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"
Well
,
there
’
s
this
to
be
said
,
Jane
,
"
Mr
.
Solomon
concluded
,
lowering
his
voice
in
a
cautious
manner
—
"
the
more
spokes
we
put
in
their
wheel
,
the
more
they
’
ll
pay
us
to
let
’
em
go
on
,
if
they
must
come
whether
or
not
.
"
This
reasoning
of
Mr
.
Solomon
’
s
was
perhaps
less
thorough
than
he
imagined
,
his
cunning
bearing
about
the
same
relation
to
the
course
of
railways
as
the
cunning
of
a
diplomatist
bears
to
the
general
chill
or
catarrh
of
the
solar
system
.
But
he
set
about
acting
on
his
views
in
a
thoroughly
diplomatic
manner
,
by
stimulating
suspicion
.
His
side
of
Lowick
was
the
most
remote
from
the
village
,
and
the
houses
of
the
laboring
people
were
either
lone
cottages
or
were
collected
in
a
hamlet
called
Frick
,
where
a
water
-
mill
and
some
stone
-
pits
made
a
little
centre
of
slow
,
heavy
-
shouldered
industry
.
In
the
absence
of
any
precise
idea
as
to
what
railways
were
,
public
opinion
in
Frick
was
against
them
;
for
the
human
mind
in
that
grassy
corner
had
not
the
proverbial
tendency
to
admire
the
unknown
,
holding
rather
that
it
was
likely
to
be
against
the
poor
man
,
and
that
suspicion
was
the
only
wise
attitude
with
regard
to
it
.
Even
the
rumor
of
Reform
had
not
yet
excited
any
millennial
expectations
in
Frick
,
there
being
no
definite
promise
in
it
,
as
of
gratuitous
grains
to
fatten
Hiram
Ford
’
s
pig
,
or
of
a
publican
at
the
"
Weights
and
Scales
"
who
would
brew
beer
for
nothing
,
or
of
an
offer
on
the
part
of
the
three
neighboring
farmers
to
raise
wages
during
winter
.
And
without
distinct
good
of
this
kind
in
its
promises
,
Reform
seemed
on
a
footing
with
the
bragging
of
pedlers
,
which
was
a
hint
for
distrust
to
every
knowing
person
.
The
men
of
Frick
were
not
ill
-
fed
,
and
were
less
given
to
fanaticism
than
to
a
strong
muscular
suspicion
;
less
inclined
to
believe
that
they
were
peculiarly
cared
for
by
heaven
,
than
to
regard
heaven
itself
as
rather
disposed
to
take
them
in
—
a
disposition
observable
in
the
weather
.
Thus
the
mind
of
Frick
was
exactly
of
the
sort
for
Mr
.
Solomon
Featherstone
to
work
upon
,
he
having
more
plenteous
ideas
of
the
same
order
,
with
a
suspicion
of
heaven
and
earth
which
was
better
fed
and
more
entirely
at
leisure
.
Solomon
was
overseer
of
the
roads
at
that
time
,
and
on
his
slow
-
paced
cob
often
took
his
rounds
by
Frick
to
look
at
the
workmen
getting
the
stones
there
,
pausing
with
a
mysterious
deliberation
,
which
might
have
misled
you
into
supposing
that
he
had
some
other
reason
for
staying
than
the
mere
want
of
impulse
to
move
.
After
looking
for
a
long
while
at
any
work
that
was
going
on
,
he
would
raise
his
eyes
a
little
and
look
at
the
horizon
;
finally
he
would
shake
his
bridle
,
touch
his
horse
with
the
whip
,
and
get
it
to
move
slowly
onward
.
The
hour
-
hand
of
a
clock
was
quick
by
comparison
with
Mr
.
Solomon
,
who
had
an
agreeable
sense
that
he
could
afford
to
be
slow
.
He
was
in
the
habit
of
pausing
for
a
cautious
,
vaguely
designing
chat
with
every
hedger
or
ditcher
on
his
way
,
and
was
especially
willing
to
listen
even
to
news
which
he
had
heard
before
,
feeling
himself
at
an
advantage
over
all
narrators
in
partially
disbelieving
them
.
One
day
,
however
,
he
got
into
a
dialogue
with
Hiram
Ford
,
a
wagoner
,
in
which
he
himself
contributed
information
.
He
wished
to
know
whether
Hiram
had
seen
fellows
with
staves
and
instruments
spying
about
:
they
called
themselves
railroad
people
,
but
there
was
no
telling
what
they
were
or
what
they
meant
to
do
.
The
least
they
pretended
was
that
they
were
going
to
cut
Lowick
Parish
into
sixes
and
sevens
.
"
Why
,
there
’
ll
be
no
stirrin
’
from
one
pla
-
ace
to
another
,
"
said
Hiram
,
thinking
of
his
wagon
and
horses
.
"
Not
a
bit
,
"
said
Mr
.
Solomon
.
"
And
cutting
up
fine
land
such
as
this
parish
!
Let
’
em
go
into
Tipton
,
say
I
.
But
there
’
s
no
knowing
what
there
is
at
the
bottom
of
it
.
Traffic
is
what
they
put
for
’
ard
;
but
it
’
s
to
do
harm
to
the
land
and
the
poor
man
in
the
long
-
run
.
"
"
Why
,
they
’
re
Lunnon
chaps
,
I
reckon
,
"
said
Hiram
,
who
had
a
dim
notion
of
London
as
a
centre
of
hostility
to
the
country
.
"
Ay
,
to
be
sure
.
And
in
some
parts
against
Brassing
,
by
what
I
’
ve
heard
say
,
the
folks
fell
on
’
em
when
they
were
spying
,
and
broke
their
peep
-
holes
as
they
carry
,
and
drove
’
em
away
,
so
as
they
knew
better
than
come
again
.
"
