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And
it
was
true
that
Bulstrode
found
himself
carrying
on
two
distinct
lives
;
his
religious
activity
could
not
be
incompatible
with
his
business
as
soon
as
he
had
argued
himself
into
not
feeling
it
incompatible
.
Mentally
surrounded
with
that
past
again
,
Bulstrode
had
the
same
pleas
—
indeed
,
the
years
had
been
perpetually
spinning
them
into
intricate
thickness
,
like
masses
of
spider
-
web
,
padding
the
moral
sensibility
;
nay
,
as
age
made
egoism
more
eager
but
less
enjoying
,
his
soul
had
become
more
saturated
with
the
belief
that
he
did
everything
for
God
’
s
sake
,
being
indifferent
to
it
for
his
own
.
And
yet
—
if
he
could
be
back
in
that
far
-
off
spot
with
his
youthful
poverty
—
why
,
then
he
would
choose
to
be
a
missionary
.
But
the
train
of
causes
in
which
he
had
locked
himself
went
on
.
There
was
trouble
in
the
fine
villa
at
Highbury
.
Years
before
,
the
only
daughter
had
run
away
,
defied
her
parents
,
and
gone
on
the
stage
;
and
now
the
only
boy
died
,
and
after
a
short
time
Mr
.
Dunkirk
died
also
.
The
wife
,
a
simple
pious
woman
,
left
with
all
the
wealth
in
and
out
of
the
magnificent
trade
,
of
which
she
never
knew
the
precise
nature
,
had
come
to
believe
in
Bulstrode
,
and
innocently
adore
him
as
women
often
adore
their
priest
or
"
man
-
made
"
minister
.
It
was
natural
that
after
a
time
marriage
should
have
been
thought
of
between
them
.
But
Mrs
.
Dunkirk
had
qualms
and
yearnings
about
her
daughter
,
who
had
long
been
regarded
as
lost
both
to
God
and
her
parents
.
It
was
known
that
the
daughter
had
married
,
but
she
was
utterly
gone
out
of
sight
.
The
mother
,
having
lost
her
boy
,
imagined
a
grandson
,
and
wished
in
a
double
sense
to
reclaim
her
daughter
.
If
she
were
found
,
there
would
be
a
channel
for
property
—
perhaps
a
wide
one
—
in
the
provision
for
several
grandchildren
.
Efforts
to
find
her
must
be
made
before
Mrs
.
Dunkirk
would
marry
again
.
Bulstrode
concurred
;
but
after
advertisement
as
well
as
other
modes
of
inquiry
had
been
tried
,
the
mother
believed
that
her
daughter
was
not
to
be
found
,
and
consented
to
marry
without
reservation
of
property
.
The
daughter
had
been
found
;
but
only
one
man
besides
Bulstrode
knew
it
,
and
he
was
paid
for
keeping
silence
and
carrying
himself
away
.
That
was
the
bare
fact
which
Bulstrode
was
now
forced
to
see
in
the
rigid
outline
with
which
acts
present
themselves
onlookers
.
But
for
himself
at
that
distant
time
,
and
even
now
in
burning
memory
,
the
fact
was
broken
into
little
sequences
,
each
justified
as
it
came
by
reasonings
which
seemed
to
prove
it
righteous
.
Bulstrode
’
s
course
up
to
that
time
had
,
he
thought
,
been
sanctioned
by
remarkable
providences
,
appearing
to
point
the
way
for
him
to
be
the
agent
in
making
the
best
use
of
a
large
property
and
withdrawing
it
from
perversion
.
Death
and
other
striking
dispositions
,
such
as
feminine
trustfulness
,
had
come
;
and
Bulstrode
would
have
adopted
Cromwell
’
s
words
—
"
Do
you
call
these
bare
events
?
The
Lord
pity
you
!
"
The
events
were
comparatively
small
,
but
the
essential
condition
was
there
—
namely
,
that
they
were
in
favor
of
his
own
ends
.
It
was
easy
for
him
to
settle
what
was
due
from
him
to
others
by
inquiring
what
were
God
’
s
intentions
with
regard
to
himself
.
Could
it
be
for
God
’
s
service
that
this
fortune
should
in
any
considerable
proportion
go
to
a
young
woman
and
her
husband
who
were
given
up
to
the
lightest
pursuits
,
and
might
scatter
it
abroad
in
triviality
—
people
who
seemed
to
lie
outside
the
path
of
remarkable
providences
?
Bulstrode
had
never
said
to
himself
beforehand
,
"
The
daughter
shall
not
be
found
"
—
nevertheless
when
the
moment
came
he
kept
her
existence
hidden
;
and
when
other
moments
followed
,
he
soothed
the
mother
with
consolation
in
the
probability
that
the
unhappy
young
woman
might
be
no
more
.
There
were
hours
in
which
Bulstrode
felt
that
his
action
was
unrighteous
;
but
how
could
he
go
back
?
He
had
mental
exercises
,
called
himself
nought
laid
hold
on
redemption
,
and
went
on
in
his
course
of
instrumentality
.
And
after
five
years
Death
again
came
to
widen
his
path
,
by
taking
away
his
wife
.
He
did
gradually
withdraw
his
capital
,
but
he
did
not
make
the
sacrifices
requisite
to
put
an
end
to
the
business
,
which
was
carried
on
for
thirteen
years
afterwards
before
it
finally
collapsed
.
Meanwhile
Nicholas
Bulstrode
had
used
his
hundred
thousand
discreetly
,
and
was
become
provincially
,
solidly
important
—
a
banker
,
a
Churchman
,
a
public
benefactor
;
also
a
sleeping
partner
in
trading
concerns
,
in
which
his
ability
was
directed
to
economy
in
the
raw
material
,
as
in
the
case
of
the
dyes
which
rotted
Mr
.
Vincy
’
s
silk
.
And
now
,
when
this
respectability
had
lasted
undisturbed
for
nearly
thirty
years
—
when
all
that
preceded
it
had
long
lain
benumbed
in
the
consciousness
—
that
past
had
risen
and
immersed
his
thought
as
if
with
the
terrible
irruption
of
a
new
sense
overburthening
the
feeble
being
.
Meanwhile
,
in
his
conversation
with
Raffles
,
he
had
learned
something
momentous
,
something
which
entered
actively
into
the
struggle
of
his
longings
and
terrors
.
There
,
he
thought
,
lay
an
opening
towards
spiritual
,
perhaps
towards
material
rescue
.
