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Nobody
will
pay
you
well
for
blasting
my
name
:
I
know
the
worst
you
can
do
against
me
,
and
I
shall
brave
it
if
you
dare
to
thrust
yourself
upon
me
again
.
Get
up
,
sir
,
and
do
as
I
order
you
,
without
noise
,
or
I
will
send
for
a
policeman
to
take
you
off
my
premises
,
and
you
may
carry
your
stories
into
every
pothouse
in
the
town
,
but
you
shall
have
no
sixpence
from
me
to
pay
your
expenses
there
.
"
Bulstrode
had
rarely
in
his
life
spoken
with
such
nervous
energy
:
he
had
been
deliberating
on
this
speech
and
its
probable
effects
through
a
large
part
of
the
night
;
and
though
he
did
not
trust
to
its
ultimately
saving
him
from
any
return
of
Raffles
,
he
had
concluded
that
it
was
the
best
throw
he
could
make
.
It
succeeded
in
enforcing
submission
from
the
jaded
man
this
morning
:
his
empoisoned
system
at
this
moment
quailed
before
Bulstrode
’
s
cold
,
resolute
bearing
,
and
he
was
taken
off
quietly
in
the
carriage
before
the
family
breakfast
time
.
The
servants
imagined
him
to
be
a
poor
relation
,
and
were
not
surprised
that
a
strict
man
like
their
master
,
who
held
his
head
high
in
the
world
,
should
be
ashamed
of
such
a
cousin
and
want
to
get
rid
of
him
.
The
banker
’
s
drive
of
ten
miles
with
his
hated
companion
was
a
dreary
beginning
of
the
Christmas
day
;
but
at
the
end
of
the
drive
,
Raffles
had
recovered
his
spirits
,
and
parted
in
a
contentment
for
which
there
was
the
good
reason
that
the
banker
had
given
him
a
hundred
pounds
.
Various
motives
urged
Bulstrode
to
this
open
-
handedness
,
but
he
did
not
himself
inquire
closely
into
all
of
them
.
As
he
had
stood
watching
Raffles
in
his
uneasy
sleep
,
it
had
certainly
entered
his
mind
that
the
man
had
been
much
shattered
since
the
first
gift
of
two
hundred
pounds
.
He
had
taken
care
to
repeat
the
incisive
statement
of
his
resolve
not
to
be
played
on
any
more
;
and
had
tried
to
penetrate
Raffles
with
the
fact
that
he
had
shown
the
risks
of
bribing
him
to
be
quite
equal
to
the
risks
of
defying
him
.
But
when
,
freed
from
his
repulsive
presence
,
Bulstrode
returned
to
his
quiet
home
,
he
brought
with
him
no
confidence
that
he
had
secured
more
than
a
respite
.
It
was
as
if
he
had
had
a
loathsome
dream
,
and
could
not
shake
off
its
images
with
their
hateful
kindred
of
sensations
—
as
if
on
all
the
pleasant
surroundings
of
his
life
a
dangerous
reptile
had
left
his
slimy
traces
.
Who
can
know
how
much
of
his
most
inward
life
is
made
up
of
the
thoughts
he
believes
other
men
to
have
about
him
,
until
that
fabric
of
opinion
is
threatened
with
ruin
?
Bulstrode
was
only
the
more
conscious
that
there
was
a
deposit
of
uneasy
presentiment
in
his
wife
’
s
mind
,
because
she
carefully
avoided
any
allusion
to
it
.
He
had
been
used
every
day
to
taste
the
flavor
of
supremacy
and
the
tribute
of
complete
deference
:
and
the
certainty
that
he
was
watched
or
measured
with
a
hidden
suspicion
of
his
having
some
discreditable
secret
,
made
his
voice
totter
when
he
was
speaking
to
edification
.
Foreseeing
,
to
men
of
Bulstrode
’
s
anxious
temperament
,
is
often
worse
than
seeing
;
and
his
imagination
continually
heightened
the
anguish
of
an
imminent
disgrace
.
Yes
,
imminent
;
for
if
his
defiance
of
Raffles
did
not
keep
the
man
away
—
and
though
he
prayed
for
this
result
he
hardly
hoped
for
it
—
the
disgrace
was
certain
.
In
vain
he
said
to
himself
that
,
if
permitted
,
it
would
be
a
divine
visitation
,
a
chastisement
,
a
preparation
;
he
recoiled
from
the
imagined
burning
;
and
he
judged
that
it
must
be
more
for
the
Divine
glory
that
he
should
escape
dishonor
.
That
recoil
had
at
last
urged
him
to
make
preparations
for
quitting
Middlemarch
.
If
evil
truth
must
be
reported
of
him
,
he
would
then
be
at
a
less
scorching
distance
from
the
contempt
of
his
old
neighbors
;
and
in
a
new
scene
,
where
his
life
would
not
have
gathered
the
same
wide
sensibility
,
the
tormentor
,
if
he
pursued
him
,
would
be
less
formidable
.
To
leave
the
place
finally
would
,
he
knew
,
be
extremely
painful
to
his
wife
,
and
on
other
grounds
he
would
have
preferred
to
stay
where
he
had
struck
root
.
Hence
he
made
his
preparations
at
first
in
a
conditional
way
,
wishing
to
leave
on
all
sides
an
opening
for
his
return
after
brief
absence
,
if
any
favorable
intervention
of
Providence
should
dissipate
his
fears
.
He
was
preparing
to
transfer
his
management
of
the
Bank
,
and
to
give
up
any
active
control
of
other
commercial
affairs
in
the
neighborhood
,
on
the
ground
of
his
failing
health
,
but
without
excluding
his
future
resumption
of
such
work
.
The
measure
would
cause
him
some
added
expense
and
some
diminution
of
income
beyond
what
he
had
already
undergone
from
the
general
depression
of
trade
;
and
the
Hospital
presented
itself
as
a
principal
object
of
outlay
on
which
he
could
fairly
economize
.
This
was
the
experience
which
had
determined
his
conversation
with
Lydgate
.
But
at
this
time
his
arrangements
had
most
of
them
gone
no
farther
than
a
stage
at
which
he
could
recall
them
if
they
proved
to
be
unnecessary
.
He
continually
deferred
the
final
steps
;
in
the
midst
of
his
fears
,
like
many
a
man
who
is
in
danger
of
shipwreck
or
of
being
dashed
from
his
carriage
by
runaway
horses
,
he
had
a
clinging
impression
that
something
would
happen
to
hinder
the
worst
,
and
that
to
spoil
his
life
by
a
late
transplantation
might
be
over
-
hasty
—
especially
since
it
was
difficult
to
account
satisfactorily
to
his
wife
for
the
project
of
their
indefinite
exile
from
the
only
place
where
she
would
like
to
live
.
Among
the
affairs
Bulstrode
had
to
care
for
,
was
the
management
of
the
farm
at
Stone
Court
in
case
of
his
absence
;
and
on
this
as
well
as
on
all
other
matters
connected
with
any
houses
and
land
he
possessed
in
or
about
Middlemarch
,
he
had
consulted
Caleb
Garth
.
Like
every
one
else
who
had
business
of
that
sort
,
he
wanted
to
get
the
agent
who
was
more
anxious
for
his
employer
’
s
interests
than
his
own
.
