downnear
the
window
,
she
on
one
settee
and
he
on
another
opposite
.
Will
was
peculiarly
uneasy
:
it
seemed
to
him
not
like
Dorothea
that
the
mere
fact
of
her
being
a
widow
should
cause
such
a
change
in
her
manner
of
receiving
him
;
and
he
knew
of
no
other
condition
which
could
have
affected
their
previous
relation
to
each
other
—
except
that
,
as
his
imagination
at
once
told
him
,
her
friends
might
have
been
poisoning
her
mind
with
their
suspicions
of
him
.
"
I
hope
I
have
not
presumed
too
much
in
calling
,
"
said
Will
;
"
I
could
not
bear
to
leave
the
neighborhood
and
begin
a
new
life
without
seeing
you
to
say
good-by
.
"
"
Presumed
?
Surely
not
.
I
should
have
thought
it
unkind
if
you
had
not
wished
to
see
me
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
her
habit
of
speaking
with
perfect
genuineness
asserting
itself
through
all
her
uncertainty
and
agitation
.
"
Are
you
going
away
immediately
?
"
"
Very
soon
,
I
think
.
I
intend
to
go
to
town
and
eat
my
dinners
as
a
barrister
,
since
,
they
say
,
that
is
the
preparation
for
all
public
business
.
There
will
be
a
great
deal
of
political
work
to
be
done
by-and-by
,
and
I
mean
to
try
and
do
some
of
it
.
Other
men
have
managed
to
win
an
honourable
position
for
themselves
without
family
or
money
.
"
"
And
that
will
make
it
all
the
more
honourable
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
ardently
.
"
Besides
,
you
have
so
many
talents
.
I
have
heard
from
my
uncle
how
well
you
speak
in
public
,
so
that
every
one
is
sorry
when
you
leave
off
,
and
how
clearly
you
can
explain
things
.
And
you
care
that
justice
should
be
done
to
every
one
.
I
am
so
glad
.
When
we
were
in
Rome
,
I
thought
you
only
cared
for
poetry
and
art
,
and
the
things
that
adorn
life
for
us
who
are
well
off
.
But
now
I
know
you
think
about
the
rest
of
the
world
.
"
While
she
was
speaking
Dorothea
had
lost
her
personal
embarrassment
,
and
had
become
like
her
former
self
.
She
looked
at
Will
with
a
direct
glance
,
full
of
delighted
confidence
.
"
You
approve
of
my
going
away
for
years
,
then
,
and
never
coming
here
again
till
I
have
made
myself
of
some
mark
in
the
world
?
"
said
Will
,
trying
hard
to
reconcile
the
utmost
pride
with
the
utmost
effort
to
get
an
expression
of
strong
feeling
from
Dorothea
.
She
was
not
aware
how
long
it
was
before
she
answered
.
She
had
turned
her
head
and
was
looking
out
of
the
window
on
the
rose-bushes
,
which
seemed
to
have
in
them
the
summers
of
all
the
years
when
Will
would
be
away
.
This
was
not
judicious
behavior
.
But
Dorothea
never
thought
of
studying
her
manners
:
she
thought
only
of
bowing
to
a
sad
necessity
which
divided
her
from
Will
.
Those
first
words
of
his
about
his
intentions
had
seemed
to
make
everything
clear
to
her
:
he
knew
,
she
supposed
,
all
about
Mr.
Casaubon
's
final
conduct
in
relation
to
him
,
and
it
had
come
to
him
with
the
same
sort
of
shock
as
to
herself
.
He
had
never
felt
more
than
friendship
for
her
—
had
never
had
anything
in
his
mind
to
justify
what
she
felt
to
be
her
husband
's
outrage
on
the
feelings
of
both
:
and
that
friendship
he
still
felt
.
Something
which
may
be
called
an
inward
silent
sob
had
gone
on
in
Dorothea
before
she
said
with
a
pure
voice
,
just
trembling
in
the
last
words
as
if
only
from
its
liquid
flexibility
—
"
Yes
,
it
must
be
right
for
you
to
do
as
you
say
.
I
shall
be
very
happy
when
I
hear
that
you
have
made
your
value
felt
.
But
you
must
have
patience
.
It
will
perhaps
be
a
long
while
.
"
Will
never
quite
knew
how
it
was
that
he
saved
himself
from
falling
down
at
her
feet
,
when
the
"
long
while
"
came
forth
with
its
gentle
tremor
.
He
used
to
say
that
the
horrible
hue
and
surface
of
her
crape
dress
was
most
likely
the
sufficient
controlling
force
.
He
sat
still
,
however
,
and
only
said
—
"
I
shall
never
hear
from
you
.
And
you
will
forget
all
about
me
.
"
"
No
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
"
I
shall
never
forget
you
.
I
have
never
forgotten
any
one
whom
I
once
knew
.
My
life
has
never
been
crowded
,
and
seems
not
likely
to
be
so
.
And
I
have
a
great
deal
of
space
for
memory
at
Lowick
,
have
n't
I
?
"
She
smiled
.
"
Good
God
!
"
Will
burst
out
passionately
,
rising
,
with
his
hat
still
in
his
hand
,
and
walking
away
to
a
marble
table
,
where
he
suddenly
turned
and
leaned
his
back
against
it
.
The
blood
had
mounted
to
his
face
and
neck
,
and
he
looked
almost
angry
.
It
had
seemed
to
him
as
if
they
were
like
two
creatures
slowly
turning
to
marble
in
each
other
's
presence
,
while
their
hearts
were
conscious
and
their
eyes
were
yearning
.
But
there
was
no
help
for
it
.
It
should
never
be
true
of
him
that
in
this
meeting
to
which
he
had
come
with
bitter
resolution
he
had
ended
by
a
confession
which
might
be
interpreted
into
asking
for
her
fortune
.
Moreover
,
it
was
actually
true
that
he
was
fearful
of
the
effect
which
such
confessions
might
have
on
Dorothea
herself
.
She
looked
at
him
from
that
distance
in
some
trouble
,
imagining
that
there
might
have
been
an
offence
in
her
words
.
But
all
the
while
there
was
a
current
of
thought
in
her
about
his
probable
want
of
money
,
and
the
impossibility
of
her
helping
him
.
If
her
uncle
had
been
at
home
,
something
might
have
been
done
through
him
!
It
was
this
preoccupation
with
the
hardship
of
Will
's
wanting
money
,
while
she
had
what
ought
to
have
been
his
share
,
which
led
her
to
say
,
seeing
that
he
remained
silent
and
looked
away
from
her
—
"
I
wonder
whether
you
would
like
to
have
that
miniature
which
hangs
up-stairs
—
I
mean
that
beautiful
miniature
of
your
grandmother
.
I
think
it
is
not
right
for
me
to
keep
it
,
if
you
would
wish
to
have
it
.
It
is
wonderfully
like
you
.
"
"
You
are
very
good
,
"
said
Will
,
irritably
.
"
No
;
I
do
n't
mind
about
it
.
It
is
not
very
consoling
to
have
one
's
own
likeness
.
It
would
be
more
consoling
if
others
wanted
to
have
it
.
"
"
I
thought
you
would
like
to
cherish
her
memory
—
I
thought
—
"
Dorothea
broke
off
an
instant
,
her
imagination
suddenly
warning
her
away
from
Aunt
Julia
's
history
—
"
you
would
surely
like
to
have
the
miniature
as
a
family
memorial
.
"
"
Why
should
I
have
that
,
when
I
have
nothing
else
!
A
man
with
only
a
portmanteau
for
his
stowage
must
keep
his
memorials
in
his
head
.
"
Will
spoke
at
random
:
he
was
merely
venting
his
petulance
;
it
was
a
little
too
exasperating
to
have
his
grandmother
's
portrait
offered
him
at
that
moment
.
But
to
Dorothea
's
feeling
his
words
had
a
peculiar
sting
.
She
rose
and
said
with
a
touch
of
indignation
as
well
as
hauteur
—
"
You
are
much
the
happier
of
us
two
,
Mr.
Ladislaw
,
to
have
nothing
.
"
Will
was
startled
.
Whatever
the
words
might
be
,
the
tone
seemed
like
a
dismissal
;
and
quitting
his
leaning
posture
,
he
walked
a
little
way
towards
her
.
Their
eyes
met
,
but
with
a
strange
questioning
gravity
.
Something
was
keeping
their
minds
aloof
,
and
each
was
left
to
conjecture
what
was
in
the
other
.
Will
had
really
never
thought
of
himself
as
having
a
claim
of
inheritance
on
the
property
which
was
held
by
Dorothea
,
and
would
have
required
a
narrative
to
make
him
understand
her
present
feeling
.
"
I
never
felt
it
a
misfortune
to
have
nothing
till
now
,
"
he
said
.
"
But
poverty
may
be
as
bad
as
leprosy
,
if
it
divides
us
from
what
we
most
care
for
.
"
The
words
cut
Dorothea
to
the
heart
,
and
made
her
relent
.
She
answered
in
a
tone
of
sad
fellowship
.
"
Sorrow
comes
in
so
many
ways
.
Two
years
ago
I
had
no
notion
of
that
—
I
mean
of
the
unexpected
way
in
which
trouble
comes
,
and
ties
our
hands
,
and
makes
us
silent
when
we
long
to
speak
.
I
used
to
despise
women
a
little
for
not
shaping
their
lives
more
,
and
doing
better
things
.
I
was
very
fond
of
doing
as
I
liked
,
but
I
have
almost
given
it
up
,
"
she
ended
,
smiling
playfully
.
"
I
have
not
given
up
doing
as
I
like
,
but
I
can
very
seldom
do
it
,
"
said
Will
.
He
was
standing
two
yards
from
her
with
his
mind
full
of
contradictory
desires
and
resolves
—
desiring
some
unmistakable
proof
that
she
loved
him
,
and
yet
dreading
the
position
into
which
such
a
proof
might
bring
him
.
"
The
thing
one
most
longs
for
may
be
surrounded
with
conditions
that
would
be
intolerable
.
"
At
this
moment
Pratt
entered
and
said
,
"
Sir
James
Chettam
is
in
the
library
,
madam
.
"
"
Ask
Sir
James
to
come
in
here
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
immediately
.
It
was
as
if
the
same
electric
shock
had
passed
through
her
and
Will
.
Each
of
them
felt
proudly
resistant
,
and
neither
looked
at
the
other
,
while
they
awaited
Sir
James
's
entrance
.
After
shaking
hands
with
Dorothea
,
he
bowed
as
slightly
as
possible
to
Ladislaw
,
who
repaid
the
slightness
exactly
,
and
then
going
towards
Dorothea
,
said
—
"
I
must
say
good-by
,
Mrs.
Casaubon
;
and
probably
for
a
long
while
.
"
Dorothea
put
out
her
hand
and
said
her
good-by
cordially
.
The
sense
that
Sir
James
was
depreciating
Will
,
and
behaving
rudely
to
him
,
roused
her
resolution
and
dignity
:
there
was
no
touch
of
confusion
in
her
manner
.
And
when
Will
had
left
the
room
,
she
looked
with
such
calm
self-possession
at
Sir
James
,
saying
,
"
How
is
Celia
?
"
that
he
was
obliged
to
behave
as
if
nothing
had
annoyed
him
.
And
what
would
be
the
use
of
behaving
otherwise
?
Indeed
,
Sir
James
shrank
with
so
much
dislike
from
the
association
even
in
thought
of
Dorothea
with
Ladislaw
as
her
possible
lover
,
that
he
would
himself
have
wished
to
avoid
an
outward
show
of
displeasure
which
would
have
recognized
the
disagreeable
possibility
.
If
any
one
had
asked
him
why
he
shrank
in
that
way
,
I
am
not
sure
that
he
would
at
first
have
said
anything
fuller
or
more
precise
than
"
That
Ladislaw
!
"
—
though
on
reflection
he
might
have
urged
that
Mr.
Casaubon
's
codicil
,
barring
Dorothea
's
marriage
with
Will
,
except
under
a
penalty
,
was
enough
to
cast
unfitness
over
any
relation
at
all
between
them
.
His
aversion
was
all
the
stronger
because
he
felt
himself
unable
to
interfere
.
But
Sir
James
was
a
power
in
a
way
unguessed
by
himself
.
Entering
at
that
moment
,
he
was
an
incorporation
of
the
strongest
reasons
through
which
Will
's
pride
became
a
repellent
force
,
keeping
him
asunder
from
Dorothea
.
CHAPTER
LV
.
Hath
she
her
faults
?
I
would
you
had
them
too
.
They
are
the
fruity
must
of
soundest
wine
;
Or
say
,
they
are
regenerating
fire
Such
as
hath
turned
the
dense
black
element
Into
a
crystal
pathway
for
the
sun
.
If
youth
is
the
season
of
hope
,
it
is
often
so
only
in
the
sense
that
our
elders
are
hopeful
about
us
;
for
no
age
is
so
apt
as
youth
to
think
its
emotions
,
partings
,
and
resolves
are
the
last
of
their
kind
.
Each
crisis
seems
final
,
simply
because
it
is
new
.
We
are
told
that
the
oldest
inhabitants
in
Peru
do
not
cease
to
be
agitated
by
the
earthquakes
,
but
they
probably
see
beyond
each
shock
,
and
reflect
that
there
are
plenty
more
to
come
.
To
Dorothea
,
still
in
that
time
of
youth
when
the
eyes
with
their
long
full
lashes
look
out
after
their
rain
of
tears
unsoiled
and
unwearied
as
a
freshly
opened
passion-flower
,
that
morning
's
parting
with
Will
Ladislaw
seemed
to
be
the
close
of
their
personal
relations
.
He
was
going
away
into
the
distance
of
unknown
years
,
and
if
ever
he
came
back
he
would
be
another
man
.
The
actual
state
of
his
mind
—
his
proud
resolve
to
give
the
lie
beforehand
to
any
suspicion
that
he
would
play
the
needy
adventurer
seeking
a
rich
woman
—
lay
quite
out
of
her
imagination
,
and
she
had
interpreted
all
his
behavior
easily
enough
by
her
supposition
that
Mr.
Casaubon
's
codicil
seemed
to
him
,
as
it
did
to
her
,
a
gross
and
cruel
interdict
on
any
active
friendship
between
them
.
Their
young
delight
in
speaking
to
each
other
,
and
saying
what
no
one
else
would
care
to
hear
,
was
forever
ended
,
and
become
a
treasure
of
the
past
.
For
this
very
reason
she
dwelt
on
it
without
inward
check
.
That
unique
happiness
too
was
dead
,
and
in
its
shadowed
silent
chamber
she
might
vent
the
passionate
grief
which
she
herself
wondered
at
.
For
the
first
time
she
took
down
the
miniature
from
the
wall
and
kept
it
before
her
,
liking
to
blend
the
woman
who
had
been
too
hardly
judged
with
the
grandson
whom
her
own
heart
and
judgment
defended
.
Can
any
one
who
has
rejoiced
in
woman
's
tenderness
think
it
a
reproach
to
her
that
she
took
the
little
oval
picture
in
her
palm
and
made
a
bed
for
it
there
,
and
leaned
her
cheek
upon
it
,
as
if
that
would
soothe
the
creatures
who
had
suffered
unjust
condemnation
?
She
did
not
know
then
that
it
was
Love
who
had
come
to
her
briefly
,
as
in
a
dream
before
awaking
,
with
the
hues
of
morning
on
his
wings
—
that
it
was
Love
to
whom
she
was
sobbing
her
farewell
as
his
image
was
banished
by
the
blameless
rigor
of
irresistible
day
.
She
only
felt
that
there
was
something
irrevocably
amiss
and
lost
in
her
lot
,
and
her
thoughts
about
the
future
were
the
more
readily
shapen
into
resolve
.
Ardent
souls
,
ready
to
construct
their
coming
lives
,
are
apt
to
commit
themselves
to
the
fulfilment
of
their
own
visions
.
One
day
that
she
went
to
Freshitt
to
fulfil
her
promise
of
staying
all
night
and
seeing
baby
washed
,
Mrs.
Cadwallader
came
to
dine
,
the
Rector
being
gone
on
a
fishing
excursion
.
It
was
a
warm
evening
,
and
even
in
the
delightful
drawing-room
,
where
the
fine
old
turf
sloped
from
the
open
window
towards
a
lilied
pool
and
well-planted
mounds
,
the
heat
was
enough
to
make
Celia
in
her
white
muslin
and
light
curls
reflect
with
pity
on
what
Dodo
must
feel
in
her
black
dress
and
close
cap.
But
this
was
not
until
some
episodes
with
baby
were
over
,
and
had
left
her
mind
at
leisure
.
She
had
seated
herself
and
taken
up
a
fan
for
some
time
before
she
said
,
in
her
quiet
guttural
—
"
Dear
Dodo
,
do
throw
off
that
cap.
I
am
sure
your
dress
must
make
you
feel
ill.
"
"
I
am
so
used
to
the
cap
—
it
has
become
a
sort
of
shell
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
smiling
.
"
I
feel
rather
bare
and
exposed
when
it
is
off
.
"
"
I
must
see
you
without
it
;
it
makes
us
all
warm
,
"
said
Celia
,
throwing
down
her
fan
,
and
going
to
Dorothea
.
It
was
a
pretty
picture
to
see
this
little
lady
in
white
muslin
unfastening
the
widow
's
cap
from
her
more
majestic
sister
,
and
tossing
it
on
to
a
chair
.
Just
as
the
coils
and
braids
of
dark-brown
hair
had
been
set
free
,
Sir
James
entered
the
room
.
He
looked
at
the
released
head
,
and
said
,
"
Ah
!
"
in
a
tone
of
satisfaction
.
"
It
was
I
who
did
it
,
James
,
"
said
Celia
.
"
Dodo
need
not
make
such
a
slavery
of
her
mourning
;
she
need
not
wear
that
cap
any
more
among
her
friends
.
"
"
My
dear
Celia
,
"
said
Lady
Chettam
,
"
a
widow
must
wear
her
mourning
at
least
a
year
.
"
"
Not
if
she
marries
again
before
the
end
of
it
,
"
said
Mrs.
Cadwallader
,
who
had
some
pleasure
in
startling
her
good
friend
the
Dowager
.
Sir
James
was
annoyed
,
and
leaned
forward
to
play
with
Celia
's
Maltese
dog
.
"
That
is
very
rare
,
I
hope
,
"
said
Lady
Chettam
,
in
a
tone
intended
to
guard
against
such
events
.
"
No
friend
of
ours
ever
committed
herself
in
that
way
except
Mrs.
Beevor
,
and
it
was
very
painful
to
Lord
Grinsell
when
she
did
so
.
Her
first
husband
was
objectionable
,
which
made
it
the
greater
wonder
.
And
severely
she
was
punished
for
it
.
They
said
Captain
Beevor
dragged
her
about
by
the
hair
,
and
held
up
loaded
pistols
at
her
.
"
"
Oh
,
if
she
took
the
wrong
man
!
"
said
Mrs.
Cadwallader
,
who
was
in
a
decidedly
wicked
mood
.
"
Marriage
is
always
bad
then
,
first
or
second
.
Priority
is
a
poor
recommendation
in
a
husband
if
he
has
got
no
other
.
I
would
rather
have
a
good
second
husband
than
an
indifferent
first
.
"
"
My
dear
,
your
clever
tongue
runs
away
with
you
,
"
said
Lady
Chettam
.
"
I
am
sure
you
would
be
the
last
woman
to
marry
again
prematurely
,
if
our
dear
Rector
were
taken
away
.
"
"
Oh
,
I
make
no
vows
;
it
might
be
a
necessary
economy
.
It
is
lawful
to
marry
again
,
I
suppose
;
else
we
might
as
well
be
Hindoos
instead
of
Christians
.
Of
course
if
a
woman
accepts
the
wrong
man
,
she
must
take
the
consequences
,
and
one
who
does
it
twice
over
deserves
her
fate
.
But
if
she
can
marry
blood
,
beauty
,
and
bravery
—
the
sooner
the
better
.
"
"
I
think
the
subject
of
our
conversation
is
very
ill-chosen
,
"
said
Sir
James
,
with
a
look
of
disgust
.
"
Suppose
we
change
it
.
"
"
Not
on
my
account
,
Sir
James
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
determined
not
to
lose
the
opportunity
of
freeing
herself
from
certain
oblique
references
to
excellent
matches
.
"
If
you
are
speaking
on
my
behalf
,
I
can
assure
you
that
no
question
can
be
more
indifferent
and
impersonal
to
me
than
second
marriage
.
It
is
no
more
to
me
than
if
you
talked
of
women
going
fox-hunting
:
whether
it
is
admirable
in
them
or
not
,
I
shall
not
follow
them
.
Pray
let
Mrs.
Cadwallader
amuse
herself
on
that
subject
as
much
as
on
any
other
.
"
"
My
dear
Mrs.
Casaubon
,
"
said
Lady
Chettam
,
in
her
stateliest
way
,
"
you
do
not
,
I
hope
,
think
there
was
any
allusion
to
you
in
my
mentioning
Mrs.
Beevor
.
It
was
only
an
instance
that
occurred
to
me
.
She
was
step-daughter
to
Lord
Grinsell
:
he
married
Mrs.
Teveroy
for
his
second
wife
.
There
could
be
no
possible
allusion
to
you
.
"
"
Oh
no
,
"
said
Celia
.
"
Nobody
chose
the
subject
;
it
all
came
out
of
Dodo
's
cap.
Mrs.
Cadwallader
only
said
what
was
quite
true
.
A
woman
could
not
be
married
in
a
widow
's
cap
,
James
.
"
"
Hush
,
my
dear
!
"
said
Mrs.
Cadwallader
.
"
I
will
not
offend
again
.
I
will
not
even
refer
to
Dido
or
Zenobia
.
Only
what
are
we
to
talk
about
?
I
,
for
my
part
,
object
to
the
discussion
of
Human
Nature
,
because
that
is
the
nature
of
rectors
'
wives
.
"
Later
in
the
evening
,
after
Mrs.
Cadwallader
was
gone
,
Celia
said
privately
to
Dorothea
,
"
Really
,
Dodo
,
taking
your
cap
off
made
you
like
yourself
again
in
more
ways
than
one
.
You
spoke
up
just
as
you
used
to
do
,
when
anything
was
said
to
displease
you
.
But
I
could
hardly
make
out
whether
it
was
James
that
you
thought
wrong
,
or
Mrs.
Cadwallader
.
"
"
Neither
,
"
said
Dorothea
.
"
James
spoke
out
of
delicacy
to
me
,
but
he
was
mistaken
in
supposing
that
I
minded
what
Mrs.
Cadwallader
said
.
I
should
only
mind
if
there
were
a
law
obliging
me
to
take
any
piece
of
blood
and
beauty
that
she
or
anybody
else
recommended
.
"
"
But
you
know
,
Dodo
,
if
you
ever
did
marry
,
it
would
be
all
the
better
to
have
blood
and
beauty
,
"
said
Celia
,
reflecting
that
Mr.
Casaubon
had
not
been
richly
endowed
with
those
gifts
,
and
that
it
would
be
well
to
caution
Dorothea
in
time
.
"
Do
n't
be
anxious
,
Kitty
;
I
have
quite
other
thoughts
about
my
life
.
I
shall
never
marry
again
,
"
said
Dorothea
,
touching
her
sister
's
chin
,
and
looking
at
her
with
indulgent
affection
.
Celia
was
nursing
her
baby
,
and
Dorothea
had
come
to
say
good-night
to
her
.
"
Really
—
quite
?
"
said
Celia
.
"
Not
anybody
at
all
—
if
he
were
very
wonderful
indeed
?
"
Dorothea
shook
her
head
slowly
.
"
Not
anybody
at
all
.
I
have
delightful
plans
.
I
should
like
to
take
a
great
deal
of
land
,
and
drain
it
,
and
make
a
little
colony
,
where
everybody
should
work
,
and
all
the
work
should
be
done
well
.
I
should
know
every
one
of
the
people
and
be
their
friend
.
I
am
going
to
have
great
consultations
with
Mr.
Garth
:
he
can
tell
me
almost
everything
I
want
to
know
.
"
"
Then
you
will
be
happy
,
if
you
have
a
plan
,
Dodo
?
"
said
Celia
.
"
Perhaps
little
Arthur
will
like
plans
when
he
grows
up
,
and
then
he
can
help
you
.
"
Sir
James
was
informed
that
same
night
that
Dorothea
was
really
quite
set
against
marrying
anybody
at
all
,
and
was
going
to
take
to
"
all
sorts
of
plans
,
"
just
like
what
she
used
to
have
.
Sir
James
made
no
remark
.
To
his
secret
feeling
there
was
something
repulsive
in
a
woman
's
second
marriage
,
and
no
match
would
prevent
him
from
feeling
it
a
sort
of
desecration
for
Dorothea
.
He
was
aware
that
the
world
would
regard
such
a
sentiment
as
preposterous
,
especially
in
relation
to
a
woman
of
one-and-twenty
;
the
practice
of
"
the
world
"
being
to
treat
of
a
young
widow
's
second
marriage
as
certain
and
probably
near
,
and
to
smile
with
meaning
if
the
widow
acts
accordingly
.
But
if
Dorothea
did
choose
to
espouse
her
solitude
,
he
felt
that
the
resolution
would
well
become
her
.
CHAPTER
LVI
.
"
How
happy
is
he
born
and
taught
That
serveth
not
another
's
will
;
Whose
armor
is
his
honest
thought
,
And
simple
truth
his
only
skill
!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
This
man
is
freed
from
servile
bands
Of
hope
to
rise
or
fear
to
fall
;
Lord
of
himself
though
not
of
lands
;
And
having
nothing
yet
hath
all
.
"
—
SIR
HENRY
WOTTON
.
Dorothea
's
confidence
in
Caleb
Garth
's
knowledge
,
which
had
begun
on
her
hearing
that
he
approved
of
her
cottages
,
had
grown
fast
during
her
stay
at
Freshitt
,
Sir
James
having
induced
her
to
take
rides
over
the
two
estates
in
company
with
himself
and
Caleb
,
who
quite
returned
her
admiration
,
and
told
his
wife
that
Mrs.
Casaubon
had
a
head
for
business
most
uncommon
in
a
woman
.
It
must
be
remembered
that
by
"
business
"
Caleb
never
meant
money
transactions
,
but
the
skilful
application
of
labour
.
"
Most
uncommon
!
"
repeated
Caleb
.
"
She
said
a
thing
I
often
used
to
think
myself
when
I
was
a
lad
:
—
'
Mr
.
Garth
,
I
should
like
to
feel
,
if
I
lived
to
be
old
,
that
I
had
improved
a
great
piece
of
land
and
built
a
great
many
good
cottages
,
because
the
work
is
of
a
healthy
kind
while
it
is
being
done
,
and
after
it
is
done
,
men
are
the
better
for
it
.
'
Those
were
the
very
words
:
she
sees
into
things
in
that
way
.
"
"
But
womanly
,
I
hope
,
"
said
Mrs.
Garth
,
half
suspecting
that
Mrs.
Casaubon
might
not
hold
the
true
principle
of
subordination
.
"
Oh
,
you
ca
n't
think
!
"
said
Caleb
,
shaking
his
head
.
"
You
would
like
to
hear
her
speak
,
Susan
.
She
speaks
in
such
plain
words
,
and
a
voice
like
music
.
Bless
me
!
it
reminds
me
of
bits
in
the
'
Messiah
'
—
'
and
straightway
there
appeared
a
multitude
of
the
heavenly
host
,
praising
God
and
saying
;
'
it
has
a
tone
with
it
that
satisfies
your
ear
.
"
Caleb
was
very
fond
of
music
,
and
when
he
could
afford
it
went
to
hear
an
oratorio
that
came
within
his
reach
,
returning
from
it
with
a
profound
reverence
for
this
mighty
structure
of
tones
,
which
made
him
sit
meditatively
,
looking
on
the
floor
and
throwing
much
unutterable
language
into
his
outstretched
hands
.
With
this
good
understanding
between
them
,
it
was
natural
that
Dorothea
asked
Mr.
Garth
to
undertake
any
business
connected
with
the
three
farms
and
the
numerous
tenements
attached
to
Lowick
Manor
;
indeed
,
his
expectation
of
getting
work
for
two
was
being
fast
fulfilled
.
As
he
said
,
"
Business
breeds
.
"
And
one
form
of
business
which
was
beginning
to
breed
just
then
was
the
construction
of
railways
.
A
projected
line
was
to
run
through
Lowick
parish
where
the
cattle
had
hitherto
grazed
in
a
peace
unbroken
by
astonishment
;
and
thus
it
happened
that
the
infant
struggles
of
the
railway
system
entered
into
the
affairs
of
Caleb
Garth
,
and
determined
the
course
of
this
history
with
regard
to
two
persons
who
were
dear
to
him
.
The
submarine
railway
may
have
its
difficulties
;
but
the
bed
of
the
sea
is
not
divided
among
various
landed
proprietors
with
claims
for
damages
not
only
measurable
but
sentimental
.
In
the
hundred
to
which
Middlemarch
belonged
railways
were
as
exciting
a
topic
as
the
Reform
Bill
or
the
imminent
horrors
of
Cholera
,
and
those
who
held
the
most
decided
views
on
the
subject
were
women
and
landholders
.
Women
both
old
and
young
regarded
travelling
by
steam
as
presumptuous
and
dangerous
,
and
argued
against
it
by
saying
that
nothing
should
induce
them
to
get
into
a
railway
carriage
;
while
proprietors
,
differing
from
each
other
in
their
arguments
as
much
as
Mr.
Solomon
Featherstone
differed
from
Lord
Medlicote
,
were
yet
unanimous
in
the
opinion
that
in
selling
land
,
whether
to
the
Enemy
of
mankind
or
to
a
company
obliged
to
purchase
,
these
pernicious
agencies
must
be
made
to
pay
a
very
high
price
to
landowners
for
permission
to
injure
mankind
.
But
the
slower
wits
,
such
as
Mr.
Solomon
and
Mrs.
Waule
,
who
both
occupied
land
of
their
own
,
took
a
long
time
to
arrive
at
this
conclusion
,
their
minds
halting
at
the
vivid
conception
of
what
it
would
be
to
cut
the
Big
Pasture
in
two
,
and
turn
it
into
three-cornered
bits
,
which
would
be
"
nohow
;
"
while
accommodation-bridges
and
high
payments
were
remote
and
incredible
.
"
The
cows
will
all
cast
their
calves
,
brother
,
"
said
Mrs.
Waule
,
in
a
tone
of
deep
melancholy
,
"
if
the
railway
comes
across
the
Near
Close
;
and
I
should
n't
wonder
at
the
mare
too
,
if
she
was
in
foal
.
It
's
a
poor
tale
if
a
widow
's
property
is
to
be
spaded
away
,
and
the
law
say
nothing
to
it
.
What
's
to
hinder
'
em
from
cutting
right
and
left
if
they
begin
?
It
's
well
known
,
I
ca
n't
fight
.
"
"
The
best
way
would
be
to
say
nothing
,
and
set
somebody
on
to
send
'
em
away
with
a
flea
in
their
ear
,
when
they
came
spying
and
measuring
,
"
said
Solomon
.
"
Folks
did
that
about
Brassing
,
by
what
I
can
understand
.
It
's
all
a
pretence
,
if
the
truth
was
known
,
about
their
being
forced
to
take
one
way
.
Let
'
em
go
cutting
in
another
parish
.
And
I
do
n't
believe
in
any
pay
to
make
amends
for
bringing
a
lot
of
ruffians
to
trample
your
crops
.
Where
's
a
company
's
pocket
?
"
"
Brother
Peter
,
God
forgive
him
,
got
money
out
of
a
company
,
"
said
Mrs.
Waule
.
"
But
that
was
for
the
manganese
.
That
was
n't
for
railways
to
blow
you
to
pieces
right
and
left
.
"
"
Well
,
there
's
this
to
be
said
,
Jane
,
"
Mr.
Solomon
concluded
,
lowering
his
voice
in
a
cautious
manner
—
"
the
more
spokes
we
put
in
their
wheel
,
the
more
they
'll
pay
us
to
let
'
em
go
on
,
if
they
must
come
whether
or
not
.
"
This
reasoning
of
Mr.
Solomon
's
was
perhaps
less
thorough
than
he
imagined
,
his
cunning
bearing
about
the
same
relation
to
the
course
of
railways
as
the
cunning
of
a
diplomatist
bears
to
the
general
chill
or
catarrh
of
the
solar
system
.
But
he
set
about
acting
on
his
views
in
a
thoroughly
diplomatic
manner
,
by
stimulating
suspicion
.
His
side
of
Lowick
was
the
most
remote
from
the
village
,
and
the
houses
of
the
labouring
people
were
either
lone
cottages
or
were
collected
in
a
hamlet
called
Frick
,
where
a
water-mill
and
some
stone-pits
made
a
little
centre
of
slow
,
heavy-shouldered
industry
.
In
the
absence
of
any
precise
idea
as
to
what
railways
were
,
public
opinion
in
Frick
was
against
them
;
for
the
human
mind
in
that
grassy
corner
had
not
the
proverbial
tendency
to
admire
the
unknown
,
holding
rather
that
it
was
likely
to
be
against
the
poor
man
,
and
that
suspicion
was
the
only
wise
attitude
with
regard
to
it
.
Even
the
rumor
of
Reform
had
not
yet
excited
any
millennial
expectations
in
Frick
,
there
being
no
definite
promise
in
it
,
as
of
gratuitous
grains
to
fatten
Hiram
Ford
's
pig
,
or
of
a
publican
at
the
"
Weights
and
Scales
"
who
would
brew
beer
for
nothing
,
or
of
an
offer
on
the
part
of
the
three
neighboring
farmers
to
raise
wages
during
winter
.
And
without
distinct
good
of
this
kind
in
its
promises
,
Reform
seemed
on
a
footing
with
the
bragging
of
pedlers
,
which
was
a
hint
for
distrust
to
every
knowing
person
.
The
men
of
Frick
were
not
ill-fed
,
and
were
less
given
to
fanaticism
than
to
a
strong
muscular
suspicion
;
less
inclined
to
believe
that
they
were
peculiarly
cared
for
by
heaven
,
than
to
regard
heaven
itself
as
rather
disposed
to
take
them
in
—
a
disposition
observable
in
the
weather
.
Thus
the
mind
of
Frick
was
exactly
of
the
sort
for
Mr.
Solomon
Featherstone
to
work
upon
,
he
having
more
plenteous
ideas
of
the
same
order
,
with
a
suspicion
of
heaven
and
earth
which
was
better
fed
and
more
entirely
at
leisure
.
Solomon
was
overseer
of
the
roads
at
that
time
,
and
on
his
slow-paced
cob
often
took
his
rounds
by
Frick
to
look
at
the
workmen
getting
the
stones
there
,
pausing
with
a
mysterious
deliberation
,
which
might
have
misled
you
into
supposing
that
he
had
some
other
reason
for
staying
than
the
mere
want
of
impulse
to
move
.
After
looking
for
a
long
while
at
any
work
that
was
going
on
,
he
would
raise
his
eyes
a
little
and
look
at
the
horizon
;
finally
he
would
shake
his
bridle
,
touch
his
horse
with
the
whip
,
and
get
it
to
move
slowly
onward
.
The
hour-hand
of
a
clock
was
quick
by
comparison
with
Mr.
Solomon
,
who
had
an
agreeable
sense
that
he
could
afford
to
be
slow
.
He
was
in
the
habit
of
pausing
for
a
cautious
,
vaguely
designing
chat
with
every
hedger
or
ditcher
on
his
way
,
and
was
especially
willing
to
listen
even
to
news
which
he
had
heard
before
,
feeling
himself
at
an
advantage
over
all
narrators
in
partially
disbelieving
them
.
One
day
,
however
,
he
got
into
a
dialogue
with
Hiram
Ford
,
a
wagoner
,
in
which
he
himself
contributed
information
.
He
wished
to
know
whether
Hiram
had
seen
fellows
with
staves
and
instruments
spying
about
:
they
called
themselves
railroad
people
,
but
there
was
no
telling
what
they
were
or
what
they
meant
to
do
.
The
least
they
pretended
was
that
they
were
going
to
cut
Lowick
Parish
into
sixes
and
sevens
.
"
Why
,
there
'll
be
no
stirrin
'
from
one
pla-ace
to
another
,
"
said
Hiram
,
thinking
of
his
wagon
and
horses
.
"
Not
a
bit
,
"
said
Mr.
Solomon
.
"
And
cutting
up
fine
land
such
as
this
parish
!
Let
'
em
go
into
Tipton
,
say
I
.
But
there
's
no
knowing
what
there
is
at
the
bottom
of
it
.
Traffic
is
what
they
put
for'ard
;
but
it
's
to
do
harm
to
the
land
and
the
poor
man
in
the
long-run
.
"
"
Why
,
they
're
Lunnon
chaps
,
I
reckon
,
"
said
Hiram
,
who
had
a
dim
notion
of
London
as
a
centre
of
hostility
to
the
country
.
"
Ay
,
to
be
sure
.
And
in
some
parts
against
Brassing
,
by
what
I
've
heard
say
,
the
folks
fell
on
'
em
when
they
were
spying
,
and
broke
their
peep-holes
as
they
carry
,
and
drove
'
em
away
,
so
as
they
knew
better
than
come
again
.
"
"
It
war
good
foon
,
I
'd
be
bound
,
"
said
Hiram
,
whose
fun
was
much
restricted
by
circumstances
.
"
Well
,
I
would
n't
meddle
with
'
em
myself
,
"
said
Solomon
.
"
But
some
say
this
country
's
seen
its
best
days
,
and
the
sign
is
,
as
it
's
being
overrun
with
these
fellows
trampling
right
and
left
,
and
wanting
to
cut
it
up
into
railways
;
and
all
for
the
big
traffic
to
swallow
up
the
little
,
so
as
there
sha
n't
be
a
team
left
on
the
land
,
nor
a
whip
to
crack
.
"
"
I
'll
crack
my
whip
about
their
ear'n
,
afore
they
bring
it
to
that
,
though
,
"
said
Hiram
,
while
Mr.
Solomon
,
shaking
his
bridle
,
moved
onward
.
Nettle-seed
needs
no
digging
.
The
ruin
of
this
countryside
by
railroads
was
discussed
,
not
only
at
the
"
Weights
and
Scales
,
"
but
in
the
hay-field
,
where
the
muster
of
working
hands
gave
opportunities
for
talk
such
as
were
rarely
had
through
the
rural
year
.
One
morning
,
not
long
after
that
interview
between
Mr.
Farebrother
and
Mary
Garth
,
in
which
she
confessed
to
him
her
feeling
for
Fred
Vincy
,
it
happened
that
her
father
had
some
business
which
took
him
to
Yoddrell
's
farm
in
the
direction
of
Frick
:
it
was
to
measure
and
value
an
outlying
piece
of
land
belonging
to
Lowick
Manor
,
which
Caleb
expected
to
dispose
of
advantageously
for
Dorothea
(
it
must
be
confessed
that
his
bias
was
towards
getting
the
best
possible
terms
from
railroad
companies
)
.
He
put
up
his
gig
at
Yoddrell
's
,
and
in
walking
with
his
assistant
and
measuring-chain
to
the
scene
of
his
work
,
he
encountered
the
party
of
the
company
's
agents
,
who
were
adjusting
their
spirit-level
.
After
a
little
chat
he
left
them
,
observing
that
by-and-by
they
would
reach
him
again
where
he
was
going
to
measure
.
It
was
one
of
those
gray
mornings
after
light
rains
,
which
become
delicious
about
twelve
o'clock
,
when
the
clouds
part
a
little
,
and
the
scent
of
the
earth
is
sweet
along
the
lanes
and
by
the
hedgerows
.
The
scent
would
have
been
sweeter
to
Fred
Vincy
,
who
was
coming
along
the
lanes
on
horseback
,
if
his
mind
had
not
been
worried
by
unsuccessful
efforts
to
imagine
what
he
was
to
do
,
with
his
father
on
one
side
expecting
him
straightway
to
enter
the
Church
,
with
Mary
on
the
other
threatening
to
forsake
him
if
he
did
enter
it
,
and
with
the
working-day
world
showing
no
eager
need
whatever
of
a
young
gentleman
without
capital
and
generally
unskilled
.
It
was
the
harder
to
Fred
's
disposition
because
his
father
,
satisfied
that
he
was
no
longer
rebellious
,
was
in
good
humor
with
him
,
and
had
sent
him
on
this
pleasant
ride
to
see
after
some
greyhounds
.
Even
when
he
had
fixed
on
what
he
should
do
,
there
would
be
the
task
of
telling
his
father
.
But
it
must
be
admitted
that
the
fixing
,
which
had
to
come
first
,
was
the
more
difficult
task
:
—
what
secular
avocation
on
earth
was
there
for
a
young
man
(
whose
friends
could
not
get
him
an
"
appointment
"
)
which
was
at
once
gentlemanly
,
lucrative
,
and
to
be
followed
without
special
knowledge
?
Riding
along
the
lanes
by
Frick
in
this
mood
,
and
slackening
his
pace
while
he
reflected
whether
he
should
venture
to
go
round
by
Lowick
Parsonage
to
call
on
Mary
,
he
could
see
over
the
hedges
from
one
field
to
another
.
Suddenly
a
noise
roused
his
attention
,
and
on
the
far
side
of
a
field
on
his
left
hand
he
could
see
six
or
seven
men
in
smock-frocks
with
hay-forks
in
their
hands
making
an
offensive
approach
towards
the
four
railway
agents
who
were
facing
them
,
while
Caleb
Garth
and
his
assistant
were
hastening
across
the
field
to
join
the
threatened
group
.
Fred
,
delayed
a
few
moments
by
having
to
find
the
gate
,
could
not
gallop
up
to
the
spot
before
the
party
in
smock-frocks
,
whose
work
of
turning
the
hay
had
not
been
too
pressing
after
swallowing
their
mid-day
beer
,
were
driving
the
men
in
coats
before
them
with
their
hay-forks
;
while
Caleb
Garth
's
assistant
,
a
lad
of
seventeen
,
who
had
snatched
up
the
spirit-level
at
Caleb
's
order
,
had
been
knocked
down
and
seemed
to
be
lying
helpless
.
The
coated
men
had
the
advantage
as
runners
,
and
Fred
covered
their
retreat
by
getting
in
front
of
the
smock-frocks
and
charging
them
suddenly
enough
to
throw
their
chase
into
confusion
.
"
What
do
you
confounded
fools
mean
?
"
shouted
Fred
,
pursuing
the
divided
group
in
a
zigzag
,
and
cutting
right
and
left
with
his
whip
.
"
I
'll
swear
to
every
one
of
you
before
the
magistrate
.
You
've
knocked
the
lad
down
and
killed
him
,
for
what
I
know
.
You
'll
every
one
of
you
be
hanged
at
the
next
assizes
,
if
you
do
n't
mind
,
"
said
Fred
,
who
afterwards
laughed
heartily
as
he
remembered
his
own
phrases
.
The
labourers
had
been
driven
through
the
gate-way
into
their
hay-field
,
and
Fred
had
checked
his
horse
,
when
Hiram
Ford
,
observing
himself
at
a
safe
challenging
distance
,
turned
back
and
shouted
a
defiance
which
he
did
not
know
to
be
Homeric
.
"
Yo
're
a
coward
,
yo
are
.
Yo
git
off
your
horse
,
young
measter
,
and
I
'll
have
a
round
wi
'
ye
,
I
wull
.
Yo
dared
n't
come
on
wi'out
your
hoss
an
'
whip
.
I
'd
soon
knock
the
breath
out
on
ye
,
I
would
.
"
"
Wait
a
minute
,
and
I
'll
come
back
presently
,
and
have
a
round
with
you
all
in
turn
,
if
you
like
,
"
said
Fred
,
who
felt
confidence
in
his
power
of
boxing
with
his
dearly
beloved
brethren
.
But
just
now
he
wanted
to
hasten
back
to
Caleb
and
the
prostrate
youth
.
The
lad
's
ankle
was
strained
,
and
he
was
in
much
pain
from
it
,
but
he
was
no
further
hurt
,
and
Fred
placed
him
on
the
horse
that
he
might
ride
to
Yoddrell
's
and
be
taken
care
of
there
.
"
Let
them
put
the
horse
in
the
stable
,
and
tell
the
surveyors
they
can
come
back
for
their
traps
,
"
said
Fred
.
"
The
ground
is
clear
now
.
"
"
No
,
no
,
"
said
Caleb
,
"
here
's
a
breakage
.
They
'll
have
to
give
up
for
to-day
,
and
it
will
be
as
well
.
Here
,
take
the
things
before
you
on
the
horse
,
Tom
.
They
'll
see
you
coming
,
and
they
'll
turn
back
.
"
"
I
'm
glad
I
happened
to
be
here
at
the
right
moment
,
Mr.
Garth
,
"
said
Fred
,
as
Tom
rode
away
.
"
No
knowing
what
might
have
happened
if
the
cavalry
had
not
come
up
in
time
.
"
"
Ay
,
ay
,
it
was
lucky
,
"
said
Caleb
,
speaking
rather
absently
,
and
looking
towards
the
spot
where
he
had
been
at
work
at
the
moment
of
interruption
.
"
But
—
deuce
take
it
—
this
is
what
comes
of
men
being
fools
—
I
'm
hindered
of
my
day
's
work
.
I
ca
n't
get
along
without
somebody
to
help
me
with
the
measuring-chain
.
However
!
"
He
was
beginning
to
move
towards
the
spot
with
a
look
of
vexation
,
as
if
he
had
forgotten
Fred
's
presence
,
but
suddenly
he
turned
round
and
said
quickly
,
"
What
have
you
got
to
do
to-day
,
young
fellow
?
"
"
Nothing
,
Mr.
Garth
.
I
'll
help
you
with
pleasure
—
can
I
?
"
said
Fred
,
with
a
sense
that
he
should
be
courting
Mary
when
he
was
helping
her
father
.
"
Well
,
you
must
n't
mind
stooping
and
getting
hot
.
"
"
I
do
n't
mind
anything
.
Only
I
want
to
go
first
and
have
a
round
with
that
hulky
fellow
who
turned
to
challenge
me
.
It
would
be
a
good
lesson
for
him
.
I
shall
not
be
five
minutes
.
"
"
Nonsense
!
"
said
Caleb
,
with
his
most
peremptory
intonation
.
"
I
shall
go
and
speak
to
the
men
myself
.
It
's
all
ignorance
.
Somebody
has
been
telling
them
lies
.
The
poor
fools
do
n't
know
any
better
.
"
"
I
shall
go
with
you
,
then
,
"
said
Fred
.
"
No
,
no
;
stay
where
you
are
.
I
do
n't
want
your
young
blood
.
I
can
take
care
of
myself
.
"
Caleb
was
a
powerful
man
and
knew
little
of
any
fear
except
the
fear
of
hurting
others
and
the
fear
of
having
to
speechify
.
But
he
felt
it
his
duty
at
this
moment
to
try
and
give
a
little
harangue
.
There
was
a
striking
mixture
in
him
—
which
came
from
his
having
always
been
a
hard-working
man
himself
—
of
rigorous
notions
about
workmen
and
practical
indulgence
towards
them
.
To
do
a
good
day
's
work
and
to
do
it
well
,
he
held
to
be
part
of
their
welfare
,
as
it
was
the
chief
part
of
his
own
happiness
;
but
he
had
a
strong
sense
of
fellowship
with
them
.
When
he
advanced
towards
the
labourers
they
had
not
gone
to
work
again
,
but
were
standing
in
that
form
of
rural
grouping
which
consists
in
each
turning
a
shoulder
towards
the
other
,
at
a
distance
of
two
or
three
yards
.
They
looked
rather
sulkily
at
Caleb
,
who
walked
quickly
with
one
hand
in
his
pocket
and
the
other
thrust
between
the
buttons
of
his
waistcoat
,
and
had
his
every-day
mild
air
when
he
paused
among
them
.
"
Why
,
my
lads
,
how
's
this
?
"
he
began
,
taking
as
usual
to
brief
phrases
,
which
seemed
pregnant
to
himself
,
because
he
had
many
thoughts
lying
under
them
,
like
the
abundant
roots
of
a
plant
that
just
manages
to
peep
above
the
water
.
"
How
came
you
to
make
such
a
mistake
as
this
?
Somebody
has
been
telling
you
lies
.
You
thought
those
men
up
there
wanted
to
do
mischief
.
"
"
Aw
!
"
was
the
answer
,
dropped
at
intervals
by
each
according
to
his
degree
of
unreadiness
.
"
Nonsense
!
No
such
thing
!
They
're
looking
out
to
see
which
way
the
railroad
is
to
take
.
Now
,
my
lads
,
you
ca
n't
hinder
the
railroad
:
it
will
be
made
whether
you
like
it
or
not
.
And
if
you
go
fighting
against
it
,
you
'll
get
yourselves
into
trouble
.
The
law
gives
those
men
leave
to
come
here
on
the
land
.
The
owner
has
nothing
to
say
against
it
,
and
if
you
meddle
with
them
you
'll
have
to
do
with
the
constable
and
Justice
Blakesley
,
and
with
the
handcuffs
and
Middlemarch
jail
.
And
you
might
be
in
for
it
now
,
if
anybody
informed
against
you
.
"
Caleb
paused
here
,
and
perhaps
the
greatest
orator
could
not
have
chosen
either
his
pause
or
his
images
better
for
the
occasion
.
"
But
come
,
you
did
n't
mean
any
harm
.
Somebody
told
you
the
railroad
was
a
bad
thing
.
That
was
a
lie
.
It
may
do
a
bit
of
harm
here
and
there
,
to
this
and
to
that
;
and
so
does
the
sun
in
heaven
.
But
the
railway
's
a
good
thing
.
"
"
Aw
!
good
for
the
big
folks
to
make
money
out
on
,
"
said
old
Timothy
Cooper
,
who
had
stayed
behind
turning
his
hay
while
the
others
had
been
gone
on
their
spree
;
—
"
I'n
seen
lots
o
'
things
turn
up
sin
'
I
war
a
young
un
—
the
war
an
'
the
peace
,
and
the
canells
,
an
'
the
oald
King
George
,
an
'
the
Regen
'
,
an
'
the
new
King
George
,
an
'
the
new
un
as
has
got
a
new
ne-ame
—
an
'
it
's
been
all
aloike
to
the
poor
mon
.
What
's
the
canells
been
t
'
him
?
They'n
brought
him
neyther
me-at
nor
be-acon
,
nor
wage
to
lay
by
,
if
he
did
n't
save
it
wi
'
clemmin
'
his
own
inside
.
Times
ha
'
got
wusser
for
him
sin
'
I
war
a
young
un
.
An
'
so
it
'll
be
wi
'
the
railroads
.
They
'll
on'y
leave
the
poor
mon
furder
behind
.
But
them
are
fools
as
meddle
,
and
so
I
told
the
chaps
here
.
This
is
the
big
folks
's
world
,
this
is
.
But
yo
're
for
the
big
folks
,
Muster
Garth
,
yo
are
.
"
Timothy
was
a
wiry
old
labourer
,
of
a
type
lingering
in
those
times
—
who
had
his
savings
in
a
stocking-foot
,
lived
in
a
lone
cottage
,
and
was
not
to
be
wrought
on
by
any
oratory
,
having
as
little
of
the
feudal
spirit
,
and
believing
as
little
,
as
if
he
had
not
been
totally
unacquainted
with
the
Age
of
Reason
and
the
Rights
of
Man
.
Caleb
was
in
a
difficulty
known
to
any
person
attempting
in
dark
times
and
unassisted
by
miracle
to
reason
with
rustics
who
are
in
possession
of
an
undeniable
truth
which
they
know
through
a
hard
process
of
feeling
,
and
can
let
it
fall
like
a
giant
's
club
on
your
neatly
carved
argument
for
a
social
benefit
which
they
do
not
feel
.
Caleb
had
no
cant
at
command
,
even
if
he
could
have
chosen
to
use
it
;
and
he
had
been
accustomed
to
meet
all
such
difficulties
in
no
other
way
than
by
doing
his
"
business
"
faithfully
.
He
answered
—
"
If
you
do
n't
think
well
of
me
,
Tim
,
never
mind
;
that
's
neither
here
nor
there
now
.
Things
may
be
bad
for
the
poor
man
—
bad
they
are
;
but
I
want
the
lads
here
not
to
do
what
will
make
things
worse
for
themselves
.
The
cattle
may
have
a
heavy
load
,
but
it
wo
n't
help
'
em
to
throw
it
over
into
the
roadside
pit
,
when
it
's
partly
their
own
fodder
.
"
"
We
war
on'y
for
a
bit
o
'
foon
,
"
said
Hiram
,
who
was
beginning
to
see
consequences
.
"
That
war
all
we
war
arter
.
"
"
Well
,
promise
me
not
to
meddle
again
,
and
I
'll
see
that
nobody
informs
against
you
.
"
"
I'n
ne'er
meddled
,
an
'
I'n
no
call
to
promise
,
"
said
Timothy
.
"
No
,
but
the
rest
.
Come
,
I
'm
as
hard
at
work
as
any
of
you
to-day
,
and
I
ca
n't
spare
much
time
.
Say
you
'll
be
quiet
without
the
constable
.
"
"
Aw
,
we
wooant
meddle
—
they
may
do
as
they
loike
for
oos
"
—
were
the
forms
in
which
Caleb
got
his
pledges
;
and
then
he
hastened
back
to
Fred
,
who
had
followed
him
,
and
watched
him
in
the
gateway
.
They
went
to
work
,
and
Fred
helped
vigorously
.
His
spirits
had
risen
,
and
he
heartily
enjoyed
a
good
slip
in
the
moist
earth
under
the
hedgerow
,
which
soiled
his
perfect
summer
trousers
.
Was
it
his
successful
onset
which
had
elated
him
,
or
the
satisfaction
of
helping
Mary
's
father
?
Something
more
.
The
accidents
of
the
morning
had
helped
his
frustrated
imagination
to
shape
an
employment
for
himself
which
had
several
attractions
.
I
am
not
sure
that
certain
fibres
in
Mr.
Garth
's
mind
had
not
resumed
their
old
vibration
towards
the
very
end
which
now
revealed
itself
to
Fred
.
For
the
effective
accident
is
but
the
touch
of
fire
where
there
is
oil
and
tow
;
and
it
always
appeared
to
Fred
that
the
railway
brought
the
needed
touch
.
But
they
went
on
in
silence
except
when
their
business
demanded
speech
.
At
last
,
when
they
had
finished
and
were
walking
away
,
Mr.
Garth
said
—
"
A
young
fellow
need
n't
be
a
B
.
A
.
to
do
this
sort
of
work
,
eh
,
Fred
?
"
"
I
wish
I
had
taken
to
it
before
I
had
thought
of
being
a
B
.
A
.
,
"
said
Fred
.
He
paused
a
moment
,
and
then
added
,
more
hesitatingly
,
"
Do
you
think
I
am
too
old
to
learn
your
business
,
Mr.
Garth
?
"
"
My
business
is
of
many
sorts
,
my
boy
,
"
said
Mr.
Garth
,
smiling
.
"
A
good
deal
of
what
I
know
can
only
come
from
experience
:
you
ca
n't
learn
it
off
as
you
learn
things
out
of
a
book
.
But
you
are
young
enough
to
lay
a
foundation
yet
.
"
Caleb
pronounced
the
last
sentence
emphatically
,
but
paused
in
some
uncertainty
.
He
had
been
under
the
impression
lately
that
Fred
had
made
up
his
mind
to
enter
the
Church
.
"
You
do
think
I
could
do
some
good
at
it
,
if
I
were
to
try
?
"
said
Fred
,
more
eagerly
.
"
That
depends
,
"
said
Caleb
,
turning
his
head
on
one
side
and
lowering
his
voice
,
with
the
air
of
a
man
who
felt
himself
to
be
saying
something
deeply
religious
.
"
You
must
be
sure
of
two
things
:
you
must
love
your
work
,
and
not
be
always
looking
over
the
edge
of
it
,
wanting
your
play
to
begin
.
And
the
other
is
,
you
must
not
be
ashamed
of
your
work
,
and
think
it
would
be
more
honourable
to
you
to
be
doing
something
else
.
You
must
have
a
pride
in
your
own
work
and
in
learning
to
do
it
well
,
and
not
be
always
saying
,
There
's
this
and
there
's
that
—
if
I
had
this
or
that
to
do
,
I
might
make
something
of
it
.
No
matter
what
a
man
is
—
I
would
n't
give
twopence
for
him
"
—
here
Caleb
's
mouth
looked
bitter
,
and
he
snapped
his
fingers
—
"
whether
he
was
the
prime
minister
or
the
rick-thatcher
,
if
he
did
n't
do
well
what
he
undertook
to
do
.
"
"
I
can
never
feel
that
I
should
do
that
in
being
a
clergyman
,
"
said
Fred
,
meaning
to
take
a
step
in
argument
.
"
Then
let
it
alone
,
my
boy
,
"
said
Caleb
,
abruptly
,
"
else
you
'll
never
be
easy
.
Or
,
if
you
are
easy
,
you
'll
be
a
poor
stick
.
"
"
That
is
very
nearly
what
Mary
thinks
about
it
,
"
said
Fred
,
colouring
.
"
I
think
you
must
know
what
I
feel
for
Mary
,
Mr.
Garth
:
I
hope
it
does
not
displease
you
that
I
have
always
loved
her
better
than
any
one
else
,
and
that
I
shall
never
love
any
one
as
I
love
her
.
"
The
expression
of
Caleb
's
face
was
visibly
softening
while
Fred
spoke
.
But
he
swung
his
head
with
a
solemn
slowness
,
and
said
—
"
That
makes
things
more
serious
,
Fred
,
if
you
want
to
take
Mary
's
happiness
into
your
keeping
.
"
"
I
know
that
,
Mr.
Garth
,
"
said
Fred
,
eagerly
,
"
and
I
would
do
anything
for
her
.
She
says
she
will
never
have
me
if
I
go
into
the
Church
;
and
I
shall
be
the
most
miserable
devil
in
the
world
if
I
lose
all
hope
of
Mary
.
Really
,
if
I
could
get
some
other
profession
,
business
—
anything
that
I
am
at
all
fit
for
,
I
would
work
hard
,
I
would
deserve
your
good
opinion
.
I
should
like
to
have
to
do
with
outdoor
things
.
I
know
a
good
deal
about
land
and
cattle
already
.
I
used
to
believe
,
you
know
—
though
you
will
think
me
rather
foolish
for
it
—
that
I
should
have
land
of
my
own
.
I
am
sure
knowledge
of
that
sort
would
come
easily
to
me
,
especially
if
I
could
be
under
you
in
any
way
.
"
"
Softly
,
my
boy
,
"
said
Caleb
,
having
the
image
of
"
Susan
"
before
his
eyes
.
"
What
have
you
said
to
your
father
about
all
this
?
"
"
Nothing
,
yet
;
but
I
must
tell
him
.
I
am
only
waiting
to
know
what
I
can
do
instead
of
entering
the
Church
.
I
am
very
sorry
to
disappoint
him
,
but
a
man
ought
to
be
allowed
to
judge
for
himself
when
he
is
four-and-twenty
.
How
could
I
know
when
I
was
fifteen
,
what
it
would
be
right
for
me
to
do
now
?
My
education
was
a
mistake
.
"
"
But
hearken
to
this
,
Fred
,
"
said
Caleb
.
"
Are
you
sure
Mary
is
fond
of
you
,
or
would
ever
have
you
?
"
"
I
asked
Mr.
Farebrother
to
talk
to
her
,
because
she
had
forbidden
me
—
I
did
n't
know
what
else
to
do
,
"
said
Fred
,
apologetically
.
"
And
he
says
that
I
have
every
reason
to
hope
,
if
I
can
put
myself
in
an
honourable
position
—
I
mean
,
out
of
the
Church
.
I
dare
say
you
think
it
unwarrantable
in
me
,
Mr.
Garth
,
to
be
troubling
you
and
obtruding
my
own
wishes
about
Mary
,
before
I
have
done
anything
at
all
for
myself
.
Of
course
I
have
not
the
least
claim
—
indeed
,
I
have
already
a
debt
to
you
which
will
