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That
moment
of
naturalness
was
the
crystallizing
feather
-
touch
:
it
shook
flirtation
into
love
.
Remember
that
the
ambitious
man
who
was
looking
at
those
Forget
-
me
-
nots
under
the
water
was
very
warm
-
hearted
and
rash
.
He
did
not
know
where
the
chain
went
;
an
idea
had
thrilled
through
the
recesses
within
him
which
had
a
miraculous
effect
in
raising
the
power
of
passionate
love
lying
buried
there
in
no
sealed
sepulchre
,
but
under
the
lightest
,
easily
pierced
mould
.
His
words
were
quite
abrupt
and
awkward
;
but
the
tone
made
them
sound
like
an
ardent
,
appealing
avowal
.
"
What
is
the
matter
?
you
are
distressed
.
Tell
me
,
pray
.
"
Rosamond
had
never
been
spoken
to
in
such
tones
before
.
I
am
not
sure
that
she
knew
what
the
words
were
:
but
she
looked
at
Lydgate
and
the
tears
fell
over
her
cheeks
.
There
could
have
been
no
more
complete
answer
than
that
silence
,
and
Lydgate
,
forgetting
everything
else
,
completely
mastered
by
the
outrush
of
tenderness
at
the
sudden
belief
that
this
sweet
young
creature
depended
on
him
for
her
joy
,
actually
put
his
arms
round
her
,
folding
her
gently
and
protectingly
—
he
was
used
to
being
gentle
with
the
weak
and
suffering
—
and
kissed
each
of
the
two
large
tears
.
This
was
a
strange
way
of
arriving
at
an
understanding
,
but
it
was
a
short
way
.
Rosamond
was
not
angry
,
but
she
moved
backward
a
little
in
timid
happiness
,
and
Lydgate
could
now
sit
near
her
and
speak
less
incompletely
.
Rosamond
had
to
make
her
little
confession
,
and
he
poured
out
words
of
gratitude
and
tenderness
with
impulsive
lavishment
.
In
half
an
hour
he
left
the
house
an
engaged
man
,
whose
soul
was
not
his
own
,
but
the
woman
’
s
to
whom
he
had
bound
himself
.
He
came
again
in
the
evening
to
speak
with
Mr
.
Vincy
,
who
,
just
returned
from
Stone
Court
,
was
feeling
sure
that
it
would
not
be
long
before
he
heard
of
Mr
.
Featherstone
’
s
demise
.
The
felicitous
word
"
demise
,
"
which
had
seasonably
occurred
to
him
,
had
raised
his
spirits
even
above
their
usual
evening
pitch
.
The
right
word
is
always
a
power
,
and
communicates
its
definiteness
to
our
action
.
Considered
as
a
demise
,
old
Featherstone
’
s
death
assumed
a
merely
legal
aspect
,
so
that
Mr
.
Vincy
could
tap
his
snuff
-
box
over
it
and
be
jovial
,
without
even
an
intermittent
affectation
of
solemnity
;
and
Mr
.
Vincy
hated
both
solemnity
and
affectation
Who
was
ever
awe
struck
about
a
testator
,
or
sang
a
hymn
on
the
title
to
real
property
?
Mr
.
Vincy
was
inclined
to
take
a
jovial
view
of
all
things
that
evening
:
he
even
observed
to
Lydgate
that
Fred
had
got
the
family
constitution
after
all
,
and
would
soon
be
as
fine
a
fellow
as
ever
again
;
and
when
his
approbation
of
Rosamond
’
s
engagement
was
asked
for
,
he
gave
it
with
astonishing
facility
,
passing
at
once
to
general
remarks
on
the
desirableness
of
matrimony
for
young
men
and
maidens
,
and
apparently
deducing
from
the
whole
the
appropriateness
of
a
little
more
punch
.
"
They
’
ll
take
suggestion
as
a
cat
laps
milk
.
"
—
SHAKESPEARE
:
Tempest
.
The
triumphant
confidence
of
the
Mayor
founded
on
Mr
.
Featherstone
’
s
insistent
demand
that
Fred
and
his
mother
should
not
leave
him
,
was
a
feeble
emotion
compared
with
all
that
was
agitating
the
breasts
of
the
old
man
’
s
blood
-
relations
,
who
naturally
manifested
more
their
sense
of
the
family
tie
and
were
more
visibly
numerous
now
that
he
had
become
bedridden
.
Naturally
:
for
when
"
poor
Peter
"
had
occupied
his
arm
-
chair
in
the
wainscoted
parlor
,
no
assiduous
beetles
for
whom
the
cook
prepares
boiling
water
could
have
been
less
welcome
on
a
hearth
which
they
had
reasons
for
preferring
,
than
those
persons
whose
Featherstone
blood
was
ill
-
nourished
,
not
from
penuriousness
on
their
part
,
but
from
poverty
.
Brother
Solomon
and
Sister
Jane
were
rich
,
and
the
family
candor
and
total
abstinence
from
false
politeness
with
which
they
were
always
received
seemed
to
them
no
argument
that
their
brother
in
the
solemn
act
of
making
his
will
would
overlook
the
superior
claims
of
wealth
.
Themselves
at
least
he
had
never
been
unnatural
enough
to
banish
from
his
house
,
and
it
seemed
hardly
eccentric
that
he
should
hare
kept
away
Brother
Jonah
,
Sister
Martha
,
and
the
rest
,
who
had
no
shadow
of
such
claims
.
They
knew
Peter
’
s
maxim
,
that
money
was
a
good
egg
,
and
should
be
laid
in
a
warm
nest
.
But
Brother
Jonah
,
Sister
Martha
,
and
all
the
needy
exiles
,
held
a
different
point
of
view
.
Probabilities
are
as
various
as
the
faces
to
be
seen
at
will
in
fretwork
or
paper
-
hangings
:
every
form
is
there
,
from
Jupiter
to
Judy
,
if
you
only
look
with
creative
inclination
.
To
the
poorer
and
least
favored
it
seemed
likely
that
since
Peter
had
done
nothing
for
them
in
his
life
,
he
would
remember
them
at
the
last
.
Jonah
argued
that
men
liked
to
make
a
surprise
of
their
wills
,
while
Martha
said
that
nobody
need
be
surprised
if
he
left
the
best
part
of
his
money
to
those
who
least
expected
it
.
Also
it
was
not
to
be
thought
but
that
an
own
brother
"
lying
there
"
with
dropsy
in
his
legs
must
come
to
feel
that
blood
was
thicker
than
water
,
and
if
he
didn
’
t
alter
his
will
,
he
might
have
money
by
him
.
At
any
rate
some
blood
-
relations
should
be
on
the
premises
and
on
the
watch
against
those
who
were
hardly
relations
at
all
.
Such
things
had
been
known
as
forged
wills
and
disputed
wills
,
which
seemed
to
have
the
golden
-
hazy
advantage
of
somehow
enabling
non
-
legatees
to
live
out
of
them
.
Again
,
those
who
were
no
blood
-
relations
might
be
caught
making
away
with
things
—
and
poor
Peter
"
lying
there
"
helpless
!
Somebody
should
be
on
the
watch
.
But
in
this
conclusion
they
were
at
one
with
Solomon
and
Jane
;
also
,
some
nephews
,
nieces
,
and
cousins
,
arguing
with
still
greater
subtilty
as
to
what
might
be
done
by
a
man
able
to
"
will
away
"
his
property
and
give
himself
large
treats
of
oddity
,
felt
in
a
handsome
sort
of
way
that
there
was
a
family
interest
to
be
attended
to
,
and
thought
of
Stone
Court
as
a
place
which
it
would
be
nothing
but
right
for
them
to
visit
.
