me,
for
,
between
ourselves
,
my
balances
are
very
low
at
this
moment
.
The
awful
expenditure
of
keeping
up
this
place
!
And
then
such
terrible
incumbrances
as
I
came
to
!
”
“
Incumbrances
,
George
!
Why
,
I
thought
you
had
not
any
.
There
was
not
a
single
mortgage
.
”
“
No
mortgages
;
they
are
nothing
;
you
find
them
,
you
get
used
to
them
,
and
you
calculate
accordingly
.
You
quite
forget
the
portions
for
younger
children
.
”
“
Yes
;
but
you
had
plenty
of
ready
money
for
them
.
”
“
I
had
to
pay
them
though
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
Had
I
not
,
I
might
have
bought
Grimblethorpe
with
the
money
;
such
an
opportunity
will
never
occur
again
.
”
“
But
you
talked
of
incumbrances
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
Ah
!
my
dear
fellow
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
“
you
don’t
know
what
it
is
to
have
to
keep
up
an
estate
like
this
;
and
very
lucky
for
you
.
It
is
not
the
easy
life
you
dream
of
.
There’s
buildings
—
I
am
ruined
in
buildings
—
our
poor
dear
father
thought
he
left
me
Marney
without
an
incumbrance
;
why
,
there
was
not
a
barn
on
the
whole
estate
that
was
weather-proof
;
not
a
farm-house
that
was
not
half
in
ruins
.
What
I
have
spent
in
buildings
!
And
draining
!
Though
I
make
my
own
tiles
,
draining
,
my
dear
fellow
,
is
a
something
of
which
you
have
not
the
least
idea
!
”
“
Well
,
”
said
Egremont
,
anxious
to
bring
his
brother
back
to
the
point
,
“
you
think
,
then
,
I
had
better
write
to
them
and
say
—
”
“
Ah
!
now
for
your
business
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
.
“
Now
,
I
will
tell
you
what
I
can
do
for
you
.
I
was
speaking
to
Arabella
about
it
last
night
;
she
quite
approves
my
idea
.
You
remember
the
De
Mowbrays
?
Well
,
we
are
going
to
stay
at
Mowbray
Castle
,
and
you
are
to
go
with
us
.
It
is
the
first
time
they
have
received
company
since
their
great
loss
.
Ah
!
you
were
abroad
at
the
time
,
and
so
you
are
behind
hand
.
Lord
Mowbray’s
only
son
,
Fitz-Warene
,
you
remember
him
,
a
deuced
clever
fellow
,
he
died
about
a
year
ago
,
in
Greece
,
of
a
fever
.
Never
was
such
a
blow
!
His
two
sisters
,
Lady
Joan
and
Lady
Maud
,
are
looked
upon
as
the
greatest
heiresses
in
the
kingdom
;
but
I
know
Mowbray
well
;
he
will
make
an
eldest
son
of
his
eldest
daughter
.
She
will
have
it
all
;
she
is
one
of
Arabella’s
dearest
friends
;
and
you
are
to
marry
her
.
”
Egremont
stared
at
his
brother
,
who
patted
him
on
the
back
with
an
expression
of
unusual
kindness
,
and
adding
,
“
You
have
no
idea
what
a
load
this
has
taken
off
my
mind
,
my
dear
Charles
;
so
great
has
my
anxiety
always
been
about
you
,
particularly
of
late
.
To
see
you
lord
of
Mowbray
Castle
will
realize
my
fondest
hopes
.
That
is
a
position
fit
for
a
man
,
and
I
know
none
more
worthy
of
it
than
yourself
,
though
I
am
your
brother
who
say
so
.
Now
let
us
come
and
speak
to
Arabella
about
it
.
”
So
saying
,
Lord
Marney
,
followed
somewhat
reluctantly
by
his
brother
,
advanced
to
the
other
end
of
the
drawing-room
,
where
his
wife
was
employed
with
her
embroidery-frame
,
and
seated
next
to
her
young
friend
,
Miss
Poinsett
,
who
was
playing
chess
with
Captain
Grouse
,
a
member
of
the
chess
club
,
and
one
of
the
most
capital
performers
extant
.
“
Well
,
Arabella
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
,
“
it
is
all
settled
;
Charles
agrees
with
me
about
going
to
Mowbray
Castle
,
and
I
think
the
sooner
we
go
the
better
.
What
do
you
think
of
the
day
after
to-morrow
?
That
will
suit
me
exactly
,
and
therefore
I
think
we
had
better
fix
on
it
.
We
will
consider
it
settled
.
”
Lady
Marney
looked
embarrassed
,
and
a
little
distressed
.
Nothing
could
be
more
unexpected
by
her
than
this
proposition
;
nothing
more
inconvenient
than
the
arrangement
.
It
was
very
true
that
Lady
Joan
Fitz-Warene
had
invited
them
to
Mowbray
,
and
she
had
some
vague
intention
,
some
day
or
other
,
of
deliberating
whether
they
should
avail
themselves
of
this
kindness
;
but
to
decide
upon
going
,
and
upon
going
instantly
,
without
the
least
consultation
,
the
least
inquiry
as
to
the
suitableness
of
the
arrangement
,
the
visit
of
Miss
Poinsett
abruptly
and
ungraciously
terminated
,
for
example
—
all
this
was
vexatious
,
distressing
:
a
mode
of
management
which
out
of
the
simplest
incidents
of
domestic
life
contrived
to
extract
some
degree
of
perplexity
and
annoyance
.
“
Do
not
you
think
,
George
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
,
“
that
we
had
better
talk
it
over
a
little
?
”
“
Not
at
all
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
:
“
Charles
will
go
,
and
it
quite
suits
me
,
and
therefore
what
necessity
for
any
consultation
?
”
“
Oh
!
if
you
and
Charles
like
to
go
,
certainly
.
”
said
Lady
Marney
in
a
hesitating
tone
;
“
only
I
shall
be
very
sorry
to
lose
your
society
.
”
“
How
do
you
mean
lose
our
society
Arabella
?
Of
course
you
must
go
with
us
.
I
particularly
want
you
to
go
.
You
are
Lady
Joan’s
most
intimate
friend
;
I
believe
there
is
no
one
she
likes
so
much
.
”
“
I
cannot
go
the
day
after
to-morrow
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
,
speaking
in
a
whisper
,
and
looking
volumes
of
deprecation
.
“
I
cannot
help
it
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
you
should
have
told
me
this
before
.
I
wrote
to
Mowbray
to-day
,
that
we
should
be
with
him
the
day
after
to-morrow
,
and
stay
a
week
.
”
“
But
you
never
mentioned
it
to
me
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
,
slightly
blushing
and
speaking
in
a
tone
of
gentle
reproach
.
“
I
should
like
to
know
when
I
am
to
find
time
to
mention
the
contents
of
every
letter
I
write
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
particularly
with
all
the
vexatious
business
I
have
had
on
my
hands
to-day
.
But
so
it
is
;
the
more
one
tries
to
save
you
trouble
,
the
more
discontented
you
get
.
”
“
No
,
not
discontented
,
George
.
”
“
I
do
not
know
what
you
call
discontented
;
but
when
a
man
has
made
every
possible
arrangement
to
please
you
and
every
body
,
and
all
his
plans
are
to
be
set
aside
merely
because
the
day
he
has
fixed
on
does
not
exactly
suit
your
fancy
,
if
that
be
not
discontent
,
I
should
like
very
much
to
know
what
is
,
Arabella
.
”
Lady
Marney
did
not
reply
.
Always
sacrificed
,
always
yielding
,
the
moment
she
attempted
to
express
an
opinion
,
she
ever
seemed
to
assume
the
position
not
of
the
injured
but
the
injurer
.
Arabella
was
a
woman
of
abilities
,
which
she
had
cultivated
.
She
had
excellent
sense
,
and
possessed
many
admirable
qualities
;
she
was
far
from
being
devoid
of
sensibility
;
but
her
sweet
temper
shrank
from
controversy
,
and
Nature
had
not
endowed
her
with
a
spirit
which
could
direct
and
control
.
She
yielded
without
a
struggle
to
the
arbitrary
will
and
unreasonable
caprice
of
a
husband
,
who
was
scarcely
her
equal
in
intellect
,
and
far
her
inferior
in
all
the
genial
qualities
of
our
nature
,
but
who
governed
her
by
his
iron
selfishness
.
Lady
Marney
absolutely
had
no
will
of
her
own
.
A
hard
,
exact
,
literal
,
bustling
,
acute
being
environed
her
existence
;
directed
,
planned
,
settled
everything
.
Her
life
was
a
series
of
petty
sacrifices
and
baulked
enjoyments
.
If
her
carriage
were
at
the
door
,
she
was
never
certain
that
she
would
not
have
to
send
it
away
;
if
she
had
asked
some
friends
to
her
house
,
the
chances
were
she
would
have
to
put
them
off
;
if
she
were
reading
a
novel
,
Lord
Marney
asked
her
to
copy
a
letter
;
if
she
were
going
to
the
opera
,
she
found
that
Lord
Marney
had
got
seats
for
her
and
some
friend
in
the
House
of
Lords
,
and
seemed
expecting
the
strongest
expressions
of
delight
and
gratitude
from
her
for
his
unasked
and
inconvenient
kindness
.
Lady
Marney
had
struggled
against
this
tyranny
in
the
earlier
days
of
their
union
.
Innocent
,
inexperienced
Lady
Marney
!
As
if
it
were
possible
for
a
wife
to
contend
against
a
selfish
husband
,
at
once
sharp-witted
and
blunt-hearted
!
She
had
appealed
to
him
,
she
had
even
reproached
him
;
she
had
wept
,
once
she
had
knelt
.
But
Lord
Marney
looked
upon
these
demonstrations
as
the
disordered
sensibility
of
a
girl
unused
to
the
marriage
state
,
and
ignorant
of
the
wise
authority
of
husbands
,
of
which
he
deemed
himself
a
model
.
And
so
,
after
a
due
course
of
initiation
,
Lady
Marney
invisible
for
days
,
plunged
in
remorseful
reveries
in
the
mysteries
of
her
boudoir
,
and
her
lord
dining
at
his
club
and
going
to
the
minor
theatres
;
the
countess
was
broken
in
,
and
became
the
perfect
wife
of
a
perfect
husband
.
Lord
Marney
,
who
was
fond
of
chess
,
turned
out
Captain
Grouse
,
and
very
gallantly
proposed
to
finish
his
game
with
Miss
Poinsett
,
which
Miss
Poinsett
,
who
understood
Lord
Marney
as
well
as
he
understood
chess
,
took
care
speedily
to
lose
,
so
that
his
lordship
might
encounter
a
champion
worthy
of
him
.
Egremont
seated
by
his
sister-in-law
,
and
anxious
by
kind
words
to
soothe
the
irritation
which
he
had
observed
with
pain
his
brother
create
,
entered
into
easy
talk
,
and
after
some
time
,
said
,
“
I
find
you
have
been
good
enough
to
mould
my
destiny
.
”
Lady
Marney
looked
a
little
surprised
,
and
then
said
,
“
How
so
?
”
“
You
have
decided
on
I
hear
the
most
important
step
of
my
life
.
”
“
Indeed
you
perplex
me
.
”
“
Lady
Joan
Fitz-Warene
,
your
friend
—
”
The
countess
blushed
;
the
name
was
a
clue
which
she
could
follow
,
but
Egremont
nevertheless
suspected
that
the
idea
had
never
previously
occurred
to
her
.
Lady
Joan
she
described
as
not
beautiful
;
certainly
not
beautiful
;
nobody
would
consider
her
beautiful
,
many
would
indeed
think
her
quite
the
reverse
;
and
yet
she
had
a
look
,
one
particular
look
when
according
to
Lady
Marney
,
she
was
more
than
beautiful
.
But
she
was
very
clever
,
very
indeed
,
something
quite
extraordinary
.
“
Accomplished
?
”
“
Oh
!
far
beyond
that
;
I
have
heard
even
men
say
that
no
one
knew
so
much
.
”
“
A
regular
blue
?
”
“
Oh
!
no
;
not
at
all
a
blue
;
not
that
kind
of
knowledge
.
But
languages
and
learned
books
;
Arabic
,
and
Hebrew
,
and
old
manuscripts
.
And
then
she
has
an
observatory
,
and
was
the
first
person
who
discovered
the
comet
.
Dr
Buckland
swears
by
her
;
and
she
corresponds
with
Arago
.
”
“
And
her
sister
,
is
she
the
same
?
?
”
“
Lady
Maud
:
she
is
very
religious
.
I
do
not
know
her
so
well
.
”
“
Is
she
pretty
?
”
“
Some
people
admire
her
very
much
.
”
“
I
never
was
at
Mowbray
.
What
sort
of
a
place
is
it
?
”
“
Oh
!
it
is
very
grand
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
;
“
but
like
all
places
in
the
manufacturing
districts
,
very
disagreeable
.
You
never
have
a
clear
sky
.
Your
toilette
table
is
covered
with
blacks
;
the
deer
in
the
park
seem
as
if
they
had
bathed
in
a
lake
of
Indian
ink
;
and
as
for
the
sheep
,
you
expect
to
see
chimney-sweeps
for
the
shepherds
.
”
“
And
do
you
really
mean
to
go
on
Thursday
?
”
said
Egremont
:
“
I
think
we
had
better
put
it
off
.
”
“
We
must
go
,
”
said
Lady
Marney
,
with
a
sort
of
sigh
,
and
shaking
her
head
.
“
Let
me
speak
to
Marney
.
”
“
Oh
!
no.
We
must
go
.
I
am
annoyed
about
this
dear
little
Poinsett
:
she
has
been
to
stay
with
me
so
very
often
,
and
she
has
only
been
here
three
days
.
When
she
comes
in
again
,
I
wish
you
would
ask
her
to
sing
,
Charles
.
”
Soon
the
dear
little
Poinsett
was
singing
,
much
gratified
by
being
invited
to
the
instrument
by
Mr
Egremont
,
who
for
a
few
minutes
hung
over
her
,
and
then
evidently
under
the
influence
of
her
tones
,
walked
up
and
down
the
room
,
and
only
speaking
to
beg
that
she
would
continue
her
charming
performances
.
Lady
Marney
was
engrossed
with
her
embroidery
;
her
lord
and
the
captain
with
their
game
.
And
what
was
Egremont
thinking
of
?
Of
Mowbray
be
you
sure
.
And
of
Lady
Joan
or
Lady
Maud
?
Not
exactly
.
Mowbray
was
the
name
of
the
town
to
which
the
strangers
he
had
met
with
in
the
Abbey
were
bound
.
It
was
the
only
piece
of
information
that
he
had
been
able
to
obtain
of
them
;
and
that
casually
.
When
the
fair
vision
of
the
starlit
arch
,
about
to
descend
to
her
two
companions
,
perceived
that
they
were
in
conversation
with
a
stranger
,
she
hesitated
,
and
in
a
moment
withdrew
.
Then
the
elder
of
the
travellers
,
exchanging
a
glance
with
his
friend
,
bid
good
even
to
Egremont
.
“
Our
way
perhaps
lies
the
same
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
I
should
deem
not
,
”
said
the
stranger
,
“
nor
are
we
alone
.
”
“
And
we
must
be
stirring
,
for
we
have
far
to
go
,
”
said
he
who
was
dressed
in
black
.
“
My
journey
is
very
brief
,
”
said
Egremont
,
making
a
desperate
effort
to
invite
communication
;
“
and
I
am
on
horseback
!
”
“
And
we
on
foot
,
”
said
the
elder
;
“
nor
shall
we
stop
till
we
reach
Mowbray
;
”
and
with
a
slight
salute
,
they
left
Egremont
alone
.
There
was
something
in
the
manner
of
the
elder
stranger
which
repressed
the
possibility
of
Egremont
following
him
.
Leaving
then
the
cloister
garden
in
another
direction
,
he
speculated
on
meeting
them
outside
the
abbey
.
He
passed
through
the
Lady’s
chapel
.
The
beautiful
Religious
was
not
there
.
He
gained
the
west
front
;
no
one
was
visible
.
He
took
a
rapid
survey
of
each
side
of
the
abbey
;
not
a
being
to
be
recognized
.
He
fancied
they
must
have
advanced
towards
the
Abbey
Farm
;
yet
they
might
have
proceeded
further
on
in
the
dale
.
Perplexed
,
he
lost
time
.
Finally
he
proceeded
towards
the
farm
,
but
did
not
overtake
them
;
reached
it
,
but
learned
nothing
of
them
;
and
arrived
at
his
brother’s
full
of
a
strange
yet
sweet
perplexity
.
CHAPTER
VII
.
In
a
commercial
country
like
England
,
every
half
century
developes
some
new
and
vast
source
of
public
wealth
,
which
brings
into
national
notice
a
new
and
powerful
class
.
A
couple
of
centuries
ago
,
a
Turkey
merchant
was
the
great
creator
of
wealth
;
the
West
Indian
Planter
followed
him
.
In
the
middle
of
the
last
century
appeared
the
Nabob
.
These
characters
in
their
zenith
in
turn
merged
in
the
land
,
and
became
English
aristocrats
;
while
the
Levant
decaying
,
the
West
Indies
exhausted
,
and
Hindostan
plundered
,
the
breeds
died
away
,
and
now
exist
only
in
our
English
comedies
from
Wycherly
and
Congreve
to
Cumberland
and
Morton
.
The
expenditure
of
the
revolutionary
war
produced
the
Loanmonger
,
who
succeeded
the
Nabob
;
and
the
application
of
science
to
industry
developed
the
Manufacturer
,
who
in
turn
aspires
to
be
“
large-acred
,
”
and
always
will
,
as
long
as
we
have
a
territorial
constitution
;
a
better
security
for
the
preponderance
of
the
landed
interest
than
any
corn
law
,
fixed
or
fluctuating
.
Of
all
these
characters
,
the
one
that
on
the
whole
made
the
largest
fortunes
in
the
most
rapid
manner
,
—
and
we
do
not
forget
the
marvels
of
the
Waterloo
loan
,
or
the
miracles
of
Manchester
during
the
continental
blockade
—
was
the
Anglo-East
Indian
about
the
time
that
Hastings
was
first
appointed
to
the
great
viceroyalty
.
It
was
not
unusual
for
men
in
positions
so
obscure
that
their
names
had
never
reached
the
public
in
this
country
,
and
who
yet
had
not
been
absent
from
their
native
land
for
a
longer
period
than
the
siege
of
Troy
,
to
return
with
their
million
.
One
of
the
most
fortunate
of
this
class
of
obscure
adventurers
was
a
certain
John
Warren
.
A
very
few
years
before
the
breaking
out
of
the
American
war
,
he
was
a
waiter
at
a
celebrated
club
in
St
James’s
Street
:
a
quick
yet
steady
young
fellow
;
assiduous
,
discreet
,
and
very
civil
.
In
this
capacity
,
he
pleased
a
gentleman
who
was
just
appointed
to
the
government
of
Madras
,
and
who
wanted
a
valet
.
Warren
,
though
prudent
,
was
adventurous
;
and
accepted
the
opening
which
he
believed
fortune
offered
him
.
He
was
prescient
.
The
voyage
in
those
days
was
an
affair
of
six
months
.
During
this
period
,
Warren
still
more
ingratiated
himself
with
his
master
.
He
wrote
a
good
hand
,
and
his
master
a
very
bad
one
.
He
had
a
natural
talent
for
accounts
;
a
kind
of
information
which
was
useful
to
his
employer
.
He
arrived
at
Madras
,
no
longer
a
valet
,
but
a
private
secretary
.
His
master
went
out
to
make
a
fortune
;
but
he
was
indolent
,
and
had
indeed
none
of
the
qualities
for
success
,
except
his
great
position
.
Warren
had
every
quality
but
that
.
The
basis
of
the
confederacy
therefore
was
intelligible
;
it
was
founded
on
mutual
interests
and
cemented
by
reciprocal
assistance
.
The
governor
granted
monopolies
to
the
secretary
,
who
apportioned
a
due
share
to
his
sleeping
partner
.
There
appeared
one
of
those
dearths
not
unusual
in
Hindostan
;
the
population
of
the
famished
province
cried
out
for
rice
;
the
stores
of
which
,
diminished
by
nature
,
had
for
months
mysteriously
disappeared
.
A
provident
administration
it
seems
had
invested
the
public
revenue
in
its
benevolent
purchase
;
the
misery
was
so
excessive
that
even
pestilence
was
anticipated
,
when
the
great
forestallers
came
to
the
rescue
of
the
people
over
whose
destinies
they
presided
;
and
at
the
same
time
fed
and
pocketed
millions
.
This
was
the
great
stroke
of
the
financial
genius
of
Warren
.
He
was
satisfied
.
He
longed
once
more
to
see
St
James’s
Street
,
and
to
become
a
member
of
the
club
,
where
he
had
once
been
a
waiter
.
But
he
was
the
spoiled
child
of
fortune
,
who
would
not
so
easily
spare
him
.
The
governor
died
,
and
had
appointed
his
secretary
his
sole
executor
.
Not
that
his
excellency
particularly
trusted
his
agent
,
but
he
dared
not
confide
the
knowledge
of
his
affairs
to
any
other
individual
.
The
estate
was
so
complicated
,
that
Warren
offered
the
heirs
a
good
round
sum
for
his
quittance
,
and
to
take
the
settlement
upon
himself
.
India
so
distant
,
and
Chancery
so
near
—
the
heirs
accepted
the
proposition
.
Winding
up
this
estate
,
Warren
avenged
the
cause
of
plundered
provinces
;
and
the
House
of
Commons
itself
,
with
Burke
and
Francis
at
its
head
,
could
scarcely
have
mulcted
the
late
governor
more
severely
.
A
Mr
Warren
,
of
whom
no
one
had
ever
heard
except
that
he
was
a
nabob
,
had
recently
returned
from
India
and
purchased
a
large
estate
in
the
north
of
England
,
was
returned
to
Parliament
one
of
the
representatives
of
a
close
borough
which
he
had
purchased
:
a
quiet
,
gentlemanlike
,
middle-aged
man
,
with
no
decided
political
opinions
;
and
,
as
parties
were
then
getting
very
equal
,
of
course
very
much
courted
.
The
throes
of
Lord
North’s
administration
were
commencing
.
The
minister
asked
the
new
member
to
dine
with
him
,
and
found
the
new
member
singularly
free
from
all
party
prejudices
.
Mr
Warren
was
one
of
those
members
who
announced
their
determination
to
listen
to
the
debates
and
to
be
governed
by
the
arguments
.
All
complimented
him
,
all
spoke
to
him
.
Mr
Fox
declared
that
he
was
a
most
superior
man
;
Mr
Burke
said
that
these
were
the
men
who
could
alone
save
the
country
.
Mrs
Crewe
asked
him
to
supper
;
he
was
caressed
by
the
most
brilliant
of
duchesses
.
At
length
there
arrived
one
of
those
fierce
trials
of
strength
,
which
precede
the
fall
of
a
minister
,
but
which
sometimes
from
peculiar
circumstances
,
as
in
the
instances
of
Walpole
and
Lord
North
,
are
not
immediate
in
their
results
.
How
would
Warren
vote
?
was
the
great
question
.
He
would
listen
to
the
arguments
.
Burke
was
full
of
confidence
that
he
should
catch
Warren
.
The
day
before
the
debate
there
was
a
levee
,
which
Mr
Warren
attended
.
The
sovereign
stopped
him
,
spoke
to
him
,
smiled
on
him
,
asked
him
many
questions
:
about
himself
,
the
House
of
Commons
,
how
he
liked
it
,
how
he
liked
England
.
There
was
a
flutter
in
the
circle
;
a
new
favourite
at
court
.
The
debate
came
off
,
the
division
took
place
.
Mr
Warren
voted
for
the
minister
.
Burke
denounced
him
;
the
king
made
him
a
baronet
.
Sir
John
Warren
made
a
great
alliance
,
at
least
for
him
;
he
married
the
daughter
of
an
Irish
earl
;
became
one
of
the
king’s
friends
;
supported
Lord
Shelburne
,
threw
over
Lord
Shelburne
,
had
the
tact
early
to
discover
that
Mr
Pitt
was
the
man
to
stick
to
,
stuck
to
him
.
Sir
John
Warren
bought
another
estate
,
and
picked
up
another
borough
.
He
was
fast
becoming
a
personage
.
Throughout
the
Indian
debates
he
kept
himself
extremely
quiet
;
once
indeed
in
vindication
of
Mr
Hastings
,
whom
he
greatly
admired
,
he
ventured
to
correct
Mr
Francis
on
a
point
of
fact
with
which
he
was
personally
acquainted
.
He
thought
that
it
was
safe
,
but
he
never
spoke
again
.
He
knew
not
the
resources
of
vindictive
genius
or
the
powers
of
a
malignant
imagination
.
Burke
owed
the
Nabob
a
turn
for
the
vote
which
had
gained
him
a
baronetcy
.
The
orator
seized
the
opportunity
and
alarmed
the
secret
conscience
of
the
Indian
adventurer
by
his
dark
allusions
,
and
his
fatal
familiarity
with
the
subject
.
Another
estate
however
and
another
borough
were
some
consolation
for
this
little
misadventure
;
and
in
time
the
French
Revolution
,
to
Sir
John’s
great
relief
,
turned
the
public
attention
for
ever
from
Indian
affairs
.
The
Nabob
from
the
faithful
adherent
of
Mr
Pitt
had
become
even
his
personal
friend
.
The
wits
indeed
had
discovered
that
he
had
been
a
waiter
;
and
endless
were
the
epigrams
of
Fitzpatrick
and
the
jokes
of
Hare
;
but
Mr
Pitt
cared
nothing
about
the
origin
of
his
supporters
.
On
the
contrary
,
Sir
John
was
exactly
the
individual
from
whom
the
minister
meant
to
carve
out
his
plebeian
aristocracy
;
and
using
his
friend
as
a
feeler
before
he
ventured
on
his
greater
operations
,
the
Nabob
one
morning
was
transformed
into
an
Irish
baron
.
The
new
Baron
figured
in
his
patent
as
Lord
Fitz-Warene
,
his
Norman
origin
and
descent
from
the
old
barons
of
this
name
having
been
discovered
at
Herald’s
college
.
This
was
a
rich
harvest
for
Fitzpatrick
and
Hare
;
but
the
public
gets
accustomed
to
everything
,
and
has
an
easy
habit
of
faith
.
The
new
Baron
cared
nothing
for
ridicule
,
for
he
was
working
for
posterity
.
He
was
compensated
for
every
annoyance
by
the
remembrance
that
the
St
James’s
Street
waiter
was
ennobled
,
and
by
his
determination
that
his
children
should
rank
still
higher
in
the
proud
peerage
of
his
country
.
So
he
obtained
the
royal
permission
to
resume
the
surname
and
arms
of
his
ancestors
,
as
well
as
their
title
.
There
was
an
ill-natured
story
set
afloat
,
that
Sir
John
owed
this
promotion
to
having
lent
money
to
the
minister
;
but
this
was
a
calumny
.
Mr
Pitt
never
borrowed
money
of
his
friends
.
Once
indeed
,
to
save
his
library
,
he
took
a
thousand
pounds
from
an
individual
on
whom
he
had
conferred
high
rank
and
immense
promotion
:
and
this
individual
,
who
had
the
minister’s
bond
when
Mr
Pitt
died
,
insisted
on
his
right
,
and
actually
extracted
the
1
,
000
l
.
from
the
insolvent
estate
of
his
magnificent
patron
.
But
Mr
Pitt
always
preferred
an
usurer
to
a
friend
;
and
to
the
last
day
of
his
life
borrowed
money
at
fifty
per
cent
.
The
Nabob
departed
this
life
before
the
Minister
,
but
he
lived
long
enough
to
realize
his
most
aspiring
dream
.
Two
years
before
his
death
the
Irish
baron
was
quietly
converted
into
an
English
peer
;
and
without
exciting
any
attention
,
all
the
squibs
of
Fitzpatrick
,
all
the
jokes
of
Hare
,
quite
forgotten
,
the
waiter
of
the
St
James’s
Street
club
took
his
seat
in
the
most
natural
manner
possible
in
the
House
of
Lords
.
The
great
estate
of
the
late
Lord
Fitz-Warene
was
situated
at
Mowbray
,
a
village
which
principally
belonged
to
him
,
and
near
which
he
had
raised
a
gothic
castle
,
worthy
of
his
Norman
name
and
ancestry
.
Mowbray
was
one
of
those
places
which
during
the
long
war
had
expanded
from
an
almost
unknown
village
to
a
large
and
flourishing
manufacturing
town
;
a
circumstance
,
which
,
as
Lady
Marney
observed
,
might
have
somewhat
deteriorated
the
atmosphere
of
the
splendid
castle
,
but
which
had
nevertheless
doubled
the
vast
rental
of
its
lord
.
He
who
had
succeeded
to
his
father
was
Altamont
Belvidere
(
named
after
his
mother’s
family
)
Fitz-Warene
,
Lord
Fitz-Warene
.
He
was
not
deficient
in
abilities
,
though
he
had
not
his
father’s
talents
,
but
he
was
over-educated
for
his
intellect
;
a
common
misfortune
.
The
new
Lord
Fitz-Warene
was
the
most
aristocratic
of
breathing
beings
.
He
most
fully
,
entirely
,
and
absolutely
believed
in
his
pedigree
;
his
coat
of
arms
was
emblazoned
on
every
window
,
embroidered
on
every
chair
,
carved
in
every
corner
.
Shortly
after
his
father’s
death
he
was
united
to
the
daughter
of
a
ducal
house
,
by
whom
he
had
a
son
and
two
daughters
,
chrisened
by
names
which
the
ancient
records
of
the
Fitz-Warenes
authorised
.
His
son
,
who
gave
promise
of
abilities
which
might
have
rendered
the
family
really
distinguished
,
was
Valence
;
his
daughters
,
Joan
and
Maud
.
All
that
seemed
wanting
to
the
glory
of
the
house
was
a
great
distinction
of
which
a
rich
peer
,
with
six
seats
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
could
not
ultimately
despair
.
Lord
Fitz-Warene
aspired
to
rank
among
the
earls
of
England
.
But
the
successors
of
Mr
Pitt
were
strong
;
they
thought
the
Fitz-Warenes
had
already
been
too
rapidly
advanced
;
it
was
whispered
that
the
king
did
not
like
the
new
man
;
that
his
majesty
thought
him
pompous
,
full
of
pretence
,
in
short
,
a
fool
.
But
though
the
successors
of
Mr
Pitt
managed
to
govern
the
country
for
twenty
years
and
were
generally
very
strong
,
in
such
an
interval
of
time
however
good
their
management
or
great
their
luck
,
there
were
inevitably
occasions
when
they
found
themselves
in
difficulties
,
when
it
was
necessary
to
conciliate
the
lukewarm
or
to
reward
the
devoted
.
Lord
Fitz-Warene
well
understood
how
to
avail
himself
of
these
occasions
;
it
was
astonishing
how
conscientious
and
scrupulous
he
became
during
Walcheren
expeditions
,
Manchester
massacres
,
Queen’s
trials
.
Every
scrape
of
the
government
was
a
step
in
the
ladder
to
the
great
borough-monger
.
The
old
king
too
had
disappeared
from
the
stage
;
and
the
tawdry
grandeur
of
the
great
Norman
peer
rather
suited
George
the
Fourth
.
He
was
rather
a
favourite
at
the
Cottage
;
they
wanted
his
six
votes
for
Canning
;
he
made
his
terms
;
and
one
of
the
means
by
which
we
got
a
man
of
genius
for
a
minister
,
was
elevating
Lord
Fitz-Warene
in
the
peerage
,
by
the
style
and
title
of
Earl
de
Mowbray
of
Mowbray
Castle
.
CHAPTER
VIII
.
We
must
now
for
a
while
return
to
the
strangers
of
the
Abbey
ruins
.
When
the
two
men
had
joined
the
beautiful
Religious
,
whose
apparition
had
so
startled
Egremont
,
they
all
three
quitted
the
Abbey
by
a
way
which
led
them
by
the
back
of
the
cloister
garden
,
and
so
on
by
the
bank
of
the
river
for
about
a
hundred
yards
,
when
they
turned
up
the
winding
glen
of
a
dried-up
tributary
stream
.
At
the
head
of
the
glen
,
at
which
they
soon
arrived
,
was
a
beer-shop
,
screened
by
some
huge
elms
from
the
winds
that
blew
over
the
vast
moor
,
which
,
except
in
the
direction
of
Mardale
,
now
extended
as
far
as
the
eye
could
reach
.
Here
the
companions
stopped
,
the
beautiful
Religious
seated
herself
on
a
stone
bench
beneath
the
trees
,
while
the
elder
stranger
calling
out
to
the
inmate
of
the
house
to
apprise
him
of
his
return
,
himself
proceeded
to
a
neighbouring
shed
,
whence
he
brought
forth
a
very
small
rough
pony
with
a
rude
saddle
,
but
one
evidently
intended
for
a
female
rider
.
“
It
is
well
,
”
said
the
taller
of
the
men
“
that
I
am
not
a
member
of
a
temperance
society
like
you
,
Stephen
,
or
it
would
be
difficult
to
reward
this
good
man
for
his
care
of
our
steed
.
I
will
take
a
cup
of
the
drink
of
Saxon
kings
.
”
Then
leading
up
the
pony
to
the
Religious
,
he
placed
her
on
its
back
with
gentleness
and
much
natural
grace
,
saying
at
the
same
time
in
a
subdued
tone
,
“
And
you
—
shall
I
bring
you
a
glass
of
nature’s
wine
?
”
“
I
have
drank
of
the
spring
of
the
Holy
Abbey
,
”
said
the
Religious
,
“
and
none
other
must
touch
my
lips
this
eve
.
”
“
Come
,
our
course
must
be
brisk
,
”
said
the
elder
of
the
men
as
he
gave
up
his
glass
to
their
host
and
led
off
the
pony
,
Stephen
walking
on
its
other
side
.
Though
the
sun
had
fallen
,
the
twilight
was
still
glowing
,
and
even
on
this
wide
expanse
the
air
was
still
.
The
vast
and
undulating
surface
of
the
brown
and
purple
moor
,
varied
occasionally
by
some
fantastic
rocks
,
gleamed
in
the
shifting
light
.
Hesperus
was
the
only
star
that
yet
was
visible
,
and
seemed
to
move
before
them
and
lead
them
on
their
journey
.
“
I
hope
,
”
said
the
Religious
,
turning
to
the
elder
stranger
,
“
that
if
ever
we
regain
our
right
,
my
father
,
and
that
we
ever
can
save
by
the
interposition
of
divine
will
seems
to
me
clearly
impossible
,
that
you
will
never
forget
how
bitter
it
is
to
be
driven
from
the
soil
;
and
that
you
will
bring
back
the
people
to
the
land
.
”
“
I
would
pursue
our
right
for
no
other
cause
,
”
said
the
father
.
“
After
centuries
of
sorrow
and
degradation
,
it
should
never
be
said
,
that
we
had
no
sympathy
with
the
sad
and
the
oppressed
.
”
“
After
centuries
of
sorrow
and
degradation
,
”
said
Stephen
,
“
let
it
not
be
said
that
you
acquired
your
right
only
to
create
a
baron
or
a
squire
.
”
“
Nay
,
thou
shalt
have
thy
way
,
Stephen
,
”
said
his
companion
,
smiling
,
“
if
ever
the
good
hour
come
.
As
many
acres
as
thou
choosest
for
thy
new
Jerusalem
.
”
“
Call
it
what
you
will
,
Walter
,
”
replied
Stephen
;
“
but
if
I
ever
gain
the
opportunity
of
fully
carrying
the
principle
of
association
into
practice
,
I
will
sing
‘Nunc
me
dimittas.’
”
“
‘Nunc
me
dimittas
,
’
”
burst
forth
the
Religious
in
a
voice
of
thrilling
melody
,
and
she
pursued
for
some
minutes
the
divine
canticle
.
Her
companions
gazed
on
her
with
an
air
of
affectionate
reverence
as
she
sang
;
each
instant
the
stars
becoming
brighter
,
the
wide
moor
assuming
a
darker
hue
.
“
Now
,
tell
me
,
Stephen
,
”
said
the
Religious
,
turning
her
head
and
looking
round
with
a
smile
,
“
think
you
not
it
would
be
a
fairer
lot
to
bide
this
night
at
some
kind
monastery
,
than
to
be
hastening
now
to
that
least
picturesque
of
all
creations
,
a
railway
station
.
”
“
The
railways
will
do
as
much
for
mankind
as
the
monasteries
did
,
”
said
Stephen
.
“
Had
it
not
been
for
the
railway
,
we
should
never
have
made
our
visit
to
Marney
Abbey
,
”
said
the
elder
of
the
travellers
.
“
Nor
seen
its
last
abbot’s
tomb
,
”
said
the
Religious
.
“
When
I
marked
your
name
upon
the
stone
,
my
father
;
—
woe
is
me
,
but
I
felt
sad
indeed
,
that
it
was
reserved
for
our
blood
to
surrender
to
ruthless
men
that
holy
trust
.
”
“
He
never
surrendered
,
”
said
her
father
.
“
He
was
tortured
and
hanged
.
”
“
He
is
with
the
communion
of
saints
,
”
said
the
Religious
.
“
I
would
I
could
see
a
communion
of
Men
,
”
said
Stephen
,
“
and
then
there
would
be
no
more
violence
,
for
there
would
be
no
more
plunder
.
”
“
You
must
regain
our
lands
for
us
,
Stephen
,
”
said
the
Religious
;
“
promise
me
my
father
that
I
shall
raise
a
holy
house
for
pious
women
,
if
that
ever
hap
.
”
“
We
will
not
forget
our
ancient
faith
,
”
said
her
father
,
“
the
only
old
thing
that
has
not
left
us
.
”
“
I
cannot
understand
,
”
said
Stephen
,
“
why
you
should
ever
have
lost
sight
of
these
papers
,
Walter
.
”
“
You
see
,
friend
,
they
were
never
in
my
possession
;
they
were
never
mine
when
I
saw
them
.
They
were
my
father’s
;
and
he
was
jealous
of
all
interference
.
He
was
a
small
yeoman
,
who
had
risen
in
the
war
time
,
well
to
do
in
the
world
,
but
always
hankering
after
the
old
tradition
that
the
lands
were
ours
.
This
Hatton
got
hold
of
him
;
he
did
his
work
well
,
I
have
heard
;
—
certain
it
is
my
father
spared
nothing
.
It
is
twenty-five
years
come
Martinmas
since
he
brought
his
writ
of
right
;
and
though
baffled
,
he
was
not
beaten
.
But
then
he
died
;
his
affairs
were
in
great
confusion
;
he
had
mortgaged
his
land
for
his
writ
,
and
the
war
prices
were
gone
.
There
were
debts
that
could
not
be
paid
.
I
had
no
capital
for
a
farm
.
I
would
not
sink
to
be
a
labourer
on
the
soil
that
had
once
been
our
own
.
I
had
just
married
;
it
was
needful
to
make
a
great
exertion
.
I
had
heard
much
of
the
high
wages
of
this
new
industry
;
I
left
the
land
.
”
“
And
the
papers
?
”
“
I
never
thought
of
them
,
or
thought
of
them
with
disgust
,
as
the
cause
of
my
ruin
.
Then
when
you
came
the
other
day
,
and
showed
me
in
the
book
that
the
last
abbot
of
Marney
was
a
Walter
Gerard
,
the
old
feeling
stirred
again
;
and
I
could
not
help
telling
you
that
my
fathers
fought
at
Azincourt
,
though
I
was
only
the
overlooker
at
Mr
Trafford’s
mill
.
”
“
A
good
old
name
of
the
good
old
faith
,
”
said
the
Religious
;
“
and
a
blessing
be
on
it
.
”
“
We
have
cause
to
bless
it
,
”
said
Gerard
.
“
I
thought
it
then
something
to
serve
a
gentleman
;
and
as
for
my
daughter
,
she
,
by
their
goodness
,
was
brought
up
in
holy
walls
,
which
have
made
her
what
she
is
.
”
“
Nature
made
her
what
she
is
,
”
said
Stephen
in
a
low
voice
,
and
speaking
not
without
emotion
.
Then
he
continued
,
in
a
louder
and
brisker
tone
,
“
But
this
Hatton
—
you
know
nothing
of
his
whereabouts
?
”
“
Never
heard
of
him
since
.
I
had
indeed
about
a
year
after
my
father’s
death
,
cause
to
enquire
after
him
;
but
he
had
quitted
Mowbray
,
and
none
could
give
me
tidings
of
him
.
He
had
lived
I
believe
on
our
law-suit
,
and
vanished
with
our
hopes
.
”
After
this
,
there
was
silence
;
each
was
occupied
with
his
thoughts
,
while
the
influence
of
the
soft
night
and
starry
hour
induced
to
contemplation
.
“
I
hear
the
murmur
of
the
train
,
”
said
the
Religious
.
“
‘Tis
the
up-train
,
”
said
her
father
.
“
We
have
yet
a
quarter
of
an
hour
;
we
shall
be
in
good
time
.
”
So
saying
,
he
guided
the
pony
to
where
some
lights
indicated
the
station
of
the
railway
,
which
here
crossed
the
moor
.
There
was
just
time
to
return
the
pony
to
the
person
at
the
station
from
whom
it
had
been
borrowed
,
and
obtain
their
tickets
,
when
the
bell
of
the
down-train
sounded
,
and
in
a
few
minutes
the
Religious
and
her
companions
were
on
their
way
to
Mowbray
,
whither
a
course
of
two
hours
carried
them
.
It
was
two
hours
to
midnight
when
they
arrived
at
Mowbray
station
,
which
was
about
a
quarter
of
a
mile
from
the
town
.
Labour
had
long
ceased
;
a
beautiful
heaven
,
clear
and
serene
,
canopied
the
city
of
smoke
and
toil
;
in
all
directions
rose
the
columns
of
the
factories
,
dark
and
defined
in
the
purple
sky
;
a
glittering
star
sometimes
hovering
by
the
crest
of
their
tall
and
tapering
forms
.
The
travellers
proceeded
in
the
direction
of
a
suburb
and
approached
the
very
high
wall
of
an
extensive
garden
.
The
moon
rose
as
they
reached
it
,
tipped
the
trees
with
light
,
and
revealed
a
lofty
and
centre
portal
,
by
the
side
of
it
a
wicket
at
which
Gerard
rang
.
The
wicket
was
quickly
opened
.
“
I
fear
,
holy
sister
,
”
said
the
Religious
,
“
that
I
am
even
later
than
I
promised
.
”
“
Those
that
come
in
our
lady’s
name
are
ever
welcome
,
”
was
the
reply
.
“
Sister
Marion
,
”
said
Gerard
to
the
porteress
,
“
we
have
been
to
visit
a
holy
place
.
”
“
All
places
are
holy
with
holy
thoughts
,
my
brother
.
”
“
Dear
father
,
good
night
,
”
said
the
Religious
;
“
the
blessings
of
all
the
saints
be
on
thee
,
—
and
on
thee
,
Stephen
,
though
thou
dost
not
kneel
to
them
.
”
“
Good
night
,
mine
own
child
,
”
said
Gerard
.
“
I
could
believe
in
saints
when
I
am
with
thee
,
”
murmured
Stephen
;
“
Good
night
,
—
SYBIL
.
”
CHAPTER
IX
.
When
Gerard
and
his
friend
quitted
the
convent
they
proceeded
at
a
brisk
pace
,
into
the
heart
of
the
town
.
The
streets
were
nearly
empty
;
and
with
the
exception
of
some
occasional
burst
of
brawl
or
merriment
from
a
beer-shop
,
all
was
still
.
The
chief
street
of
Mowbray
,
called
Castle
Street
after
the
ruins
of
the
old
baronial
stronghold
in
its
neighbourhood
,
was
as
significant
of
the
present
civilization
of
this
community
as
the
haughty
keep
had
been
of
its
ancient
dependence
.
The
dimensions
of
Castle
Street
were
not
unworthy
of
the
metropolis
:
it
traversed
a
great
portion
of
the
town
,
and
was
proportionately
wide
;
its
broad
pavements
and
its
blazing
gas-lights
indicated
its
modern
order
and
prosperity
;
while
on
each
side
of
the
street
rose
huge
warehouses
,
not
as
beautiful
as
the
palaces
of
Venice
,
but
in
their
way
not
less
remarkable
;
magnificent
shops
;
and
here
and
there
,
though
rarely
,
some
ancient
factory
built
among
the
fields
in
the
infancy
of
Mowbray
by
some
mill-owner
not
sufficiently
prophetic
of
the
future
,
or
sufficiently
confident
in
the
energy
and
enterprise
of
his
fellow-citizens
,
to
foresee
that
the
scene
of
his
labours
would
be
the
future
eye-sore
of
a
flourishing
posterity
.
Pursuing
their
course
along
Castle
Street
for
about
a
quarter
of
a
mile
,
Gerard
and
Stephen
turned
down
a
street
which
intersected
it
,
and
so
on
,
through
a
variety
of
ways
and
winding
lanes
,
till
they
arrived
at
an
open
portion
of
the
town
,
a
district
where
streets
and
squares
and
even
rows
,
disappeared
,
and
where
the
tall
chimneys
and
bulky
barrack-looking
buildings
that
rose
in
all
directions
,
clustering
yet
isolated
,
announced
that
they
were
in
the
principal
scene
of
the
industry
of
Mowbray
.
Crossing
this
open
ground
they
gained
a
suburb
,
but
one
of
a
very
different
description
to
that
in
which
was
situate
the
convent
where
they
had
parted
with
Sybil
.
This
one
was
populous
,
noisy
,
and
lighted
.
It
was
Saturday
night
;
the
streets
were
thronged
;
an
infinite
population
kept
swarming
to
and
fro
the
close
courts
and
pestilential
cul-de-sacs
that
continually
communicated
with
the
streets
by
narrow
archways
,
like
the
entrance
of
hives
,
so
low
that
you
were
obliged
to
stoop
for
admission
:
while
ascending
to
these
same
streets
,
from
their
dank
and
dismal
dwellings
by
narrow
flights
of
steps
the
subterraneous
nation
of
the
cellars
poured
forth
to
enjoy
the
coolness
of
the
summer
night
,
and
market
for
the
day
of
rest
.
The
bright
and
lively
shops
were
crowded
;
and
groups
of
purchasers
were
gathered
round
the
stalls
,
that
by
the
aid
of
glaring
lamps
and
flaunting
lanthorns
,
displayed
their
wares
.
“
Come
,
come
,
it’s
a
prime
piece
,
”
said
a
jolly
looking
woman
,
who
was
presiding
at
a
stall
which
,
though
considerably
thinned
by
previous
purchasers
,
still
offered
many
temptations
to
many
who
could
not
purchase
.
“
And
so
it
is
widow
,
”
said
a
little
pale
man
,
wistfully
.
“
Come
,
come
,
it’s
getting
late
,
and
your
wife’s
ill
;
you’re
a
good
soul
,
we’ll
say
fi’pence
a
pound
,
and
I’ll
throw
you
the
scrag
end
in
for
love
.
”
“
No
butcher’s
meat
to-morrow
for
us
,
widow
,
”
said
the
man
.
“
And
why
not
,
neighbour
?
With
your
wages
,
you
ought
to
live
like
a
prize-fighter
,
or
the
mayor
of
Mowbray
at
least
.
”
“
Wages
!
”
said
the
man
,
“
I
wish
you
may
get
‘em
.
Those
villains
,
Shuffle
and
Screw
,
have
sarved
me
with
another
bate
ticket
:
and
a
pretty
figure
too
.
”
“
Oh
!
the
carnal
monsters
!
”
exclaimed
the
widow
.
“
If
their
day
don’t
come
,
the
bloody-minded
knaves
!
”
“
And
for
small
cops
,
too
!
Small
cops
be
hanged
!
Am
I
the
man
to
send
up
a
bad-bottomed
cop
,
Widow
Carey
?
”
“
You
sent
up
for
snicks
!
I
have
known
you
man
and
boy
John
Hill
these
twenty
summers
,
and
never
heard
a
word
against
you
till
you
got
into
Shuffle
and
Screw’s
mill
.
Oh
!
they
are
a
bad
yarn
,
John
.
”
“
They
do
us
all
,
widow
.
They
pretends
to
give
the
same
wages
as
the
rest
,
and
works
it
out
in
fines
.
You
can’t
come
,
and
you
can’t
go
,
but
there’s
a
fine
;
you’re
never
paid
wages
,
but
there’s
a
bate
ticket
.
I’ve
heard
they
keep
their
whole
establishment
on
factory
fines
.
”
“
Soul
alive
,
but
those
Shuffle
and
Screw
are
rotten
,
snickey
,
bad
yarns
,
”
said
Mistress
Carey
.
“
Now
ma’am
,
if
you
please
;
fi’pence
ha’penny
;
no
,
ma’am
,
we’ve
no
weal
left
.
Weal
,
indeed
!
you
look
very
like
a
soul
as
feeds
on
weal
,
”
continued
Mrs
Carey
in
an
under
tone
as
her
declining
customer
moved
away
.
“
Well
,
it
gets
late
,
”
said
the
widow
,
“
and
if
you
like
to
take
this
scrag
end
home
to
your
wife
neighbour
Hill
,
we
can
talk
of
the
rest
next
Saturday
.
And
what’s
your
will
,
sir
?
”
said
the
widow
with
a
stern
expression
to
a
youth
who
now
stopped
at
her
stall
.
He
was
about
sixteen
,
with
a
lithe
figure
,
and
a
handsome
,
faded
,
impudent
face
.
His
long
,
loose
,
white
trousers
gave
him
height
;
he
had
no
waistcoat
,
but
a
pink
silk
handkerchief
was
twisted
carelessly
round
his
neck
,
and
fastened
with
a
very
large
pin
,
which
,
whatever
were
its
materials
,
had
unquestionably
a
very
gorgeous
appearance
.
A
loose
frock-coat
of
a
coarse
white
cloth
,
and
fastened
by
one
button
round
his
waist
,
completed
his
habiliments
,
with
the
addition
of
the
covering
to
his
head
,
a
high-crowned
dark-brown
hat
,
which
relieved
his
complexion
,
and
heightened
the
effect
of
his
mischievous
blue
eye
.
“
Well
,
you
need
not
be
so
fierce
,
Mother
Carey
,
”
said
the
youth
with
an
affected
air
of
deprecation
.
“
Don’t
mother
me
,
”
said
the
jolly
widow
with
a
kindling
eye
;
“
go
to
your
own
mother
,
who
is
dying
in
a
back
cellar
without
a
winder
,
while
you’ve
got
lodgings
in
a
two
pair
.
”
“
Dying
;
she’s
only
drunk
,
”
said
the
youth
.
“
And
if
she
is
only
drunk
,
”
rejoined
Mrs
Carey
in
a
passion
,
“
what
makes
her
drink
but
toil
;
working
from
five
o’clock
in
the
morning
to
seven
o’clock
at
night
,
and
for
the
like
of
such
as
you
.
”
“
That’s
a
good
one
,
”
said
the
youth
;
“
I
should
like
to
know
what
my
mother
ever
did
for
me
,
but
give
me
treacle
and
laudanum
when
I
was
a
babby
to
stop
my
tongue
and
fill
my
stomach
;
by
the
token
of
which
,
as
my
gal
says
,
she
stunted
the
growth
of
the
prettiest
figure
in
all
Mowbray
.
”
And
here
the
youth
drew
himself
up
,
and
thrust
his
hands
in
the
side
pockets
of
his
pea-jacket
.
“
Well
,
I
never
,
”
said
Mrs
Carey
.
“
No
;
I
never
heard
a
thing
like
that
!
”
“
What
,
not
when
you
cut
up
the
jackass
and
sold
it
for
veal
cutlets
,
mother
.
”
“
Hold
your
tongue
,
Mr
Imperence
,
”
said
the
widow
.
“
It’s
very
well
known
you’re
no
Christian
,
and
who’ll
believe
what
you
say
?
”
“
It’s
very
well
known
that
I’m
a
man
what
pays
his
way
,
”
said
the
boy
,
“
and
don’t
keep
a
huckster’s
stall
to
sell
carrion
by
star-light
;
but
live
in
a
two
pair
,
if
you
please
,
and
has
a
wife
and
family
,
or
as
good
.
”
“
O
!
you
aggravating
imp
!
”
exclaimed
the
widow
in
despair
,
unable
to
wreak
her
vengeance
on
one
who
kept
in
a
secure
position
,
and
whose
movements
were
as
nimble
as
his
words
.
“
Why
,
Madam
Carey
,
what
has
Dandy
Mick
done
to
thee
?
”
said
a
good-humoured
voice
,
it
came
from
one
of
two
factory
girls
who
were
passing
her
stall
and
stopped
.
They
were
gaily
dressed
,
a
light
handkerchief
tied
under
the
chin
,
their
hair
scrupulously
arranged
;
they
wore
coral
neck-laces
and
earrings
of
gold
.
“
Ah
!
is
it
you
,
my
child
,
”
said
the
widow
,
who
was
a
good-hearted
creature
.
“
The
dandy
has
been
giving
me
some
of
his
imperence
.
”
“
But
I
meant
nothing
,
dame
,
”
said
Mick
.
“
It
was
a
joke
,
—
only
a
joke
.
”
“
Well
,
let
it
pass
,
”
said
Mrs
Carey
.
“
And
where
have
you
been
this
long
time
,
my
child
;
and
who’s
your
friend
?
”
she
added
in
a
lower
tone
.
“
Well
,
I
have
left
Mr
Trafford’s
mill
,
”
said
the
girl
.
“
That’s
a
bad
job
,
”
said
Mrs
Carey
;
“
for
those
Traffords
are
kind
to
their
people
.
It’s
a
great
thing
for
a
young
person
to
be
in
their
mill
.
”
“
So
it
is
,
”
said
the
girl
,
“
but
then
it
was
so
dull
.
I
can’t
stand
a
country
life
,
Mrs
Carey
.
I
must
have
company
.
”
“
Well
,
I
do
love
a
bit
of
gossip
myself
,
”
said
Mrs
Carey
,
with
great
frankness
.
“
And
then
I’m
no
scholar
,
”
said
the
girl
,
“
and
never
could
take
to
learning
.
And
those
Traffords
had
so
many
schools
.
”
“
Learning
is
better
than
house
and
land
,
”
said
Mrs
Carey
;
“
though
I’m
no
scholar
myself
;
but
then
,
in
my
time
,
things
was
different
.
But
young
persons
—
”
“
Yes
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
I
don’t
think
I
could
get
through
the
day
,
if
it
wurno’
for
our
Institute
.
”
“
And
what’s
that
?
”
asked
Mrs
Carey
with
a
sneer
.
“
The
Shoddy-Court
Literary
and
Scientific
,
to
be
sure
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
we
have
got
fifty
members
,
and
take
in
three
London
papers
;
one
‘Northern
Star’
and
two
‘Moral
Worlds.’
”
“
And
where
are
you
now
,
child
?
”
continued
the
widow
to
the
girl
.
“
I
am
at
Wiggins
and
Webster’s
,
”
said
the
girl
;
“
and
this
is
my
partner
.
We
keep
house
together
;
we
have
a
very
nice
room
in
Arbour
Court
,
No.
7
,
high
up
;
it’s
very
airy
.
If
you
will
take
a
dish
of
tea
with
us
to-morrow
,
we
expect
some
friends
.
”
“
I
take
it
kindly
,
”
said
Mrs
Carey
;
“
and
so
you
keep
house
together
!
All
the
children
keep
house
in
these
days
.
Times
is
changed
indeed
!
”
“
And
we
shall
be
happy
to
see
you
,
Mick
;
and
Julia
,
if
you
are
not
engaged
;
”
continued
the
girl
;
and
she
looked
at
her
friend
,
a
pretty
demure
girl
,
who
immediately
said
,
but
in
a
somewhat
faultering
tone
,
“
Oh
!
that
we
shall
.
”
“
And
what
are
you
going
to
do
now
,
Caroline
?
”
said
Mick
.
“
Well
,
we
had
no
thoughts
;
but
I
said
to
Harriet
,
as
it
is
a
fine
night
,
let
us
walk
about
as
long
as
we
can
and
then
to-morrow
we
will
lie
in
bed
till
afternoon
.
”
“
That’s
all
well
eno’
in
winter
time
with
plenty
of
baccy
,
”
said
Mick
,
“
but
at
this
season
of
the
year
I
must
have
life
.
The
moment
I
came
out
I
bathed
in
the
river
,
and
then
went
home
and
dressed
,
”
he
added
in
a
satisfied
tone
;
“
and
now
I
am
going
to
the
Temple
.
I’ll
tell
you
what
,
Julia
has
been
pricked
to-day
with
a
shuttle
,
‘tis
not
much
,
but
she
can’t
go
out
;
I’ll
stand
treat
,
and
take
you
and
your
friend
to
the
Temple
.
”
“
Well
,
that’s
delight
,
”
said
Caroline
.
“
There’s
no
one
does
the
handsome
thing
like
you
,
Dandy
Mick
,
and
I
always
say
so
.
Oh
!
I
love
the
Temple
!
‘Tis
so
genteel
!
I
was
speaking
of
it
to
Harriet
last
night
;
she
never
was
there
.
I
proposed
to
go
with
her
—
but
two
girls
alone
,
—
you
understand
me
.
One
does
not
like
to
be
seen
in
these
places
,
as
if
one
kept
no
company
.
”
“
Very
true
,
”
said
Mick
;
“
and
now
we’ll
be
off
.
Good
night
,
widow
.
”
“
You’ll
remember
us
to-morrow
evening
,
”
said
Caroline
.
“
To-morrow
evening
!
The
Temple
!
”
murmured
Mrs
Carey
to
herself
.
“
I
think
the
world
is
turned
upside
downwards
in
these
parts
.
A
brat
like
Mick
Radley
to
live
in
a
two
pair
,
with
a
wife
and
family
,
or
as
good
as
he
says
;
and
this
girl
asks
me
to
take
a
dish
of
tea
with
her
and
keeps
house
!
Fathers
and
mothers
goes
for
nothing
,
”
continued
Mrs
Carey
,
as
she
took
a
very
long
pinch
of
snuff
and
deeply
mused
.
“
‘tis
the
children
gets
the
wages
,
”
she
added
after
a
profound
pause
,
“
and
there
it
is
.
”
CHAPTER
X
.
In
the
meantime
Gerard
and
Stephen
stopped
before
a
tall
,
thin
,
stuccoed
house
,
ballustraded
and
friezed
,
very
much
lighted
both
within
and
without
,
and
,
from
the
sounds
that
issued
from
it
,
and
the
persons
who
retired
and
entered
,
evidently
a
locality
of
great
resort
and
bustle
.
A
sign
,
bearing
the
title
of
the
Cat
and
Fiddle
,
indicated
that
it
was
a
place
of
public
entertainment
,
and
kept
by
one
who
owned
the
legal
name
of
John
Trottman
,
though
that
was
but
a
vulgar
appellation
,
lost
in
his
well-earned
and
far-famed
title
of
Chaffing
Jack
.
The
companions
entered
the
spacious
premises
;
and
making
their
way
to
the
crowded
bar
,
Stephen
,
with
a
glance
serious
but
which
indicated
intimacy
,
caught
the
eye
of
a
comely
lady
,
who
presided
over
the
mysteries
,
and
said
in
a
low
voice
,
“
Is
he
here
?
”
“
In
the
Temple
,
Mr
Morley
,
asking
for
you
and
your
friend
more
than
once
.
I
think
you
had
better
go
up
.
I
know
he
wishes
to
see
you
.
”
Stephen
whispered
to
Gerard
and
after
a
moment’s
pause
,
he
asked
the
fair
president
for
a
couple
of
tickets
for
each
of
which
he
paid
threepence
;
a
sum
however
,
according
to
the
printed
declaration
of
the
voucher
,
convertible
into
potential
liquid
refreshments
,
no
great
compensation
to
a
very
strict
member
of
the
Temperance
Society
of
Mowbray
.
A
handsome
staircase
with
bright
brass
bannisters
led
them
to
an
ample
landing-place
,
on
which
opened
a
door
,
now
closed
and
by
which
sate
a
boy
who
collected
the
tickets
of
those
who
would
enter
it
.
The
portal
was
of
considerable
dimensions
and
of
architectural
pretension
;
it
was
painted
of
a
bright
green
colour
,
the
panels
gilt
.
Within
the
pediment
,
described
in
letters
of
flaming
gas
,
you
read
,
“
THE
TEMPLE
OF
THE
MUSES
.
”
Gerard
and
Morley
entered
an
apartment
very
long
and
sufficiently
lofty
,
though
rather
narrow
for
such
proportions
.
The
ceiling
was
even
richly
decorated
;
the
walls
were
painted
,
and
by
a
brush
of
considerable
power
.
Each
panel
represented
some
well-known
scene
from
Shakespeare
,
Byron
,
or
Scott
:
King
Richard
,
Mazeppa
,
the
Lady
of
the
Lake
were
easily
recognized
:
in
one
panel
,
Hubert
menaced
Arthur
;
here
Haidee
rescued
Juan
;
and
there
Jeanie
Deans
curtsied
before
the
Queen
.
The
room
was
very
full
;
some
three
or
four
hundred
persons
were
seated
in
different
groups
at
different
tables
,
eating
,
drinking
,
talking
,
laughing
,
and
even
smoking
,
for
