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“
Well
,
that
’
s
an
argument
I
rather
like
,
because
what
a
man
has
once
been
he
may
be
again
.
”
Thomasin
blushed
.
“
Except
that
it
is
rather
harder
now
,
”
Venn
continued
.
“
Why
?
”
she
asked
.
“
Because
you
be
richer
than
you
were
at
that
time
.
”
“
O
no
—
not
much
.
I
have
made
it
nearly
all
over
to
the
baby
,
as
it
was
my
duty
to
do
,
except
just
enough
to
live
on
.
”
“
I
am
rather
glad
of
that
,
”
said
Venn
softly
,
and
regarding
her
from
the
corner
of
his
eye
,
“
for
it
makes
it
easier
for
us
to
be
friendly
.
”
Thomasin
blushed
again
,
and
,
when
a
few
more
words
had
been
said
of
a
not
unpleasing
kind
,
Venn
mounted
his
horse
and
rode
on
.
This
conversation
had
passed
in
a
hollow
of
the
heath
near
the
old
Roman
road
,
a
place
much
frequented
by
Thomasin
.
And
it
might
have
been
observed
that
she
did
not
in
future
walk
that
way
less
often
from
having
met
Venn
there
now
.
Whether
or
not
Venn
abstained
from
riding
thither
because
he
had
met
Thomasin
in
the
same
place
might
easily
have
been
guessed
from
her
proceedings
about
two
months
later
in
the
same
year
.
Throughout
this
period
Yeobright
had
more
or
less
pondered
on
his
duty
to
his
cousin
Thomasin
.
He
could
not
help
feeling
that
it
would
be
a
pitiful
waste
of
sweet
material
if
the
tender
-
natured
thing
should
be
doomed
from
this
early
stage
of
her
life
onwards
to
dribble
away
her
winsome
qualities
on
lonely
gorse
and
fern
.
But
he
felt
this
as
an
economist
merely
,
and
not
as
a
lover
.
His
passion
for
Eustacia
had
been
a
sort
of
conserve
of
his
whole
life
,
and
he
had
nothing
more
of
that
supreme
quality
left
to
bestow
.
So
far
the
obvious
thing
was
not
to
entertain
any
idea
of
marriage
with
Thomasin
,
even
to
oblige
her
.
But
this
was
not
all
.
Years
ago
there
had
been
in
his
mother
’
s
mind
a
great
fancy
about
Thomasin
and
himself
.
It
had
not
positively
amounted
to
a
desire
,
but
it
had
always
been
a
favourite
dream
.
That
they
should
be
man
and
wife
in
good
time
,
if
the
happiness
of
neither
were
endangered
thereby
,
was
the
fancy
in
question
.
So
that
what
course
save
one
was
there
now
left
for
any
son
who
reverenced
his
mother
’
s
memory
as
Yeobright
did
?
It
is
an
unfortunate
fact
that
any
particular
whim
of
parents
,
which
might
have
been
dispersed
by
half
an
hour
’
s
conversation
during
their
lives
,
becomes
sublimated
by
their
deaths
into
a
fiat
the
most
absolute
,
with
such
results
to
conscientious
children
as
those
parents
,
had
they
lived
,
would
have
been
the
first
to
decry
.
Had
only
Yeobright
’
s
own
future
been
involved
he
would
have
proposed
to
Thomasin
with
a
ready
heart
.
He
had
nothing
to
lose
by
carrying
out
a
dead
mother
’
s
hope
.
