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With
this
feeling
uppermost
,
he
continued
to
waive
the
question
of
the
chaplaincy
,
and
to
persuade
himself
that
it
was
not
only
no
proper
business
of
his
,
but
likely
enough
never
to
vex
him
with
a
demand
for
his
vote
.
Lydgate
,
at
Mr
.
Bulstrode
’
s
request
,
was
laying
down
plans
for
the
internal
arrangements
of
the
new
hospital
,
and
the
two
were
often
in
consultation
.
The
banker
was
always
presupposing
that
he
could
count
in
general
on
Lydgate
as
a
coadjutor
,
but
made
no
special
recurrence
to
the
coming
decision
between
Tyke
and
Farebrother
.
When
the
General
Board
of
the
Infirmary
had
met
,
however
,
and
Lydgate
had
notice
that
the
question
of
the
chaplaincy
was
thrown
on
a
council
of
the
directors
and
medical
men
,
to
meet
on
the
following
Friday
,
he
had
a
vexed
sense
that
he
must
make
up
his
mind
on
this
trivial
Middlemarch
business
.
He
could
not
help
hearing
within
him
the
distinct
declaration
that
Bulstrode
was
prime
minister
,
and
that
the
Tyke
affair
was
a
question
of
office
or
no
office
;
and
he
could
not
help
an
equally
pronounced
dislike
to
giving
up
the
prospect
of
office
.
For
his
observation
was
constantly
confirming
Mr
.
Farebrother
’
s
assurance
that
the
banker
would
not
overlook
opposition
.
"
Confound
their
petty
politics
!
"
was
one
of
his
thoughts
for
three
mornings
in
the
meditative
process
of
shaving
,
when
he
had
begun
to
feel
that
he
must
really
hold
a
court
of
conscience
on
this
matter
.
Certainly
there
were
valid
things
to
be
said
against
the
election
of
Mr
.
Farebrother
:
he
had
too
much
on
his
hands
already
,
especially
considering
how
much
time
he
spent
on
non
-
clerical
occupations
.
Then
again
it
was
a
continually
repeated
shock
,
disturbing
Lydgate
’
s
esteem
,
that
the
Vicar
should
obviously
play
for
the
sake
of
money
,
liking
the
play
indeed
,
but
evidently
liking
some
end
which
it
served
.
Mr
.
Farebrother
contended
on
theory
for
the
desirability
of
all
games
,
and
said
that
Englishmen
’
s
wit
was
stagnant
for
want
of
them
;
but
Lydgate
felt
certain
that
he
would
have
played
very
much
less
but
for
the
money
.
There
was
a
billiard
-
room
at
the
Green
Dragon
,
which
some
anxious
mothers
and
wives
regarded
as
the
chief
temptation
in
Middlemarch
.
The
Vicar
was
a
first
-
rate
billiard
-
player
,
and
though
he
did
not
frequent
the
Green
Dragon
,
there
were
reports
that
he
had
sometimes
been
there
in
the
daytime
and
had
won
money
.
And
as
to
the
chaplaincy
,
he
did
not
pretend
that
he
cared
for
it
,
except
for
the
sake
of
the
forty
pounds
.
Lydgate
was
no
Puritan
,
but
he
did
not
care
for
play
,
and
winning
money
at
it
had
always
seemed
a
meanness
to
him
;
besides
,
he
had
an
ideal
of
life
which
made
this
subservience
of
conduct
to
the
gaining
of
small
sums
thoroughly
hateful
to
him
.
Hitherto
in
his
own
life
his
wants
had
been
supplied
without
any
trouble
to
himself
,
and
his
first
impulse
was
always
to
be
liberal
with
half
-
crowns
as
matters
of
no
importance
to
a
gentleman
;
it
had
never
occurred
to
him
to
devise
a
plan
for
getting
half
-
crowns
.
He
had
always
known
in
a
general
way
that
he
was
not
rich
,
but
he
had
never
felt
poor
,
and
he
had
no
power
of
imagining
the
part
which
the
want
of
money
plays
in
determining
the
actions
of
men
.
Money
had
never
been
a
motive
to
him
.
Hence
he
was
not
ready
to
frame
excuses
for
this
deliberate
pursuit
of
small
gains
.
It
was
altogether
repulsive
to
him
,
and
he
never
entered
into
any
calculation
of
the
ratio
between
the
Vicar
’
s
income
and
his
more
or
less
necessary
expenditure
.
It
was
possible
that
he
would
not
have
made
such
a
calculation
in
his
own
case
.
And
now
,
when
the
question
of
voting
had
come
,
this
repulsive
fact
told
more
strongly
against
Mr
.
Farebrother
than
it
had
done
before
.
One
would
know
much
better
what
to
do
if
men
’
s
characters
were
more
consistent
,
and
especially
if
one
’
s
friends
were
invariably
fit
for
any
function
they
desired
to
undertake
!
Lydgate
was
convinced
that
if
there
had
been
no
valid
objection
to
Mr
.
Farebrother
,
he
would
have
voted
for
him
,
whatever
Bulstrode
might
have
felt
on
the
subject
:
he
did
not
intend
to
be
a
vassal
of
Bulstrode
’
s
.
On
the
other
hand
,
there
was
Tyke
,
a
man
entirely
given
to
his
clerical
office
,
who
was
simply
curate
at
a
chapel
of
ease
in
St
.
Peter
’
s
parish
,
and
had
time
for
extra
duty
.
Nobody
had
anything
to
say
against
Mr
.
Tyke
,
except
that
they
could
not
bear
him
,
and
suspected
him
of
cant
.
Really
,
from
his
point
of
view
,
Bulstrode
was
thoroughly
justified
.
But
whichever
way
Lydgate
began
to
incline
,
there
was
something
to
make
him
wince
;
and
being
a
proud
man
,
he
was
a
little
exasperated
at
being
obliged
to
wince
.
He
did
not
like
frustrating
his
own
best
purposes
by
getting
on
bad
terms
with
Bulstrode
;
he
did
not
like
voting
against
Farebrother
,
and
helping
to
deprive
him
of
function
and
salary
;
and
the
question
occurred
whether
the
additional
forty
pounds
might
not
leave
the
Vicar
free
from
that
ignoble
care
about
winning
at
cards
.
Moreover
,
Lydgate
did
not
like
the
consciousness
that
in
voting
for
Tyke
he
should
be
voting
on
the
side
obviously
convenient
for
himself
.
But
would
the
end
really
be
his
own
convenience
?
Other
people
would
say
so
,
and
would
allege
that
he
was
currying
favor
with
Bulstrode
for
the
sake
of
making
himself
important
and
getting
on
in
the
world
.
What
then
?
He
for
his
own
part
knew
that
if
his
personal
prospects
simply
had
been
concerned
,
he
would
not
have
cared
a
rotten
nut
for
the
banker
’
s
friendship
or
enmity
.
What
he
really
cared
for
was
a
medium
for
his
work
,
a
vehicle
for
his
ideas
;
and
after
all
,
was
he
not
bound
to
prefer
the
object
of
getting
a
good
hospital
,
where
he
could
demonstrate
the
specific
distinctions
of
fever
and
test
therapeutic
results
,
before
anything
else
connected
with
this
chaplaincy
?
For
the
first
time
Lydgate
was
feeling
the
hampering
threadlike
pressure
of
small
social
conditions
,
and
their
frustrating
complexity
.
At
the
end
of
his
inward
debate
,
when
he
set
out
for
the
hospital
,
his
hope
was
really
in
the
chance
that
discussion
might
somehow
give
a
new
aspect
to
the
question
,
and
make
the
scale
dip
so
as
to
exclude
the
necessity
for
voting
.
I
think
he
trusted
a
little
also
to
the
energy
which
is
begotten
by
circumstances
—
some
feeling
rushing
warmly
and
making
resolve
easy
,
while
debate
in
cool
blood
had
only
made
it
more
difficult
.
However
it
was
,
he
did
not
distinctly
say
to
himself
on
which
side
he
would
vote
;
and
all
the
while
he
was
inwardly
resenting
the
subjection
which
had
been
forced
upon
him
.
It
would
have
seemed
beforehand
like
a
ridiculous
piece
of
bad
logic
that
he
,
with
his
unmixed
resolutions
of
independence
and
his
select
purposes
,
would
find
himself
at
the
very
outset
in
the
grasp
of
petty
alternatives
,
each
of
which
was
repugnant
to
him
.
In
his
student
’
s
chambers
,
he
had
prearranged
his
social
action
quite
differently
.
Lydgate
was
late
in
setting
out
,
but
Dr
.
Sprague
,
the
two
other
surgeons
,
and
several
of
the
directors
had
arrived
early
;
Mr
.
Bulstrode
,
treasurer
and
chairman
,
being
among
those
who
were
still
absent
.
The
conversation
seemed
to
imply
that
the
issue
was
problematical
,
and
that
a
majority
for
Tyke
was
not
so
certain
as
had
been
generally
supposed
.
The
two
physicians
,
for
a
wonder
,
turned
out
to
be
unanimous
,
or
rather
,
though
of
different
minds
,
they
concurred
in
action
.
Dr
.
Sprague
,
the
rugged
and
weighty
,
was
,
as
every
one
had
foreseen
,
an
adherent
of
Mr
.
Farebrother
.
The
Doctor
was
more
than
suspected
of
having
no
religion
,
but
somehow
Middlemarch
tolerated
this
deficiency
in
him
as
if
he
had
been
a
Lord
Chancellor
;
indeed
it
is
probable
that
his
professional
weight
was
the
more
believed
in
,
the
world
-
old
association
of
cleverness
with
the
evil
principle
being
still
potent
in
the
minds
even
of
lady
-
patients
who
had
the
strictest
ideas
of
frilling
and
sentiment
.
It
was
perhaps
this
negation
in
the
Doctor
which
made
his
neighbors
call
him
hard
-
headed
and
dry
-
witted
;
conditions
of
texture
which
were
also
held
favorable
to
the
storing
of
judgments
connected
with
drugs
.
At
all
events
,
it
is
certain
that
if
any
medical
man
had
come
to
Middlemarch
with
the
reputation
of
having
very
definite
religious
views
,
of
being
given
to
prayer
,
and
of
otherwise
showing
an
active
piety
,
there
would
have
been
a
general
presumption
against
his
medical
skill
.
