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I
am
sorry
to
say
that
only
the
third
day
after
the
propitious
events
at
Houndsley
Fred
Vincy
had
fallen
into
worse
spirits
than
he
had
known
in
his
life
before
.
Not
that
he
had
been
disappointed
as
to
the
possible
market
for
his
horse
,
but
that
before
the
bargain
could
be
concluded
with
Lord
Medlicote
’
s
man
,
this
Diamond
,
in
which
hope
to
the
amount
of
eighty
pounds
had
been
invested
,
had
without
the
slightest
warning
exhibited
in
the
stable
a
most
vicious
energy
in
kicking
,
had
just
missed
killing
the
groom
,
and
had
ended
in
laming
himself
severely
by
catching
his
leg
in
a
rope
that
overhung
the
stable
-
board
.
There
was
no
more
redress
for
this
than
for
the
discovery
of
bad
temper
after
marriage
—
which
of
course
old
companions
were
aware
of
before
the
ceremony
.
For
some
reason
or
other
,
Fred
had
none
of
his
usual
elasticity
under
this
stroke
of
ill
-
fortune
:
he
was
simply
aware
that
he
had
only
fifty
pounds
,
that
there
was
no
chance
of
his
getting
any
more
at
present
,
and
that
the
bill
for
a
hundred
and
sixty
would
be
presented
in
five
days
.
Even
if
he
had
applied
to
his
father
on
the
plea
that
Mr
.
Garth
should
be
saved
from
loss
,
Fred
felt
smartingly
that
his
father
would
angrily
refuse
to
rescue
Mr
.
Garth
from
the
consequence
of
what
he
would
call
encouraging
extravagance
and
deceit
.
He
was
so
utterly
downcast
that
he
could
frame
no
other
project
than
to
go
straight
to
Mr
.
Garth
and
tell
him
the
sad
truth
,
carrying
with
him
the
fifty
pounds
,
and
getting
that
sum
at
least
safely
out
of
his
own
hands
.
His
father
,
being
at
the
warehouse
,
did
not
yet
know
of
the
accident
:
when
he
did
,
he
would
storm
about
the
vicious
brute
being
brought
into
his
stable
;
and
before
meeting
that
lesser
annoyance
Fred
wanted
to
get
away
with
all
his
courage
to
face
the
greater
.
He
took
his
father
’
s
nag
,
for
he
had
made
up
his
mind
that
when
he
had
told
Mr
.
Garth
,
he
would
ride
to
Stone
Court
and
confess
all
to
Mary
.
In
fact
,
it
is
probable
that
but
for
Mary
’
s
existence
and
Fred
’
s
love
for
her
,
his
conscience
would
hare
been
much
less
active
both
in
previously
urging
the
debt
on
his
thought
and
impelling
him
not
to
spare
himself
after
his
usual
fashion
by
deferring
an
unpleasant
task
,
but
to
act
as
directly
and
simply
as
he
could
.
Even
much
stronger
mortals
than
Fred
Vincy
hold
half
their
rectitude
in
the
mind
of
the
being
they
love
best
.
"
The
theatre
of
all
my
actions
is
fallen
,
"
said
an
antique
personage
when
his
chief
friend
was
dead
;
and
they
are
fortunate
who
get
a
theatre
where
the
audience
demands
their
best
.
Certainly
it
would
have
made
a
considerable
difference
to
Fred
at
that
time
if
Mary
Garth
had
had
no
decided
notions
as
to
what
was
admirable
in
character
.
Mr
.
Garth
was
not
at
the
office
,
and
Fred
rode
on
to
his
house
,
which
was
a
little
way
outside
the
town
—
a
homely
place
with
an
orchard
in
front
of
it
,
a
rambling
,
old
-
fashioned
,
half
-
timbered
building
,
which
before
the
town
had
spread
had
been
a
farm
-
house
,
but
was
now
surrounded
with
the
private
gardens
of
the
townsmen
.
We
get
the
fonder
of
our
houses
if
they
have
a
physiognomy
of
their
own
,
as
our
friends
have
.
The
Garth
family
,
which
was
rather
a
large
one
,
for
Mary
had
four
brothers
and
one
sister
,
were
very
fond
of
their
old
house
,
from
which
all
the
best
furniture
had
long
been
sold
.
Fred
liked
it
too
,
knowing
it
by
heart
even
to
the
attic
which
smelt
deliciously
of
apples
and
quinces
,
and
until
to
-
day
he
had
never
come
to
it
without
pleasant
expectations
;
but
his
heart
beat
uneasily
now
with
the
sense
that
he
should
probably
have
to
make
his
confession
before
Mrs
.
Garth
,
of
whom
he
was
rather
more
in
awe
than
of
her
husband
.
Not
that
she
was
inclined
to
sarcasm
and
to
impulsive
sallies
,
as
Mary
was
.
In
her
present
matronly
age
at
least
,
Mrs
.
Garth
never
committed
herself
by
over
-
hasty
speech
;
having
,
as
she
said
,
borne
the
yoke
in
her
youth
,
and
learned
self
-
control
.
She
had
that
rare
sense
which
discerns
what
is
unalterable
,
and
submits
to
it
without
murmuring
.
Adoring
her
husband
’
s
virtues
,
she
had
very
early
made
up
her
mind
to
his
incapacity
of
minding
his
own
interests
,
and
had
met
the
consequences
cheerfully
.
She
had
been
magnanimous
enough
to
renounce
all
pride
in
teapots
or
children
’
s
frilling
,
and
had
never
poured
any
pathetic
confidences
into
the
ears
of
her
feminine
neighbors
concerning
Mr
.
Garth
’
s
want
of
prudence
and
the
sums
he
might
have
had
if
he
had
been
like
other
men
.
Hence
these
fair
neighbors
thought
her
either
proud
or
eccentric
,
and
sometimes
spoke
of
her
to
their
husbands
as
"
your
fine
Mrs
.
Garth
.
"
She
was
not
without
her
criticism
of
them
in
return
,
being
more
accurately
instructed
than
most
matrons
in
Middlemarch
,
and
—
where
is
the
blameless
woman
?
—
apt
to
be
a
little
severe
towards
her
own
sex
,
which
in
her
opinion
was
framed
to
be
entirely
subordinate
.
On
the
other
hand
,
she
was
disproportionately
indulgent
towards
the
failings
of
men
,
and
was
often
heard
to
say
that
these
were
natural
.
Also
,
it
must
be
admitted
that
Mrs
.
Garth
was
a
trifle
too
emphatic
in
her
resistance
to
what
she
held
to
be
follies
:
the
passage
from
governess
into
housewife
had
wrought
itself
a
little
too
strongly
into
her
consciousness
,
and
she
rarely
forgot
that
while
her
grammar
and
accent
were
above
the
town
standard
,
she
wore
a
plain
cap
,
cooked
the
family
dinner
,
and
darned
all
the
stockings
.
She
had
sometimes
taken
pupils
in
a
peripatetic
fashion
,
making
them
follow
her
about
in
the
kitchen
with
their
book
or
slate
.
She
thought
it
good
for
them
to
see
that
she
could
make
an
excellent
lather
while
she
corrected
their
blunders
"
without
looking
,
"
—
that
a
woman
with
her
sleeves
tucked
up
above
her
elbows
might
know
all
about
the
Subjunctive
Mood
or
the
Torrid
Zone
—
that
,
in
short
,
she
might
possess
"
education
"
and
other
good
things
ending
in
"
tion
,
"
and
worthy
to
be
pronounced
emphatically
,
without
being
a
useless
doll
.
When
she
made
remarks
to
this
edifying
effect
,
she
had
a
firm
little
frown
on
her
brow
,
which
yet
did
not
hinder
her
face
from
looking
benevolent
,
and
her
words
which
came
forth
like
a
procession
were
uttered
in
a
fervid
agreeable
contralto
.
Certainly
,
the
exemplary
Mrs
.
Garth
had
her
droll
aspects
,
but
her
character
sustained
her
oddities
,
as
a
very
fine
wine
sustains
a
flavor
of
skin
.
Towards
Fred
Vincy
she
had
a
motherly
feeling
,
and
had
always
been
disposed
to
excuse
his
errors
,
though
she
would
probably
not
have
excused
Mary
for
engaging
herself
to
him
,
her
daughter
being
included
in
that
more
rigorous
judgment
which
she
applied
to
her
own
sex
.
But
this
very
fact
of
her
exceptional
indulgence
towards
him
made
it
the
harder
to
Fred
that
he
must
now
inevitably
sink
in
her
opinion
.
And
the
circumstances
of
his
visit
turned
out
to
be
still
more
unpleasant
than
he
had
expected
;
for
Caleb
Garth
had
gone
out
early
to
look
at
some
repairs
not
far
off
.
Mrs
.
Garth
at
certain
hours
was
always
in
the
kitchen
,
and
this
morning
she
was
carrying
on
several
occupations
at
once
there
—
making
her
pies
at
the
well
-
scoured
deal
table
on
one
side
of
that
airy
room
,
observing
Sally
’
s
movements
at
the
oven
and
dough
-
tub
through
an
open
door
,
and
giving
lessons
to
her
youngest
boy
and
girl
,
who
were
standing
opposite
to
her
at
the
table
with
their
books
and
slates
before
them
.
A
tub
and
a
clothes
-
horse
at
the
other
end
of
the
kitchen
indicated
an
intermittent
wash
of
small
things
also
going
on
.
Mrs
.
Garth
,
with
her
sleeves
turned
above
her
elbows
,
deftly
handling
her
pastry
—
applying
her
rolling
-
pin
and
giving
ornamental
pinches
,
while
she
expounded
with
grammatical
fervor
what
were
the
right
views
about
the
concord
of
verbs
and
pronouns
with
"
nouns
of
multitude
or
signifying
many
,
"
was
a
sight
agreeably
amusing
.
She
was
of
the
same
curly
-
haired
,
square
-
faced
type
as
Mary
,
but
handsomer
,
with
more
delicacy
of
feature
,
a
pale
skin
,
a
solid
matronly
figure
,
and
a
remarkable
firmness
of
glance
.
In
her
snowy
-
frilled
cap
she
reminded
one
of
that
delightful
Frenchwoman
whom
we
have
all
seen
marketing
,
basket
on
arm
.
Looking
at
the
mother
,
you
might
hope
that
the
daughter
would
become
like
her
,
which
is
a
prospective
advantage
equal
to
a
dowry
—
the
mother
too
often
standing
behind
the
daughter
like
a
malignant
prophecy
—
"
Such
as
I
am
,
she
will
shortly
be
.
"
"
Now
let
us
go
through
that
once
more
,
"
said
Mrs
.
