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"
Pooh
!
where
’
s
the
use
of
asking
for
such
fellows
’
reasons
?
The
soul
of
man
,
"
said
Caleb
,
with
the
deep
tone
and
grave
shake
of
the
head
which
always
came
when
he
used
this
phrase
—
"
The
soul
of
man
,
when
it
gets
fairly
rotten
,
will
bear
you
all
sorts
of
poisonous
toad
-
stools
,
and
no
eye
can
see
whence
came
the
seed
thereof
.
"
It
was
one
of
Caleb
’
s
quaintnesses
,
that
in
his
difficulty
of
finding
speech
for
his
thought
,
he
caught
,
as
it
were
,
snatches
of
diction
which
he
associated
with
various
points
of
view
or
states
of
mind
;
and
whenever
he
had
a
feeling
of
awe
,
he
was
haunted
by
a
sense
of
Biblical
phraseology
,
though
he
could
hardly
have
given
a
strict
quotation
.
"
By
swaggering
could
I
never
thrive
,
For
the
rain
it
raineth
every
day
.
—
Twelfth
Night
The
transactions
referred
to
by
Caleb
Garth
as
having
gone
forward
between
Mr
.
Bulstrode
and
Mr
.
Joshua
Rigg
Featherstone
concerning
the
land
attached
to
Stone
Court
,
had
occasioned
the
interchange
of
a
letter
or
two
between
these
personages
.
Who
shall
tell
what
may
be
the
effect
of
writing
?
If
it
happens
to
have
been
cut
in
stone
,
though
it
lie
face
down
-
most
for
ages
on
a
forsaken
beach
,
or
"
rest
quietly
under
the
drums
and
tramplings
of
many
conquests
,
"
it
may
end
by
letting
us
into
the
secret
of
usurpations
and
other
scandals
gossiped
about
long
empires
ago
:
—
this
world
being
apparently
a
huge
whispering
-
gallery
.
Such
conditions
are
often
minutely
represented
in
our
petty
lifetimes
.
As
the
stone
which
has
been
kicked
by
generations
of
clowns
may
come
by
curious
little
links
of
effect
under
the
eyes
of
a
scholar
,
through
whose
labors
it
may
at
last
fix
the
date
of
invasions
and
unlock
religions
,
so
a
bit
of
ink
and
paper
which
has
long
been
an
innocent
wrapping
or
stop
-
gap
may
at
last
be
laid
open
under
the
one
pair
of
eyes
which
have
knowledge
enough
to
turn
it
into
the
opening
of
a
catastrophe
.
To
Uriel
watching
the
progress
of
planetary
history
from
the
sun
,
the
one
result
would
be
just
as
much
of
a
coincidence
as
the
other
.
Having
made
this
rather
lofty
comparison
I
am
less
uneasy
in
calling
attention
to
the
existence
of
low
people
by
whose
interference
,
however
little
we
may
like
it
,
the
course
of
the
world
is
very
much
determined
.
It
would
be
well
,
certainly
,
if
we
could
help
to
reduce
their
number
,
and
something
might
perhaps
be
done
by
not
lightly
giving
occasion
to
their
existence
.
Socially
speaking
,
Joshua
Rigg
would
have
been
generally
pronounced
a
superfluity
.
But
those
who
like
Peter
Featherstone
never
had
a
copy
of
themselves
demanded
,
are
the
very
last
to
wait
for
such
a
request
either
in
prose
or
verse
.
The
copy
in
this
case
bore
more
of
outside
resemblance
to
the
mother
,
in
whose
sex
frog
-
features
,
accompanied
with
fresh
-
colored
cheeks
and
a
well
-
rounded
figure
,
are
compatible
with
much
charm
for
a
certain
order
of
admirers
.
The
result
is
sometimes
a
frog
-
faced
male
,
desirable
,
surely
,
to
no
order
of
intelligent
beings
.
Especially
when
he
is
suddenly
brought
into
evidence
to
frustrate
other
people
’
s
expectations
—
the
very
lowest
aspect
in
which
a
social
superfluity
can
present
himself
.
But
Mr
.
Rigg
Featherstone
’
s
low
characteristics
were
all
of
the
sober
,
water
-
drinking
kind
.
From
the
earliest
to
the
latest
hour
of
the
day
he
was
always
as
sleek
,
neat
,
and
cool
as
the
frog
he
resembled
,
and
old
Peter
had
secretly
chuckled
over
an
offshoot
almost
more
calculating
,
and
far
more
imperturbable
,
than
himself
.
I
will
add
that
his
finger
-
nails
were
scrupulously
attended
to
,
and
that
he
meant
to
marry
a
well
-
educated
young
lady
(
as
yet
unspecified
)
whose
person
was
good
,
and
whose
connections
,
in
a
solid
middle
-
class
way
,
were
undeniable
.
Thus
his
nails
and
modesty
were
comparable
to
those
of
most
gentlemen
;
though
his
ambition
had
been
educated
only
by
the
opportunities
of
a
clerk
and
accountant
in
the
smaller
commercial
houses
of
a
seaport
.
He
thought
the
rural
Featherstones
very
simple
absurd
people
,
and
they
in
their
turn
regarded
his
"
bringing
up
"
in
a
seaport
town
as
an
exaggeration
of
the
monstrosity
that
their
brother
Peter
,
and
still
more
Peter
’
s
property
,
should
have
had
such
belongings
.
The
garden
and
gravel
approach
,
as
seen
from
the
two
windows
of
the
wainscoted
parlor
at
Stone
Court
,
were
never
in
better
trim
than
now
,
when
Mr
.
Rigg
Featherstone
stood
,
with
his
hands
behind
him
,
looking
out
on
these
grounds
as
their
master
.
But
it
seemed
doubtful
whether
he
looked
out
for
the
sake
of
contemplation
or
of
turning
his
back
to
a
person
who
stood
in
the
middle
of
the
room
,
with
his
legs
considerably
apart
and
his
hands
in
his
trouser
-
pockets
:
a
person
in
all
respects
a
contrast
to
the
sleek
and
cool
Rigg
.
He
was
a
man
obviously
on
the
way
towards
sixty
,
very
florid
and
hairy
,
with
much
gray
in
his
bushy
whiskers
and
thick
curly
hair
,
a
stoutish
body
which
showed
to
disadvantage
the
somewhat
worn
joinings
of
his
clothes
,
and
the
air
of
a
swaggerer
,
who
would
aim
at
being
noticeable
even
at
a
show
of
fireworks
,
regarding
his
own
remarks
on
any
other
person
’
s
performance
as
likely
to
be
more
interesting
than
the
performance
itself
.
