attorney had already observed looking out of a window at the of was talking to the meeting appeared to be one of new recognition for christian was saying � you ve not got gray as i have mr you re not a day older for the sixteen years but no wonder you didn t know me i m like a dried bone not so it is true i was confused a � i could put your face nowhere but after that came behind it and i said mr and so you reside at the and i am at court ah it s a thousand you re not on our side else we might have dined together at the said christian � h could you manage it he added languidly knowing there was no chance of a yes no � much couldn t leave the boy any pinch not poor while was answering christian had stared about him as his manner was when he was being spoken to and had had his eyes arrested by who was leaning forward to look at mr s extraordinary little of a son but happening to meet christian s stare she felt annoyed drew back and turned away her head who are those ladies said christian in a low tone to as if he had been startled into a sudden wish for this information they are s daughters said who knew nothing either of the lawyer s family or of the radical christian looked a moment or two and was silent h well � he said kissing the tips of his fingers as the coachman having had s order began to urge on the horses does he see some likeness in the girl thought as he turned away i wish i hadn t invited her to come in the carriage as it happens chapter xx good air of an excellent quaint pattern and o r the market dinner at the was in high in and its neighborhood the of this three and six penny ordinary liked to allude to it as men allude to any thing which that they move in good society and habitually converse with those who are in the secret of the highest affairs the guests were not only such rural as had driven to market but some of the most substantial who had always assured their wives that business required this weekly sacrifice of domestic pleasure the poorer farmers who put up at the ram or the seven stars where there was no fish felt their disadvantage bearing it modestly or bitterly as the case might be and although the was a tory house devoted to it was too much to expect that such tenants of the as had always been used to dine there should consent to eat a worse dinner and sit with worse company because they suddenly found themselves under a radical landlord opposed to the political party known as sir s hence the recent political divisions had not reduced the handsome length of the table at the and the many of dignity � from mr the to the rich butcher from who always modestly took the lowest seat though without the reward of being asked to come up higher � had not been by any � � to day there was an extra table spread for expected and it was at this that christian took his place with some of the younger farmers who had almost a sense of in talking to a man of his questionable station and unknown experience the provision was especially liberal and on the whole the presence of a destined to vote for was a ground for joking which added to the good humor of the chief a respectable old acquaintance turned radical rather against his will was rallied with even greater than if his wife had had twice over the best were far too to turn against such old friends and to make no distinction between them and the radical set with whom they never dined and probably never saw except in their imagination but the talk was necessarily in until the more serious business of dinner was ended and the wine spirits and o raised mere satisfaction into among the frequent though not regular guests whom every one was glad to see was mr the retired london a old gentleman past seventy whose square tight forehead with its ri d hedge of gray hair whose eyebrows sharp dark eyes arid re nose gave a handsome dis to his face in the midst of rural he had married a miss early in life when he was a poor young and the match had been thought as bad as ruin by her family but fifteen years ago he had had the satisfaction of bringing his wife to settle among her own friends and of being received with pride as a brother jn law retired from business possessed of unknown and of a most agreeable talent for and conversation generally no question had ever been raised as to mr s on the strength of his nose or of his name being hebrew names ran in the best saxon families the bible accounted for them and no one among the and of that district was suspected of having an oriental origin unless he carried a s certainly whatever might have discovered the worthy was so free any marks of religious persuasion he went to church with so ordinary an and so often grumbled at the sermon that there was no ground for him otherwise than with good he was generally regarded as a good looking old gentleman and a certain thin eagerness in his aspect was attributed to the life of the metropolis where narrow space had the same sort of on men as on thickly planted trees mr always ordered his pint of port which after he had it a little was wont to his recollections of the royal family and the various 