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"
"
I
don
’
t
know
that
I
need
mind
about
that
,
"
said
Lydgate
,
rather
proudly
;
"
but
he
seems
to
have
good
ideas
about
hospitals
,
and
he
spends
large
sums
on
useful
public
objects
.
He
might
help
me
a
good
deal
in
carrying
out
my
ideas
.
As
to
his
religious
notions
—
why
,
as
Voltaire
said
,
incantations
will
destroy
a
flock
of
sheep
if
administered
with
a
certain
quantity
of
arsenic
.
I
look
for
the
man
who
will
bring
the
arsenic
,
and
don
’
t
mind
about
his
incantations
.
"
"
Very
good
.
But
then
you
must
not
offend
your
arsenic
-
man
.
You
will
not
offend
me
,
you
know
,
"
said
Mr
.
Farebrother
,
quite
unaffectedly
.
"
I
don
’
t
translate
my
own
convenience
into
other
people
’
s
duties
.
I
am
opposed
to
Bulstrode
in
many
ways
.
I
don
’
t
like
the
set
he
belongs
to
:
they
are
a
narrow
ignorant
set
,
and
do
more
to
make
their
neighbors
uncomfortable
than
to
make
them
better
.
Their
system
is
a
sort
of
worldly
-
spiritual
cliqueism
:
they
really
look
on
the
rest
of
mankind
as
a
doomed
carcass
which
is
to
nourish
them
for
heaven
.
But
,
"
he
added
,
smilingly
,
"
I
don
’
t
say
that
Bulstrode
’
s
new
hospital
is
a
bad
thing
;
and
as
to
his
wanting
to
oust
me
from
the
old
one
—
why
,
if
he
thinks
me
a
mischievous
fellow
,
he
is
only
returning
a
compliment
.
And
I
am
not
a
model
clergyman
—
only
a
decent
makeshift
.
"
Lydgate
was
not
at
all
sure
that
the
Vicar
maligned
himself
A
model
clergyman
,
like
a
model
doctor
,
ought
to
think
his
own
profession
the
finest
in
the
world
,
and
take
all
knowledge
as
mere
nourishment
to
his
moral
pathology
and
therapeutics
.
He
only
said
,
"
What
reason
does
Bulstrode
give
for
superseding
you
?
"
"
That
I
don
’
t
teach
his
opinions
—
which
he
calls
spiritual
religion
;
and
that
I
have
no
time
to
spare
.
Both
statements
are
true
.
But
then
I
could
make
time
,
and
I
should
be
glad
of
the
forty
pounds
.
That
is
the
plain
fact
of
the
case
.
But
let
us
dismiss
it
.
I
only
wanted
to
tell
you
that
if
you
vote
for
your
arsenic
-
man
,
you
are
not
to
cut
me
in
consequence
.
I
can
’
t
spare
you
.
You
are
a
sort
of
circumnavigator
come
to
settle
among
us
,
and
will
keep
up
my
belief
in
the
antipodes
.
Now
tell
me
all
about
them
in
Paris
.
"
"
Oh
,
sir
,
the
loftiest
hopes
on
earthDraw
lots
with
meaner
hopes
:
heroic
breasts
,
Breathing
bad
air
,
ran
risk
of
pestilence
;
Or
,
lacking
lime
-
juice
when
they
cross
the
Line
,
May
languish
with
the
scurvy
.
"
Some
weeks
passed
after
this
conversation
before
the
question
of
the
chaplaincy
gathered
any
practical
import
for
Lydgate
,
and
without
telling
himself
the
reason
,
he
deferred
the
predetermination
on
which
side
he
should
give
his
vote
.
It
would
really
have
been
a
matter
of
total
indifference
to
him
—
that
is
to
say
,
he
would
have
taken
the
more
convenient
side
,
and
given
his
vote
for
the
appointment
of
Tyke
without
any
hesitation
—
if
he
had
not
cared
personally
for
Mr
.
Farebrother
.
But
his
liking
for
the
Vicar
of
St
.
Botolph
’
s
grew
with
growing
acquaintanceship
.
That
,
entering
into
Lydgate
’
s
position
as
a
new
-
comer
who
had
his
own
professional
objects
to
secure
,
Mr
.
Farebrother
should
have
taken
pains
rather
to
warn
off
than
to
obtain
his
interest
,
showed
an
unusual
delicacy
and
generosity
,
which
Lydgate
’
s
nature
was
keenly
alive
to
.
It
went
along
with
other
points
of
conduct
in
Mr
.
Fare
brother
which
were
exceptionally
fine
,
and
made
his
character
resemble
those
southern
landscapes
which
seem
divided
between
natural
grandeur
and
social
slovenliness
.
Very
few
men
could
have
been
as
filial
and
chivalrous
as
he
was
to
the
mother
,
aunt
,
and
sister
,
whose
dependence
on
him
had
in
many
ways
shaped
his
life
rather
uneasily
for
himself
;
few
men
who
feel
the
pressure
of
small
needs
are
so
nobly
resolute
not
to
dress
up
their
inevitably
self
-
interested
desires
in
a
pretext
of
better
motives
.
In
these
matters
he
was
conscious
that
his
life
would
bear
the
closest
scrutiny
;
and
perhaps
the
consciousness
encouraged
a
little
defiance
towards
the
critical
strictness
of
persons
whose
celestial
intimacies
seemed
not
to
improve
their
domestic
manners
,
and
whose
lofty
aims
were
not
needed
to
account
for
their
actions
.
Then
,
his
preaching
was
ingenious
and
pithy
,
like
the
preaching
of
the
English
Church
in
its
robust
age
,
and
his
sermons
were
delivered
without
book
.
People
outside
his
parish
went
to
hear
him
;
and
,
since
to
fill
the
church
was
always
the
most
difficult
part
of
a
clergyman
’
s
function
,
here
was
another
ground
for
a
careless
sense
of
superiority
.
Besides
,
he
was
a
likable
man
:
sweet
-
tempered
,
ready
-
witted
,
frank
,
without
grins
of
suppressed
bitterness
or
other
conversational
flavors
which
make
half
of
us
an
affliction
to
our
friends
.
Lydgate
liked
him
heartily
,
and
wished
for
his
friendship
.
