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Why did I make myself a tradesman? Why did I enter Hunsden's house this evening? Why, at dawn to-morrow, must I repair to Crimsworth's mill? All that night did I ask myself these questions, and all that night fiercely demanded of my soul an answer. I got no sleep; my head burned, my feet froze; at last the factory bells rang, and I sprang from my bed with other slaves.
I should never have suited any man but Professor Crimsworth no other gentleman, French, English, or Belgian, would have thought me amiable or handsome; and I doubt whether I should have cared for the approbation of many others, if I could have obtained it. Now, I have been Professor Crimsworth's wife eight years, and what is he in my eyes?
You will seek out lodgings in X ." Quitting the window, I walked back to the hearth. "Of course I shall seek out lodgings in X ," I answered. "It would not suit me either to lodge at Crimsworth Hall." My tone was quiet. I always speak quietly. Yet Mr. Crimsworth's blue eye became incensed; he took his revenge rather oddly. Turning to me he said bluntly
You sit at that desk in Crimsworth's counting-house day by day and week by week, scraping with a pen on paper, just like an automaton; you never get up; you never say you are tired; you never ask for a holiday; you never take change or relaxation; you give way to no excess of an evening; you neither keep wild company, nor indulge in strong drink." "Do you, Mr. Hunsden?"
She refuses flatly to give up her teaching at Crimsworth's desire, Crimsworth, who will have six thousand francs a year. "'How rich you are, Monsieur! And then she stirred uneasily in my arms. 'Three thousand francs! she murmured, 'while I get only twelve hundred! She went on faster.
Crimsworth's clerk a dependant amongst wealthy strangers, meeting disdain with a hard front, conscious of an unsocial and unattractive exterior, refusing to sue for notice which I was sure would be withheld, declining to evince an admiration which I knew would be scorned as worthless.
I thought you and everybody else looked upon me only in the light of a poor clerk." "Well, and so we do; and what are you but a poor clerk? You do Crimsworth's work, and he gives you wages shabby wages they are, too." I was silent.
It is you, William, who are the aristocrat of your family, and you are not as fine a fellow as your plebeian brother by long chalk." There was something in Mr. Hunsden's point-blank mode of speech which rather pleased me than otherwise because it set me at my ease. I continued the conversation with a degree of interest. "How do you happen to know that I am Mr. Crimsworth's brother?
Crimsworth's face, a deep, involuntary sigh announced my disappointment; she took it as a homage to her beauty, and Edward, who was evidently proud of his rich and handsome young wife, threw on me a glance half ridicule, half ire. "I turned from them both, and gazing wearily round the room, I saw two pictures set in the oak panelling one on each side the mantel-piece.
Crimsworth's mill and warehouse which were situated in the smoky atmosphere of Bigben Close; his RESIDENCE lay four miles out, in the country. "It was late in the evening when I alighted at the gates of the habitation designated to me as my brother's.
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