
that
pig-wash
,
even
if
I
could
have
got
plenty
of
it
,
was
a
poor
sort
of
thing
,
I
should
never
have
looked
life
fairly
in
the
face
to
see
what
was
to
be
done
with
it
.
I
laughed
out
loud
at
last
to
think
of
a
poor
devil
like
me
,
in
a
Scotch
garret
,
with
my
stockings
out
at
heel
and
a
shilling
or
two
to
be
dissipated
upon
,
with
a
smell
of
raw
haggis
mounting
from
below
,
and
old
women
breathing
gin
as
they
passed
me
on
the
stairs
—
wanting
to
turn
my
life
into
easy
pleasure
.
Then
I
began
to
see
what
else
it
could
be
turned
into
.
Not
much
,
perhaps
.
This
world
is
not
a
very
fine
place
for
a
good
many
of
the
people
in
it
.
But
I
've
made
up
my
mind
it
sha
n't
be
the
worse
for
me
,
if
I
can
help
it
.
They
may
tell
me
I
ca
n't
alter
the
world
—
that
there
must
be
a
certain
number
of
sneaks
and
robbers
in
it
,
and
if
I
do
n't
lie
and
filch
somebody
else
will
.
Well
,
then
,
somebody
else
shall
,
for
I
wo
n't
.
That
's
the
upshot
of
my
conversion
,
Mr
Lyon
,
if
you
want
to
know
it
.
"
Mr
Lyon
removed
his
hand
from
Felix
's
shoulder
and
walked
about
again
.
"
Did
you
sit
under
any
preacher
at
Glasgow
,
young
man
?
"
"
No
:
I
heard
most
of
the
preachers
once
,
but
I
never
wanted
to
hear
them
twice
.
"
The
good
Rufus
was
not
without
a
slight
rising
of
resentment
at
this
young
man
's
want
of
reverence
.
It
was
not
yet
plain
whether
he
wanted
to
hear
twice
the
preacher
in
Malthouse
Yard
.
But
the
resentful
feeling
was
carefully
repressed
:
a
soul
in
so
peculiar
a
condition
must
be
dealt
with
delicately
.
"
And
now
,
may
I
ask
,
"
he
said
,
"
what
course
you
mean
to
take
,
after
hindering
your
mother
from
making
and
selling
these
drugs
?
I
speak
no
more
in
their
favour
after
what
you
have
said
.
God
forbid
that
I
should
strive
to
hinder
you
from
seeking
whatsoever
things
are
honest
and
honourable
.
But
your
mother
is
advanced
in
years
;
she
needs
comfortable
sustenance
;
you
have
doubtless
considered
how
you
may
make
her
amends
?
'
He
that
provideth
not
for
his
own
—
'
I
trust
you
respect
the
authority
that
so
speaks
.
And
I
will
not
suppose
that
,
after
being
tender
of
conscience
towards
strangers
,
you
will
be
careless
towards
your
mother
.
There
be
indeed
some
who
,
taking
a
mighty
charge
on
their
shoulders
,
must
perforce
leave
their
households
to
Providence
,
and
to
the
care
of
humbler
brethren
,
but
in
such
a
case
the
call
must
be
clear
.
"
"
I
shall
keep
my
mother
as
well
—
nay
,
better
—
than
she
has
kept
herself
.
She
has
always
been
frugal
.
With
my
watch
and
clock
cleaning
,
and
teaching
one
or
two
little
chaps
that
I
've
got
to
come
to
me
,
I
can
earn
enough
.
As
for
me
,
I
can
live
on
bran
porridge
.
I
have
the
stomach
of
a
rhinoceros
.
"
"
But
for
a
young
man
so
well
furnished
as
you
,
who
can
questionless
write
a
good
hand
and
keep
books
,
were
it
not
well
to
seek
some
higher
situation
as
clerk
or
assistant
?
I
could
speak
to
Brother
Muscat
,
who
is
well
acquainted
with
all
such
openings
.
Any
place
in
Pendrell
's
Bank
,
I
fear
,
is
now
closed
against
such
as
are
not
Churchmen
.
It
used
not
to
be
so
,
but
a
year
ago
he
discharged
Brother
Bodkin
,
although
he
was
a
valuable
servant
.
Still
,
something
might
be
found
.
There
are
ranks
and
degrees
—
and
those
who
can
serve
in
the
higher
must
not
unadvisedly
change
what
seems
to
be
a
providential
appointment
.
Your
poor
mother
is
not
altogether
—
"
"
Excuse
me
,
Mr
Lyon
;
I
've
had
all
that
out
with
my
mother
,
and
I
may
as
well
save
you
any
trouble
by
telling
you
that
my
mind
has
been
made
up
about
that
a
long
while
ago
.
I
'll
take
no
employment
that
obliges
me
to
prop
up
my
chin
with
a
high
cravat
,
and
wear
straps
,
and
pass
the
live-long
day
with
a
set
of
fellows
who
spend
their
spare
money
on
shirt-pins
.
That
sort
of
work
is
really
lower
than
many
handicrafts
;
it
only
happens
to
be
paid
out
of
proportion
.
That
's
why
I
set
myself
to
learn
the
watchmaking
trade
.
My
father
was
a
weaver
first
of
all
.
It
would
have
been
better
for
him
if
he
had
remained
a
weaver
.
I
came
home
through
Lancashire
and
saw
an
uncle
of
mine
who
is
a
weaver
still
.
I
mean
to
stick
to
the
class
I
belong
to
—
people
who
do
n't
follow
the
fashions
.
"
Mr
Lyon
was
silent
a
few
moments
.
This
dialogue
was
far
from
plain
sailing
;
he
was
not
certain
of
his
latitude
and
longitude
.
If
the
despiser
of
Glasgow
preachers
had
been
arguing
in
favour
of
gin
and
Sabbath-breaking
,
Mr
Lyon
's
course
would
have
been
clearer
.
"
Well
,
well
,
"
he
said
,
deliberately
,
"
it
is
true
that
St
Paul
exercised
the
trade
of
tent-making
,
though
he
was
learned
in
all
the
wisdom
of
the
Rabbis
.
"
"
St
Paul
was
a
wise
man
,
"
said
Felix
.
"
Why
should
I
want
to
get
into
the
middle
class
because
I
have
some
learning
?
The
most
of
the
middle
class
are
as
ignorant
as
the
working
people
about
everything
that
does
n't
belong
to
their
own
Brummagem
life
.
That
's
how
the
working
men
are
left
to
foolish
devices
and
keep
worsening
themselves
:
the
best
heads
among
them
forsake
their
born
comrades
,
and
go
in
for
a
house
with
a
high
door-step
and
a
brass
knocker
.
"
Mr
Lyon
stroked
his
mouth
and
chin
,
perhaps
because
he
felt
some
disposition
to
smile
;
and
it
would
not
be
well
to
smile
too
readily
at
what
seemed
but
a
weedy
resemblance
of
Christian
unworldliness
.
On
the
contrary
,
there
might
be
a
dangerous
snare
in
an
unsanctified
outstepping
of
average
Christian
practice
.
"
Nevertheless
,
"
he
observed
,
gravely
,
"
it
is
by
such
self-advancement
that
many
have
been
enabled
to
do
good
service
to
the
cause
of
liberty
and
to
the
public
wellbeing
.
The
ring
and
the
robe
of
Joseph
were
no
objects
for
a
good
man
's
ambition
,
but
they
were
the
signs
of
that
credit
which
he
won
by
his
divinely-inspired
skil
,
and
which
enabled
him
to
act
as
a
saviour
to
his
brethren
.
"
"
O
yes
,
your
ringed
and
scented
men
of
the
people
!
—
I
wo
n't
be
one
of
them
.
Let
a
man
once
throttle
himself
with
a
satin
stock
,
and
he
'll
get
new
wants
and
new
motives
.
Metamorphosis
will
have
begun
at
his
neck-joint
,
and
it
will
go
on
till
it
has
changed
his
likings
first
and
then
his
reasoning
,
which
will
follow
his
likings
as
the
feet
of
a
hungry
dog
follow
his
nose
.
I
'll
have
none
of
your
clerkly
gentility
.
I
might
end
by
collecting
greasy
pence
from
poor
men
to
buy
myself
a
fine
coat
and
a
glutton
's
dinner
,
on
pretence
of
serving
the
poor
men
.
I
'd
sooner
be
Paley
's
fat
pigeon
than
a
demagogue
all
tongue
and
stomach
,
though
"
—
here
Felix
changed
his
voice
a
little
—
"
I
should
like
well
enough
to
be
another
sort
of
demagogue
,
if
I
could
.
"
"
Then
you
have
a
strong
interest
in
the
great
political
movements
of
these
times
?
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
with
a
perceptible
flashing
of
the
eyes
.
"
I
should
think
so
.
I
despise
every
man
who
has
not
—
or
,
having
it
,
does
n't
try
to
rouse
it
in
other
men
.
"
"
Right
,
my
young
friend
,
right
,
"
said
the
minister
,
in
a
deep
cordial
tone
.
Inevitably
his
mind
was
drawn
aside
from
the
immediate
consideration
of
Felix
Holt
's
spiritual
interest
by
the
prospect
of
political
sympathy
.
In
those
days
so
many
instruments
of
God
's
cause
in
the
fight
for
religious
and
political
liberty
held
creeds
that
were
painfully
wrong
,
and
,
indeed
,
irreconcilable
with
salvation
!
"
That
is
my
own
view
,
which
I
maintain
in
the
face
of
some
opposition
from
brethren
who
contend
that
a
share
in
public
movements
is
a
hindrance
to
the
closer
walk
,
and
that
the
pulpit
is
no
place
for
teaching
men
their
duties
as
members
of
the
commonwealth
.
I
have
had
much
puerile
blame
cast
upon
me
because
I
have
uttered
such
names
as
Brougham
and
Wellington
in
the
pulpit
.
Why
not
Wellington
as
well
as
Rabshakeh
?
and
why
not
Brougham
as
well
as
Balaam
?
Does
God
know
less
of
men
than
He
did
in
the
days
of
Hezekiah
and
Moses
?
—
is
His
arm
shortened
,
and
is
the
world
become
too
wide
for
His
providence
?
But
,
they
say
,
there
are
no
politics
in
the
New
Testament
—
"
"
Well
,
they
're
right
enough
there
,
"
said
Felix
,
with
his
usual
unceremoniousness
.
"
What
!
you
are
of
those
who
hold
that
a
Christian
minister
should
not
meddle
with
public
matters
in
the
pulpit
?
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
colouring
.
"
I
am
ready
to
join
issue
on
that
point
.
"
"
Not
I
,
sir
,
"
said
Felix
;
"
I
should
say
,
teach
any
truth
you
can
,
whether
it
's
in
the
Testament
or
out
of
it
.
It
's
little
enough
anybody
can
get
hold
of
,
and
still
less
what
he
can
drive
into
the
skulls
of
a
pence-counting
,
parcel-tying
generation
,
such
as
mostly
fill
your
chapels
.
"
"
Young
man
,
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
pausing
in
front
of
Felix
.
He
spoke
rapidly
,
as
he
always
did
,
except
when
his
words
were
specially
weighted
with
emotion
:
he
overflowed
with
matter
,
and
in
his
mind
matter
was
always
completely
organised
into
words
.
"
I
speak
not
on
my
own
behalf
,
for
not
only
have
I
no
desire
that
any
man
should
think
of
me
above
that
which
he
seeth
me
to
be
,
but
I
am
aware
of
much
that
should
make
me
patient
under
a
disesteem
resting
even
on
too
hasty
a
construction
.
I
speak
not
as
claiming
reverence
for
my
own
age
and
office
—
not
to
shame
you
,
but
to
warn
you
.
It
is
good
that
you
should
use
plainness
of
speech
,
and
I
am
not
of
those
who
would
enforce
a
submissive
silence
on
the
young
,
that
they
themselves
,
being
elders
,
may
be
heard
at
large
;
for
Elihu
was
the
youngest
of
Job
's
friends
,
yet
was
there
a
wise
rebuke
in
his
words
;
and
the
aged
Eli
was
taught
by
a
revelation
to
the
boy
Samuel
.
I
have
to
keep
a
special
watch
over
myself
in
this
matter
,
inasmuch
as
I
have
a
need
of
utterance
which
makes
the
thought
within
me
seem
as
a
pent-up
fire
,
until
I
have
shot
it
forth
,
as
it
were
,
in
arrowy
words
,
each
one
hitting
its
mark
.
Therefore
I
pray
for
a
listening
spirit
,
which
is
a
great
mark
of
grace
.
Nevertheless
,
my
young
friend
,
I
am
bound
,
as
I
said
,
to
warn
you
.
The
temptations
that
most
beset
those
who
have
great
natural
gifts
,
and
are
wise
after
the
flesh
,
are
pride
and
scorn
,
more
particularly
towards
those
weak
things
of
the
world
which
have
been
chosen
to
confound
the
things
which
are
mighty
.
The
scornful
nostril
and
the
high
head
gather
not
the
odours
that
lie
on
the
track
of
truth
.
The
mind
that
is
too
ready
at
contempt
and
reprobation
is
—
"
Here
the
door
opened
,
and
Mr
Lyon
paused
to
look
round
,
but
seeing
only
Lyddy
with
the
tea-tray
,
he
went
on
:
—
"
Is
,
I
may
say
,
as
a
clenched
fist
that
can
give
blows
,
but
is
shut
up
from
receiving
and
holding
ought
that
is
precious
—
though
it
were
heavensent
manna
.
"
"
I
understand
you
,
sir
,
"
said
Felix
,
good-humouredly
,
putting
out
his
hand
to
the
little
man
,
who
had
come
close
to
him
as
he
delivered
the
last
sentence
with
sudden
emphasis
and
slowness
.
"
But
I
'm
not
inclined
to
clench
my
fist
at
you
.
"
"
Well
,
well
,
"
said
Mr
Lyon
,
shaking
the
proffered
hand
,
"
we
shall
see
more
of
each
