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"
I
know
he
’
s
one
of
your
black
sheep
,
Hawley
.
But
he
is
really
a
disinterested
,
unworldly
fellow
,
"
said
Mr
.
Farebrother
,
smiling
.
"
Ay
,
ay
,
that
is
your
Whiggish
twist
,
"
said
Mr
.
Hawley
,
who
had
been
in
the
habit
of
saying
apologetically
that
Farebrother
was
such
a
damned
pleasant
good
-
hearted
fellow
you
would
mistake
him
for
a
Tory
.
Mr
.
Hawley
rode
home
without
thinking
of
Lydgate
’
s
attendance
on
Raffles
in
any
other
light
than
as
a
piece
of
evidence
on
the
side
of
Bulstrode
.
But
the
news
that
Lydgate
had
all
at
once
become
able
not
only
to
get
rid
of
the
execution
in
his
house
but
to
pay
all
his
debts
in
Middlemarch
was
spreading
fast
,
gathering
round
it
conjectures
and
comments
which
gave
it
new
body
and
impetus
,
and
soon
filling
the
ears
of
other
persons
besides
Mr
.
Hawley
,
who
were
not
slow
to
see
a
significant
relation
between
this
sudden
command
of
money
and
Bulstrode
’
s
desire
to
stifle
the
scandal
of
Raffles
.
That
the
money
came
from
Bulstrode
would
infallibly
have
been
guessed
even
if
there
had
been
no
direct
evidence
of
it
;
for
it
had
beforehand
entered
into
the
gossip
about
Lydgate
’
s
affairs
,
that
neither
his
father
-
in
-
law
nor
his
own
family
would
do
anything
for
him
,
and
direct
evidence
was
furnished
not
only
by
a
clerk
at
the
Bank
,
but
by
innocent
Mrs
.
Bulstrode
herself
,
who
mentioned
the
loan
to
Mrs
.
Plymdale
,
who
mentioned
it
to
her
daughter
-
in
-
law
of
the
house
of
Toller
,
who
mentioned
it
generally
.
The
business
was
felt
to
be
so
public
and
important
that
it
required
dinners
to
feed
it
,
and
many
invitations
were
just
then
issued
and
accepted
on
the
strength
of
this
scandal
concerning
Bulstrode
and
Lydgate
;
wives
,
widows
,
and
single
ladies
took
their
work
and
went
out
to
tea
oftener
than
usual
;
and
all
public
conviviality
,
from
the
Green
Dragon
to
Dollop
’
s
,
gathered
a
zest
which
could
not
be
won
from
the
question
whether
the
Lords
would
throw
out
the
Reform
Bill
.
For
hardly
anybody
doubted
that
some
scandalous
reason
or
other
was
at
the
bottom
of
Bulstrode
’
s
liberality
to
Lydgate
.
Mr
.
Hawley
indeed
,
in
the
first
instance
,
invited
a
select
party
,
including
the
two
physicians
,
with
Mr
Toller
and
Mr
.
Wrench
,
expressly
to
hold
a
close
discussion
as
to
the
probabilities
of
Raffles
’
s
illness
,
reciting
to
them
all
the
particulars
which
had
been
gathered
from
Mrs
.
Abel
in
connection
with
Lydgate
’
s
certificate
,
that
the
death
was
due
to
delirium
tremens
;
and
the
medical
gentlemen
,
who
all
stood
undisturbedly
on
the
old
paths
in
relation
to
this
disease
,
declared
that
they
could
see
nothing
in
these
particulars
which
could
be
transformed
into
a
positive
ground
of
suspicion
.
But
the
moral
grounds
of
suspicion
remained
:
the
strong
motives
Bulstrode
clearly
had
for
wishing
to
be
rid
of
Raffles
,
and
the
fact
that
at
this
critical
moment
he
had
given
Lydgate
the
help
which
he
must
for
some
time
have
known
the
need
for
;
the
disposition
,
moreover
,
to
believe
that
Bulstrode
would
be
unscrupulous
,
and
the
absence
of
any
indisposition
to
believe
that
Lydgate
might
be
as
easily
bribed
as
other
haughty
-
minded
men
when
they
have
found
themselves
in
want
of
money
.
Even
if
the
money
had
been
given
merely
to
make
him
hold
his
tongue
about
the
scandal
of
Bulstrode
’
s
earlier
life
,
the
fact
threw
an
odious
light
on
Lydgate
,
who
had
long
been
sneered
at
as
making
himself
subservient
to
the
banker
for
the
sake
of
working
himself
into
predominance
,
and
discrediting
the
elder
members
of
his
profession
.
Hence
,
in
spite
of
the
negative
as
to
any
direct
sign
of
guilt
in
relation
to
the
death
at
Stone
Court
,
Mr
.
Hawley
’
s
select
party
broke
up
with
the
sense
that
the
affair
had
"
an
ugly
look
.
"
But
this
vague
conviction
of
indeterminable
guilt
,
which
was
enough
to
keep
up
much
head
-
shaking
and
biting
innuendo
even
among
substantial
professional
seniors
,
had
for
the
general
mind
all
the
superior
power
of
mystery
over
fact
.
Everybody
liked
better
to
conjecture
how
the
thing
was
,
than
simply
to
know
it
;
for
conjecture
soon
became
more
confident
than
knowledge
,
and
had
a
more
liberal
allowance
for
the
incompatible
.
Even
the
more
definite
scandal
concerning
Bulstrode
’
s
earlier
life
was
,
for
some
minds
,
melted
into
the
mass
of
mystery
,
as
so
much
lively
metal
to
be
poured
out
in
dialogue
,
and
to
take
such
fantastic
shapes
as
heaven
pleased
.
This
was
the
tone
of
thought
chiefly
sanctioned
by
Mrs
.
Dollop
,
the
spirited
landlady
of
the
Tankard
in
Slaughter
Lane
,
who
had
often
to
resist
the
shallow
pragmatism
of
customers
disposed
to
think
that
their
reports
from
the
outer
world
were
of
equal
force
with
what
had
"
come
up
"
in
her
mind
.
How
it
had
been
brought
to
her
she
didn
’
t
know
,
but
it
was
there
before
her
as
if
it
had
been
scored
with
the
chalk
on
the
chimney
-
board
—
"
as
Bulstrode
should
say
,
his
inside
was
THAT
BLACK
as
if
the
hairs
of
his
head
knowed
the
thoughts
of
his
heart
,
he
’
d
tear
’
em
up
by
the
roots
.
"
