theboat
,
and
came
here
among
the
natives
,
for
company
?
and
noise
?
With
my
head
splitting
?
”
Here
Julia
gave
Mrs.
Dodd
a
soft
pinch
,
to
which
Mrs.
Dodd
replied
by
a
smile
.
And
so
they
settled
who
this
petulant
young
invalid
must
be
.
“
'
There
,
it
is
no
use
,
”
observed
one
,
sotto
voce
,
“
the
bloke
really
has
awful
headaches
,
like
a
girl
,
and
then
he
always
shuts
up
this
way
.
You
will
only
rile
him
,
and
get
the
rough
side
of
his
tongue
.
”
Here
,
then
,
the
conference
drew
towards
a
close
.
But
a
Wadham
man
,
who
was
one
of
the
ambassadors
,
interposed
.
“
Stop
a
minute
,
”
said
he
.
“
Mr.
Hardie
,
I
have
not
the
honour
to
be
acquainted
with
you
,
and
I
am
not
here
to
annoy
you
,
nor
to
be
affronted
by
you
.
But
the
university
has
a
stake
in
this
race
,
and
the
university
expostulates
through
us
—
through
me
,
if
you
like
.
”
“
Who
have
I
the
honour
?
”
inquired
Hardie
,
assuming
politeness
sudden
and
vast
.
“
Badham
,
of
Wadham
.
”
“
Badham
o
'
Wadham
?
Hear
that
,
ye
tuneful
nine
!
Well
,
Badham
o
'
Wadham
,
you
are
no
acquaintance
of
mine
;
so
you
may
possibly
not
be
a
fool
.
Let
us
assume
by
way
of
hypothesis
that
you
are
a
man
of
sense
,
a
man
of
reason
as
well
as
of
rhyme
.
Then
follow
my
logic
.
Hardie
of
Exeter
is
a
good
man
in
a
boat
when
he
has
not
got
a
headache
.
“
When
he
has
got
a
headache
,
Hardie
of
Exeter
is
not
worth
a
straw
in
a
boat
.
“
Hardie
of
Exeter
has
a
headache
now
.
“
Ergo
,
the
university
would
put
the
said
Hardie
into
a
race
,
headache
and
all
,
and
reduce
defeat
to
a
certainty
.
“
And
,
ergo
,
on
the
same
premises
,
I
,
not
being
an
egotist
,
nor
an
ass
,
have
taken
Hardie
of
Exeter
and
his
headache
out
of
the
boat
,
as
I
should
have
done
any
other
cripple
.
“
Secondly
,
I
have
put
the
best
man
on
the
river
into
this
cripple
's
place
.
“
Total
,
I
have
given
the
university
the
benefit
of
my
brains
;
and
the
university
,
not
having
brains
enough
to
see
what
it
gains
by
the
exchange
,
turns
again
and
rends
me
,
like
an
animal
frequently
mentioned
in
Scripture
;
but
,
nota
bene
,
never
once
with
approbation
.
”
And
the
afflicted
Rhetorician
attempted
a
diabolical
grin
,
but
failed
signally
;
and
groaned
instead
.
“
Is
this
your
answer
to
the
university
,
sir
?
”
At
this
query
,
delivered
in
a
somewhat
threatening
tone
,
the
invalid
sat
up
all
in
a
moment
,
like
a
poked
lion
.
“
Oh
,
if
Badham
o
'
Wadham
thinks
to
crush
me
auctoritate
sua
et
totius
universitatis
,
Badham
o
'
Wadham
may
just
tell
the
whole
university
to
go
and
be
d
—
—
d
,
from
the
Chancellor
down
to
the
junior
cook
at
Skimmery
Hall
,
with
my
compliments
.
”
“
Ill-conditioned
brute
!
”
muttered
Badham
of
Wadham
.
“
Serve
you
right
if
the
university
were
to
chuck
you
into
the
Thames
.
”
And
with
this
comment
they
left
him
to
his
ill
temper
.
One
remained
;
sat
quietly
down
a
little
way
off
,
struck
a
sweetly
aromatic
lucifer
,
and
blew
a
noisome
cloud
;
but
the
only
one
which
betokens
calm
.
As
for
Hardie
,
he
held
his
aching
head
over
his
knees
,
absorbed
in
pain
,
and
quite
unconscious
that
sacred
pity
was
poisoning
the
air
beside
him
,
and
two
pair
of
dovelike
eyes
resting
on
him
with
womanly
concern
.
Mrs.
Dodd
and
Julia
had
heard
the
greatest
part
of
this
colloquy
.
They
had
terribly
quick
ears
and
nothing
better
to
do
with
them
just
then
.
Indeed
,
their
interest
was
excited
.
Julia
went
so
far
as
to
put
her
salts
into
Mrs.
Dodd
's
hand
with
a
little
earnest
look
.
But
Mrs.
Dodd
did
not
act
upon
the
hint
.
She
had
learned
who
the
young
man
was
:
had
his
very
name
been
strange
to
her
,
she
would
have
been
more
at
her
ease
with
him
.
Moreover
,
his
rudeness
to
the
other
men
repelled
her
a
little
.
Above
all
,
he
had
uttered
a
monosyllable
and
a
stinger
:
a
thorn
of
speech
not
in
her
vocabulary
,
nor
even
in
society
's
.
Those
might
be
his
manners
,
even
when
not
aching
.
Still
,
it
seems
,
a
feather
would
have
turned
the
scale
in
his
favour
,
for
she
whispered
,
“
I
have
a
great
mind
;
if
I
could
but
catch
his
eye
.
”
While
feminine
pity
and
social
reserve
were
holding
the
balance
so
nicely
,
and
nonsensically
,
about
half
a
split
straw
,
one
of
the
racing
four-oars
went
down
close
under
the
Berkshire
bank
.
“
London
!
”
observed
Hardie
's
adherent
.
“
What
,
are
you
there
,
old
fellow
?
”
murmured
Hardie
,
in
a
faint
voice
.
“
Now
,
that
is
like
a
friend
,
a
real
friend
,
to
sit
by
me
,
and
not
make
a
row
.
Thank
you
!
thank
you
!
”
Presently
the
Cambridge
four-oar
passed
:
it
was
speedily
followed
by
the
Oxford
;
the
last
came
down
in
mid-stream
,
and
Hardie
eyed
it
keenly
as
it
passed
.
“
There
,
”
he
cried
,
“
was
I
wrong
?
There
is
a
swing
for
you
;
there
is
a
stroke
.
I
did
not
know
what
a
treasure
I
had
got
sitting
behind
me
.
”
The
ladies
looked
,
and
lo
!
the
lauded
Stroke
of
the
four-oar
was
their
Edward
.
“
Sing
out
and
tell
him
it
is
not
like
the
sculls
.
We
must
fight
for
the
lead
at
starting
,
and
hold
it
with
his
eyelids
when
he
has
got
it
.
”
The
adherent
bawled
this
at
Edward
,
and
Edward
's
reply
came
ringing
back
in
a
clear
,
cheerful
voice
,
“
We
mean
to
try
all
we
know
.
”
“
What
is
the
odds
?
”
inquired
the
invalid
faintly
.
“
Even
on
London
;
two
to
one
against
Cambridge
;
three
to
one
against
us
.
”
“
Take
all
my
tin
and
lay
it
on
,
”
sighed
the
sufferer
.
“
Fork
it
out
,
then
.
Hallo
!
eighteen
pounds
?
Fancy
having
eighteen
pounds
at
the
end
of
term
.
I
'll
get
the
odds
up
at
the
bridge
directly
.
Here
's
a
lady
offering
you
her
smelling-bottle
.
”
Hardie
rose
and
turned
round
,
and
sure
enough
there
were
two
ladies
seated
in
their
carriage
at
some
distance
,
one
of
whom
was
holding
him
out
three
pretty
little
things
enough
,
a
little
smile
,
a
little
blush
,
and
a
little
cut-glass
bottle
with
a
gold
cork
.
The
last
panegyric
on
Edward
had
turned
the
scale
.
Hardie
went
slowly
up
to
the
side
of
the
carriage
,
and
took
off
his
hat
to
them
with
a
half-bewildered
air
.
Now
that
he
was
so
near
,
his
face
showed
very
pale
;
the
more
so
that
his
neck
was
a
good
deal
tanned
;
his
eyelids
were
rather
swollen
,
and
his
young
eyes
troubled
and
almost
filmy
with
the
pain
.
The
ladies
saw
,
and
their
gentle
bosoms
were
touched
:
they
had
heard
of
him
as
a
victorious
young
Apollo
trampling
on
all
difficulties
of
mind
and
body
;
and
they
saw
him
wan
,
and
worn
,
with
feminine
suffering
:
the
contrast
made
him
doubly
interesting
.
Arrived
at
the
side
of
the
carriage
,
he
almost
started
at
Julia
's
beauty
.
It
was
sun-like
,
and
so
were
her
two
lovely
earnest
eyes
,
beaming
soft
pity
on
him
with
an
eloquence
he
had
never
seen
in
human
eyes
before
;
for
Julia
's
were
mirrors
of
herself
;
they
did
nothing
by
halves
.
He
looked
at
her
and
her
mother
,
and
blushed
,
and
stood
irresolute
,
awaiting
their
commands
.
This
sudden
contrast
to
his
petulance
with
his
own
sex
paved
the
way
.
“
You
have
a
sad
headache
,
sir
,
”
said
Mrs.
Dodd
;
“
oblige
me
by
trying
my
salts
.
”
He
thanked
her
in
a
low
voice
.
“
And
,
mamma
,
”
inquired
Julia
,
“
ought
he
to
sit
in
the
sun
?
”
“
Certainly
not
.
You
had
better
sit
there
,
sir
,
and
profit
by
our
shade
and
our
parasols
.
”
“
Yes
,
mamma
,
but
you
know
the
real
place
where
he
ought
to
be
is
Bed
.
”
“
Oh
,
pray
do
n't
say
that
,
”
implored
the
patient
.
But
Julia
continued
,
with
unabated
severity
,
“
And
that
is
where
he
would
go
this
minute
,
if
I
was
his
mamma
.
”
“
Instead
of
his
junior
,
and
a
stranger
,
”
said
Mrs.
Dodd
,
somewhat
coldly
,
dwelling
with
a
very
slight
monitory
emphasis
on
the
“
stranger
.
”
Julia
said
nothing
,
but
drew
in
perceptibly
,
and
was
dead
silent
ever
after
.
“
Oh
,
madam
!
”
said
Hardie
eagerly
,
“
I
do
not
dispute
her
authority
,
nor
yours
.
You
have
a
right
to
send
me
where
you
please
,
after
your
kindness
in
noticing
my
infernal
head
,
and
doing
me
the
honour
to
speak
to
me
,
and
lending
me
this
.
But
if
I
go
to
bed
,
my
head
will
be
my
master
.
Besides
,
I
shall
throw
away
what
little
chance
I
have
of
making
your
acquaintance
;
and
the
race
just
coming
off
!
”
“
We
will
not
usurp
authority
,
sir
,
”
said
Mrs.
Dodd
quietly
;
“
but
we
know
what
a
severe
headache
is
,
and
should
be
glad
to
see
you
sit
still
in
the
shade
,
and
excite
yourself
as
little
as
possible
.
”
“
Yes
,
madam
,
”
said
the
youth
humbly
,
and
sat
down
like
a
lamb
.
He
glanced
now
and
then
at
the
island
,
and
now
and
then
peered
up
at
the
radiant
young
mute
beside
him
.
The
silence
continued
till
it
was
broken
by
—
a
fish
out
of
water
.
An
undergraduate
in
spectacles
came
mooning
along
,
all
out
of
his
element
.
It
was
Mr.
Kennet
,
who
used
to
rise
at
four
every
morning
to
his
Plato
,
and
walk
up
Shotover
Hill
every
afternoon
,
wet
or
dry
,
to
cool
his
eyes
for
his
evening
work
.
With
what
view
he
deviated
to
Henley
has
not
yet
been
ascertained
.
He
was
blind
as
a
bat
,
and
did
not
care
a
button
about
any
earthly
boat-race
,
except
the
one
in
the
AEneid
,
even
if
he
could
have
seen
one
.
However
,
nearly
all
the
men
of
his
college
went
to
Henley
,
and
perhaps
some
branch
,
hitherto
unexplored
,
of
animal
magnetism
drew
him
after
.
At
any
rate
,
there
was
his
body
;
and
his
mind
at
Oxford
and
Athens
,
and
other
venerable
but
irrelevant
cities
.
He
brightened
at
sight
of
his
doge
,
and
asked
him
warmly
if
he
had
heard
the
news
.
“
No
:
what
?
Nothing
wrong
,
I
hope
?
”
“
Why
,
two
of
our
men
are
ploughed
;
that
is
all
,
”
said
Kennet
,
affecting
with
withering
irony
to
undervalue
his
intelligence
.
“
Confound
it
,
Kennet
,
how
you
frightened
me
!
I
was
afraid
there
was
some
screw
loose
with
the
crew
.
”
At
this
very
instant
,
the
smoke
of
the
pistol
was
seen
to
puff
out
from
the
island
,
and
Hardie
rose
to
his
feet
.
“
They
are
off
!
”
cried
he
to
the
ladies
,
and
after
first
putting
his
palms
together
with
a
hypocritical
look
of
apology
,
he
laid
one
hand
on
an
old
barge
that
was
drawn
up
ashore
,
and
sprang
like
a
mountain
goat
on
to
the
bow
,
lighting
on
the
very
gunwale
.
The
position
was
not
tenable
an
instant
,
but
he
extended
one
foot
very
nimbly
and
boldly
,
and
planted
it
on
the
other
gunwale
;
and
there
he
was
in
a
moment
,
headache
and
all
,
in
an
attitude
as
large
and
inspired
as
the
boldest
gesture
antiquity
has
committed
to
marble
—
he
had
even
the
advantage
in
stature
over
most
of
the
sculptured
forms
of
Greece
.
But
a
double
opera-glass
at
his
eye
“
spoiled
the
lot
,
”
as
Mr.
Punch
says
.
I
am
not
to
repeat
the
particulars
of
a
distant
race
coming
nearer
and
nearer
.
The
main
features
are
always
the
same
;
only
this
time
it
was
more
exciting
to
our
fair
friends
,
on
account
of
Edward
's
high
stake
in
it
.
And
then
their
grateful
though
refractory
patient
,
an
authority
in
their
eyes
,
indeed
all
but
a
river-god
,
stood
poised
in
air
,
and
in
excited
whispers
interpreted
each
distant
and
unintelligible
feature
down
to
them
:
“
Cambridge
was
off
quickest
.
”
“
But
not
much
.
”
“
Anybody
's
race
at
present
,
madam
.
”
“
If
this
lasts
long
we
may
win
.
None
of
them
can
stay
like
us
.
”
“
Come
,
the
favourite
is
not
so
very
dangerous
.
”
“
Cambridge
looks
best
.
”
“
I
would
n't
change
with
either
,
so
far
.
”
“
Now
,
in
forty
seconds
more
,
I
shall
be
able
to
pick
out
the
winner
.
”
Julia
went
up
this
ladder
of
thrills
to
a
high
state
of
excitement
;
and
,
indeed
,
they
were
all
so
tuned
to
racing
pitch
,
that
some
metal
nerve
or
other
seemed
to
jar
inside
all
three
,
when
the
piercing
,
grating
voice
of
Kennet
broke
in
suddenly
with
—
“
How
do
you
construe
γαστριμαργος
?
”
The
wretch
had
burrowed
in
the
intellectual
ruins
of
Greece
the
moment
the
pistol
went
off
,
and
college
chat
ceased
.
Hardie
raised
his
opera-glass
,
and
his
first
impulse
was
to
brain
the
judicious
Kennet
,
gazing
up
to
him
for
an
answer
,
with
spectacles
goggling
like
supernatural
eyes
of
dead
sophists
in
the
sun
.
“
How
do
you
construe
'
Hoc
age
'
'
?
you
incongruous
dog
.
Hold
your
tongue
,
and
mind
the
race
.
”
“
There
,
I
thought
so
.
Where
's
your
three
to
one
,
now
?
The
Cockneys
are
out
of
this
event
,
any
way
.
Go
on
,
Universities
,
and
order
their
suppers
!
”
“
But
which
is
first
,
sir
?
”
asked
Julia
imploringly
.
“
Oh
,
which
is
first
of
all
?
”
“
Neither
.
Never
mind
;
it
looks
well
.
London
is
pumped
;
and
if
Cambridge
ca
n't
lead
him
before
this
turn
in
the
river
,
the
race
will
be
ours
.
Now
,
look
out
!
By
Jove
,
we
are
ahead
!
”
The
leading
boats
came
on
,
Oxford
pulling
a
long
,
lofty
,
sturdy
stroke
,
that
seemed
as
if
it
never
could
compete
with
the
quick
action
of
its
competitor
.
Yet
it
was
undeniably
ahead
,
and
gaining
at
every
swing
.
Young
Hardie
writhed
on
his
perch
.
He
screeched
at
them
across
the
Thames
,
“
Well
pulled
,
Stroke
!
Well
pulled
all
!
Splendidly
pulled
,
Dodd
!
You
are
walking
away
from
them
altogether
.
Hurrah
,
Oxford
for
ever
,
hurrah
!
”
The
gun
went
off
over
the
heads
of
the
Oxford
crew
in
advance
,
and
even
Mrs.
Dodd
and
Julia
could
see
the
race
was
theirs
.
“
We
have
won
at
last
,
”
cried
Julia
,
all
on
fire
,
“
and
fairly
;
only
think
of
that
!
”
Hardie
turned
round
,
grateful
to
beauty
for
siding
with
his
university
.
“
Yes
,
and
the
fools
may
thank
me
;
or
rather
my
man
,
Dodd
.
Dodd
for
ever
!
Hurrah
!
”
At
this
climax
even
Mrs.
Dodd
took
a
gentle
share
in
the
youthful
enthusiasm
that
was
boiling
around
her
,
and
her
soft
eyes
sparkled
,
and
she
returned
the
fervid
pressure
of
her
daughter
's
hand
;
and
both
their
faces
were
flushed
with
gratified
pride
and
affection
.
“
Dodd
!
”
broke
in
“
the
incongruous
dog
,
”
with
a
voice
just
like
a
saw
's
.
“
Dodd
?
Ah
,
that
's
the
man
who
is
just
ploughed
for
smalls
.
”
Ice
has
its
thunderbolts
.
CHAPTER
II
WINNING
boat-races
was
all
very
fine
;
but
a
hundred
such
victories
could
not
compensate
Mr.
Kennet
's
female
hearers
for
one
such
defeat
as
he
had
announced
—
a
defeat
that
,
to
their
minds
,
carried
disgrace
.
Their
Edward
plucked
!
At
first
they
were
benumbed
,
and
sat
chilled
,
with
red
cheeks
,
bewildered
between
present
triumph
and
mortification
at
hand
.
Then
the
colour
ebbed
out
of
their
faces
,
and
they
encouraged
each
other
feebly
in
whispers
,
“
Might
it
not
be
a
mistake
?
”
But
unconscious
Kennet
robbed
them
of
this
timid
hope
.
He
was
now
in
his
element
,
knew
all
about
it
,
rushed
into
details
,
and
sawed
away
all
doubt
from
their
minds
.
The
sum
was
this
.
Dodd
's
general
performance
was
mediocre
,
but
passable
;
he
was
plucked
for
his
Logic
.
Hardie
said
he
was
very
sorry
for
it
.
“
What
does
it
matter
?
”
answered
Kennet
;
“
he
is
a
boating-man
.
“
Well
,
and
I
am
a
boating-man
.
Why
,
you
told
me
yourself
,
the
other
day
,
poor
Dodd
was
anxious
about
it
on
account
of
his
friends
.
And
,
by-the-bye
,
that
reminds
me
they
say
he
has
got
two
pretty
sisters
here
.
”
Says
Kennet
briskly
,
“
I
'll
go
and
tell
him
;
I
know
him
just
to
speak
to
.
”
“
What
!
does
n't
he
know
?
”
“
How
can
he
know
?
”
said
Kennet
jealously
;
“
the
testamurs
were
only
just
out
as
I
came
away
.
”
And
within
this
he
started
on
his
congenial
errand
.
Hardie
took
two
or
three
of
his
long
strides
,
and
fairly
collared
him
.
“
You
will
do
nothing
of
the
kind
.
”
“
What
,
not
tell
a
man
when
he
's
ploughed
?
That
is
a
good
joke
.
”
“
No.
There
's
time
enough
.
Tell
him
after
chapel
to-morrow
,
or
in
chapel
if
you
must
;
but
why
poison
his
triumphal
cup
?
And
his
sisters
,
too
,
why
spoil
their
pleasure
?
Hang
it
all
,
not
a
word
about
'
ploughing
'
to
any
living
soul
to-day
.
”
To
his
surprise
,
Kennet
's
face
expressed
no
sympathy
,
nor
even
bare
assent
.
At
this
Hardie
lost
patience
,
and
burst
out
impetuously
,
“
Take
care
how
you
refuse
me
;
take
care
how
you
thwart
me
in
this
.
He
is
the
best-natured
fellow
in
college
.
It
does
n't
matter
to
you
,
and
it
does
to
him
;
and
if
you
do
,
then
take
my
name
off
the
list
of
your
acquaintance
,
for
I
'll
never
speak
a
word
to
you
again
in
this
world
;
no
,
not
on
my
death-bed
,
by
Heaven
!
”
The
threat
was
extravagant
;
but
Youth
's
glowing
cheek
and
eye
,
and
imperious
lip
,
and
simple
generosity
,
made
it
almost
beautiful
.
Kennet
whined
,
“
Oh
,
if
you
talk
like
that
,
there
is
an
end
to
fair
argument
.
”
“
End
it
then
,
and
promise
me
;
upon
your
honour
!
”
“
Why
not
?
What
bosh
!
There
,
I
promise
.
Now
,
how
do
you
construe
κυμινοπιστης
?
”
The
incongruous
dog
(
“
I
thank
thee
,
Taff
,
for
teaching
me
that
word
”
)
put
this
query
with
the
severity
of
an
inquisitor
bringing
back
a
garrulous
prisoner
to
the
point
.
Hardie
replied
gaily
,
“
Any
way
you
like
,
now
you
are
a
good
fellow
again
.
”
“
Come
,
that
is
evasive
.
My
tutor
says
it
cannot
be
rendered
by
any
one
English
word
;
no
more
can
γαστριμαργος
.
”
“
Why
,
what
on
earth
can
he
know
about
English
?
γαστριμαργος
is
a
Cormorant
:
κυμινοπιστης
is
a
Skinflint
;
and
your
tutor
is
a
Duffer
.
Hush
!
keep
dark
now
!
here
he
comes
.
”
And
he
went
hastily
to
meet
Edward
Dodd
:
and
by
that
means
intercepted
him
on
his
way
to
the
carriage
.
“
Give
me
your
hand
,
Dodd
,
”
he
cried
;
“
you
have
saved
the
university
.
You
must
be
stroke
of
the
eight-oar
after
me
.
Let
me
see
more
of
you
than
I
have
,
old
fellow
.
”
“
Within
all
my
heart
,
”
replied
Edward
calmly
,
but
taking
the
offered
hand
cordially
;
though
he
rather
wanted
to
get
away
to
his
mother
and
sister
.
“
We
will
pull
together
,
and
read
together
into
the
bargain
,
”
continued
Hardie
.
“
Read
together
?
You
and
I
?
What
do
you
mean
?
”
“
Well
,
you
see
I
am
pretty
well
up
in
the
Imigliner
books
;
what
I
have
got
to
rub
up
is
my
Divinity
and
my
Logic
—
especially
my
Logic
.
Will
you
grind
Logic
with
me
?
Say
'
Yes
,
'
for
I
know
you
will
keep
your
word
.
”
“
It
is
too
good
an
offer
to
refuse
,
Hardie
;
but
now
I
look
at
you
,
you
are
excited
:
wonderfully
excited
:
within
the
race
,
eh
?
Now
,
just
—
you
—
wait
—
quietly
—
till
next
week
,
and
then
,
if
you
are
so
soft
as
to
ask
me
in
cool
blood
—
—
”
“
Wait
a
week
?
”
cried
the
impetuous
youth
.
“
No
,
not
a
minute
.
It
is
settled
.
There
,
we
cram
Logic
together
next
term
.
”
And
he
shook
Edward
's
hand
again
with
glistening
eyes
and
an
emotion
that
was
quite
unintelligible
to
Edward
;
but
not
to
the
quick
,
sensitive
spirits
,
who
sat
but
fifteen
yards
off
.
“
You
really
must
excuse
me
just
now
,
”
said
Edward
,
and
ran
to
the
carriage
,
and
put
out
both
hands
to
the
fair
occupants
.
They
kissed
him
eagerly
,
with
little
tender
sighs
;
and
it
cost
them
no
slight
effort
not
to
cry
publicly
over
“
the
beloved
,
”
“
the
victorious
,
”
“
the
ploughed
.
”
Young
Hardie
stood
petrified
.
What
?
These
ladies
Dodd
's
sisters
.
Why
,
one
of
them
had
called
the
other
mamma
.
Good
heavens
!
all
his
talk
in
their
hearing
had
been
of
Dodd
;
and
Kennet
and
he
between
them
had
let
out
the
very
thing
he
wanted
to
conceal
,
especially
from
Dodd
's
relations
.
He
gazed
at
them
,
and
turned
hot
to
the
very
forehead
.
Then
,
not
knowing
what
to
do
or
say
,
and
being
after
all
but
a
clever
boy
,
not
a
cool
,
“
never
unready
”
man
of
the
world
,
he
slipped
away
,
blushing
.
Kennet
followed
,
goggling
.
Left
to
herself
,
Mrs.
Dodd
would
have
broken
the
bad
news
to
Edward
at
once
,
and
taken
the
line
of
consoling
him
under
her
own
vexation
:
it
would
not
have
been
the
first
time
that
she
had
played
that
card
.
But
young
Mr.
Hardie
had
said
it
would
be
unkind
to
poison
Edward
's
day
:
and
it
is
sweet
woman
's
nature
to
follow
suit
;
so
she
and
Julia
put
bright
faces
on
,
and
Edward
passed
a
right
jocund
afternoon
with
them
.
He
was
not
allowed
to
surprise
one
of
the
looks
they
interchanged
to
relieve
their
secret
mortification
.
But
,
after
dinner
,
as
the
time
drew
near
for
him
to
go
back
to
Oxford
,
Mrs.
Dodd
became
silent
,
and
a
little
distraite
;
and
at
last
drew
her
chair
away
to
a
small
table
,
and
wrote
a
letter
.
In
directing
it
she
turned
it
purposely
,
so
that
Julia
could
catch
the
address
:
“
Edward
Dodd
,
Esq.
,
Exeter
College
,
Oxford
.
”
Julia
was
naturally
startled
at
first
,
and
her
eye
roved
almost
comically
to
and
fro
the
letter
and
its
Destination
,
seated
calm
and
unconscious
of
woman
's
beneficent
wiles
.
But
her
heart
soon
divined
the
mystery
:
it
was
to
reach
him
the
first
thing
in
the
morning
,
and
spare
him
the
pain
of
writing
the
news
to
them
;
and
,
doubtless
,
so
worded
as
not
to
leave
him
a
day
in
doubt
of
their
forgiveness
and
sympathy
.
Julia
took
the
missive
unobserved
by
the
Destination
,
and
glided
out
of
the
room
to
get
it
quietly
posted
.
The
servant-girl
was
waiting
on
the
second-floor
lodgers
,
and
told
her
so
,
with
a
significant
addition
,
viz.
,
that
the
post
was
in
this
street
,
and
only
a
few
doors
off
.
Julia
was
a
little
surprised
at
her
coolness
,
but
took
the
hint
with
perfect
good
temper
,
and
just
put
on
her
shawl
and
bonnet
,
and
went
with
it
herself
.
The
post-office
was
not
quite
so
near
as
represented
;
but
she
was
soon
there
,
for
she
was
eager
till
she
had
posted
it
.
But
she
came
back
slowly
and
thoughtfully
;
here
in
the
street
,
lighted
only
by
the
moon
,
and
an
occasional
gaslight
,
there
was
no
need
for
self-restraint
,
and
soon
her
mortification
betrayed
itself
in
her
speaking
countenance
.
And
to
think
that
her
mother
,
on
whom
she
doted
,
should
have
to
write
to
her
son
,
there
present
,
and
post
the
letter
!
This
made
her
eyes
fill
,
and
before
she
reached
the
door
of
the
lodging
,
they
were
brimming
over
.
As
she
put
her
foot
on
the
step
,
a
timid
voice
addressed
her
in
a
low
tone
of
supplication
.
“
May
I
venture
to
speak
one
word
to
you
,
Miss
Dodd
?
—
one
single
word
?
”
She
looked
up
surprised
;
and
it
was
young
Mr.
Hardie
.
His
tall
figure
was
bending
towards
her
submissively
,
and
his
face
,
as
well
as
his
utterance
,
betrayed
considerable
agitation
.
And
what
led
to
so
unusual
a
rencontre
between
a
young
gentleman
and
lady
who
had
never
been
introduced
?
“
The
Tender
Passion
,
”
says
a
reader
of
many
novels
.
Why
,
yes
;
the
tenderest
in
all
our
nature
:
Wounded
Vanity
.
Naturally
proud
and
sensitive
,
and
inflated
by
success
and
flattery
,
Alfred
Hardie
had
been
torturing
himself
ever
since
he
fled
Edward
's
female
relations
.
He
was
mortified
to
the
core
.
He
confounded
“
the
fools
”
(
his
favourite
synonym
for
his
acquaintance
)
for
going
and
calling
Dodd
's
mother
an
elder
sister
,
and
so
not
giving
him
a
chance
to
divine
her
.
And
then
that
he
,
who
prided
himself
on
his
discrimination
,
should
take
them
for
ladies
of
rank
,
or
,
at
all
events
,
of
the
highest
fashion
and
,
climax
of
humiliation
,
that
so
great
a
man
as
he
should
go
and
seem
to
court
them
by
praising
Dodd
of
Exeter
,
by
enlarging
upon
Dodd
of
Exeter
,
by
offering
to
grind
Logic
with
Dodd
of
Exeter
.
Who
would
believe
that
this
was
a
coincidence
,
a
mere
coincidence
?
They
could
not
be
expected
to
believe
it
;
female
vanity
would
not
let
them
.
He
tingled
,
and
was
not
far
from
hating
the
whole
family
;
so
bitter
a
thing
is
that
which
I
have
ventured
to
dub
“
The
Tenderest
Passion
.
”
He
itched
to
soothe
his
irritation
by
explaining
to
Edward
.
Dodd
was
a
frank
,
good-hearted
fellow
;
he
would
listen
to
facts
,
and
convince
the
ladies
in
turn
.
Hardie
learned
where
Dodd
's
party
lodged
,
and
waited
about
the
door
to
catch
him
alone
:
Dodd
must
be
in
college
by
twelve
,
and
would
leave
Henley
before
ten
.
He
waited
till
he
was
tired
of
waiting
.
But
at
last
the
door
opened
;
he
stepped
forward
,
and
out
tripped
Miss
Dodd
.
“
Confound
it
!
”
muttered
Hardie
,
and
drew
back
.
However
,
he
stood
and
admired
her
graceful
figure
and
action
,
her
ladylike
speed
without
bustling
.
Had
she
come
back
at
the
same
pace
,
he
would
never
have
ventured
to
stop
her
:
on
such
a
thread
do
things
hang
:
but
she
returned
very
slowly
,
hanging
her
head
.
Her
look
at
him
and
his
headache
recurred
to
him
—
a
look
brimful
of
goodness
.
She
would
do
as
well
as
Edward
,
better
perhaps
.
He
yielded
to
impulse
,
and
addressed
her
,
but
with
all
the
trepidation
of
a
youth
defying
the
giant
Etiquette
for
the
first
time
in
his
life
.
Julia
was
a
little
surprised
and
fluttered
,
but
did
not
betray
it
;
she
had
been
taught
self-command
by
example
,
if
not
by
precept
.
“
Certainly
,
Mr.
Hardie
,
”
said
she
,
within
a
modest
composure
a
young
coquette
might
have
envied
under
the
circumstances
.
Hardie
had
now
only
to
explain
himself
;
but
instead
of
that
,
he
stood
looking
at
her
within
silent
concern
.
The
fair
face
she
raised
to
him
was
wet
with
tears
;
so
were
her
eyes
,
and
even
the
glorious
eyelashes
were
fringed
with
that
tender
spray
;
and
it
glistened
in
the
moonlight
.
This
sad
and
pretty
sight
drove
the
vain
but
generous
youth
's
calamity
clean
out
of
his
head
.
“
Why
,
you
are
crying
!
Miss
Dodd
,
what
is
the
matter
?
I
hope
nothing
has
happened
.
”
Julia
turned
her
head
away
a
little
fretfully
,
with
a
“
No
,
no
!
”
But
soon
her
natural
candour
and
simplicity
prevailed
;
a
simplicity
not
without
dignity
;
she
turned
round
to
him
and
looked
him
in
the
face
.
“
Why
should
I
deny
it
to
you
,
sir
,
who
have
been
good
enough
to
sympathise
with
us
?
We
are
mortified
,
sadly
mortified
,
at
dear
Edward
's
disgrace
;
and
it
has
cost
us
a
struggle
not
to
disobey
you
,
and
poison
his
triumphal
cup
with
sad
looks
.
And
mamma
had
to
write
to
him
,
and
console
him
against
to-morrow
:
but
I
hope
he
will
not
feel
it
so
severely
as
she
does
:
and
I
have
just
posted
it
myself
,
and
,
when
I
thought
of
our
dear
mamma
being
driven
to
such
expedients
,
I
—
Oh
!
”
And
the
pure
young
heart
,
having
opened
itself
by
words
,
must
flow
a
little
more
.
“
Oh
,
pray
do
n't
cry
,
”
said
young
Hardie
tenderly
;
“
do
n't
take
such
a
trifle
to
heart
so
.
You
crying
makes
me
feel
guilty
for
letting
it
happen
.
It
shall
never
occur
again
.
If
I
had
only
known
,
it
should
never
have
happened
at
all
.
”
“
Once
is
enough
,
”
sighed
Julia
.
“
Indeed
,
you
take
it
too
much
to
heart
.
It
is
only
out
of
Oxford
a
plough
is
thought
much
of
;
especially
a
single
one
;
that
is
so
very
common
.
You
see
,
Miss
Dodd
,
an
university
examination
consists
of
several
items
:
neglect
but
one
,
and
Crichton
himself
would
be
ploughed
;
because
brilliancy
in
your
other
papers
is
not
allowed
to
count
;
that
is
how
the
most
distinguished
man
of
our
day
got
ploughed
for
Smalls
.
I
had
a
narrow
escape
,
I
know
,
for
one
.
But
,
Miss
Dodd
,
if
you
knew
how
far
your
brother
's
performance
on
the
river
outweighs
a
mere
slip
in
the
schools
,
in
all
university
men
's
eyes
,
the
dons
'
and
all
,
you
would
not
make
this
bright
day
end
sadly
to
Oxford
by
crying
.
Why
,
I
could
find
you
a
thousand
men
who
would
be
ploughed
to-morrow
with
glory
and
delight
to
win
one
such
race
as
your
brother
has
won
two
.
”
Julia
sighed
again
.
But
it
sounded
now
half
like
a
sigh
of
relief
—
the
final
sigh
,
with
which
the
fair
consent
to
be
consoled
.
And
indeed
this
improvement
in
the
music
did
not
escape
Hardie
.
He
felt
he
was
on
the
right
tack
:
he
enumerated
fluently
,
and
by
name
,
many
good
men
,
besides
Dean
Swift
,
who
had
been
ploughed
,
yet
had
cultivated
the
field
of
letters
in
their
turn
;
and
,
in
short
,
he
was
so
earnest
and
plausible
,
that
something
like
a
smile
hovered
about
his
hearer
's
lips
,
and
she
glanced
askant
at
him
with
furtive
gratitude
from
under
her
silky
lashes
.
But
it
soon
recurred
to
her
that
this
was
rather
a
long
interview
to
accord
to
“
a
stranger
,
”
and
under
the
moon
;
so
she
said
a
little
stiffly
,
“
And
was
this
what
you
were
good
enough
to
wish
to
say
to
me
,
Mr.
Hardie
?
”
“
No
,
Miss
Dodd
,
to
be
frank
,
it
was
not
.
My
motive
in
addressing
you
,
without
the
right
to
take
such
a
freedom
,
was
egotistical
.
I
came
here
to
clear
myself
;
I
—
I
was
afraid
you
must
think
me
a
humbug
,
you
know
.
”
“
I
do
not
understand
you
,
indeed
.
”
“
Well
,
I
feared
you
and
Mrs.
Dodd
might
think
I
praised
Dodd
so
,
and
did
what
little
I
did
for
him
,
knowing
who
you
were
,
and
wishing
to
curry
favour
with
you
by
all
that
;
and
that
is
so
underhand
and
paltry
a
way
of
going
to
work
,
I
should
despise
myself
.
”
“
Oh
,
Mr.
Hardie
,
”
said
the
young
lady
,
smiling
,
“
How
foolish
:
why
,
of
course
,
we
knew
you
had
no
idea
.
”
“
Indeed
I
had
not
;
but
how
could
you
know
it
?
”
“
Why
,
we
saw
it
.
Do
you
think
we
have
no
eyes
?
Ah
,
and
much
keener
ones
than
gentlemen
have
.
It
is
mamma
and
I
who
are
to
blame
,
if
anybody
;
we
ought
to
have
declared
ourselves
:
it
would
have
been
more
generous
,
more
—
manly
.
But
we
cannot
all
be
gentlemen
,
you
know
.
It
was
so
sweet
to
hear
Edward
praised
by
one
who
did
not
know
us
;
it
was
like
stolen
fruit
;
and
by
one
whom
others
praise
:
so
,
if
you
can
forgive
us
our
slyness
,
there
is
an
end
of
the
matter
.
”
“
Forgive
you
?
you
have
taken
a
thorn
out
of
my
soul
.
”
“
Then
I
am
so
glad
you
summoned
courage
to
speak
to
me
without
ceremony
.
Mamma
would
have
done
better
,
though
;
but
after
all
,
do
not
I
know
her
?
my
mamma
is
all
goodness
and
intelligence
.
And
be
assured
,
sir
,
she
does
you
justice
;
and
is
quite
sensible
of
your
disinterested
kindness
to
dear
Edward
.
”
With
this
she
was
about
to
retire
.
“
Ah
!
But
you
,
Miss
Dodd
?
with
whom
I
have
taken
this
unwarrantable
liberty
?
”
said
Hardie
imploringly
.
“
Me
,
Mr.
Hardie
?
You
do
me
the
honour
to
require
my
opinion
of
your
performances
:
including
of
course
this
self-introduction
?
”
Hardie
hung
his
head
;
there
was
a
touch
of
satire
in
the
lady
's
voice
,
he
thought
.
Her
soft
eyes
rested
demurely
on
him
a
moment
;
she
saw
he
was
a
little
abashed
.
“
My
opinion
of
it
all
is
that
you
have
been
very
kind
to
us
;
in
being
most
kind
to
our
poor
Edward
.
I
never
saw
,
nor
read
of
anything
more
generous
,
more
manly
.
And
then
so
thoughtful
,
so
considerate
,
so
delicate
!
So
instead
of
criticising
you
,
as
you
seem
to
expect
,
his
sister
only
blesses
you
,
and
thanks
you
from
the
very
bottom
of
her
heart
.
”
She
had
begun
within
a
polite
composure
borrowed
from
mamma
;
but
,
once
launched
,
her
ardent
nature
got
the
better
:
her
colour
rose
and
rose
,
and
her
voice
sank
and
sank
,
and
the
last
words
came
almost
in
a
whisper
;
and
such
a
lovely
whisper
:
a
gurgle
from
the
heart
;
and
,
as
she
concluded
,
her
delicate
hand
came
sweeping
out
with
a
heaven-taught
gesture
of
large
and
sovereign
cordiality
,
that
made
even
the
honest
words
and
the
divine
tones
more
eloquent
.
It
was
too
much
;
the
young
man
,
ardent
as
herself
,
and
not
,
in
reality
,
half
so
timorous
,
caught
fire
;
and
seeing
a
white
,
eloquent
hand
rather
near
him
,
caught
it
,
and
pressed
his
warm
lips
on
it
in
mute
adoration
and
gratitude
.
At
this
she
was
scared
and
offended
.
“
Oh
;
keep
that
for
the
Queen
!
”
cried
she
,
turning
scarlet
,
and
tossing
her
fair
head
into
the
air
,
like
a
startled
stag
;
and
she
drew
her
hand
away
quickly
and
decidedly
,
though
not
roughly
.
He
stammered
a
lowly
apology
—
in
the
very
middle
of
it
she
said
quietly
,
“
Good-bye
,
Mr.
Hardie
,
”
and
swept
,
with
a
gracious
little
curtsey
,
through
the
doorway
,
leaving
him
spell-bound
.
And
so
the
virginal
instinct
of
self-defence
carried
her
off
swiftly
and
cleverly
.
But
none
too
soon
;
for
,
on
entering
the
house
,
that
external
composure
her
two
mothers
Mesdames
Dodd
and
Nature
had
taught
her
,
fell
from
her
like
a
veil
,
and
she
fluttered
up
the
stairs
to
her
own
room
with
hot
cheeks
,
and
panted
there
like
some
wild
thing
that
has
been
grasped
at
and
grazed
.
She
felt
young
Hardie
's
lips
upon
the
palm
of
her
hand
plainly
;
they
seemed
to
linger
there
still
;
it
was
like
light
but
live
velvet
.
This
,
and
the
ardent
look
he
had
poured
into
her
eyes
,
set
the
young
creature
quivering
.
Nobody
had
looked
at
her
so
before
,
and
no
young
gentleman
had
imprinted
living
velvet
on
her
hand
.
She
was
alarmed
,
ashamed
,
and
uneasy
.
What
right
had
he
to
look
at
her
like
that
?
What
shadow
of
a
right
to
go
and
kiss
her
hand
?
He
could
not
pretend
to
think
she
had
put
it
out
to
be
kissed
;
ladies
put
forth
the
back
of
the
hand
for
that
,
not
the
palm
.
The
truth
was
he
was
an
impudent
fellow
,
and
she
hated
him
now
,
and
herself
too
,
for
being
so
simple
as
to
let
him
talk
to
her
:
mamma
would
not
have
been
so
imprudent
when
she
was
a
girl
.
She
would
not
go
down
,
for
she
felt
there
must
be
something
of
this
kind
legibly
branded
on
her
face
:
“
Oh
!
oh
!
just
look
at
this
young
lady
!
She
has
been
letting
a
young
gentleman
kiss
the
palm
of
her
hand
;
and
the
feel
has
not
gone
off
yet
;
you
may
see
that
by
her
cheeks
.
”
But
then
,
poor
Edward
!
she
must
go
down
.
So
she
put
a
wet
towel
to
her
tell-tale
cheeks
,
and
dried
them
by
artistic
dabs
,
avoiding
friction
,
and
came
downstairs
like
a
mouse
,
and
turned
the
door-handle
noiselessly
,
and
glided
into
the
sitting-room
looking
so
transparent
,
conscious
,
and
all
on
fire
with
beauty
and
animation
,
that
even
Edward
was
startled
,
and
,
in
a
whisper
,
bade
his
mother
observe
what
a
pretty
girl
she
was
:
“
Beats
all
the
country
girls
in
a
canter
.
”
Mrs.
Dodd
did
look
;
and
,
consequently
,
as
soon
as
ever
Edward
was
gone
to
Oxford
,
she
said
to
Julia
,
“
You
are
feverish
,
love
;
you
have
been
excited
with
all
this
.
You
had
better
go
to
bed
.
”
Julia
complied
willingly
;
for
she
wanted
to
be
alone
and
think
.
She
retired
to
her
own
room
,
and
went
the
whole
day
over
again
;
and
was
happy
and
sorry
,
exalted
and
uneasy
,
by
turns
;
and
ended
by
excusing
Mr.
Hardie
's
escapade
,
and
throwing
the
blame
on
herself
.
She
ought
to
have
been
more
distant
;
gentlemen
were
not
expected
,
nor
indeed
much
wanted
,
to
be
modest
.
A
little
assurance
did
not
misbecome
them
.
“
Really
,
I
think
it
sets
them
off
,
”
said
she
to
herself
.
Grand
total
:
“
What
must
he
think
of
me
?
”
Time
gallops
in
reverie
:
the
town
clock
struck
twelve
,
and
with
its
iron
tongue
remorse
entered
her
youthful
conscience
.
Was
this
obeying
mamma
?
Mamma
had
said
,
“
Go
to
bed
:
”
not
,
“
Go
upstairs
and
meditate
:
upon
young
gentlemen
.
”
She
gave
an
expressive
shake
of
her
fair
shoulders
,
like
a
swan
flapping
the
water
off
its
downy
wings
,
and
so
dismissed
the
subject
from
her
mind
.
Then
she
said
her
prayers
.
Then
she
rose
from
her
knees
,
and
in
tones
of
honey
said
,
“
Puss
!
puss
!
pretty
puss
!
”
and
awaited
a
result
.
Thieves
and
ghosts
she
did
not
believe
in
,
yet
credited
cats
under
beds
,
and
thought
them
neither
“
harmless
”
nor
“
necessary
”
there
.
After
tenderly
evoking
the
dreaded
and
chimerical
quadruped
,
she
proceeded
none
the
less
to
careful
research
,
especially
of
cupboards
.
The
door
of
one
resisted
,
and
then
yielded
with
a
crack
,
and
blew
out
the
candle
.
“
There
now
,
”
said
she
.
It
was
her
only
light
,
except
her
beauty
.
They
allotted
each
Hebe
but
one
candle
,
in
that
ancient
burgh
.
“
Well
,
”
she
thought
,
“
there
is
moonlight
enough
to
un
dress
by
.
”
She
went
to
draw
back
one
of
the
curtains
;
but
in
the
act
she
started
back
with
a
little
scream
.
There
was
a
tall
figure
over
the
way
watching
the
house
.
The
moon
shone
from
her
side
of
the
street
full
on
him
,
and
in
that
instant
her
quick
eye
recognised
Mr.
Hardie
.
“
Well
!
”
said
she
aloud
,
and
with
an
indescribable
inflexion
;
and
hid
herself
swiftly
in
impenetrable
gloom
.
But
,
after
a
while
,
Eve
's
daughter
must
have
a
peep
.
She
stole
with
infinite
caution
to
one
side
of
the
curtain
,
and
made
an
aperture
just
big
enough
for
one
bright
eye
.
Yes
,
there
he
was
,
motionless
.
“
I
'll
tell
mamma
,
”
said
she
to
him
,
malignantly
,
as
if
the
sound
could
reach
him
.
Unconscious
of
the
direful
threat
,
he
did
not
budge
.
She
was
unaffectedly
puzzled
at
this
phenomenon
;
and
,
not
being
the
least
vain
,
fell
to
wondering
whether
he
played
the
nightly
sentinel
opposite
every
lady
's
window
who
exchanged
civilities
within
him
.
“
Because
,
if
he
does
,
he
is
a
fool
,
”
said
she
,
promptly
.
But
on
reflection
,
she
felt
sure
he
did
nothing
of
the
kind
habitually
,
for
he
had
too
high
an
opinion
of
himself
;
she
had
noted
that
trait
in
him
at
a
very
early
stage
.
She
satisfied
herself
,
by
cautious
examination
,
that
he
did
not
know
her
room
.
He
was
making
a
temple
of
the
whole
lodging
.
“
How
ridiculous
of
him
!
”
Yet
he
appeared
to
be
happy
over
it
;
there
was
an
exalted
look
in
his
moonlit
face
;
she
seemed
now
first
to
see
his
soul
there
.
She
studied
his
countenance
like
an
inscription
,
and
deciphered
each
rapt
expression
that
crossed
it
;
and
stored
them
in
her
memory
.
Twice
she
left
her
ambuscade
to
go
to
bed
,
and
twice
Curiosity
,
or
Something
,
drew
her
back
.
At
last
,
having
looked
,
peered
,
and
peeped
,
till
her
feet
were
cold
,
and
her
face
the
reverse
,
she
informed
herself
that
the
foolish
Thing
had
tired
her
out
.
“
Good-night
,
Mr.
Policeman
,
”
said
she
,
pretending
to
bawl
to
him
.
“
And
oh
!
Do
rain
!
As
hard
as
ever
you
can
.
”
With
this
benevolent
aspiration
,
a
little
too
violent
to
be
sincere
,
she
laid
her
cheek
on
her
pillow
doughtily
.
But
her
sentinel
,
when
out
of
sight
,
had
more
power
to
disturb
her
.
She
lay
and
wondered
whether
he
was
still
there
,
and
what
it
all
meant
,
and
whatever
mamma
would
say
;
and
which
of
the
two
,
she
or
he
,
was
the
head
culprit
in
this
strange
performance
,
to
which
Earth
,
she
conceived
,
had
seen
no
parallel
;
and
,
above
all
,
what
he
would
do
next
.
Her
pulse
galloped
,
and
her
sleep
was
broken
;
and
she
came
down
in
the
morning
a
little
pale
.
Mrs.
Dodd
saw
it
at
once
,
with
the
quick
maternal
eye
;
and
moralised
:
“
It
is
curious
;
youth
is
so
fond
of
pleasure
;
yet
pleasure
seldom
agrees
with
youth
;
this
little
excitement
has
done
your
mother
good
,
who
is
no
longer
young
;
but
it
has
been
too
much
for
you
.
I
shall
be
glad
to
have
you
back
to
our
quiet
home
.
”
Ah
!
Will
that
home
be
as
tranquil
now
?
CHAPTER
III
THE
long
vacation
commenced
about
a
month
afterwards
,
and
Hardie
came
to
his
father
's
house
,
to
read
for
honours
,
unimpeded
by
university
races
and
college
lectures
;
and
the
ploughed
and
penitent
one
packed
up
his
Aldrich
and
his
Whately
,
the
then
authorities
in
Logic
,
and
brought
them
home
,
together
with
a
firm
resolution
to
master
that
joyous
science
before
the
next
examination
for
Smalls
in
October
.
But
lo
!
ere
he
had
been
an
hour
at
home
,
he
found
his
things
put
neatly
away
in
his
drawers
on
the
feminine
or
vertical
system
—
deep
strata
of
waistcoats
,
strata
of
trousers
,
strata
of
coats
,
strata
of
papers
—
and
his
Logic
gone
.
In
the
course
of
the
evening
he
taxed
his
sister
good-humouredly
,
and
asked
“
What
earthly
use
that
book
was
to
her
,
not
wearing
curls
.
”
“
I
intend
to
read
it
,
and
study
it
,
and
teach
you
it
,
”
replied
Julia
,
rather
languidly
—
considering
the
weight
of
the
resolve
.
“
Oh
,
if
you
have
boned
it
to
read
,
I
say
no
more
;
the
crime
will
punish
itself
.
”
“
Be
serious
,
Edward
,
and
think
of
mamma
!
I
cannot
sit
with
my
hands
before
me
,
and
let
you
be
reploughed
.
”
“
I
do
n't
want
.
But
—
reploughed
!
—
haw
,
haw
!
but
you
ca
n't
help
me
at
Logic
,
as
you
used
at
Syntax
.
Why
,
all
the
world
knows
a
girl
ca
n't
learn
Logic
.
”
“
A
girl
can
learn
anything
she
chooses
to
learn
.
What
she
ca
n't
learn
is
things
other
people
set
her
down
to
.
”
Before
Edward
could
fully
digest
this
revelation
,
she
gave
the
argument
a
new
turn
by
adding
fretfully
,
“
And
do
n't
be
so
unkind
,
thwarting
and
teasing
me
!
”
and
all
in
a
moment
she
was
crying
.
“
Halloa
!
”
ejaculated
Edward
,
taken
quite
by
surprise
.
“
What
is
the
matter
,
dears
?
”
inquired
maternal
vigilance
from
the
other
end
of
the
room
.
“
You
did
not
speak
brusquely
to
her
,
Edward
?
”
“
No
,
no
,
”
said
Julia
eagerly
.
“
It
is
I
that
am
turned
so
cross
and
so
peevish
.
I
am
quite
a
changed
girl
.
Mamma
,
what
is
the
matter
with
me
?
”
And
she
laid
her
brow
on
her
mother
's
bosom
.
Mrs.
Dodd
caressed
the
lovely
head
soothingly
with
one
hand
,
and
made
a
sign
over
it
to
Edward
to
leave
them
alone
.
She
waited
quietly
till
Julia
was
composed
:
and
then
said
,
softly
,
“
Come
,
tell
me
what
it
is
:
nothing
that
Edward
said
to
you
;
for
I
heard
almost
every
word
,
and
I
was
just
going
to
smile
,
or
nearly
,
when
you
—
—
And
,
my
love
,
it
is
not
the
first
time
,
you
know
.
I
would
not
tell
Edward
,
but
I
have
more
than
once
seen
your
eyes
with
tears
in
them
.
”
“
Have
you
,
mamma
?
”
said
Julia
,
scarcely
above
a
whisper
.
“
Why
,
you
know
I
have
.
But
I
said
to
myself
it
was
no
use
forcing
confidence
.
I
thought
I
would
be
very
patient
,
and
wait
till
you
came
to
me
with
it
;
so
now
,
what
is
it
,
my
darling
?
Why
do
you
speak
of
one
thing
and
think
of
another
?
and
cry
without
any
reason
that
your
mother
can
see
?
”
“
I
do
n't
know
,
mamma
,
”
said
Julia
,
hiding
her
head
.
“
I
think
it
is
because
I
sleep
so
badly
.
I
rise
in
the
morning
hot
and
quivering
,
and
more
tired
than
I
lay
down
.
”
Mrs.
Dodd
inquired
how
long
this
had
been
.
Julia
did
not
answer
this
question
;
she
went
on
,
with
her
face
still
hidden
:
“
Mamma
,
I
do
feel
so
depressed
and
hysterical
,
or
else
in
violent
spirits
:
but
not
nice
and
cheerful
as
you
are
,
and
I
used
to
be
;
and
I
go
from
one
thing
to
another
,
and
can
settle
to
nothing
—
even
in
church
I
attend
by
fits
and
starts
:
I
forgot
to
water
my
very
flowers
last
night
:
and
I
heard
Mrs.
Maxley
out
of
my
window
tell
Sarah
I
am
losing
my
colour
.
Am
I
?
But
what
does
it
matter
?
I
am
losing
my
sense
;
for
I
catch
myself
for
ever
looking
in
the
glass
,
and
that
is
a
sure
sign
of
a
fool
,
you
know
.
And
I
cannot
pass
the
shops
:
I
stand
and
look
in
,
and
long
for
the
very
dearest
silks
,
and
for
diamonds
in
my
hair
.
”
A
deep
sigh
followed
the
confession
of
these
multiform
imperfections
;
and
the
culprit
half
raised
her
head
to
watch
their
effect
.
As
for
Mrs.
Dodd
,
she
opened
her
eyes
wide
with
surprise
;
but
at
the
end
of
the
heterogeneous
catalogue
she
smiled
,
and
said
,
“
I
cannot
believe
that
.
If
ever
there
was
a
young
lady
free
from
personal
vanity
,
it
is
my
Julia
.
Why
,
your
thoughts
run
by
nature
away
from
yourself
;
you
were
born
for
others
.
”
Her
daughter
kissed
her
gratefully
,
and
smiled
:
but
after
a
pause
,
said
,
sorrowfully
,
“
Ah
!
that
was
the
old
Julia
,
as
seen
with
your
dear
eyes
.
I
have
almost
forgotten
her
.
The
new
one
is
what
I
tell
you
,
dear
mamma
,
and
that
”
(
within
sudden
fervour
)
“
is
a
dreamy
,
wandering
,
vain
,
egotistical
,
hysterical
,
abominable
girl
.
”
“
Let
me
kiss
this
monster
that
I
have
brought
into
the
world
,
”
said
Mrs.
Dodd
.
“
And
now
let
me
think
.
”
She
rested
her
eyes
calm
and
penetrating
upon
her
daughter
;
and
at
this
mere
look
,
but
a
very
searching
one
,
the
colour
mounted
and
mounted
in
Julia
's
cheek
strangely
.
“
After
all
,
”
said
Mrs.
Dodd
thoughtfully
,
“
yours
is
a
critical
age
.
Perhaps
my
child
is
turning
to
a
woman
;
my
rosebud
to
a
rose
.
And
she
sighed
.
Mothers
will
sigh
at
things
none
other
ever
sighed
at
.
“
To
a
weed
,
I
fear
,
”
replied
Julia
.
“
What
will
you
say
when
I
own
I
felt
no
real
joy
at
Edward
's
return
this
time
?
And
yesterday
I
cried
,
'
Do
get
away
,
and
do
n't
pester
me
!
'
”
“
To
your
brother
?
Oh
!
”
“
Oh
,
no
,
mamma
,
that
was
to
poor
Spot
.
He
jumped
on
me
in
a
reverie
,
all
affection
,
poor
thing
.
”
“
Well
,
for
your
comfort
,
dogs
do
not
appreciate
the
niceties
of
our
language
.
”
“
I
am
afraid
they
do
;
when
we
kick
them
.
”
Mrs.
Dodd
smiled
at
the
admission
implied
here
,
and
the
deep
penitence
it
was
uttered
with
.
But
Julia
remonstrated
,
“
Oh
no
!
no
!
do
n't
laugh
at
me
,
but
help
me
within
your
advice
:
you
are
so
wise
and
so
experienced
:
you
must
have
been
a
girl
before
you
were
an
angel
.
You
must
know
what
is
the
matter
with
me
.
Oh
,
do
pray
cure
me
,
or
else
kill
me
,
for
I
cannot
go
on
like
this
,
all
my
affections
deadened
and
my
peace
disturbed
.
”
And
now
the
mother
looked
serious
and
thoughtful
enough
;
and
the
daughter
watched
her
furtively
.
“
Julia
,
”
said
Mrs.
Dodd
,
very
gravely
,
“
if
it
was
not
my
child
,
reared
under
my
eye
,
and
never
separated
from
me
a
single
day
,
I
should
say
,
this
young
lady
is
either
afflicted
with
some
complaint
,
and
it
affects
her
nerves
and
spirits
;
or
else
she
has
—
she
is
—
what
inexperienced
young
people
call
'
in
love
.
'
You
need
not
look
so
frightened
,
child
;
nobody
in
their
senses
suspects
you
of
imprudence
or
indelicacy
;
and
therefore
I
feel
quite
sure
that
your
constitution
is
at
a
crisis
,
or
your
health
has
suffered
some
shock
—
pray
Heaven
it
may
not
be
a
serious
one
.
You
will
have
the
best
advice
,
and
without
delay
,
I
promise
you
.
”
CHAPTER
IV
That
very
evening
,
Mrs.
Dodd
sent
a
servant
into
the
town
with
a
note
like
a
cocked-hat
for
Mr.
Osmond
,
a
consulting
surgeon
,
who
bore
a
high
reputation
in
Barkington
.
He
came
,
and
proved
too
plump
for
that
complete
elegance
she
would
have
desired
in
a
medical
attendant
;
but
had
a
soft
hand
,
a
gentle
touch
,
and
a
subdued
manner
.
He
spoke
to
the
patient
with
a
kindness
which
won
the
mother
directly
;
had
every
hope
of
setting
her
right
without
any
violent
or
disagreeable
remedies
;
but
,
when
she
had
retired
,
altered
his
tone
;
and
told
Mrs.
Dodd
seriously
she
had
done
well
to
send
for
him
in
time
:
it
was
a
case
of
“
Hyperaesthesia
”
(
Mrs.
Dodd
clasped
her
hands
in
alarm
)
,
“
or
as
unprofessional
persons
would
say
,
'
excessive
sensibility
.
'
”
Mrs.
Dodd
was
somewhat
relieved
.
Translation
blunts
thunderbolts
.
She
told
him
she
had
always
feared
for
her
child
on
that
score
.
But
was
sensibility
curable
?
Could
a
nature
be
changed
?
He
replied
that
the
Idiosyncrasy
could
not
;
but
its
morbid
excess
could
,
especially
when
taken
in
time
.
Advice
was
generally
called
in
too
late
.
However
,
here
the
only
serious
symptom
was
the
Insomnia
.
“
We
must
treat
her
for
that
,
”
said
he
,
writing
a
prescription
;
“
but
for
the
rest
,
active
employment
,
long
walks
or
rides
,
and
a
change
of
scene
and
associations
,
will
be
all
that
will
be
required
.
In
these
cases
,
”
resumed
Mr.
Osmond
,
“
connected
as
they
are
with
Hyperaemia
,
some
medical
men
considered
moderate
venesection
to
be
indicated
.
”
He
then
put
on
his
gloves
saying
,
“
The
diet
,
of
course
,
must
be
Antiphlogistic
.
Let
us
say
then
,
for
breakfast
,
dry
toast
with
very
little
butter
—
no
coffee
—
cocoa
(
from
the
nibs
)
