him with there i� she came back again from her grave the hill on thb come come he said putting his double eye glass over his nose and himself to a general view while he rested you ve got a famous show here upon my word i don t see that your things aren t as good as that london artist s � what s his name � that gave so much money for philip shook his head and smiled he had seated himself on his painting stool and had taken a lead pencil in his hand with which he was making strong marks to the sense of he watched his father get up and walk slowly round good dwelling on the pictures much longer than his amount of genuine taste for landscape would have prompted till he stopped before a stand on which two pictures were placed � one much larger than the other � the smaller one in a leather case bless me i what have you here said startled by a sudden transition from landscape to portrait i thought you d left off figures who are these they are the same person said philip with calm at different ages and what person said sharply his eyes with a growing look of suspicion on the larger picture miss the small one is something like what she was when i was at school with her brother at king s the larger one is not quite so good a likeness of what she was when i came from abroad turned round fiercely with a flushed face letting his eye glass fall and looking at his son with a savage expression for a moment as if he was ready to strike that daring from the stool but he threw himself into the and thrust his hands into his pockets still looking angrily at his son however philip did not return the look but sat quietly watching the point of his pencil and do you mean to say then that you have had any acquaintance with her since you came from abroad said at last with that vain effort which rage always makes to throw as much punishment as it desires to inflict into words and tones since blows are forbidden yes i saw a great deal of her for a whole year before her father s death we met often in that thicket � the red � near i love her dearly i shall never love any other woman i have thought of her ever since she was a little girl go on sir i � and you have with her all thia while tub mill on the no i never told her i loved her till just before we parted and she promised her brother not to see me again or to correspond with me i am not sure that she loves me or would consent to marry me but if she would consent � if she did love me well enough � i should marry her and this is the return you make me for all the i ve heaped on you said getting white and beginning to tremble under an enraged sense of before philip s calm defiance and of purpose no said philip looking up at him for the first time i don t regard it as a return you have been an indulgent to me but i have always felt that it was because you had an affectionate wish to give me as much happiness as my unfortunate lot would admit of � not that it was a debt you expected me to pay by sacrificing all my chances of happiness to satisfy feelings of yours which i can never share i think most sons would share their father s feelings in this case said bitterly the girl s was an ignorant mad brute who was within an inch of me the whole town knows it and the brother is just as insolent only in a cooler way he forbade her seeing you you say he ll break every bone in your body for your greater happiness if you don t take care but you seem to have made up your mind you have counted the consequences i suppose of course you are independent of me you can marry this girl to morrow if you like you are a man of twenty � you can go your way and i can go mine we need have no more to do with each other rose and walked towards the door but something held him back and instead of leaving the room he walked up and down it philip was slow in reply and when he spoke his tone had a more and clearness than ever no i can t marry miss even if she would have me � if i have only my own resources to maintain her with i have been brought up to no profession i can t offer her poverty as well as ah there is a reason for your clinging to me doubtless said still bitterly though philip s last words had given him a pang they had stirred a feeling which had been a habit for a quarter of a century he threw himself into the chair again i expected all this said i know these scenes are happening i t � ji like the mill on the other men of my age i might answer your angry words by still � we might part � i should marry the woman i love and have a chance of being as happy as the rest but if it will be a satisfaction to you to the very object of everything you ve done for me you have an advantage over most fathers you can completely deprive me of the only thing that would make my life worth having philip paused but his was silent you know best what satisfaction you would have beyond 