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'It has value in other people's eyes, she said irritably, 'in Lucy's and in his brother's. What would they do if he was to throw it away? Who would look after the mill and business then? He has no right to run such risks, Mrs. Porson, no right at all. Of course he is unhappy.
So he was today, but I don't know that he was later than usual." "I think, Ripon, we ought to speak to Porson." "I think so too," Ripon rejoined gravely; "it is too serious to keep to ourselves. Any ordinary thing I would not peach about on any account, but a disgraceful theft like this, which throws a doubt over us all, is another thing; the honor of the whole school is at stake.
The farmer-families were a little shy of him at first, fancying him too fine a little gentleman for them; but as they got to know him, they grew fond of him. They called him "the parson's man," which pleased Clare. But one old woman called him "the parson's cherubim." One day Mr. Porson was calling at the house of the largest farm in the parish, the nearest house to the parsonage.
His father succeeded to a diminished and encumbered estate; indeed, had it not been for the fortune of his mother, a Miss Porson and one of a middle class and business, but rather wealthy family, the property must have been sold years before.
"Great heavens! what a place!" said the Colonel to himself as he halted at the private gateway which opened on to the cliff and surveyed it affronting sea and sky in all its naked horror. "Show me the house and I will show you the man," he went on to himself; "but, after all, one mustn't judge him too hardly. Poor Porson, he did not arrange his own up-bringing or his ancestors. Hello! there he is.
Porson went on, "not only because it is an expensive work, but because it is a prize which I won at Durham." He paused a moment, and then said in a stern voice: "Let every boy open his desk." The desks were opened, and Mr. Porson walked round and glanced at each. "This is a serious matter now," he said. "Ripon, will you come to the study with me and help me to search again.
As he had not the same objection as his predecessor to receive home boarders, the numbers were swelled by eighteen boys whose parents resided in Marsden. To meet the increased demands upon his teaching powers Mr. Porson engaged two ushers, both of them young men who had just left Durham. They were both pleasant and gentlemanly young fellows; and as Mr.
Sir Walter Scott addressed verses to him. Professor Porson wrote emendations for him in his favorite copy of Athenæus. To him was inscribed Dr. Ferrier's poetical epistle on Bibliomania. His virtues were celebrated by Dibdin and by Burton.
Johnson dearly loved tea, and drank great quantities of this elegant and popular beverage, and so does P.T.W. The late professor having once exasperated a disputant by the dryness of his sarcasm, the petulant opponent thus addressed him: "Mr. Porson, I beg leave to tell you, sir, that my opinion of you is perfectly contemptible."
Porson could see the understanding of a thing gradually burst into blossom on the boy's face. It did not smile, it only shone. Understanding is light; it needs love to change light into a smile.
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