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Eighteen
months
ago
Lydgate
was
poor
,
but
had
never
known
the
eager
want
of
small
sums
,
and
felt
rather
a
burning
contempt
for
any
one
who
descended
a
step
in
order
to
gain
them
.
He
was
now
experiencing
something
worse
than
a
simple
deficit
:
he
was
assailed
by
the
vulgar
hateful
trials
of
a
man
who
has
bought
and
used
a
great
many
things
which
might
have
been
done
without
,
and
which
he
is
unable
to
pay
for
,
though
the
demand
for
payment
has
become
pressing
.
How
this
came
about
may
be
easily
seen
without
much
arithmetic
or
knowledge
of
prices
.
When
a
man
in
setting
up
a
house
and
preparing
for
marriage
finds
that
his
furniture
and
other
initial
expenses
come
to
between
four
and
five
hundred
pounds
more
than
he
has
capital
to
pay
for
;
when
at
the
end
of
a
year
it
appears
that
his
household
expenses
,
horses
and
et
caeteras
,
amount
to
nearly
a
thousand
,
while
the
proceeds
of
the
practice
reckoned
from
the
old
books
to
be
worth
eight
hundred
per
annum
have
sunk
like
a
summer
pond
and
make
hardly
five
hundred
,
chiefly
in
unpaid
entries
,
the
plain
inference
is
that
,
whether
he
minds
it
or
not
,
he
is
in
debt
.
Those
were
less
expensive
times
than
our
own
,
and
provincial
life
was
comparatively
modest
;
but
the
ease
with
which
a
medical
man
who
had
lately
bought
a
practice
,
who
thought
that
he
was
obliged
to
keep
two
horses
,
whose
table
was
supplied
without
stint
,
and
who
paid
an
insurance
on
his
life
and
a
high
rent
for
house
and
garden
,
might
find
his
expenses
doubling
his
receipts
,
can
be
conceived
by
any
one
who
does
not
think
these
details
beneath
his
consideration
.
Rosamond
,
accustomed
from
her
to
an
extravagant
household
,
thought
that
good
housekeeping
consisted
simply
in
ordering
the
best
of
everything
—
nothing
else
"
answered
;
"
and
Lydgate
supposed
that
"
if
things
were
done
at
all
,
they
must
be
done
properly
"
—
he
did
not
see
how
they
were
to
live
otherwise
.
If
each
head
of
household
expenditure
had
been
mentioned
to
him
beforehand
,
he
would
have
probably
observed
that
"
it
could
hardly
come
to
much
,
"
and
if
any
one
had
suggested
a
saving
on
a
particular
article
—
for
example
,
the
substitution
of
cheap
fish
for
dear
—
it
would
have
appeared
to
him
simply
a
penny
-
wise
,
mean
notion
.
Rosamond
,
even
without
such
an
occasion
as
Captain
Lydgate
’
s
visit
,
was
fond
of
giving
invitations
,
and
Lydgate
,
though
he
often
thought
the
guests
tiresome
,
did
not
interfere
.
This
sociability
seemed
a
necessary
part
of
professional
prudence
,
and
the
entertainment
must
be
suitable
.
It
is
true
Lydgate
was
constantly
visiting
the
homes
of
the
poor
and
adjusting
his
prescriptions
of
diet
to
their
small
means
;
but
,
dear
me
!
has
it
not
by
this
time
ceased
to
be
remarkable
—
is
it
not
rather
that
we
expect
in
men
,
that
they
should
have
numerous
strands
of
experience
lying
side
by
side
and
never
compare
them
with
each
other
?
Expenditure
—
like
ugliness
and
errors
—
becomes
a
totally
new
thing
when
we
attach
our
own
personality
to
it
,
and
measure
it
by
that
wide
difference
which
is
manifest
(
in
our
own
sensations
)
between
ourselves
and
others
.
Lydgate
believed
himself
to
be
careless
about
his
dress
,
and
he
despised
a
man
who
calculated
the
effects
of
his
costume
;
it
seemed
to
him
only
a
matter
of
course
that
he
had
abundance
of
fresh
garments
—
such
things
were
naturally
ordered
in
sheaves
.
It
must
be
remembered
that
he
had
never
hitherto
felt
the
check
of
importunate
debt
,
and
he
walked
by
habit
,
not
by
self
-
criticism
.
But
the
check
had
come
.
Its
novelty
made
it
the
more
irritating
.
He
was
amazed
,
disgusted
that
conditions
so
foreign
to
all
his
purposes
,
so
hatefully
disconnected
with
the
objects
he
cared
to
occupy
himself
with
,
should
have
lain
in
ambush
and
clutched
him
when
he
was
unaware
.
And
there
was
not
only
the
actual
debt
;
there
was
the
certainty
that
in
his
present
position
he
must
go
on
deepening
it
.
Two
furnishing
tradesmen
at
Brassing
,
whose
bills
had
been
incurred
before
his
marriage
,
and
whom
uncalculated
current
expenses
had
ever
since
prevented
him
from
paying
,
had
repeatedly
sent
him
unpleasant
letters
which
had
forced
themselves
on
his
attention
.
This
could
hardly
have
been
more
galling
to
any
disposition
than
to
Lydgate
’
s
,
with
his
intense
pride
—
his
dislike
of
asking
a
favor
or
being
under
an
obligation
to
any
one
.
He
had
scorned
even
to
form
conjectures
about
Mr
.
Vincy
’
s
intentions
on
money
matters
,
and
nothing
but
extremity
could
have
induced
him
to
apply
to
his
father
-
in
-
law
,
even
if
he
had
not
been
made
aware
in
various
indirect
ways
since
his
marriage
that
Mr
.
Vincy
’
s
own
affairs
were
not
flourishing
,
and
that
the
expectation
of
help
from
him
would
be
resented
.
Some
men
easily
trust
in
the
readiness
of
friends
;
it
had
never
in
the
former
part
of
his
life
occurred
to
Lydgate
that
he
should
need
to
do
so
:
he
had
never
thought
what
borrowing
would
be
to
him
;
but
now
that
the
idea
had
entered
his
mind
,
he
felt
that
he
would
rather
incur
any
other
hardship
.
In
the
mean
time
he
had
no
money
or
prospects
of
money
;
and
his
practice
was
not
getting
more
lucrative
.
No
wonder
that
Lydgate
had
been
unable
to
suppress
all
signs
of
inward
trouble
during
the
last
few
months
,
and
now
that
Rosamond
was
regaining
brilliant
health
,
he
meditated
taking
her
entirely
into
confidence
on
his
difficulties
.
New
conversance
with
tradesmen
’
s
bills
had
forced
his
reasoning
into
a
new
channel
of
comparison
:
he
had
begun
to
consider
from
a
new
point
of
view
what
was
necessary
and
unnecessary
in
goods
ordered
,
and
to
see
that
there
must
be
some
change
of
habits
.
How
could
such
a
change
be
made
without
Rosamond
’
s
concurrence
?
The
immediate
occasion
of
opening
the
disagreeable
fact
to
her
was
forced
upon
him
.
Having
no
money
,
and
having
privately
sought
advice
as
to
what
security
could
possibly
be
given
by
a
man
in
his
position
,
Lydgate
had
offered
the
one
good
security
in
his
power
to
the
less
peremptory
creditor
,
who
was
a
silversmith
and
jeweller
,
and
who
consented
to
take
on
himself
the
upholsterer
’
s
credit
also
,
accepting
interest
for
a
given
term
.
The
security
necessary
was
a
bill
of
sale
on
the
furniture
of
his
house
,
which
might
make
a
creditor
easy
for
a
reasonable
time
about
a
debt
amounting
to
less
than
four
hundred
pounds
;
and
the
silversmith
,
Mr
.
Dover
,
was
willing
to
reduce
it
by
taking
back
a
portion
of
the
plate
and
any
other
article
which
was
as
good
as
new
.
"
Any
other
article
"
was
a
phrase
delicately
implying
jewellery
,
and
more
particularly
some
purple
amethysts
costing
thirty
pounds
,
which
Lydgate
had
bought
as
a
bridal
present
.
