something had to be done he had wasted many valuable years and having an acquaintance who was starting on a life as a iso the rally it occurred to angel that this might be a lead in the right direction either in the colonies america or at home � farming at any rate after becoming well qualified for the business by a careful � that was a which would probably afford an independence without the sacrifice of what he valued even more than a � intellectual liberty so we find angel at six and twenty here at as a student of and as there were no houses near at hand in which he get a comfortable lodging a at the s his room was an immense which ran the whole length of the house it could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and it as his retreat here had plenty of space and could often be heard by the folk pacing up and down when the household had gone to rest a portion was divided off at one end by a curtain behind which was his bed the outer part being furnished as a homely sitting room at first he lived up above entirely reading a good deal and upon an old harp which he had bought at a sale saying when in a bitter humour that he might have to get his by it in the streets some day but he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals downstairs in the general dining kitchen with the and his wife and the maids and men who all together formed a lively assembly for though but few hands slept in the house several joined the family at meals the longer resided here the less objection had he to his company and the more did he like to share quarters with them in common much to his surprise he took indeed a real delight in their companionship the conventional of his imagination � by the pitiable known as � were after a of the d few days residence at dose quarters no was to be seen at first it is true when s intelligence was fresh from a society these friends with whom he now seemed a little strange sitting down as a level member of the s household seemed at the outset an proceeding the ideas the modes the appeared and but with living on there day after day the acute became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle without any change whatever variety had taken the place of his host and his host s household his men and his maids as they became intimately known to began to themselves as in a process the thought of s was brought home to him a on a d on il y a d les du ne pas de difference les the typical and ceased to exist he had been into a of varied � beings of many minds beings infinite in difference some happy many serene a few depressed one here and there bright even to genius some stupid others wanton others austere some some into men who had private views of each other as he had of his friends who could or condemn other amuse or themselves by the contemplation of each other s or vices men every one of whom walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death unexpectedly he began to like the life for its own sake and for what it brought apart from its bearing on his own proposed career considering his position he became wonderfully free from the melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent power for the first time of late years he could read as his the rally inclined him without any eye to for a profession since the few farming which he deemed it desirable to master occupied him but little time he grew away from old associations and saw new in life and humanity he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly � the seasons in their moods morning and evening night and noon winds in their different trees waters and mists shades and silence and the voices of things the early mornings were still sufficiently cool to render a fire acceptable in the large room wherein they and by mrs s orders who held that he was too genteel to mess at their table it was angel s custom to sit in the yawning chimney corner during the meal his cup and and plate being placed on a at his elbow the light from the long wide window opposite shone in upon his nook and assisted by a secondary light of cold blue quality which shone down the chimney enabled him to read there easily whenever disposed to do so between and the window was the table at which his companions sat their rising sharp against the panes while to the side was the milk house door through which were visible the leads in rows full to the brim with the morning s milk at the further end the great could be seen revolving and its slip heard � the moving power being through the window in the form of a horse walking in a circle and driven by a boy for several days after s arrival sitting reading from some book or piece of music just come by post hardly noticed that she was present at table she talked so little and the is of the d other maids talked so much that the did not strike him as possessing a new note and he was ever in the habit of the particulars of an outward scene for the general impression one day however when he had been one of his and by 