of in my veins and i want to stand up for the lot of the as a good lot in which a man may be better trained to all the best functions of his nature than if he belonged to the set who have visiting cards and are proud to be thought richer than their neighbors would nothing ever make it seem right to you to change your mind said she had rapidly woven some possibilities out of the new in her own lot though she would not for the world have had know of her weaving suppose by some means or other a fortune might come to you � by marriage or in any other unexpected way � would you see no change in your course � no said i will never be rich i don t count that as any peculiar virtue some men do well to accept riches but that is not my inward i have no fellow feeling with the rich as a class the habits of their lives are to me thousands of men have wedded poverty because they expect to go to heaven for it i don t expect to go to heaven for it but i wed it because it n o to do what i most want to do on whatever the hopes for the world may be � whether great or small � i am a man of this generation i will try to make life less bitter for a few within my reach it is held reasonable enough to toil for the fortunes of a family though it may turn to in the third generation i choose a family with more chances in it looked before her till sh said that seems a hard lot yet it is a great one she rose to walk back then you don t think i m a fool said loudly starting to his feet and then stoop r ing to gather up his cap and stick of course you suspected me of that stupidity well � women unless they are saint or elizabeth generally think this sort of thing madness unless when they read of it in the bible a woman can hardly ever choose in that way she is dependent on what happens to her she must take things because only things are within her reach why can you imagine yourself choosing hardship as the better lot said looking at her with a sudden question in his eyes yes i can she said flushing over neck and brow their words were charged with a meaning dependent entirely on the secret consciousness of each nothing had been said which was necessarily personal they walked a few yards along the road by which they had come without further speech till said gently take my arm she took it and they walked home so entirely without conversation was struggling as a firm man struggles with a temptation seeing beyond it and its lying promise was struggling as a woman struggles with the yearning for some expression of love and with vexation under that to a yearning which is not likely to be satisfied each was conscious of a silence which each was unable to break till they entered lane and were within a few yards of the minister s door i is getting dusk then said will mr be anxious about you no i think not would tell him that i went out with you and that you carried a large stick said with her light laugh went in with to take tea but the conversation was entirely between him and mr about the tricks of the foolish personality of the and the of s return as to which declared himself to have become indifferent this made the minister uneasy he had great belief in the old political had preached that universal and no were agreeable to the will of god and liked to believe that a visible instrument was in the candidate who bad pro the radical emphatically against in a perverse mood that universal would be equally agreeable to the devil that he would change his politics a little have a larger traffic and see himself more fully represented in parliament nay my friend said the minister you are again sporting with for you will not deny that you glory in the name of radical or root and branch man as they said in the great times when was in its giant youth a yes but i want to go to some roots a good deal lower down than the truly there is a work within which can not be with but it is our preliminary work to free men from the stifled life of political and bring them into what milton calls the liberal air wherein alone can be wrought the final triumphs of the spirit with all my heart but while is though you him by a million he ll worship that carries a bottle i forget though � you don t read mr i am bound to confess that i have so far looked into a volume of s as to conceive your meaning but the therein were so little to be reconciled with a steady contemplation of that divine economy which is hidden from sense and revealed to faith that i the reading as likely to my sat by in unusual silence the conviction that willed her on from his life was making it plain that something more than friendship between them was not so out of the as she had always inwardly asserted in her pain that his choice lay aloof from her she was compelled frankly to admit to herself the longing that it had been otherwise and that he had entreated her to share his life he was like no one else to her he had seemed to bring at once a law and the love that gave strength to obey the law yet 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