who came meekly to him for and advice he ruled those women by virtue of his superior his great wealth and the high place he occupied in the commercial of and he was not afraid of them in the least sex with them was not yes that was it there was in them something else or more than the of life he was fastidious he acknowledged that to himself and these army women with their bare shoulders and naked arms their straight the house of pride king eyes their vitality and upon his nor did he get on better with the army men who took life lightly drinking and smoking and swearing their way through life and asserting the essential of flesh no less than their women he was always uncomfortable in the company of the army men they seemed uncomfortable too and he felt always that they were laughing at him up their sleeves or pitying him or him then too they seemed by mere to a lack in him to call attention to that in them which he did not possess and which he thanked god he did not possess they were like their women in fact ford was no more a the house of pride woman s man than he was a man s man a glance at him told the reason he had a good constitution never was on intimate terms with sickness nor even mild but he lacked vitality his was a negative no blood with a in it could have nourished and shaped that long and narrow face those thin lips lean cheeks and the small sharp eyes the of hair straight and advertised the soil as did the nose thin delicately and just the suggestion of a his meagre blood had denied him much of life and permitted him to be an in one thing only which thing was over right conduct he pondered and and that he should do right was as necessary to his nature as loving the house of pride and being loved were necessary to clay he was sitting under the trees between the and the beach his eyes wandered over the dancers and he turned his head away and gazed across the mellow sounding surf to the southern cross burning low on the horizon he was irritated by the bare shoulders and arms of the women if he had a daughter he would never permit it never but his was the abstraction the thought process had been accompanied by no inner vision of that daughter he did not see a daughter with arms and shoulders instead he smiled at the remote of marriage he was and having had no personal experience of love he looked upon it not v f the house of pride as but as anybody could marry the and chinese toiling on the sugar and in the rice fields married they invariably married at the first opportunity it was because they were so low in the scale of life there was nothing else for them to do they were like the army men and women but for him there were other and higher things he was different from them � from all of them he was proud of how he happened to be he had come of no petty love match he had come of lofty conception of duty and of devotion to a cause his father had not married for love love was a madness that had never ford when he answered the call to go to the heathen with the message of life he had had no � the house of pride thought and no desire for marriage in this they were alike his father and he but the board of was economical with new england it weighed and measured and decided that married were less expensive per and more so the board commanded ford to marry it furnished him with a wife another zealous soul with no thought of marriage intent only on doing the lord s work among the heathen they saw each other for the first time in boston the board brought them together arranged everything and by the end of the week they were married and started on the long voyage around the horn ford was proud that he had come of such a union he had been bom high and he thought of himself as lo the house of pride a spiritual and he was proud of his father it was a passion with him the erect austere figure of ford had burned itself upon his pride on his desk was a miniature of that soldier of the lord in his bedroom hung the portrait of ford painted at the time when he had served under the as prime minister not that ford had place and worldly wealth but that as prime minister and later as banker he had been of greater service to the missionary cause the german crowd and the english crowd and all the rest of the trading crowd had sneered at ford as a commercial soul but he his son knew different when the natives emerging abruptly from their system with no conception of the nature and the house of pride ii of property in land were letting their broad acres slip through their fingers it was ford who had stepped in between the trading crowd and its prey and taken possession of fat vast small wonder the trading crowd did not like his memory but he had never looked upon his enormous wealth as his own he had considered himself god s steward out of the he had built schools and and churches nor was it his fault that sugar after the had paid forty per cent that the bank he founded had into a railroad and that among other things fifty thousand acres of pasture land which he had bought for a dollar an acre grew eight tons of sugar to the 