i m sure your brother might have waited a long while before he d have a wife that ud have let him have his say in every thing as i do it s nothing but law and now from when we first get up in the morning tiu we go to bed at night and i never contradict him i only say weu mr do as you like but you do don t go to law mrs as we have seen was not without influence over her husband no woman is she can always incline him to do either what she wishes or the reverse and on the impulses that were threatening to hurry mr into law mrs s monotonous pleading had doubtless its share of force it might even be to that feather which has the credit or of breaking the s back though on a strictly impartial view the blame ought rather to lie with the previous weight of feathers which had already placed the back m such imminent peril that an otherwise innocent feather could not settle on it without mischief not that mrs s feeble could have had this feather s weight in virtue of her single personality but whenever she departed from entire assent to her husband he saw in her the representative of the family and it was a guiding principle with mr to let the know that they were not to over or more that a male was far more than equal to four female even though one of them was mrs but not even a direct argument from that typical o mill on the female herself against his going to law could have heightened his disposition toward it so much as the mere thought of continually by the sight of the too able attorney on market days to his certain knowledge was speaking at the bottom of s had tried to make stand out and go to law about the dam it was unquestionably who had caused mr to lose the suit about the right of road and the bridge that made a of his land for every vagabond who preferred an opportunity of private property to walking like an honest man along the high road all lawyers were more or less but s was of that peculiarly kind which placed itself in opposition to that form of right embodied in mr s interests and opinions and as an extra touch of bitterness the injured miller had recently in the five hundred pounds been obliged to carry a little business to s on his own account a hook fellow as cool as a � always looking so sure of his game and it was that lawyer was not more like him but was a bald round man with bland manners and fat hands � a game cock that you would be rash to bet upon against was a sly fellow his weakness did not lie on the side of but the largest amount of however significant is not equivalent to seeing through a stone wall and confident as mr was in his that water was water and in the direct that had not a leg to stand on in this of he had an uncomfortable suspicion that had more law to show against this than could show for it but then if they went to law there was a chance for mr to employ on his side instead of having that admirable bully against him and the prospect of seeing a witness of s made to and become confounded as mr s witness had once been was to the love of justice much had mr on these subjects during his rides on the gray horse � much turning of the head from side to side as the scales dipped alternately but the probable result was still out of sight only to be reached through much hot argument and in domestic and social life that stage of the dispute which consisted in the of the case and the of mr s views concerning it throughout the entire circle of his connections would necessarily take time and at the beginning of february when tom was going to school again there were scarcely any thb mill on the fl s to be detected in his father s statement of the case against or any more specific indication of the measures he was bent on taking against that rash of the principle that water was water like is likely to heat instead of progress and mr s heat was certainly more and more palpable k there had been no new evidence on any other point there had been new evidence that was as thick as with father said tom one evening near the end of the holidays uncle says lawyer is going to send his son to mr stealing it isn t true what they said about his going to france ton won t like me to go to school with s son shall you it s no matter for that my boy said mr don t you learn any thing bad of him that s all the lad s a poor � ned and takes after his mother in the face i think there isn t much of his father in him it s a sign thinks high o mr as he sends his son to him and knows meal from mr in his heart was rather proud of the fact that his son was to have the same advantages as s but tom was not at all easy on the point it would have been much clearer if the lawyer s son had not been for then tom would have had the prospect of into him with all that freedom which is derived from a high moral sanction chapter m the new it was a cold wet january day on which tom went back to school � a day quite in keeping with this 