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Thesiger
was
in
the
chair
,
and
Mr
.
Brooke
of
Tipton
was
on
his
right
hand
.
Lydgate
noticed
a
peculiar
interchange
of
glances
when
he
and
Bulstrode
took
their
seats
.
After
the
business
had
been
fully
opened
by
the
chairman
,
who
pointed
out
the
advantages
of
purchasing
by
subscription
a
piece
of
ground
large
enough
to
be
ultimately
used
as
a
general
cemetery
,
Mr
.
Bulstrode
,
whose
rather
high
-
pitched
but
subdued
and
fluent
voice
the
town
was
used
to
at
meetings
of
this
sort
,
rose
and
asked
leave
to
deliver
his
opinion
.
Lydgate
could
see
again
the
peculiar
interchange
of
glances
before
Mr
.
Hawley
started
up
,
and
said
in
his
firm
resonant
voice
,
"
Mr
.
Chairman
,
I
request
that
before
any
one
delivers
his
opinion
on
this
point
I
may
be
permitted
to
speak
on
a
question
of
public
feeling
,
which
not
only
by
myself
,
but
by
many
gentlemen
present
,
is
regarded
as
preliminary
.
"
Mr
.
Hawley
’
s
mode
of
speech
,
even
when
public
decorum
repressed
his
"
awful
language
,
"
was
formidable
in
its
curtness
and
self
-
possession
.
Mr
.
Thesiger
sanctioned
the
request
,
Mr
.
Bulstrode
sat
down
,
and
Mr
.
Hawley
continued
.
"
In
what
I
have
to
say
,
Mr
.
Chairman
,
I
am
not
speaking
simply
on
my
own
behalf
:
I
am
speaking
with
the
concurrence
and
at
the
express
request
of
no
fewer
than
eight
of
my
fellow
-
townsmen
,
who
are
immediately
around
us
.
It
is
our
united
sentiment
that
Mr
.
Bulstrode
should
be
called
upon
—
and
I
do
now
call
upon
him
—
to
resign
public
positions
which
he
holds
not
simply
as
a
tax
-
payer
,
but
as
a
gentleman
among
gentlemen
.
There
are
practices
and
there
are
acts
which
,
owing
to
circumstances
,
the
law
cannot
visit
,
though
they
may
be
worse
than
many
things
which
are
legally
punishable
.
Honest
men
and
gentlemen
,
if
they
don
’
t
want
the
company
of
people
who
perpetrate
such
acts
,
have
got
to
defend
themselves
as
they
best
can
,
and
that
is
what
I
and
the
friends
whom
I
may
call
my
clients
in
this
affair
are
determined
to
do
.
I
don
’
t
say
that
Mr
.
Bulstrode
has
been
guilty
of
shameful
acts
,
but
I
call
upon
him
either
publicly
to
deny
and
confute
the
scandalous
statements
made
against
him
by
a
man
now
dead
,
and
who
died
in
his
house
—
the
statement
that
he
was
for
many
years
engaged
in
nefarious
practices
,
and
that
he
won
his
fortune
by
dishonest
procedures
—
or
else
to
withdraw
from
positions
which
could
only
have
been
allowed
him
as
a
gentleman
among
gentlemen
.
"
All
eyes
in
the
room
were
turned
on
Mr
.
Bulstrode
,
who
,
since
the
first
mention
of
his
name
,
had
been
going
through
a
crisis
of
feeling
almost
too
violent
for
his
delicate
frame
to
support
.
Lydgate
,
who
himself
was
undergoing
a
shock
as
from
the
terrible
practical
interpretation
of
some
faint
augury
,
felt
,
nevertheless
,
that
his
own
movement
of
resentful
hatred
was
checked
by
that
instinct
of
the
Healer
which
thinks
first
of
bringing
rescue
or
relief
to
the
sufferer
,
when
he
looked
at
the
shrunken
misery
of
Bulstrode
’
s
livid
face
.
The
quick
vision
that
his
life
was
after
all
a
failure
,
that
he
was
a
dishonored
man
,
and
must
quail
before
the
glance
of
those
towards
whom
he
had
habitually
assumed
the
attitude
of
a
reprover
—
that
God
had
disowned
him
before
men
and
left
him
unscreened
to
the
triumphant
scorn
of
those
who
were
glad
to
have
their
hatred
justified
—
the
sense
of
utter
futility
in
that
equivocation
with
his
conscience
in
dealing
with
the
life
of
his
accomplice
,
an
equivocation
which
now
turned
venomously
upon
him
with
the
full
-
grown
fang
of
a
discovered
lie
:
—
all
this
rushed
through
him
like
the
agony
of
terror
which
fails
to
kill
,
and
leaves
the
ears
still
open
to
the
returning
wave
of
execration
.
The
sudden
sense
of
exposure
after
the
re
-
established
sense
of
safety
came
—
not
to
the
coarse
organization
of
a
criminal
but
to
—
the
susceptible
nerve
of
a
man
whose
intensest
being
lay
in
such
mastery
and
predominance
as
the
conditions
of
his
life
had
shaped
for
him
.
But
in
that
intense
being
lay
the
strength
of
reaction
.
Through
all
his
bodily
infirmity
there
ran
a
tenacious
nerve
of
ambitious
self
-
preserving
will
,
which
had
continually
leaped
out
like
a
flame
,
scattering
all
doctrinal
fears
,
and
which
,
even
while
he
sat
an
object
of
compassion
for
the
merciful
,
was
beginning
to
stir
and
glow
under
his
ashy
paleness
.
Before
the
last
words
were
out
of
Mr
.
Hawley
’
s
mouth
,
Bulstrode
felt
that
he
should
answer
,
and
that
his
answer
would
be
a
retort
.
He
dared
not
get
up
and
say
,
"
I
am
not
guilty
,
the
whole
story
is
false
"
—
even
if
he
had
dared
this
,
it
would
have
seemed
to
him
,
under
his
present
keen
sense
of
betrayal
,
as
vain
as
to
pull
,
for
covering
to
his
nakedness
,
a
frail
rag
which
would
rend
at
every
little
strain
.
