jump into the carriage again i ve no time to lose i must go to at the factory will you go when was gone s handsome face gathered blackness he hardly ever wore his worst expression in the presence of others and but seldom when he alone for he was not given to believe that any game would ultimately go against him his luck had been good new conditions might always turn up to give him new chances and if affairs threatened to come to an extremity between and himself he trusted to find some sure resource he means to see to the bottom of every thing if he can that s quite plain said to himself i believe he has been getting another opinion he has some new light about those on the estate that are held in johnson s name he has inherited a faculty for business � there s no denying that but i shall beg leave to tell him that i ve propped up the family i don t know where they been without me and if it comes to i know into which scale the gratitude ought to go not that he s likely to feel any � but he can feel something else and if he makes signs of setting the dogs on i shall him feel it the people named owe me a good deal more than i owe them in this way mr inwardly appealed against an unjust construction which he foresaw that his old ac k the law might put on certain in his history i have known persons who have suspected of gratitude and it from the list of virtues but on closer observation it has b� n seen that if they have never felt grateful it has been for want of an opportunity and that far from gratitude they regard it as the virtue most of all incumbent � on others toward them chapter the nameless acts of kindness and of love y f did not forget to pay his visit to the minister in yard that evening the mingled irritation dread and defiance which he was feeling toward in the middle of the day depended on too many and far stretching causes to be dissipated by eight o clock but when he left mr s house he was in a state of triumph in the belief that he and he alone now in possession of facts which once together made a secret that gave him new power over mr in his need for help from one who had that j of the serpent which he argued is not forbidden but is only of hard to innocence had been gradually led to pour out to the attorney all the reasons which made him desire to know the truth about the man who called himself christian he had shown all the precious relics the the letters and the marriage and had comforted him by confidently promising to ascertain without scandal or premature whether this man were really s husband christian the radical was not ra h in making this promise since he had excellent reasons for believing that he had already come to a true on the subject but he wished both to know a little more of this man himself and to keep mr in ignorance � not a difficult precaution � in an affair which it cost the minister so much pain to speak of an easy opportunity of getting an interview with christian was sure to offer itself before long � might even offer itself to morrow had seen him more than once though hitherto without any reason for observing him with interest he had heard that philip s was often busy in the town and it seemed especially likely that he would be seen there when the market was to be agitated by politics and the new candidate was to show his paces the world of which was the centre was naturally curious to see the young who had come from the east was as rich as a jew and called himself a radical all equally vague in the minds of various excellent rate who drove to market in their carts or in their hereditary places at convenient windows had been secured beforehand for a few best but in general a radical candidate excited no ardent feminine even among the in if they were of the prosperous and class some chapel going ladies were fond of remembering that their families had been church others objected to politics altogether as having spoiled old and friends who had kindred views as to wine and cleaning others of the melancholy sort said it would be well if people would think less of parliament and more of pleasing god like mrs whose youth had been passed in a short and tight skirt had never been animated by the struggle for liberty and had a timid suspicion that religion was by being applied to the things of this world since mr had been in yard there had been far too much mixing up of politics with religion but at any rate these ladies had never yet been to hear in the market place and they were not going to begin that practice however had heard some of her feminine acquaintances say that they intended to sit at the s upper window and she was inclined to ask her father if he could think of a suitable place where she also might see and hear two inconsistent motives urged her she knew that p cared earnestly for all public questions and she supposed that he held it one of her not to care about them well she would try to learn the secret of this which was so strong in him that it animated what she thought the form of life she was not too stupid to find it out but this self motive was presently by a motive of a different 