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,
however
(
with
a
few
limited
reservations
,
genteel
but
not
profitable
)
,
they
may
not
do
,
being
of
the
Dedlock
dignity
.
So
they
visit
their
richer
cousins
,
and
get
into
debt
when
they
can
,
and
live
but
shabbily
when
they
can
’
t
,
and
find
—
the
women
no
husbands
,
and
the
men
no
wives
—
and
ride
in
borrowed
carriages
,
and
sit
at
feasts
that
are
never
of
their
own
making
,
and
so
go
through
high
life
.
The
rich
family
sum
has
been
divided
by
so
many
figures
,
and
they
are
the
something
over
that
nobody
knows
what
to
do
with
.
Everybody
on
Sir
Leicester
Dedlock
’
s
side
of
the
question
and
of
his
way
of
thinking
would
appear
to
be
his
cousin
more
or
less
.
From
my
Lord
Boodle
,
through
the
Duke
of
Foodle
,
down
to
Noodle
,
Sir
Leicester
,
like
a
glorious
spider
,
stretches
his
threads
of
relationship
.
But
while
he
is
stately
in
the
cousinship
of
the
Everybodys
,
he
is
a
kind
and
generous
man
,
according
to
his
dignified
way
,
in
the
cousinship
of
the
Nobodys
;
and
at
the
present
time
,
in
despite
of
the
damp
,
he
stays
out
the
visit
of
several
such
cousins
at
Chesney
Wold
with
the
constancy
of
a
martyr
.
Of
these
,
foremost
in
the
front
rank
stands
Volumnia
Dedlock
,
a
young
lady
(
of
sixty
)
who
is
doubly
highly
related
,
having
the
honour
to
be
a
poor
relation
,
by
the
mother
’
s
side
,
to
another
great
family
.
Miss
Volumnia
,
displaying
in
early
life
a
pretty
talent
for
cutting
ornaments
out
of
coloured
paper
,
and
also
for
singing
to
the
guitar
in
the
Spanish
tongue
,
and
propounding
French
conundrums
in
country
houses
,
passed
the
twenty
years
of
her
existence
between
twenty
and
forty
in
a
sufficiently
agreeable
manner
.
Lapsing
then
out
of
date
and
being
considered
to
bore
mankind
by
her
vocal
performances
in
the
Spanish
language
,
she
retired
to
Bath
,
where
she
lives
slenderly
on
an
annual
present
from
Sir
Leicester
and
whence
she
makes
occasional
resurrections
in
the
country
houses
of
her
cousins
.
She
has
an
extensive
acquaintance
at
Bath
among
appalling
old
gentlemen
with
thin
legs
and
nankeen
trousers
,
and
is
of
high
standing
in
that
dreary
city
.
But
she
is
a
little
dreaded
elsewhere
in
consequence
of
an
indiscreet
profusion
in
the
article
of
rouge
and
persistency
in
an
obsolete
pearl
necklace
like
a
rosary
of
little
bird
’
s
-
eggs
.
In
any
country
in
a
wholesome
state
,
Volumnia
would
be
a
clear
case
for
the
pension
list
.
Efforts
have
been
made
to
get
her
on
it
,
and
when
William
Buffy
came
in
,
it
was
fully
expected
that
her
name
would
be
put
down
for
a
couple
of
hundred
a
year
.
But
William
Buffy
somehow
discovered
,
contrary
to
all
expectation
,
that
these
were
not
the
times
when
it
could
be
done
,
and
this
was
the
first
clear
indication
Sir
Leicester
Dedlock
had
conveyed
to
him
that
the
country
was
going
to
pieces
.
There
is
likewise
the
Honourable
Bob
Stables
,
who
can
make
warm
mashes
with
the
skill
of
a
veterinary
surgeon
and
is
a
better
shot
than
most
gamekeepers
.
He
has
been
for
some
time
particularly
desirous
to
serve
his
country
in
a
post
of
good
emoluments
,
unaccompanied
by
any
trouble
or
responsibility
.
In
a
well
-
regulated
body
politic
this
natural
desire
on
the
part
of
a
spirited
young
gentleman
so
highly
connected
would
be
speedily
recognized
,
but
somehow
William
Buffy
found
when
he
came
in
that
these
were
not
times
in
which
he
could
manage
that
little
matter
either
,
and
this
was
the
second
indication
Sir
Leicester
Dedlock
had
conveyed
to
him
that
the
country
was
going
to
pieces
.
The
rest
of
the
cousins
are
ladies
and
gentlemen
of
various
ages
and
capacities
,
the
major
part
amiable
and
sensible
and
likely
to
have
done
well
enough
in
life
if
they
could
have
overcome
their
cousinship
;
as
it
is
,
they
are
almost
all
a
little
worsted
by
it
,
and
lounge
in
purposeless
and
listless
paths
,
and
seem
to
be
quite
as
much
at
a
loss
how
to
dispose
of
themselves
as
anybody
else
can
be
how
to
dispose
of
them
.
In
this
society
,
and
where
not
,
my
Lady
Dedlock
reigns
supreme
.
Beautiful
,
elegant
,
accomplished
,
and
powerful
in
her
little
world
(
for
the
world
of
fashion
does
not
stretch
ALL
the
way
from
pole
to
pole
)
,
her
influence
in
Sir
Leicester
’
s
house
,
however
haughty
and
indifferent
her
manner
,
is
greatly
to
improve
it
and
refine
it
.
The
cousins
,
even
those
older
cousins
who
were
paralysed
when
Sir
Leicester
married
her
,
do
her
feudal
homage
;
and
the
Honourable
Bob
Stables
daily
repeats
to
some
chosen
person
between
breakfast
and
lunch
his
favourite
original
remark
,
that
she
is
the
best
-
groomed
woman
in
the
whole
stud
.
Such
the
guests
in
the
long
drawing
-
room
at
Chesney
Wold
this
dismal
night
when
the
step
on
the
Ghost
’
s
Walk
(
inaudible
here
,
however
)
might
be
the
step
of
a
deceased
cousin
shut
out
in
the
cold
.
It
is
near
bed
-
time
.
Bedroom
fires
blaze
brightly
all
over
the
house
,
raising
ghosts
of
grim
furniture
on
wall
and
ceiling
.
Bedroom
candlesticks
bristle
on
the
distant
table
by
the
door
,
and
cousins
yawn
on
ottomans
.
Cousins
at
the
piano
,
cousins
at
the
soda
-
water
tray
,
cousins
rising
from
the
card
-
table
,
cousins
gathered
round
the
fire
.
Standing
on
one
side
of
his
own
peculiar
fire
(
for
there
are
two
)
,
Sir
Leicester
.
On
the
opposite
side
of
the
broad
hearth
,
my
Lady
at
her
table
.
Volumnia
,
as
one
of
the
more
privileged
cousins
,
in
a
luxurious
chair
between
them
.
Sir
Leicester
glancing
,
with
magnificent
displeasure
,
at
the
rouge
and
the
pearl
necklace
.
"
I
occasionally
meet
on
my
staircase
here
,
"
drawls
Volumnia
,
whose
thoughts
perhaps
are
already
hopping
up
it
to
bed
,
after
a
long
evening
of
very
desultory
talk
,
"
one
of
the
prettiest
girls
,
I
think
,
that
I
ever
saw
in
my
life
.
"
"
A
PROTEGEE
of
my
Lady
’
s
,
"
observes
Sir
Leicester
.
"
I
thought
so
.
I
felt
sure
that
some
uncommon
eye
must
have
picked
that
girl
out
.
She
really
is
a
marvel
.
A
dolly
sort
of
beauty
perhaps
,
"
says
Miss
Volumnia
,
reserving
her
own
sort
,
"
but
in
its
way
,
perfect
;
such
bloom
I
never
saw
!
"
Sir
Leicester
,
with
his
magnificent
glance
of
displeasure
at
the
rouge
,
appears
to
say
so
too
.
"
Indeed
,
"
remarks
my
Lady
languidly
,
"
if
there
is
any
uncommon
eye
in
the
case
,
it
is
Mrs
.
Rouncewell
’
s
,
and
not
mine
.
Rosa
is
her
discovery
.
"
"
Your
maid
,
I
suppose
?
"
"
No
.
My
anything
;
pet
—
secretary
—
messenger
—
I
don
’
t
know
what
.
"
"
You
like
to
have
her
about
you
,
as
you
would
like
to
have
a
flower
,
or
a
bird
,
or
a
picture
,
or
a
poodle
—
no
,
not
a
poodle
,
though
—
or
anything
else
that
was
equally
pretty
?
"
says
Volumnia
,
sympathizing
.
"
Yes
,
how
charming
now
!
And
how
well
that
delightful
old
soul
Mrs
.
Rouncewell
is
looking
.
She
must
be
an
immense
age
,
and
yet
she
is
as
active
and
handsome
!
She
is
the
dearest
friend
I
have
,
positively
!
"
Sir
Leicester
feels
it
to
be
right
and
fitting
that
the
housekeeper
of
Chesney
Wold
should
be
a
remarkable
person
.
Apart
from
that
,
he
has
a
real
regard
for
Mrs
.
Rouncewell
and
likes
to
hear
her
praised
.
So
he
says
,
"
You
are
right
,
Volumnia
,
"
which
Volumnia
is
extremely
glad
to
hear
.
"
She
has
no
daughter
of
her
own
,
has
she
?
"
"
Mrs
.
Rouncewell
?
No
,
Volumnia
.
She
has
a
son
.
Indeed
,
she
had
two
.
"
My
Lady
,
whose
chronic
malady
of
boredom
has
been
sadly
aggravated
by
Volumnia
this
evening
,
glances
wearily
towards
the
candlesticks
and
heaves
a
noiseless
sigh
.
"
And
it
is
a
remarkable
example
of
the
confusion
into
which
the
present
age
has
fallen
;
of
the
obliteration
of
landmarks
,
the
opening
of
floodgates
,
and
the
uprooting
of
distinctions
,
"
says
Sir
Leicester
with
stately
gloom
,
"
that
I
have
been
informed
by
Mr
.
Tulkinghorn
that
Mrs
.
Rouncewell
’
s
son
has
been
invited
to
go
into
Parliament
.
"
Miss
Volumnia
utters
a
little
sharp
scream
.
"
Yes
,
indeed
,
"
repeats
Sir
Leicester
.
"
Into
Parliament
.
"
"
I
never
heard
of
such
a
thing
!
Good
gracious
,
what
is
the
man
?
"
exclaims
Volumnia
.
"
He
is
called
,
I
believe
—
an
—
ironmaster
.
"
Sir
Leicester
says
it
slowly
and
with
gravity
and
doubt
,
as
not
being
sure
but
that
he
is
called
a
lead
-
mistress
or
that
the
right
word
may
be
some
other
word
expressive
of
some
other
relationship
to
some
other
metal
.
Volumnia
utters
another
little
scream
.
"
He
has
declined
the
proposal
,
if
my
information
from
Mr
.
Tulkinghorn
be
correct
,
as
I
have
no
doubt
it
is
.
Mr
.
Tulkinghorn
being
always
correct
and
exact
;
still
that
does
not
,
"
says
Sir
Leicester
,
"
that
does
not
lessen
the
anomaly
,
which
is
fraught
with
strange
considerations
—
startling
considerations
,
as
it
appears
to
me
.
"
Miss
Volumnia
rising
with
a
look
candlestick
-
wards
,
Sir
Leicester
politely
performs
the
grand
tour
of
the
drawing
-
room
,
brings
one
,
and
lights
it
at
my
Lady
’
s
shaded
lamp
.
"
I
must
beg
you
,
my
Lady
,
"
he
says
while
doing
so
,
"
to
remain
a
few
moments
,
for
this
individual
of
whom
I
speak
arrived
this
evening
shortly
before
dinner
and
requested
in
a
very
becoming
note
"
—
Sir
Leicester
,
with
his
habitual
regard
to
truth
,
dwells
upon
it
—
"
I
am
bound
to
say
,
in
a
very
becoming
and
well
-
expressed
note
,
the
favour
of
a
short
interview
with
yourself
and
MYself
on
the
subject
of
this
young
girl
.
As
it
appeared
that
he
wished
to
depart
to
-
night
,
I
replied
that
we
would
see
him
before
retiring
.
"
Miss
Volumnia
with
a
third
little
scream
takes
flight
,
wishing
her
hosts
—
O
Lud
!
—
well
rid
of
the
—
what
is
it
?
—
ironmaster
!
The
other
cousins
soon
disperse
,
to
the
last
cousin
there
.
Sir
Leicester
rings
the
bell
,
"
Make
my
compliments
to
Mr
.
Rouncewell
,
in
the
housekeeper
’
s
apartments
,
and
say
I
can
receive
him
now
.
"
My
Lady
,
who
has
heard
all
this
with
slight
attention
outwardly
,
looks
towards
Mr
.
Rouncewell
as
he
comes
in
.
He
is
a
little
over
fifty
perhaps
,
of
a
good
figure
,
like
his
mother
,
and
has
a
clear
voice
,
a
broad
forehead
from
which
his
dark
hair
has
retired
,
and
a
shrewd
though
open
face
.
He
is
a
responsible
-
looking
gentleman
dressed
in
black
,
portly
enough
,
but
strong
and
active
.
Has
a
perfectly
natural
and
easy
air
and
is
not
in
the
least
embarrassed
by
the
great
presence
into
which
he
comes
.
"
Sir
Leicester
and
Lady
Dedlock
,
as
I
have
already
apologized
for
intruding
on
you
,
I
cannot
do
better
than
be
very
brief
.
I
thank
you
,
Sir
Leicester
.
"
The
head
of
the
Dedlocks
has
motioned
towards
a
sofa
between
himself
and
my
Lady
.
Mr
.
Rouncewell
quietly
takes
his
seat
there
.
"
In
these
busy
times
,
when
so
many
great
undertakings
are
in
progress
,
people
like
myself
have
so
many
workmen
in
so
many
places
that
we
are
always
on
the
flight
.
"
Sir
Leicester
is
content
enough
that
the
ironmaster
should
feel
that
there
is
no
hurry
there
;
there
,
in
that
ancient
house
,
rooted
in
that
quiet
park
,
where
the
ivy
and
the
moss
have
had
time
to
mature
,
and
the
gnarled
and
warted
elms
and
the
umbrageous
oaks
stand
deep
in
the
fern
and
leaves
of
a
hundred
years
;
and
where
the
sun
-
dial
on
the
terrace
has
dumbly
recorded
for
centuries
that
time
which
was
as
much
the
property
of
every
Dedlock
—
while
he
lasted
—
as
the
house
and
lands
.
Sir
Leicester
sits
down
in
an
easy
-
chair
,
opposing
his
repose
and
that
of
Chesney
Wold
to
the
restless
flights
of
ironmasters
.
"
Lady
Dedlock
has
been
so
kind
,
"
proceeds
Mr
.
Rouncewell
with
a
respectful
glance
and
a
bow
that
way
,
"
as
to
place
near
her
a
young
beauty
of
the
name
of
Rosa
.
Now
,
my
son
has
fallen
in
love
with
Rosa
and
has
asked
my
consent
to
his
proposing
marriage
to
her
and
to
their
becoming
engaged
if
she
will
take
him
—
which
I
suppose
she
will
.
I
have
never
seen
Rosa
until
to
-
day
,
but
I
have
some
confidence
in
my
son
’
s
good
sense
—
even
in
love
.
I
find
her
what
he
represents
her
,
to
the
best
of
my
judgment
;
and
my
mother
speaks
of
her
with
great
commendation
.
"
"
She
in
all
respects
deserves
it
,
"
says
my
Lady
.
"
I
am
happy
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
that
you
say
so
,
and
I
need
not
comment
on
the
value
to
me
of
your
kind
opinion
of
her
.
"
"
That
,
"
observes
Sir
Leicester
with
unspeakable
grandeur
,
for
he
thinks
the
ironmaster
a
little
too
glib
,
"
must
be
quite
unnecessary
.
"
"
Quite
unnecessary
,
Sir
Leicester
.
Now
,
my
son
is
a
very
young
man
,
and
Rosa
is
a
very
young
woman
.
As
I
made
my
way
,
so
my
son
must
make
his
;
and
his
being
married
at
present
is
out
of
the
question
.
But
supposing
I
gave
my
consent
to
his
engaging
himself
to
this
pretty
girl
,
if
this
pretty
girl
will
engage
herself
to
him
,
I
think
it
a
piece
of
candour
to
say
at
once
—
I
am
sure
,
Sir
Leicester
and
Lady
Dedlock
,
you
will
understand
and
excuse
me
—
I
should
make
it
a
condition
that
she
did
not
remain
at
Chesney
Wold
.
Therefore
,
before
communicating
further
with
my
son
,
I
take
the
liberty
of
saying
that
if
her
removal
would
be
in
any
way
inconvenient
or
objectionable
,
I
will
hold
the
matter
over
with
him
for
any
reasonable
time
and
leave
it
precisely
where
it
is
.
"
Not
remain
at
Chesney
Wold
!
Make
it
a
condition
!
All
Sir
Leicester
’
s
old
misgivings
relative
to
Wat
Tyler
and
the
people
in
the
iron
districts
who
do
nothing
but
turn
out
by
torchlight
come
in
a
shower
upon
his
head
,
the
fine
grey
hair
of
which
,
as
well
as
of
his
whiskers
,
actually
stirs
with
indignation
.
"
Am
I
to
understand
,
sir
,
"
says
Sir
Leicester
,
"
and
is
my
Lady
to
understand
"
—
he
brings
her
in
thus
specially
,
first
as
a
point
of
gallantry
,
and
next
as
a
point
of
prudence
,
having
great
reliance
on
her
sense
—
"
am
I
to
understand
,
Mr
.
Rouncewell
,
and
is
my
Lady
to
understand
,
sir
,
that
you
consider
this
young
woman
too
good
for
Chesney
Wold
or
likely
to
be
injured
by
remaining
here
?
"
"
Certainly
not
,
Sir
Leicester
,
"
"
I
am
glad
to
hear
it
.
"
Sir
Leicester
very
lofty
indeed
.
"
Pray
,
Mr
.
Rouncewell
,
"
says
my
Lady
,
warning
Sir
Leicester
off
with
the
slightest
gesture
of
her
pretty
hand
,
as
if
he
were
a
fly
,
"
explain
to
me
what
you
mean
.
"
"
Willingly
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
There
is
nothing
I
could
desire
more
.
"
Addressing
her
composed
face
,
whose
intelligence
,
however
,
is
too
quick
and
active
to
be
concealed
by
any
studied
impassiveness
,
however
habitual
,
to
the
strong
Saxon
face
of
the
visitor
,
a
picture
of
resolution
and
perseverance
,
my
Lady
listens
with
attention
,
occasionally
slightly
bending
her
head
.
"
I
am
the
son
of
your
housekeeper
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
and
passed
my
childhood
about
this
house
.
My
mother
has
lived
here
half
a
century
and
will
die
here
I
have
no
doubt
.
She
is
one
of
those
examples
—
perhaps
as
good
a
one
as
there
is
—
of
love
,
and
attachment
,
and
fidelity
in
such
a
nation
,
which
England
may
well
be
proud
of
,
but
of
which
no
order
can
appropriate
the
whole
pride
or
the
whole
merit
,
because
such
an
instance
bespeaks
high
worth
on
two
sides
—
on
the
great
side
assuredly
,
on
the
small
one
no
less
assuredly
.
"
Sir
Leicester
snorts
a
little
to
hear
the
law
laid
down
in
this
way
,
but
in
his
honour
and
his
love
of
truth
,
he
freely
,
though
silently
,
admits
the
justice
of
the
ironmaster
’
s
proposition
.
"
Pardon
me
for
saying
what
is
so
obvious
,
but
I
wouldn
’
t
have
it
hastily
supposed
,
"
with
the
least
turn
of
his
eyes
towards
Sir
Leicester
,
"
that
I
am
ashamed
of
my
mother
’
s
position
here
,
or
wanting
in
all
just
respect
for
Chesney
Wold
and
the
family
.
I
certainly
may
have
desired
—
I
certainly
have
desired
,
Lady
Dedlock
—
that
my
mother
should
retire
after
so
many
years
and
end
her
days
with
me
.
But
as
I
have
found
that
to
sever
this
strong
bond
would
be
to
break
her
heart
,
I
have
long
abandoned
that
idea
.
"
Sir
Leicester
very
magnificent
again
at
the
notion
of
Mrs
.
Rouncewell
being
spirited
off
from
her
natural
home
to
end
her
days
with
an
ironmaster
.
"
I
have
been
,
"
proceeds
the
visitor
in
a
modest
,
clear
way
,
"
an
apprentice
and
a
workman
.
I
have
lived
on
workman
’
s
wages
,
years
and
years
,
and
beyond
a
certain
point
have
had
to
educate
myself
.
My
wife
was
a
foreman
’
s
daughter
,
and
plainly
brought
up
.
