fish of this kind and after running her head against the same resisting medium for thirteen years would go at it again to day with alacrity this observation of hers tended directly to convince mr that it would not be at all awkward for him to raise five hundred pounds and when mrs became rather pressing to know how he would raise it without the mill and the house which he had said he never would since nowadays people were none so ready to lend money without security mr getting warm declared that mrs might do as she liked about calling in her money � he should pay it in whether or not he was not going to be beholding to his wife s sisters when a man had married into a where there was a whole litter of women he might have plenty to put up with if he chose but mr did not choose mrs cried a little in a quiet way as she put on her but presently sank into a comfortable sleep by the thought that she would talk every thing over with her sister to morrow when she was to take the children to to tea not that she looked forward to any distinct issue from that talk but it seemed impossible that past events should be so obstinate as to remain when they were complained against her husband lay awake rather longer for he too was thinking of a visit he would pay on the morrow and his ideas on the subject were not of so vague and soothing a kind as those of his amiable partner mr when under the influence of a strong had a in action that may seem with that painful sense of the complicated nature of human under which his more were conducted but it is really not improbable that there was a direct relation between these apparently contradictory phenomena since i have observed that for getting a strong impression that a is tangled there is nothing hke hastily at a single thread it was owing to this that mr was on horseback soon after dinner the next day he was not on his way to to see his sister moss and her husband for having made up his mind that he would pay mrs her loan of five hundred pounds the mill on the it naturally occurred to him that he had a note for three hundred pounds lent to his brother in law moss and if said brother in law could manage to pay in the money within a given time it would go far to lessen the air of which mr s spirited step might have worn in the eyes of weak people who require to know precisely a thing is to be done before they are strongly confident that it will be easy for mr was in a position neither new nor striking but like other every day things sure to have a that will be felt in the long run he was held to be a much more substantial man than he really was and as we are all apt to what the world believes about us it was his habit to think of failure and ruin with the same sort of remote pity with which a spare long man hears that his short neighbor is stricken with he had been always used to hear pleasant jokes about his advantages as a man who worked his own mill and owned a pretty bit of land and these jokes naturally kept up his sense that he was a man of considerable substance they gave a pleasant flavor to his glass on a market day and if it had not been for the of half yearly mr would really have forgotten that there was a of two thousand pounds on his very desirable that was not altogether his own fault since one of the thousand pounds was his sister s fortune which he had had to pay on her marriage and a man who has neighbors that will go to law with him is not likely to pay off his especially if he the good opinion of acquaintances who want to borrow a pounds on security too lofty to be represented by our friend mr had a good natured fibre in him and did not like to give harsh even to a sister who had not only come into the world in that superfluous way characteristic of sisters creating a necessity for but had quite thrown herself away in marriage and had crowned her mistakes by having an eighth baby on this point mr was conscious of being a httle weak but he to himself by saying that poor had been a good looking before she married moss � he would sometimes say this even with a slight in his voice but this morning he was in a mood more becoming a man of business and in the course of his ride along the lanes with their deep � lying so far away from a market town that the labor of drawing produce and was enough to take away the best part of the profits on such poor land as that parish was made he got up a due amount of irritation against moss ths hill on the as a man capital who if and were abroad was sure to have his share of them and who the more you tried to help him out of the mud would sink the further in it would do him good rather than harm now if he were obliged to raise this three hundred pounds it would make him look about him better and not act so foolishly about his wool this year as he did the last in � act mr had been too easy with his brother in law and because he had let the in � run on for two years moss was likely enough to 