ismuch
longer
,
appears
upon
the
pavement
.
He
touches
a
number
of
windows
with
great
quickness
as
he
moves
rapidly
along
.
A
rattling
noise
sounds
upon
each
pane
.
The
use
of
the
long
handle
of
his
instrument
becomes
apparent
as
he
proceeds
,
enabling
him
as
it
does
to
reach
the
upper
windows
of
the
dwellings
whose
inmates
he
has
to
rouse
.
Those
inmates
are
the
factory
girls
,
who
subscribe
in
districts
to
engage
these
heralds
of
the
dawn
;
and
by
a
strict
observance
of
whose
citation
they
can
alone
escape
the
dreaded
fine
that
awaits
those
who
have
not
arrived
at
the
door
of
the
factory
before
the
bell
ceases
to
sound
.
The
sentry
in
question
,
quitting
the
streets
,
and
stooping
through
one
of
the
small
archways
that
we
have
before
noticed
,
entered
a
court
.
Here
lodged
a
multitude
of
his
employers
;
and
the
long
crook
as
it
were
by
some
sleight
of
hand
seemed
sounding
on
both
sides
and
at
many
windows
at
the
same
moment
.
Arrived
at
the
end
of
the
court
,
he
was
about
to
touch
the
window
of
the
upper
story
of
the
last
tenement
,
when
that
window
opened
,
and
a
man
,
pale
and
care-worn
and
in
a
melancholy
voice
spoke
to
him
.
“
Simmons
,
”
said
the
man
,
“
you
need
not
rouse
this
story
any
more
;
my
daughter
has
left
us
.
”
“
Has
she
left
Webster’s
?
”
“
No
;
but
she
has
left
us
.
She
has
long
murmured
at
her
hard
lot
;
working
like
a
slave
and
not
for
herself
.
And
she
has
gone
,
as
they
all
go
,
to
keep
house
for
herself
.
”
“
That’s
a
bad
business
,
”
said
the
watchman
,
in
a
tone
not
devoid
of
sympathy
.
“
Almost
as
bad
as
for
parents
to
live
on
their
childrens’
wages
,
”
replied
the
man
mournfully
.
“
And
how
is
your
good
woman
?
”
“
As
poorly
as
needs
be
.
Harriet
has
never
been
home
since
Friday
night
.
She
owes
you
nothing
?
”
“
Not
a
halfpenny
.
She
was
as
regular
as
a
little
bee
and
always
paid
every
Monday
morning
.
I
am
sorry
she
has
left
you
,
neighbour
.
”
“
The
Lord’s
will
be
done
.
It’s
hard
times
for
such
as
us
,
”
said
the
man
;
and
leaving
the
window
open
,
he
retired
into
his
room
.
It
was
a
single
chamber
of
which
he
was
the
tenant
.
In
the
centre
,
placed
so
as
to
gain
the
best
light
which
the
gloomy
situation
could
afford
,
was
a
loom
.
In
two
corners
of
the
room
were
mattresses
placed
on
the
floor
,
a
check
curtain
hung
upon
a
string
if
necessary
concealing
them
.
In
one
was
his
sick
wife
;
in
the
other
,
three
young
children
:
two
girls
,
the
eldest
about
eight
years
of
age
;
between
them
their
baby
brother
.
An
iron
kettle
was
by
the
hearth
,
and
on
the
mantel-piece
,
some
candles
,
a
few
lucifer
matches
,
two
tin
mugs
,
a
paper
of
salt
,
and
an
iron
spoon
.
In
a
farther
part
,
close
to
the
wall
,
was
a
heavy
table
or
dresser
;
this
was
a
fixture
,
as
well
as
the
form
which
was
fastened
by
it
.
The
man
seated
himself
at
his
loom
;
he
commenced
his
daily
task
.
“
Twelve
hours
of
daily
labour
at
the
rate
of
one
penny
each
hour
;
and
even
this
labour
is
mortgaged
!
How
is
this
to
end
?
Is
it
rather
not
ended
?
”
And
he
looked
around
him
at
his
chamber
without
resources
:
no
food
,
no
fuel
,
no
furniture
,
and
four
human
beings
dependent
on
him
,
and
lying
in
their
wretched
beds
because
they
had
no
clothes
.
“
I
cannot
sell
my
loom
,
”
he
continued
,
“
at
the
price
of
old
firewood
,
and
it
cost
me
gold
.
It
is
not
vice
that
has
brought
me
to
this
,
nor
indolence
,
nor
imprudence
.
I
was
born
to
labour
,
and
I
was
ready
to
labour
.
I
loved
my
loom
and
my
loom
loved
me
.
It
gave
me
a
cottage
in
my
native
village
,
surrounded
by
a
garden
of
whose
claims
on
my
solicitude
it
was
not
jealous
.
There
was
time
for
both
.
It
gave
me
for
a
wife
the
maiden
that
I
had
ever
loved
;
and
it
gathered
my
children
round
my
hearth
with
plenteousness
and
peace
.
I
was
content
:
I
sought
no
other
lot
.
It
is
not
adversity
that
makes
me
look
back
upon
the
past
with
tenderness
.
“
Then
why
am
I
here
?
Why
am
I
,
and
six
hundred
thousand
subjects
of
the
Queen
,
honest
,
loyal
,
and
industrious
,
why
are
we
,
after
manfully
struggling
for
years
,
and
each
year
sinking
lower
in
the
scale
,
why
are
we
driven
from
our
innocent
and
happy
homes
,
our
country
cottages
that
we
loved
,
first
to
bide
in
close
towns
without
comforts
,
and
gradually
to
crouch
into
cellars
,
or
find
a
squalid
lair
like
this
,
without
even
the
common
necessaries
of
existence
;
first
the
ordinary
conveniences
of
life
,
then
raiment
,
and
,
at
length
,
food
,
vanishing
from
us
.
“
It
is
that
the
Capitalist
has
found
a
slave
that
has
supplanted
the
labour
and
ingenuity
of
man
.
Once
he
was
an
artizan
:
at
the
best
,
he
now
only
watches
machines
;
and
even
that
occupation
slips
from
his
grasp
,
to
the
woman
and
the
child
.
The
capitalist
flourishes
,
he
amasses
immense
wealth
;
we
sink
,
lower
and
lower
;
lower
than
the
beasts
of
burthen
;
for
they
are
fed
better
than
we
are
,
cared
for
more
.
And
it
is
just
,
for
according
to
the
present
system
they
are
more
precious
.
And
yet
they
tell
us
that
the
interests
of
Capital
and
of
Labour
are
identical
.
“
If
a
society
that
has
been
created
by
labour
suddenly
becomes
independent
of
it
,
that
society
is
bound
to
maintain
the
race
whose
only
property
is
labour
,
from
the
proceeds
of
that
property
,
which
has
not
ceased
to
be
productive
.
“
When
the
class
of
the
Nobility
were
supplanted
in
France
,
they
did
not
amount
in
number
to
one-third
of
us
Hand-Loom
weavers
;
yet
all
Europe
went
to
war
to
avenge
their
wrongs
,
every
state
subscribed
to
maintain
them
in
their
adversity
,
and
when
they
were
restored
to
their
own
country
,
their
own
land
supplied
them
with
an
immense
indemnity
.
Who
cares
for
us
?
Yet
we
have
lost
our
estates
.
Who
raises
a
voice
for
us
?
Yet
we
are
at
least
as
innocent
as
the
nobility
of
France
.
We
sink
among
no
sighs
except
our
own
.
And
if
they
give
us
sympathy
—
what
then
?
Sympathy
is
the
solace
of
the
Poor
;
but
for
the
Rich
,
there
is
Compensation
.
”
“
Is
that
Harriet
?
”
said
his
wife
moving
in
her
bed
.
The
Hand-Loom
weaver
was
recalled
from
his
reverie
to
the
urgent
misery
that
surrounded
him
.
“
No
!
”
he
replied
in
a
quick
hoarse
voice
,
“
it
is
not
Harriet
.
”
“
Why
does
not
Harriet
come
?
”
“
She
will
come
no
more
!
”
replied
the
weaver
;
“
I
told
you
so
last
night
:
she
can
bear
this
place
no
longer
;
and
I
am
not
surprised
.
”
“
How
are
we
to
get
food
then
?
”
rejoined
his
wife
;
“
you
ought
not
to
have
let
her
leave
us
.
You
do
nothing
,
Warner
.
You
get
no
wages
yourself
;
and
you
have
let
the
girl
escape
.
”
“
I
will
escape
myself
if
you
say
that
again
,
”
said
the
weaver
:
“
I
have
been
up
these
three
hours
finishing
this
piece
which
ought
to
have
been
taken
home
on
Saturday
night
.
”
“
But
you
have
been
paid
for
it
beforehand
.
You
get
nothing
for
your
work
.
A
penny
an
hour
!
What
sort
of
work
is
it
,
that
brings
a
penny
an
hour
?
”
“
Work
that
you
have
often
admired
,
Mary
;
and
has
before
this
gained
a
prize
.
But
if
you
don’t
like
the
work
,
”
said
the
man
quitting
his
loom
,
“
let
it
alone
.
There
was
enough
yet
owing
on
this
piece
to
have
allowed
us
to
break
our
fast
.
However
,
no
matter
;
we
must
starve
sooner
or
later
.
Let
us
begin
at
once
.
”
“
No
,
no
,
Philip
!
work
.
Let
us
break
our
fast
come
what
may
.
”
“
Twit
me
no
more
then
,
”
said
the
weaver
resuming
his
seat
,
“
or
I
throw
the
shuttle
for
the
last
time
.
”
“
I
will
not
taunt
you
,
”
said
his
wife
in
a
kinder
tone
.
“
I
was
wrong
;
I
am
sorry
;
but
I
am
very
ill.
It
is
not
for
myself
I
speak
;
I
want
not
to
eat
;
I
have
no
appetite
;
my
lips
are
so
very
parched
.
But
the
children
,
the
children
went
supperless
to
bed
,
and
they
will
wake
soon
.
”
“
Mother
,
we
ayn’t
asleep
,
”
said
the
elder
girl
.
“
No
,
we
aynt
asleep
,
mother
,
”
said
her
sister
;
“
we
heard
all
that
you
said
to
father
.
”
“
And
baby
?
”
“
He
sleeps
still
.
”
“
I
shiver
very
much
!
”
said
the
mother
.
“
It’s
a
cold
day
.
Pray
shut
the
window
Warner
.
I
see
the
drops
upon
the
pane
;
it
is
raining
.
I
wonder
if
the
persons
below
would
lend
us
one
block
of
coal
.
”
“
We
have
borrowed
too
often
,
”
said
Warner
.
“
I
wish
there
were
no
such
thing
as
coal
in
the
land
,
”
said
his
wife
,
“
and
then
the
engines
would
not
be
able
to
work
;
and
we
should
have
our
rights
again
.
”
“
Amen
!
”
said
Warner
.
“
Don’t
you
think
Warner
,
”
said
his
wife
,
“
that
you
could
sell
that
piece
to
some
other
person
,
and
owe
Barber
for
the
money
he
advanced
?
”
“
No
!
”
said
her
husband
shaking
his
head
.
“
I’ll
go
straight
.
”
“
And
let
your
children
starve
,
”
said
his
wife
,
“
when
you
could
get
five
or
six
shillings
at
once
.
But
so
it
always
was
with
you
!
Why
did
not
you
go
to
the
machines
years
ago
like
other
men
and
so
get
used
to
them
?
”
“
I
should
have
been
supplanted
by
this
time
,
”
said
Warner
,
“
by
a
girl
or
a
woman
!
It
would
have
been
just
as
bad
!
”
“
Why
there
was
your
friend
Walter
Gerard
;
he
was
the
same
as
you
,
and
yet
now
he
gets
two
pound
a-week
;
at
least
I
have
often
heard
you
say
so
.
”
“
Walter
Gerard
is
a
man
of
great
parts
,
”
said
Warner
,
“
and
might
have
been
a
master
himself
by
this
time
had
he
cared
.
”
“
And
why
did
he
not
?
”
“
He
had
no
wife
and
children
,
”
said
Warner
;
“
he
was
not
so
blessed
.
”
The
baby
woke
and
began
to
cry
.
“
Ah
!
my
child
!
”
exclaimed
the
mother
.
“
That
wicked
Harriet
!
Here
Amelia
,
I
have
a
morsel
of
crust
here
.
I
saved
it
yesterday
for
baby
;
moisten
it
in
water
,
and
tie
it
up
in
this
piece
of
calico
:
he
will
suck
it
;
it
will
keep
him
quiet
;
I
can
bear
anything
but
his
cry
.
”
“
I
shall
have
finished
my
job
by
noon
,
”
said
Warner
;
“
and
then
,
please
God
,
we
shall
break
our
fast
.
”
“
It
is
yet
two
hours
to
noon
,
”
said
his
wife
.
“
And
Barber
always
keeps
you
so
long
!
I
cannot
bear
that
Barber
:
I
dare
say
he
will
not
advance
you
money
again
as
you
did
not
bring
the
job
home
on
Saturday
night
.
If
I
were
you
,
Philip
,
I
would
go
and
sell
the
piece
unfinished
at
once
to
one
of
the
cheap
shops
.
”
“
I
have
gone
straight
all
my
life
,
”
said
Warner
.
“
And
much
good
it
has
done
you
,
”
said
his
wife
.
“
My
poor
Amelia
!
How
she
shivers
!
I
think
the
sun
never
touches
this
house
.
It
is
indeed
a
most
wretched
place
!
”
“
It
will
not
annoy
you
long
,
Mary
,
”
said
her
husband
:
“
I
can
pay
no
more
rent
;
and
I
only
wonder
they
have
not
been
here
already
to
take
the
week
.
”
“
And
where
are
we
to
go
?
”
said
the
wife
.
“
To
a
place
which
certainly
the
sun
never
touches
,
”
said
her
husband
,
with
a
kind
of
malice
in
his
misery
,
—
“
to
a
cellar
!
”
“
Oh
!
why
was
I
ever
born
!
”
exclaimed
his
wife
.
“
And
yet
I
was
so
happy
once
!
And
it
is
not
our
fault
.
I
cannot
make
it
out
Warner
,
why
you
should
not
get
two
pounds
a-week
like
Walter
Gerard
?
”
“
Bah
!
”
said
the
husband
.
“
You
said
he
had
no
family
,
”
continued
his
wife
.
“
I
thought
he
had
a
daughter
.
”
“
But
she
is
no
burthen
to
him
.
The
sister
of
Mr
Trafford
is
the
Superior
of
the
convent
here
,
and
she
took
Sybil
when
her
mother
died
,
and
brought
her
up
.
”
“
Oh
!
then
she
is
a
nun
?
”
“
Not
yet
;
but
I
dare
say
it
will
end
in
it
.
”
“
Well
,
I
think
I
would
even
sooner
starve
,
”
said
his
wife
,
“
than
my
children
should
be
nuns
.
”
At
this
moment
there
was
a
knocking
at
the
door
.
Warner
descended
from
his
loom
and
opened
it
.
“
Lives
Philip
Warner
here
?
”
enquired
a
clear
voice
of
peculiar
sweetness
.
“
My
name
is
Warner
.
”
“
I
come
from
Walter
Gerard
,
”
continued
the
voice
.
“
Your
letter
reached
him
only
last
night
.
The
girl
at
whose
house
your
daughter
left
it
has
quitted
this
week
past
Mr
Trafford’s
factory
.
”
“
Pray
enter
.
”
And
there
entered
SYBIL
.
CHAPTER
XIV
.
“
Your
wife
is
ill
?
”
said
Sybil
.
“
Very
!
”
replied
Warner’s
wife
.
“
Our
daughter
has
behaved
infamously
to
us
.
She
has
quitted
us
without
saying
by
your
leave
or
with
your
leave
.
And
her
wages
were
almost
the
only
thing
left
to
us
;
for
Philip
is
not
like
Walter
Gerard
you
see
:
he
cannot
earn
two
pounds
a-week
,
though
why
he
cannot
I
never
could
understand
.
”
“
Hush
,
hush
,
wife
!
”
said
Warner
.
“
I
speak
I
apprehend
to
Gerard’s
daughter
?
”
“
Just
so
.
”
“
Ah
!
this
is
good
and
kind
;
this
is
like
old
times
,
for
Walter
Gerard
was
my
friend
,
when
I
was
not
exactly
as
I
am
now
.
”
“
He
tells
me
so
:
he
sent
a
messenger
to
me
last
night
to
visit
you
this
morning
.
Your
letter
reached
him
only
yesterday
.
”
“
Harriet
was
to
give
it
to
Caroline
,
”
said
the
wife
.
“
That’s
the
girl
who
has
done
all
the
mischief
and
inveigled
her
away
.
And
she
has
left
Trafford’s
works
,
has
she
?
Then
I
will
be
bound
she
and
Harriet
are
keeping
house
together
.
”
“
You
suffer
?
”
said
Sybil
,
moving
to
the
bed-side
of
the
woman
;
“
give
me
your
hand
,
”
she
added
in
a
soft
sweet
tone
.
“
‘Tis
hot
.
”
“
I
feel
very
cold
,
”
said
the
woman
.
“
Warner
would
have
the
window
open
,
till
the
rain
came
in
.
”
“
And
you
,
I
fear
,
are
wet
,
”
said
Warner
,
addressing
Sybil
,
and
interrupting
his
wife
.
“
Very
slightly
.
And
you
have
no
fire
.
Ah
!
I
have
brought
some
things
for
you
,
but
not
fuel
.
”
“
If
he
would
only
ask
the
person
down
stairs
,
”
said
his
wife
,
“
for
a
block
of
coal
;
I
tell
him
,
neighbours
could
hardly
refuse
;
but
he
never
will
do
anything
;
he
says
he
has
asked
too
often
.
”
“
I
will
ask
,
”
said
Sybil
.
“
But
first
,
I
have
a
companion
without
,
”
she
added
,
“
who
bears
a
basket
for
you
.
Come
in
,
Harold
.
”
The
baby
began
to
cry
the
moment
a
large
dog
entered
the
room
;
a
young
bloodhound
of
the
ancient
breed
,
such
as
are
now
found
but
in
a
few
old
halls
and
granges
in
the
north
of
England
.
Sybil
untied
the
basket
,
and
gave
a
piece
of
sugar
to
the
screaming
infant
.
Her
glance
was
sweeter
even
than
her
remedy
;
the
infant
stared
at
her
with
his
large
blue
eyes
;
for
an
instant
astonished
,
and
then
he
smiled
.
“
Oh
!
beautiful
child
!
”
exclaimed
Sybil
;
and
she
took
the
babe
up
from
the
mattress
and
embraced
it
.
“
You
are
an
angel
from
heaven
,
”
exclaimed
the
mother
,
“
and
you
may
well
say
beautiful
.
And
only
to
think
of
that
infamous
girl
,
Harriet
,
to
desert
us
all
in
this
way
.
”
Sybil
drew
forth
the
contents
of
the
convent
basket
,
and
called
Warner’s
attention
to
them
.
“
Now
,
”
she
said
,
“
arrange
all
this
as
I
tell
you
,
and
I
will
go
down
stairs
and
speak
to
them
below
as
you
wish
,
Harold
rest
there
;
”
and
the
dog
laid
himself
down
in
the
remotest
corner
.
“
And
is
that
Gerard’s
daughter
?
”
said
the
weaver’s
wife
.
“
Only
think
what
it
is
to
gain
two
pounds
a-week
,
and
bring
up
your
daughters
in
that
way
—
instead
of
such
shameless
husseys
as
our
Harriet
!
But
with
such
wages
one
can
do
anything
.
What
have
you
there
,
Warner
?
Is
that
tea
?
Oh
!
I
should
like
some
tea
.
I
do
think
tea
would
do
me
some
good
.
I
have
quite
a
longing
for
it
.
Run
down
,
Warner
,
and
ask
them
to
let
us
have
a
kettle
of
hot
water
.
It
is
better
than
all
the
fire
in
the
world
.
Amelia
,
my
dear
,
do
you
see
what
they
have
sent
us
.
Plenty
to
eat
.
Tell
Maria
all
about
it
.
You
are
good
girls
;
you
will
never
be
like
that
infamous
Harriet
.
When
you
earn
wages
you
will
give
them
to
your
poor
mother
and
baby
,
won’t
you
?
”
“
Yes
,
mother
,
”
said
Amelia
.
“
And
father
,
too
,
”
said
Maria
.
“
And
father
,
too
,
”
said
the
wife
.
“
He
has
been
a
very
good
father
to
you
all
;
and
I
never
can
understand
why
one
who
works
so
hard
should
earn
so
little
;
but
I
believe
it
is
the
fault
of
those
machines
.
The
police
ought
to
put
them
down
,
and
then
every
body
would
be
comfortable
.
”
Sybil
and
Warner
re-entered
;
the
fire
was
lit
,
the
tea
made
,
the
meal
partaken
.
An
air
of
comfort
,
even
of
enjoyment
,
was
diffused
over
this
chamber
,
but
a
few
minutes
back
so
desolate
and
unhappy
.
“
Well
,
”
said
the
wife
,
raising
herself
a
little
up
in
her
bed
,
“
I
feel
as
if
that
dish
of
tea
had
saved
my
life
.
Amelia
,
have
you
had
any
tea
?
And
Maria
?
You
see
what
it
is
to
be
good
girls
;
the
Lord
will
never
desert
you
.
The
day
is
fast
coming
when
that
Harriet
will
know
what
the
want
of
a
dish
of
tea
is
,
with
all
her
fine
wages
.
And
I
am
sure
,
”
she
added
,
addressing
Sybil
,
“
what
we
all
owe
to
you
is
not
to
be
told
.
Your
father
well
deserves
his
good
fortune
,
with
such
a
daughter
.
”
“
My
father’s
fortunes
are
not
much
better
than
his
neighbours
,
”
said
Sybil
,
“
but
his
wants
are
few
;
and
who
should
sympathise
with
the
poor
,
but
the
poor
?
Alas
!
none
else
can
.
Besides
,
it
is
the
Superior
of
our
convent
that
has
sent
you
this
meal
.
What
my
father
can
do
for
you
,
I
have
told
your
husband
.
‘Tis
little
;
but
with
the
favour
of
heaven
,
it
may
avail
.
When
the
people
support
the
people
,
the
divine
blessing
will
not
be
wanting
.
”
“
I
am
sure
the
divine
blessing
will
never
be
wanting
to
you
,
”
said
Warner
in
a
voice
of
great
emotion
.
There
was
silence
;
the
querulous
spirit
of
the
wife
was
subdued
by
the
tone
of
Sybil
;
she
revolved
in
her
mind
the
present
and
the
past
;
the
children
pursued
their
ungrudged
and
unusual
meal
;
the
daughter
of
Gerard
,
that
she
might
not
interfere
with
their
occupation
,
walked
to
the
window
and
surveyed
the
chink
of
troubled
sky
,
which
was
visible
in
the
court
.
The
wind
blew
in
gusts
;
the
rain
beat
against
the
glass
.
Soon
after
this
,
there
was
another
knock
at
the
door
.
Harold
started
from
his
repose
,
and
growled
.
Warner
rose
,
and
saying
,
“
they
have
come
for
the
rent
.
Thank
God
,
I
am
ready
,
”
advanced
and
opened
the
door
.
Two
men
offered
with
courtesy
to
enter
.
“
We
are
strangers
,
”
said
he
who
took
the
lead
,
“
but
would
not
be
such
.
I
speak
to
Warner
?
”
“
My
name
.
”
“
And
I
am
your
spiritual
pastor
,
if
to
be
the
vicar
of
Mowbray
entitles
me
to
that
description
.
”
“
Mr
St
Lys
.
”
“
The
same
.
One
of
the
most
valued
of
my
flock
,
and
the
most
influential
person
in
this
district
,
has
been
speaking
much
of
you
to
me
this
morning
.
You
are
working
for
him
.
He
did
not
hear
of
you
on
Saturday
night
;
he
feared
you
were
ill.
Mr
Barber
spoke
to
me
of
your
distress
,
as
well
as
of
your
good
character
.
I
came
to
express
to
you
my
respect
and
my
sympathy
,
and
to
offer
you
my
assistance
.
”
“
You
are
most
good
,
sir
,
and
Mr
Barber
too
,
and
indeed
,
an
hour
ago
,
we
were
in
as
great
straits
—
.
”
“
And
are
now
,
sir
,
”
exclaimed
his
wife
interrupting
him
.
“
I
have
been
in
this
bed
a-week
,
and
may
never
rise
from
it
again
;
the
children
have
no
clothes
;
they
are
pawned
;
everything
is
pawned
;
this
morning
we
had
neither
fuel
,
nor
food
.
And
we
thought
you
had
come
for
the
rent
which
we
cannot
pay
.
If
it
had
not
been
for
a
dish
of
tea
which
was
charitably
given
me
this
morning
by
a
person
almost
as
poor
as
ourselves
that
is
to
say
,
they
live
by
labour
,
though
their
wages
are
much
higher
,
as
high
as
two
pounds
a-week
,
though
how
that
can
be
I
never
shall
understand
,
when
my
husband
is
working
twelve
hours
a
day
,
and
gaining
only
a
penny
an
hour
—
if
it
had
not
been
for
this
I
should
have
been
a
corpse
;
and
yet
he
says
we
were
in
straits
,
merely
because
Walter
Gerard’s
daughter
,
who
I
willingly
grant
is
an
angel
from
heaven
for
all
the
good
she
has
done
us
,
has
stepped
into
our
aid
.
But
the
poor
supporting
the
poor
,
as
she
well
says
,
what
good
can
come
from
that
!
”
During
this
ebullition
,
Mr
St
Lys
had
surveyed
the
apartment
and
recognised
Sybil
.
“
Sister
,
”
he
said
when
the
wife
of
Warner
had
ceased
,
“
this
is
not
the
first
time
we
have
met
under
the
roof
of
sorrow
.
”
Sybil
bent
in
silence
,
and
moved
as
if
she
were
about
to
retire
:
the
wind
and
rain
came
dashing
against
the
window
.
The
companion
of
Mr
St
Lys
,
who
was
clad
in
a
rough
great
coat
,
and
was
shaking
the
wet
off
an
oilskin
hat
known
by
the
name
of
a
‘south-wester
,
’
advanced
and
said
to
her
,
“
It
is
but
a
squall
,
but
a
very
severe
one
;
I
would
recommend
you
to
stay
for
a
few
minutes
.
”
She
received
this
remark
with
courtesy
but
did
not
reply
.
“
I
think
,
”
continued
the
companion
of
Mr
St
Lys
,
“
that
this
is
not
the
first
time
also
that
we
have
met
?
”
“
I
cannot
recall
our
meeting
before
,
”
said
Sybil
.
“
And
yet
it
was
not
many
days
past
;
though
the
sky
was
so
very
different
,
that
it
would
almost
make
one
believe
it
was
in
another
land
and
another
clime
.
”
Sybil
looked
at
him
as
if
for
explanation
.
“
It
was
at
Marney
Abbey
,
”
said
the
companion
of
Mr
St
Lys
.
“
I
was
there
;
and
I
remember
,
when
about
to
rejoin
my
companions
,
they
were
not
alone
.
”
“
And
you
disappeared
;
very
suddenly
I
thought
:
for
I
left
the
ruins
almost
at
the
same
moment
as
your
friends
,
yet
I
never
saw
any
of
you
again
.
”
“
We
took
our
course
;
a
very
rugged
one
;
you
perhaps
pursued
a
more
even
way
.
”
“
Was
it
your
first
visit
to
Marney
?
”
“
My
first
and
my
last
.
There
was
no
place
I
more
desired
to
see
;
no
place
of
which
the
vision
made
me
so
sad
.
”
“
The
glory
has
departed
,
”
said
Egremont
mournfully
.
“
It
is
not
that
,
”
said
Sybil
:
“
I
was
prepared
for
decay
,
but
not
for
such
absolute
desecration
.
The
Abbey
seems
a
quarry
for
materials
to
repair
farm-houses
;
and
the
nave
a
cattle
gate
.
What
people
they
must
be
—
that
family
of
sacrilege
who
hold
these
lands
!
”
“
Hem
!
”
said
Egremont
.
“
They
certainly
do
not
appear
to
have
much
feeling
for
ecclesiastical
art
.
”
“
And
for
little
else
,
as
we
were
told
,
”
said
Sybil
.
“
There
was
a
fire
at
the
Abbey
farm
the
day
we
were
there
,
and
from
all
that
reached
us
,
it
would
appear
the
people
were
as
little
tendered
as
the
Abbey
walls
.
”
“
They
have
some
difficulty
perhaps
in
employing
their
population
in
those
parts
.
”
“
You
know
the
country
?
”
“
Not
at
all
:
I
was
travelling
in
the
neighbourhood
,
and
made
a
diversion
for
the
sake
of
seeing
an
abbey
of
which
I
had
heard
so
much
.
”
“
Yes
;
it
was
the
greatest
of
the
Northern
Houses
.
But
they
told
me
the
people
were
most
wretched
round
the
Abbey
;
nor
do
I
think
there
is
any
other
cause
for
their
misery
,
than
the
hard
hearts
of
the
family
that
have
got
the
lands
.
”
“
You
feel
deeply
for
the
people
!
”
said
Egremont
looking
at
her
earnestly
.
Sybil
returned
him
a
glance
expressive
of
some
astonishment
,
and
then
said
,
“
And
do
not
you
?
Your
presence
here
assures
me
of
it
.
”
“
I
humbly
follow
one
who
would
comfort
the
unhappy
.
”
“
The
charity
of
Mr
St
Lys
is
known
to
all
.
”
“
And
you
—
you
too
are
a
ministering
angel
.
”
“
There
is
no
merit
in
my
conduct
,
for
there
is
no
sacrifice
.
When
I
remember
what
this
English
people
once
was
;
the
truest
,
the
freest
,
and
the
bravest
,
the
best-natured
and
the
best-looking
,
the
happiest
and
most
religious
race
upon
the
surface
of
this
globe
;
and
think
of
them
now
,
with
all
their
crimes
and
all
their
slavish
sufferings
,
their
soured
spirits
and
their
stunted
forms
;
their
lives
without
enjoyment
and
their
deaths
without
hope
;
I
may
well
feel
for
them
,
even
if
I
were
not
the
daughter
of
their
blood
.
”
And
that
blood
mantled
to
her
cheek
as
she
ceased
to
speak
,
and
her
dark
eye
gleamed
with
emotion
,
and
an
expression
of
pride
and
courage
hovered
on
her
brow
.
Egremont
caught
her
glance
and
withdrew
his
own
;
his
heart
was
troubled
.
St
Lys
.
who
had
been
in
conference
with
the
weaver
,
left
him
and
went
to
the
bedside
of
his
wife
.
Warner
advanced
to
Sybil
,
and
expressed
his
feelings
for
her
father
,
his
sense
of
her
goodness
.
She
,
observing
that
the
squall
seemed
to
have
ceased
,
bade
him
farewell
,
and
calling
Harold
,
quitted
the
chamber
.
CHAPTER
XV
.
“
Where
have
you
been
all
the
morning
,
Charles
?
”
said
Lord
Marney
coming
into
his
brother’s
dressing-room
a
few
minutes
before
dinner
;
“
Arabella
had
made
the
nicest
little
riding
party
for
you
and
Lady
Joan
,
and
you
were
to
be
found
nowhere
.
If
you
go
on
in
this
way
,
there
is
no
use
of
having
affectionate
relations
,
or
anything
else
.
”
“
I
have
been
walking
about
Mowbray
.
One
should
see
a
factory
once
in
one’s
life
.
”
“
I
don’t
see
the
necessity
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
I
never
saw
one
,
and
never
intend
.
Though
to
be
sure
,
when
I
hear
the
rents
that
Mowbray
gets
for
his
land
in
their
neighbourhood
,
I
must
say
I
wish
the
worsted
works
had
answered
at
Marney
.
And
if
it
had
not
been
for
our
poor
dear
father
,
they
would
.
”
“
Our
family
have
always
been
against
manufactories
,
railroads
—
everything
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
Railroads
are
very
good
things
,
with
high
compensation
,
”
said
Lord
Marney
;
“
and
manufactories
not
so
bad
,
with
high
rents
;
but
,
after
all
,
these
are
enterprises
for
the
canaille
,
and
I
hate
them
in
my
heart
.
”
“
But
they
employ
the
people
,
George
.
”
“
The
people
do
not
want
employment
;
it
is
the
greatest
mistake
in
the
world
;
all
this
employment
is
a
stimulus
to
population
.
Never
mind
that
;
what
I
came
in
for
,
is
to
tell
you
that
both
Arabella
and
myself
think
you
talk
too
much
to
Lady
Maud
.
”
“
I
like
her
the
best
.
”
“
What
has
that
to
do
with
it
my
dear
fellow
?
Business
is
business
.
Old
Mowbray
will
make
an
elder
son
out
of
his
elder
daughter
.
The
affair
is
settled
;
I
know
it
from
the
best
authority
.
Talking
to
Lady
Maud
is
insanity
.
It
is
all
the
same
for
her
as
if
Fitz-Warene
had
never
died
.
And
then
that
great
event
,
which
ought
to
be
the
foundation
of
your
fortune
,
would
be
perfectly
thrown
away
.
Lady
Maud
,
at
the
best
,
is
nothing
more
than
twenty
thousand
pounds
and
a
fat
living
.
Besides
,
she
is
engaged
to
that
parson
fellow
,
St
Lys
.
“
St
Lys
told
me
to-day
that
nothing
would
ever
induce
him
to
marry
.
He
would
practise
celibacy
,
though
he
would
not
enjoin
it
.
”
“
Enjoin
fiddle-stick
!
How
came
you
to
be
talking
to
such
a
sanctified
imposter
;
and
,
I
believe
,
with
all
his
fine
phrases
,
a
complete
radical
.
I
tell
you
what
,
Charles
,
you
must
really
make
way
with
Lady
Joan
.
The
grandfather
has
come
to-day
,
the
old
Duke
.
Quite
a
family
party
.
It
looks
so
well
.
Never
was
such
a
golden
opportunity
.
And
you
must
be
sharp
too
.
That
little
Jermyn
,
with
his
brown
eyes
and
his
white
hands
,
has
not
come
down
here
,
in
the
month
of
August
,
with
no
sport
of
any
kind
,
for
nothing
.
”
“
I
shall
set
Lady
Firebrace
at
him
.
”
“
She
is
quite
your
friend
,
and
a
very
sensible
woman
too
,
Charles
,
and
an
ally
not
to
be
despised
.
Lady
Joan
has
a
very
high
opinion
of
her
.
There’s
the
bell
.
Well
,
I
shall
tell
Arabella
that
you
mean
to
put
up
the
steam
,
and
Lady
Firebrace
shall
keep
Jermyn
off
.
And
perhaps
it
is
as
well
you
did
not
seem
too
eager
at
first
.
Mowbray
Castle
,
my
dear
fellow
,
in
spite
of
its
manufactories
,
is
not
to
be
despised
.
And
with
a
little
firmness
,
you
could
keep
the
people
out
of
your
park
.
Mowbray
could
do
it
,
only
he
has
no
pluck
.
He
is
afraid
people
would
say
he
was
the
son
of
a
footman
.
”
The
Duke
,
who
was
the
father
of
the
Countess
de
Mowbray
,
was
also
lord
lieutenant
of
the
county
.
Although
advanced
in
years
,
he
was
still
extremely
handsome
;
with
the
most
winning
manners
;
full
of
amenity
and
grace
.
He
had
been
a
roue
in
his
youth
,
but
seemed
now
the
perfect
representative
of
a
benignant
and
virtuous
old
age
.
He
was
universally
popular
;
admired
by
young
men
,
adored
by
young
ladies
.
Lord
de
Mowbray
paid
him
the
most
distinguished
consideration
.
It
was
genuine
.
However
maliciously
the
origin
of
his
own
father
might
be
represented
,
nobody
could
deprive
him
of
that
great
fact
,
his
father-in-law
;
a
duke
,
a
duke
of
a
great
house
who
had
intermarried
for
generations
with
great
houses
,
one
of
the
old
nobility
,
and
something
even
loftier
.
The
county
of
which
his
grace
was
Lord
Lieutenant
was
very
proud
of
its
nobility
;
and
certainly
with
Marney
Abbey
at
one
end
,
and
Mowbray
Castle
at
the
other
,
it
had
just
cause
;
but
both
these
illustrious
houses
yielded
in
importance
,
though
not
in
possessions
,
to
the
great
peer
who
was
the
governor
of
the
province
.
A
French
actress
,
clever
as
French
actresses
always
are
,
had
persuaded
,
once
upon
a
time
,
an
easy-tempered
monarch
of
this
realm
,
that
the
paternity
of
her
coming
babe
was
a
distinction
of
which
his
majesty
might
be
proud
.
His
majesty
did
not
much
believe
her
;
but
he
was
a
sensible
man
,
and
never
disputed
a
point
with
a
woman
;
so
when
the
babe
was
born
,
and
proved
a
boy
,
he
christened
him
with
his
name
;
and
elevated
him
to
the
peerage
in
his
cradle
by
the
title
of
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
and
Marquis
of
Gascony
.
An
estate
the
royal
father
could
not
endow
him
with
,
for
he
had
spent
all
his
money
,
mortgaged
all
his
resources
,
and
was
obliged
to
run
in
debt
himself
for
the
jewels
of
the
rest
of
his
mistresses
;
but
he
did
his
best
for
the
young
peer
,
as
became
an
affectionate
father
or
a
fond
lover
.
His
majesty
made
him
when
he
arrived
at
man’s
estate
the
hereditary
keeper
of
a
palace
which
he
possessed
in
the
north
of
England
;
and
this
secured
his
grace
a
castle
and
a
park
.
He
could
wave
his
flag
and
kill
his
deer
;
and
if
he
had
only
possessed
an
estate
,
he
would
have
been
as
well
off
as
if
he
had
helped
conquer
the
realm
with
King
William
,
or
plundered
the
church
for
King
Harry
.
A
revenue
must
however
be
found
for
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
,
and
it
was
furnished
without
the
interference
of
Parliament
,
but
with
a
financial
dexterity
worthy
of
that
assembly
—
to
whom
and
not
to
our
sovereigns
we
are
obliged
for
the
public
debt
.
The
king
granted
the
duke
and
his
heirs
for
ever
,
a
pension
on
the
post-office
,
a
light
tax
upon
coals
shipped
to
London
,
and
a
tithe
of
all
the
shrimps
caught
on
the
southern
coast
.
This
last
source
of
revenue
became
in
time
,
with
the
development
of
watering-places
,
extremely
prolific
.
And
so
,
what
with
the
foreign
courts
and
colonies
for
the
younger
sons
,
it
was
thus
contrived
very
respectably
to
maintain
the
hereditary
dignity
of
this
great
peer
.
The
present
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
had
supported
the
Reform
Bill
,
but
had
been
shocked
by
the
Appropriation
clause
;
very
much
admired
Lord
Stanley
,
and
was
apt
to
observe
,
that
if
that
nobleman
had
been
the
leader
of
the
conservative
party
,
he
hardly
knew
what
he
might
not
have
done
himself
.
But
the
duke
was
an
old
whig
,
had
lived
with
old
whigs
all
his
life
,
feared
revolution
,
but
still
more
the
necessity
of
taking
his
name
out
of
Brookes’
,
where
he
had
looked
in
every
day
or
night
since
he
came
of
age
.
So
,
not
approving
of
what
was
going
on
,
yet
not
caring
to
desert
his
friends
,
he
withdrew
,
as
the
phrase
runs
,
from
public
life
;
that
is
to
say
,
was
rarely
in
his
seat
;
did
not
continue
to
Lord
Melbourne
the
proxy
that
had
been
entrusted
to
Lord
Grey
;
and
made
tory
magistrates
in
his
county
though
a
whig
lord
lieutenant
.
When
forces
were
numbered
,
and
speculations
on
the
future
indulged
in
by
the
Tadpoles
and
Tapers
,
the
name
of
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
was
mentioned
with
a
knowing
look
and
in
a
mysterious
tone
.
Nothing
more
was
necessary
between
Tadpole
and
Taper
;
but
,
if
some
hack
in
statu
pupillari
happened
to
be
present
at
the
conference
,
and
the
gentle
novice
greedy
for
party
tattle
,
and
full
of
admiring
reverence
for
the
two
great
hierophants
of
petty
mysteries
before
him
,
ventured
to
intimate
his
anxiety
for
initiation
,
the
secret
was
entrusted
to
him
,
“
that
all
was
right
there
;
that
his
grace
only
watched
his
opportunity
;
that
he
was
heartily
sick
of
the
present
men
;
indeed
,
would
have
gone
over
with
Lord
Stanley
in
1835
,
had
he
not
had
a
fit
of
the
gout
,
which
prevented
him
from
coming
up
from
the
north
;
and
though
to
be
sure
his
son
and
brother
did
vote
against
the
speaker
,
still
that
was
a
mistake
;
if
a
letter
had
been
sent
,
which
was
not
written
,
they
would
have
voted
the
other
way
,
and
perhaps
Sir
Robert
might
have
been
in
at
the
present
moment
.
”
The
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
was
the
great
staple
of
Lady
Firebrace’s
correspondence
with
Mr
Tadpole
.
“
Woman’s
mission
”
took
the
shape
to
her
intelligence
of
getting
over
his
grace
to
the
conservatives
.
She
was
much
assisted
in
these
endeavours
by
the
information
which
she
so
dexterously
acquired
from
the
innocent
and
incautious
Lord
Masque
.
Egremont
was
seated
at
dinner
to-day
by
the
side
of
Lady
Joan
.
Unconsciously
to
himself
this
had
been
arranged
by
Lady
Marney
.
The
action
of
woman
on
our
destiny
is
unceasing
.
Egremont
was
scarcely
in
a
happy
mood
for
conversation
.
He
was
pensive
,
inclined
to
be
absent
;
his
thoughts
indeed
were
of
other
things
and
persons
than
those
around
him
.
Lady
Joan
however
only
required
a
listener
.
She
did
not
make
enquiries
like
Lady
Maud
,
or
impart
her
own
impressions
by
suggesting
them
as
your
own
.
Lady
Joan
gave
Egremont
an
account
of
the
Aztec
cities
,
of
which
she
had
been
reading
that
morning
,
and
of
the
several
historical
theories
which
their
discovery
had
suggested
;
then
she
imparted
her
own
,
which
differed
from
all
,
but
which
seemed
clearly
the
right
one
.
Mexico
led
to
Egypt
.
Lady
Joan
was
as
familiar
with
the
Pharaohs
as
with
the
Caciques
of
the
new
world
.
The
phonetic
system
was
despatched
by
the
way
.
Then
came
Champollion
;
then
Paris
;
then
all
its
celebrities
,
literary
and
especially
scientific
;
then
came
the
letter
from
Arago
received
that
morning
;
and
the
letter
from
Dr
Buckland
expected
to-morrow
.
She
was
delighted
that
one
had
written
;
wondered
why
the
other
had
not
.
Finally
before
the
ladies
had
retired
,
she
had
invited
Egremont
to
join
Lady
Marney
in
a
visit
to
her
observatory
,
where
they
were
to
behold
a
comet
which
she
had
been
the
first
to
detect
.
Lady
Firebrace
next
to
the
duke
in
dulged
in
mysterious
fiddle-fadde
as
to
the
state
of
parties
.
She
too
had
her
correspondents
,
and
her
letters
received
or
awaited
.
Tadpole
said
this
;
Lord
Masque
,
on
the
contrary
,
said
that
:
the
truth
lay
perhaps
between
them
;
some
result
developed
by
the
clear
intelligence
of
Lady
Firebrace
acting
on
the
data
with
which
they
supplied
her
.
The
duke
listened
with
calm
excitement
to
the
transcendental
revelations
of
his
Egeria
.
Nothing
appeared
to
be
concealed
from
her
;
the
inmost
mind
of
the
sovereign
:
there
was
not
a
royal
prejudice
that
was
not
mapped
in
her
secret
inventory
;
the
cabinets
of
the
whigs
and
the
clubs
of
the
tories
,
she
had
the
“
open
sesame
”
to
all
of
them
.
Sir
Somebody
did
not
want
office
,
though
he
pretended
to
;
and
Lord
Nobody
did
want
office
,
though
he
pretended
he
did
not
.
One
great
man
thought
the
pear
was
not
ripe
;
another
that
it
was
quite
rotten
;
but
then
the
first
was
coming
on
the
stage
,
and
the
other
was
going
off
.
In
estimating
the
accuracy
of
a
political
opinion
,
one
should
take
into
consideration
the
standing
of
the
opinionist
.
At
the
right
moment
,
and
when
she
was
sure
she
was
not
overheard
,
Lady
Firebrace
played
her
trump
card
,
the
pack
having
been
previously
cut
by
Mr
Tadpole
.
“
And
who
do
you
think
Sir
Robert
would
send
to
Ireland
?
”
and
she
looked
up
in
the
face
of
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
.
“
I
suppose
the
person
he
sent
before
,
”
said
his
grace
.
Lady
Firebrace
shook
her
head
.
“
Lord
Haddington
will
not
go
to
Ireland
again
,
”
replied
her
ladyship
,
mysteriously
;
“
mark
me
.
And
Lord
De
Grey
does
not
like
to
go
;
and
if
he
did
,
there
are
objections
.
And
the
Duke
of
Northumberland
,
he
will
not
go
.
And
who
else
is
there
?
We
must
have
a
nobleman
of
the
highest
rank
for
Ireland
;
one
who
has
not
mixed
himself
up
with
Irish
questions
;
who
has
always
been
in
old
days
for
emancipation
;
a
conservative
,
not
an
orangeman
.
You
understand
.
That
is
the
person
Sir
Robert
will
send
,
and
whom
Sir
Robert
wants
.
”
“
He
will
have
some
difficulty
in
finding
such
a
person
,
”
said
the
duke
.
“
If
,
indeed
,
the
blundering
affair
of
1834
had
not
occurred
,
and
things
had
taken
their
legitimate
course
,
and
we
had
seen
a
man
like
Lord
Stanley
for
instance
at
the
head
of
affairs
,
or
leading
a
great
party
,
why
then
indeed
your
friends
the
conservatives
,
—
for
every
sensible
man
must
be
a
conservative
,
in
the
right
sense
of
the
word
,
—
would
have
stood
in
a
very
different
position
;
but
now
—
,
”
and
his
grace
shook
his
head
.
“
Sir
Robert
will
never
consent
to
form
a
government
again
without
Lord
Stanley
,
”
said
Lady
Firebrace
.
“
Perhaps
not
,
”
said
the
duke
.
“
Do
you
know
whose
name
I
have
heard
mentioned
in
a
certain
quarter
as
the
person
Sir
Robert
would
wish
to
see
in
Ireland
?
”
continued
Lady
Firebrace
.
His
grace
leant
his
ear
.
“
The
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
,
”
said
Lady
Firebrace
.
“
Quite
impossible
,
”
said
the
duke
.
“
I
am
no
party
man
;
if
I
be
anything
,
I
am
a
supporter
of
the
government
.
True
it
is
I
do
not
like
the
way
they
are
going
on
,
and
I
disapprove
of
all
their
measures
;
but
we
must
stand
by
our
friends
,
Lady
Firebrace
.
To
be
sure
,
if
the
country
were
in
danger
,
and
the
Queen
personally
appealed
to
one
,
and
the
conservative
party
were
really
a
conservative
party
,
and
not
an
old
crazy
faction
vamped
up
and
whitewashed
into
decency
—
one
might
pause
and
consider
.
But
I
am
free
to
confess
I
must
see
things
in
a
very
different
condition
to
what
they
are
at
present
before
I
could
be
called
upon
to
take
that
step
.
I
must
see
men
like
Lord
Stanley
—
”
“
I
know
what
you
are
going
to
say
,
my
dear
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
.
I
tell
you
again
Lord
Stanley
is
with
us
,
heart
and
soul
;
and
before
long
I
feel
persuaded
I
shall
see
your
grace
in
the
Castle
of
Dublin
.
”
“
I
am
too
old
;
at
least
,
I
am
afraid
so
,
”
said
the
Duke
of
Fitz-Aquitaine
,
with
a
relenting
smile
.
CHAPTER
XVI
.
About
three
miles
before
it
reaches
the
town
,
the
river
Mowe
undulates
through
a
plain
.
The
scene
,
though
not
very
picturesque
,
has
a
glad
and
sparkling
character
.
A
stone
bridge
unites
the
opposite
banks
by
three
arches
of
good
proportion
;
the
land
about
consists
of
meads
of
a
vivid
colour
,
or
vegetable
gardens
to
supply
the
neighbouring
population
,
and
whose
various
hues
give
life
and
lightness
to
the
level
ground
.
The
immediate
boundaries
of
the
plain
on
either
side
are
chiefly
woods
;
above
the
crest
of
which
in
one
direction
expands
the
brown
bosom
of
a
moor
.
The
few
cottages
which
are
sprinkled
about
this
scene
being
built
of
stone
,
and
on
an
ample
scale
,
contribute
to
the
idea
of
comfort
and
plenty
which
,
with
a
serene
sky
and
on
a
soft
summer
day
,
the
traveller
willingly
associates
with
it
.
Such
was
the
sky
and
season
in
which
Egremont
emerged
on
this
scene
a
few
days
after
the
incidents
recorded
in
our
last
chapter
.
He
had
been
fishing
in
the
park
of
Mowbray
,
and
had
followed
the
rivulet
through
many
windings
until
,
quitting
the
enclosed
domain
it
had
forced
its
way
through
some
craggy
underwood
at
the
bottom
of
the
hilly
moors
we
have
noticed
,
and
finally
entering
the
plain
,
lost
itself
in
the
waters
of
the
greater
stream
.
Good
sport
had
not
awaited
Egremont
.
Truth
to
say
,
his
rod
had
played
in
a
very
careless
hand
.
He
had
taken
it
,
though
an
adept
in
the
craft
when
in
the
mood
,
rather
as
an
excuse
to
be
alone
,
than
a
means
to
be
amused
.
There
are
seasons
in
life
when
solitude
is
a
necessity
;
and
such
a
one
had
now
descended
on
the
spirit
of
the
brother
of
Lord
Marney
.
The
form
of
Sybil
Gerard
was
stamped
upon
his
brain
.
It
blended
with
all
thoughts
;
it
haunted
every
object
.
Who
was
this
girl
,
unlike
all
women
whom
he
had
yet
encountered
,
who
spoke
with
such
sweet
seriousness
of
things
of
such
vast
import
,
but
which
had
never
crossed
his
mind
,
and
with
a
kind
of
mournful
majesty
bewailed
the
degradation
of
her
race
?
The
daughter
of
the
lowly
,
yet
proud
of
her
birth
.
Not
a
noble
lady
in
the
land
who
could
boast
a
mien
more
complete
,
and
none
of
them
thus
gifted
,
who
possessed
withal
the
fascinating
simplicity
that
pervaded
every
gesture
and
accent
of
the
daughter
of
Gerard
.
Yes
!
the
daughter
of
Gerard
;
the
daughter
of
a
workman
at
a
manufactory
.
It
had
not
been
difficult
,
after
the
departure
of
Sybil
,
to
extract
this
information
from
the
garrulous
wife
of
the
weaver
.
And
that
father
,
—
he
was
not
unknown
to
Egremont
.
His
proud
form
and
generous
countenance
were
still
fresh
in
the
mind’s
eye
of
our
friend
.
Not
less
so
his
thoughtful
speech
;
full
of
knowledge
and
meditation
and
earnest
feeling
!
How
much
that
he
had
spoken
still
echoed
in
the
heart
,
and
rung
in
the
brooding
ear
of
Egremont
.
And
his
friend
,
too
,
that
pale
man
with
those
glittering
eyes
,
who
without
affectation
,
without
pedantry
,
with
artlessness
on
the
contrary
and
a
degree
of
earnest
singleness
,
had
glanced
like
a
master
of
philosophy
at
the
loftiest
principles
of
political
science
,
—
was
he
too
a
workman
?
And
are
these
then
THE
PEOPLE
?
If
so
,
thought
Egremont
,
would
that
I
lived
more
among
them
!
Compared
with
their
converse
,
the
tattle
of
our
saloons
has
in
it
something
humiliating
.
It
is
not
merely
that
it
is
deficient
in
warmth
,
and
depth
,
and
breadth
;
that
it
is
always
discussing
persons
instead
of
principles
,
and
cloaking
its
want
of
thought
in
mimetic
dogmas
and
its
want
of
feeling
in
superficial
raillery
;
it
is
not
merely
that
it
has
neither
imagination
,
nor
fancy
,
nor
sentiment
,
nor
feeling
,
nor
knowledge
to
recommend
it
;
but
it
appears
to
me
,
even
as
regards
manner
and
expression
,
inferior
in
refinement
and
phraseology
;
in
short
,
trivial
,
uninteresting
,
stupid
,
really
vulgar
.
It
seemed
to
Egremont
that
,
from
the
day
he
met
these
persons
in
the
Abbey
ruins
,
the
horizon
of
his
experience
had
insensibly
expanded
;
more
than
that
,
there
were
streaks
of
light
breaking
in
the
distance
,
which
already
gave
a
new
aspect
to
much
that
was
known
,
and
which
perhaps
was
ultimately
destined
to
reveal
much
that
was
now
utterly
obscure
.
He
could
not
resist
the
conviction
that
from
the
time
in
question
,
his
sympathies
had
become
more
lively
and
more
extended
;
that
a
masculine
impulse
had
been
given
to
his
mind
;
that
he
was
inclined
to
view
public
questions
in
a
tone
very
different
to
that
in
which
he
had
surveyed
them
a
few
weeks
back
,
when
on
the
hustings
of
his
borough
.
Revolving
these
things
,
he
emerged
,
as
we
have
stated
,
into
the
plain
of
the
Mowe
,
and
guiding
his
path
by
the
course
of
the
river
,
he
arrived
at
the
bridge
which
a
fancy
tempted
him
to
cross
.
In
its
centre
,
was
a
man
gazing
on
the
waters
below
and
leaning
over
the
parapet
.
His
footstep
roused
the
loiterer
,
who
looked
round
;
and
Egremont
saw
that
it
was
Walter
Gerard
.
Gerard
returned
his
salute
,
and
said
,
“
Early
hours
on
Saturday
afternoon
make
us
all
saunterers
;
”
and
then
,
as
their
way
was
the
same
,
they
walked
on
together
.
It
seemed
that
Gerard’s
cottage
was
near
at
hand
,
and
having
inquired
after
Egremont’s
sport
,
and
receiving
for
a
reply
a
present
of
a
brace
of
trout
,
—
the
only
one
,
by
the
bye
,
that
was
in
Egremont’s
basket
,
—
he
could
scarcely
do
less
than
invite
his
companion
to
rest
himself
.
“
There
is
my
home
,
”
said
Gerard
,
pointing
to
a
cottage
recently
built
,
and
in
a
pleasing
style
.
Its
materials
were
of
a
fawn-coloured
stone
,
common
in
the
Mowbray
quarries
.
A
scarlet
creeper
clustered
round
one
side
of
its
ample
porch
;
its
windows
were
large
,
mullioned
,
and
neatly
latticed
;
it
stood
in
the
midst
of
a
garden
of
no
mean
dimensions
but
every
bed
and
nook
of
which
teemed
with
cultivation
;
flowers
and
vegetables
both
abounded
,
while
an
orchard
rich
with
promise
of
many
fruits
;
ripe
pears
and
famous
pippins
of
the
north
and
plums
of
every
shape
and
hue
;
screened
the
dwelling
from
that
wind
against
which
the
woods
that
formed
its
back-ground
were
no
protection
.
“
And
you
are
well
lodged
!
Your
garden
does
you
honour
.
”
“
I’ll
be
honest
enough
to
own
I
have
no
claim
to
the
credit
,
”
said
Gerard
.
“
I
am
but
a
lazy
chiel
.
”
They
entered
the
cottage
,
where
a
hale
old
woman
greeted
them
.
“
She
is
too
old
to
be
my
wife
,
and
too
young
to
be
my
mother
,
”
said
Gerard
smiling
;
“
but
she
is
a
good
creature
,
and
has
looked
after
me
many
a
long
day
.
Come
,
dame
,
”
he
said
,
“
thou’lt
bring
us
a
cup
of
tea
;
‘tis
a
good
evening
beverage
,
”
he
added
,
turning
to
Egremont
.
“
and
what
I
ever
take
at
this
time
.
And
if
you
care
to
light
a
pipe
,
you
will
find
a
companion
.
”
“
I
have
renounced
tobacco
,
”
said
Egremont
;
“
tobacco
is
the
tomb
of
love
,
”
and
they
entered
a
neatly-furnished
chamber
,
that
had
that
habitable
look
which
the
best
room
of
a
farmhouse
too
often
wants
.
Instead
of
the
cast-off
furniture
of
other
establishments
,
at
the
same
time
dingy
and
tawdry
,
mock
rosewood
chairs
and
tarnished
mahogany
tables
,
there
was
an
oaken
table
,
some
cottage
chairs
made
of
beech
wood
,
and
a
Dutch
clock
.
But
what
surprised
Egremont
was
the
appearance
of
several
shelves
well
lined
with
volumes
.
Their
contents
too
on
closer
inspection
were
very
remarkable
.
They
indicated
a
student
of
a
high
order
.
Egremont
read
the
titles
of
works
which
he
only
knew
by
fame
,
but
which
treated
of
the
loftiest
and
most
subtle
questions
of
social
and
political
philosophy
.
As
he
was
throwing
his
eye
over
them
,
his
companion
said
,
“
Ah
!
I
see
you
think
me
as
great
a
scholar
as
I
am
a
gardener
:
but
with
as
little
justice
;
these
hooks
are
not
mine
.
”
“
To
whomsoever
they
belong
,
”
said
Egremont
,
“
if
we
are
to
judge
from
his
collection
,
he
has
a
tolerably
strong
head
.
”
“
Ay
,
ay
,
”
said
Gerard
,
“
the
world
will
hear
of
him
yet
,
though
he
was
only
a
workman
,
and
the
son
of
a
workman
.
He
has
not
been
at
your
schools
and
your
colleges
,
but
he
can
write
his
mother
tongue
,
as
Shakespeare
and
Cobbett
wrote
it
;
and
you
must
do
that
,
if
you
wish
to
influence
the
people
.
”
“
And
might
I
ask
his
name
,
”
said
Egremont
.
“
Stephen
Morley
,
my
friend
.
”
“
The
person
I
saw
with
you
at
Marney
Abbey
?
”
“
The
same
.
”
“
And
he
lives
with
you
?
”
“
Why
,
we
kept
house
together
,
if
you
could
call
it
so
.
Stephen
does
not
give
much
trouble
in
that
way
.
He
only
drinks
water
and
only
eats
herbs
and
fruits
.
He
is
the
gardener
,
”
added
Gerard
,
smiling
.
“
I
don’t
know
how
we
shall
fare
when
he
leaves
me
.
”
“
And
is
he
going
to
leave
you
?
”
“
Why
in
a
manner
he
has
gone
.
He
has
taken
a
cottage
about
a
quarter
of
a
mile
up
the
dale
;
and
only
left
his
books
here
,
because
he
is
going
into
—
shire
in
a
day
or
two
,
on
some
business
,
that
may
be
will
take
him
a
week
or
so
.
The
books
are
safer
here
you
see
for
the
present
,
for
Stephen
lives
alone
,
and
is
a
good
deal
away
,
for
he
edits
a
paper
at
Mowbray
,
and
that
must
be
looked
after
.
He
is
to
be
my
gardener
still
.
I
promised
him
that
.
Well
done
,
dame
,
”
said
Gerard
,
as
the
old
woman
entered
;
“
I
hope
for
the
honour
of
the
house
a
good
brew
.
Now
comrade
sit
