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"
I
asked
the
favour
of
seeing
you
for
a
few
moments
here
,
"
said
I
,
"
in
preference
to
calling
at
Mr
.
Kenge
’
s
because
,
remembering
what
you
said
on
an
occasion
when
you
spoke
to
me
in
confidence
,
I
feared
I
might
otherwise
cause
you
some
embarrassment
,
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
I
caused
him
embarrassment
enough
as
it
was
,
I
am
sure
.
I
never
saw
such
faltering
,
such
confusion
,
such
amazement
and
apprehension
.
"
Miss
Summerson
,
"
stammered
Mr
.
Guppy
,
"
I
—
I
—
beg
your
pardon
,
but
in
our
profession
—
we
—
we
—
find
it
necessary
to
be
explicit
.
You
have
referred
to
an
occasion
,
miss
,
when
I
—
when
I
did
myself
the
honour
of
making
a
declaration
which
—
"
Something
seemed
to
rise
in
his
throat
that
he
could
not
possibly
swallow
.
He
put
his
hand
there
,
coughed
,
made
faces
,
tried
again
to
swallow
it
,
coughed
again
,
made
faces
again
,
looked
all
round
the
room
,
and
fluttered
his
papers
.
"
A
kind
of
giddy
sensation
has
come
upon
me
,
miss
,
"
he
explained
,
"
which
rather
knocks
me
over
.
I
—
er
—
a
little
subject
to
this
sort
of
thing
—
er
—
by
George
!
"
I
gave
him
a
little
time
to
recover
.
He
consumed
it
in
putting
his
hand
to
his
forehead
and
taking
it
away
again
,
and
in
backing
his
chair
into
the
corner
behind
him
.
"
My
intention
was
to
remark
,
miss
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
,
"
dear
me
—
something
bronchial
,
I
think
—
hem
!
—
to
remark
that
you
was
so
good
on
that
occasion
as
to
repel
and
repudiate
that
declaration
.
You
—
you
wouldn
’
t
perhaps
object
to
admit
that
?
Though
no
witnesses
are
present
,
it
might
be
a
satisfaction
to
—
to
your
mind
—
if
you
was
to
put
in
that
admission
.
"
"
There
can
be
no
doubt
,
"
said
I
,
"
that
I
declined
your
proposal
without
any
reservation
or
qualification
whatever
,
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
"
Thank
you
,
miss
,
"
he
returned
,
measuring
the
table
with
his
troubled
hands
.
"
So
far
that
’
s
satisfactory
,
and
it
does
you
credit
.
Er
—
this
is
certainly
bronchial
!
—
must
be
in
the
tubes
—
er
—
you
wouldn
’
t
perhaps
be
offended
if
I
was
to
mention
—
not
that
it
’
s
necessary
,
for
your
own
good
sense
or
any
person
’
s
sense
must
show
’
em
that
—
if
I
was
to
mention
that
such
declaration
on
my
part
was
final
,
and
there
terminated
?
"
"
I
quite
understand
that
,
"
said
I
.
"
Perhaps
—
er
—
it
may
not
be
worth
the
form
,
but
it
might
be
a
satisfaction
to
your
mind
—
perhaps
you
wouldn
’
t
object
to
admit
that
,
miss
?
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
I
admit
it
most
fully
and
freely
,
"
said
I
.
"
Thank
you
,
"
returned
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
Very
honourable
,
I
am
sure
.
I
regret
that
my
arrangements
in
life
,
combined
with
circumstances
over
which
I
have
no
control
,
will
put
it
out
of
my
power
ever
to
fall
back
upon
that
offer
or
to
renew
it
in
any
shape
or
form
whatever
,
but
it
will
ever
be
a
retrospect
entwined
—
er
—
with
friendship
’
s
bowers
.
"
Mr
.
Guppy
’
s
bronchitis
came
to
his
relief
and
stopped
his
measurement
of
the
table
.
"
I
may
now
perhaps
mention
what
I
wished
to
say
to
you
?
"
I
began
.
"
I
shall
be
honoured
,
I
am
sure
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
I
am
so
persuaded
that
your
own
good
sense
and
right
feeling
,
miss
,
will
—
will
keep
you
as
square
as
possible
—
that
I
can
have
nothing
but
pleasure
,
I
am
sure
,
in
hearing
any
observations
you
may
wish
to
offer
.
"
"
You
were
so
good
as
to
imply
,
on
that
occasion
—
"
"
Excuse
me
,
miss
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
,
"
but
we
had
better
not
travel
out
of
the
record
into
implication
.
I
cannot
admit
that
I
implied
anything
.
"
"
You
said
on
that
occasion
,
"
I
recommenced
,
"
that
you
might
possibly
have
the
means
of
advancing
my
interests
and
promoting
my
fortunes
by
making
discoveries
of
which
I
should
be
the
subject
.
I
presume
that
you
founded
that
belief
upon
your
general
knowledge
of
my
being
an
orphan
girl
,
indebted
for
everything
to
the
benevolence
of
Mr
.
Jarndyce
.
Now
,
the
beginning
and
the
end
of
what
I
have
come
to
beg
of
you
is
,
Mr
.
Guppy
,
that
you
will
have
the
kindness
to
relinquish
all
idea
of
so
serving
me
.
I
have
thought
of
this
sometimes
,
and
I
have
thought
of
it
most
lately
—
since
I
have
been
ill
.
At
length
I
have
decided
,
in
case
you
should
at
any
time
recall
that
purpose
and
act
upon
it
in
any
way
,
to
come
to
you
and
assure
you
that
you
are
altogether
mistaken
.
You
could
make
no
discovery
in
reference
to
me
that
would
do
me
the
least
service
or
give
me
the
least
pleasure
.
I
am
acquainted
with
my
personal
history
,
and
I
have
it
in
my
power
to
assure
you
that
you
never
can
advance
my
welfare
by
such
means
.
You
may
,
perhaps
,
have
abandoned
this
project
a
long
time
.
If
so
,
excuse
my
giving
you
unnecessary
trouble
.
If
not
,
I
entreat
you
,
on
the
assurance
I
have
given
you
,
henceforth
to
lay
it
aside
.
I
beg
you
to
do
this
,
for
my
peace
.
"
"
I
am
bound
to
confess
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
,
"
that
you
express
yourself
,
miss
,
with
that
good
sense
and
right
feeling
for
which
I
gave
you
credit
.
Nothing
can
be
more
satisfactory
than
such
right
feeling
,
and
if
I
mistook
any
intentions
on
your
part
just
now
,
I
am
prepared
to
tender
a
full
apology
.
I
should
wish
to
be
understood
,
miss
,
as
hereby
offering
that
apology
—
limiting
it
,
as
your
own
good
sense
and
right
feeling
will
point
out
the
necessity
of
,
to
the
present
proceedings
.
"
I
must
say
for
Mr
.
Guppy
that
the
snuffling
manner
he
had
had
upon
him
improved
very
much
.
He
seemed
truly
glad
to
be
able
to
do
something
I
asked
,
and
he
looked
ashamed
.
"
If
you
will
allow
me
to
finish
what
I
have
to
say
at
once
so
that
I
may
have
no
occasion
to
resume
,
"
I
went
on
,
seeing
him
about
to
speak
,
"
you
will
do
me
a
kindness
,
sir
.
I
come
to
you
as
privately
as
possible
because
you
announced
this
impression
of
yours
to
me
in
a
confidence
which
I
have
really
wished
to
respect
—
and
which
I
always
have
respected
,
as
you
remember
.
I
have
mentioned
my
illness
.
There
really
is
no
reason
why
I
should
hesitate
to
say
that
I
know
very
well
that
any
little
delicacy
I
might
have
had
in
making
a
request
to
you
is
quite
removed
.
Therefore
I
make
the
entreaty
I
have
now
preferred
,
and
I
hope
you
will
have
sufficient
consideration
for
me
to
accede
to
it
.
"
I
must
do
Mr
.
Guppy
the
further
justice
of
saying
that
he
had
looked
more
and
more
ashamed
and
that
he
looked
most
ashamed
and
very
earnest
when
he
now
replied
with
a
burning
face
,
"
Upon
my
word
and
honour
,
upon
my
life
,
upon
my
soul
,
Miss
Summerson
,
as
I
am
a
living
man
,
I
’
ll
act
according
to
your
wish
!
I
’
ll
never
go
another
step
in
opposition
to
it
.
I
’
ll
take
my
oath
to
it
if
it
will
be
any
satisfaction
to
you
.
In
what
I
promise
at
this
present
time
touching
the
matters
now
in
question
,
"
continued
Mr
.
Guppy
rapidly
,
as
if
he
were
repeating
a
familiar
form
of
words
,
"
I
speak
the
truth
,
the
whole
truth
,
and
nothing
but
the
truth
,
so
—
"
"
I
am
quite
satisfied
,
"
said
I
,
rising
at
this
point
,
"
and
I
thank
you
very
much
.
Caddy
,
my
dear
,
I
am
ready
!
"
Mr
.
Guppy
’
s
mother
returned
with
Caddy
(
now
making
me
the
recipient
of
her
silent
laughter
and
her
nudges
)
,
and
we
took
our
leave
.
Mr
.
Guppy
saw
us
to
the
door
with
the
air
of
one
who
was
either
imperfectly
awake
or
walking
in
his
sleep
;
and
we
left
him
there
,
staring
.
But
in
a
minute
he
came
after
us
down
the
street
without
any
hat
,
and
with
his
long
hair
all
blown
about
,
and
stopped
us
,
saying
fervently
,
"
Miss
Summerson
,
upon
my
honour
and
soul
,
you
may
depend
upon
me
!
"
"
I
do
,
"
said
I
,
"
quite
confidently
.
"
"
I
beg
your
pardon
,
miss
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
,
going
with
one
leg
and
staying
with
the
other
,
"
but
this
lady
being
present
—
your
own
witness
—
it
might
be
a
satisfaction
to
your
mind
(
which
I
should
wish
to
set
at
rest
)
if
you
was
to
repeat
those
admissions
.
"
"
Well
,
Caddy
,
"
said
I
,
turning
to
her
,
"
perhaps
you
will
not
be
surprised
when
I
tell
you
,
my
dear
,
that
there
never
has
been
any
engagement
—
"
"
No
proposal
or
promise
of
marriage
whatsoever
,
"
suggested
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
No
proposal
or
promise
of
marriage
whatsoever
,
"
said
I
,
"
between
this
gentleman
—
"
"
William
Guppy
,
of
Penton
Place
,
Pentonville
,
in
the
county
of
Middlesex
,
"
he
murmured
.
"
Between
this
gentleman
,
Mr
.
William
Guppy
,
of
Penton
Place
,
Pentonville
,
in
the
county
of
Middlesex
,
and
myself
.
"
"
Thank
you
,
miss
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
"
Very
full
—
er
—
excuse
me
—
lady
’
s
name
,
Christian
and
surname
both
?
"
I
gave
them
.
"
Married
woman
,
I
believe
?
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
Married
woman
.
Thank
you
.
Formerly
Caroline
Jellyby
,
spinster
,
then
of
Thavies
Inn
,
within
the
city
of
London
,
but
extra
-
parochial
;
now
of
Newman
Street
,
Oxford
Street
.
Much
obliged
.
"
He
ran
home
and
came
running
back
again
.
"
Touching
that
matter
,
you
know
,
I
really
and
truly
am
very
sorry
that
my
arrangements
in
life
,
combined
with
circumstances
over
which
I
have
no
control
,
should
prevent
a
renewal
of
what
was
wholly
terminated
some
time
back
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
to
me
forlornly
and
despondently
,
"
but
it
couldn
’
t
be
.
Now
COULD
it
,
you
know
!
I
only
put
it
to
you
.
"
I
replied
it
certainly
could
not
.
The
subject
did
not
admit
of
a
doubt
.
He
thanked
me
and
ran
to
his
mother
’
s
again
—
and
back
again
.
"
It
’
s
very
honourable
of
you
,
miss
,
I
am
sure
,
"
said
Mr
.
Guppy
.
"
If
an
altar
could
be
erected
in
the
bowers
of
friendship
—
but
,
upon
my
soul
,
you
may
rely
upon
me
in
every
respect
save
and
except
the
tender
passion
only
!
"
The
struggle
in
Mr
.
Guppy
’
s
breast
and
the
numerous
oscillations
it
occasioned
him
between
his
mother
’
s
door
and
us
were
sufficiently
conspicuous
in
the
windy
street
(
particularly
as
his
hair
wanted
cutting
)
to
make
us
hurry
away
.
I
did
so
with
a
lightened
heart
;
but
when
we
last
looked
back
,
Mr
.
Guppy
was
still
oscillating
in
the
same
troubled
state
of
mind
.
The
name
of
Mr
.
Vholes
,
preceded
by
the
legend
Ground
-
Floor
,
is
inscribed
upon
a
door
-
post
in
Symond
’
s
Inn
,
Chancery
Lane
—
a
little
,
pale
,
wall
-
eyed
,
woebegone
inn
like
a
large
dust
-
binn
of
two
compartments
and
a
sifter
.
It
looks
as
if
Symond
were
a
sparing
man
in
his
way
and
constructed
his
inn
of
old
building
materials
which
took
kindly
to
the
dry
rot
and
to
dirt
and
all
things
decaying
and
dismal
,
and
perpetuated
Symond
’
s
memory
with
congenial
shabbiness
.
Quartered
in
this
dingy
hatchment
commemorative
of
Symond
are
the
legal
bearings
of
Mr
.
Vholes
.
Mr
.
Vholes
’
s
office
,
in
disposition
retiring
and
in
situation
retired
,
is
squeezed
up
in
a
corner
and
blinks
at
a
dead
wall
.
Three
feet
of
knotty
-
floored
dark
passage
bring
the
client
to
Mr
.
Vholes
’
s
jet
-
black
door
,
in
an
angle
profoundly
dark
on
the
brightest
midsummer
morning
and
encumbered
by
a
black
bulk
-
head
of
cellarage
staircase
against
which
belated
civilians
generally
strike
their
brows
.
Mr
.
Vholes
’
s
chambers
are
on
so
small
a
scale
that
one
clerk
can
open
the
door
without
getting
off
his
stool
,
while
the
other
who
elbows
him
at
the
same
desk
has
equal
facilities
for
poking
the
fire
.
A
smell
as
of
unwholesome
sheep
blending
with
the
smell
of
must
and
dust
is
referable
to
the
nightly
(
and
often
daily
)
consumption
of
mutton
fat
in
candles
and
to
the
fretting
of
parchment
forms
and
skins
in
greasy
drawers
.
The
atmosphere
is
otherwise
stale
and
close
.
The
place
was
last
painted
or
whitewashed
beyond
the
memory
of
man
,
and
the
two
chimneys
smoke
,
and
there
is
a
loose
outer
surface
of
soot
everywhere
,
and
the
dull
cracked
windows
in
their
heavy
frames
have
but
one
piece
of
character
in
them
,
which
is
a
determination
to
be
always
dirty
and
always
shut
unless
coerced
.
This
accounts
for
the
phenomenon
of
the
weaker
of
the
two
usually
having
a
bundle
of
firewood
thrust
between
its
jaws
in
hot
weather
.
Mr
.
Vholes
is
a
very
respectable
man
.
He
has
not
a
large
business
,
but
he
is
a
very
respectable
man
.
He
is
allowed
by
the
greater
attorneys
who
have
made
good
fortunes
or
are
making
them
to
be
a
most
respectable
man
.
He
never
misses
a
chance
in
his
practice
,
which
is
a
mark
of
respectability
.
He
never
takes
any
pleasure
,
which
is
another
mark
of
respectability
.
He
is
reserved
and
serious
,
which
is
another
mark
of
respectability
.
His
digestion
is
impaired
,
which
is
highly
respectable
.
And
he
is
making
hay
of
the
grass
which
is
flesh
,
for
his
three
daughters
.
And
his
father
is
dependent
on
him
in
the
Vale
of
Taunton
.
The
one
great
principle
of
the
English
law
is
to
make
business
for
itself
.
There
is
no
other
principle
distinctly
,
certainly
,
and
consistently
maintained
through
all
its
narrow
turnings
.
Viewed
by
this
light
it
becomes
a
coherent
scheme
and
not
the
monstrous
maze
the
laity
are
apt
to
think
it
.
Let
them
but
once
clearly
perceive
that
its
grand
principle
is
to
make
business
for
itself
at
their
expense
,
and
surely
they
will
cease
to
grumble
.
But
not
perceiving
this
quite
plainly
—
only
seeing
it
by
halves
in
a
confused
way
—
the
laity
sometimes
suffer
in
peace
and
pocket
,
with
a
bad
grace
,
and
DO
grumble
very
much
.
Then
this
respectability
of
Mr
.
Vholes
is
brought
into
powerful
play
against
them
.
"
Repeal
this
statute
,
my
good
sir
?
"
says
Mr
.
Kenge
to
a
smarting
client
.
"
Repeal
it
,
my
dear
sir
?
Never
,
with
my
consent
.
Alter
this
law
,
sir
,
and
what
will
be
the
effect
of
your
rash
proceeding
on
a
class
of
practitioners
very
worthily
represented
,
allow
me
to
say
to
you
,
by
the
opposite
attorney
in
the
case
,
Mr
.
Vholes
?
Sir
,
that
class
of
practitioners
would
be
swept
from
the
face
of
the
earth
.
Now
you
cannot
afford
—
I
will
say
,
the
social
system
cannot
afford
—
to
lose
an
order
of
men
like
Mr
.
Vholes
.
Diligent
,
persevering
,
steady
,
acute
in
business
.
My
dear
sir
,
I
understand
your
present
feelings
against
the
existing
state
of
things
,
which
I
grant
to
be
a
little
hard
in
your
case
;
but
I
can
never
raise
my
voice
for
the
demolition
of
a
class
of
men
like
Mr
.
Vholes
.
"
The
respectability
of
Mr
.
Vholes
has
even
been
cited
with
crushing
effect
before
Parliamentary
committees
,
as
in
the
following
blue
minutes
of
a
distinguished
attorney
’
s
evidence
.
"
Question
(
number
five
hundred
and
seventeen
thousand
eight
hundred
and
sixty
-
nine
)
:
If
I
understand
you
,
these
forms
of
practice
indisputably
occasion
delay
?
Answer
:
Yes
,
some
delay
.
Question
:
And
great
expense
?
Answer
:
Most
assuredly
they
cannot
be
gone
through
for
nothing
.
Question
:
And
unspeakable
vexation
?
Answer
:
I
am
not
prepared
to
say
that
.
They
have
never
given
ME
any
vexation
;
quite
the
contrary
.
Question
:
But
you
think
that
their
abolition
would
damage
a
class
of
practitioners
?
Answer
:
I
have
no
doubt
of
it
.
Question
:
Can
you
instance
any
type
of
that
class
?
Answer
:
Yes
.
I
would
unhesitatingly
mention
Mr
.
Vholes
.
He
would
be
ruined
.
Question
:
Mr
.
Vholes
is
considered
,
in
the
profession
,
a
respectable
man
?
Answer
:
"
—
which
proved
fatal
to
the
inquiry
for
ten
years
—
"
Mr
.
Vholes
is
considered
,
in
the
profession
,
a
MOST
respectable
man
.
"
So
in
familiar
conversation
,
private
authorities
no
less
disinterested
will
remark
that
they
don
’
t
know
what
this
age
is
coming
to
,
that
we
are
plunging
down
precipices
,
that
now
here
is
something
else
gone
,
that
these
changes
are
death
to
people
like
Vholes
—
a
man
of
undoubted
respectability
,
with
a
father
in
the
Vale
of
Taunton
,
and
three
daughters
at
home
.
Take
a
few
steps
more
in
this
direction
,
say
they
,
and
what
is
to
become
of
Vholes
’
s
father
?
Is
he
to
perish
?
And
of
Vholes
’
s
daughters
?
Are
they
to
be
shirt
-
makers
,
or
governesses
?
As
though
,
Mr
.
Vholes
and
his
relations
being
minor
cannibal
chiefs
and
it
being
proposed
to
abolish
cannibalism
,
indignant
champions
were
to
put
the
case
thus
:
Make
man
-
eating
unlawful
,
and
you
starve
the
Vholeses
!
In
a
word
,
Mr
.
Vholes
,
with
his
three
daughters
and
his
father
in
the
Vale
of
Taunton
,
is
continually
doing
duty
,
like
a
piece
of
timber
,
to
shore
up
some
decayed
foundation
that
has
become
a
pitfall
and
a
nuisance
.
