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He begins to consider what he is worth, and to readjust the proportion between his work and his wages to reflect that the larger share of the profit is, perhaps, due to himself, seeing that he reaps by his own toil and sweat, and his master reaps by the toil and sweat of a score." Mr. Chiverton had manifested signs of impatience and irritability during Mr.
Women have no chance of being ambitious on their own account, have they?" "Oh yes. Women are as ambitious of rank, riches, and power as men are; and some are ambitious of doing what they imagine to be great deeds. You will probably meet one at Brentwood, a most beautiful lady she is a Mrs. Chiverton." Bessie's countenance flashed: "She was a Miss Hiloe, was she not Ada Hiloe? I knew her.
This was Harrison Ainsworth, and G. P. R. James also began to publish pretty early in the third decade of the century. James' Richelieu, his first work of mark, appeared in 1825, the same year as Sir John Chiverton; but he was rather the older man of the two, having been born in 1801, while Ainsworth's birth year was 1805.
Bessie Fairfax had been but a few days at home after the Brentwood rejoicings when there came for her an invitation from Mrs. Chiverton to spend a week at Castlemount. She was perfectly ready to go more ready to go than her grandfather was to part with her. She read him the letter at breakfast; he said he would think about it, and at luncheon he had not yet made up his mind.
Forbes looked at him. The old man made no sign of being affronted, and they went together into the drawing-room, where he introduced the clergyman to his wife, saying, "Here, Ada, is a gentleman who will back you in teaching me my duty to my neighbor;" and then he went over to Lady Angleby. "You are on the side of the poor man, then, Mrs. Chiverton?" said Mr. Forbes pleasantly.
But one morning in his absence Mr. Gifford called on business, and was so obstinate to take no denial that Mrs. Chiverton permitted him to come and speak with her in the picture-gallery, where she was giving the artist a sitting. He was a fat man of middle age, with a thin voice and jerky manner. "I had Forbes yesterday, Mrs. Chiverton, to speak to me in your name," he announced.
Chiverton was allowed to converse on philanthropic missions with Miss Burleigh, who yawned behind her fan and marvelled at the splendor of the bride's jewels. In the dining-room conversation became more animated when the gentlemen were left to themselves. Mr. Chiverton loved to take the lead.
That strip of debatable land is the seedbed of crime and misery: the laborers take refuge in the hamlet, and herd together as animals left to their own choice never do herd; but their walk to and from their work is shortened by one half, and they have their excuse. We should probably do the same ourselves." "The cottages of the small proprietors are always the worst," remarked Mr. Chiverton.
Fairfax. "I should like to see a constitutional remedy provided for the Giffords of the gentry before I depart. We are too near neighbors to be friends, and Morte adjoins my property." "Gifford was brought up in a bad school a vaporing fellow, not true to any of his obligations," said Mr. Oliver Smith. "It is Blagg, his agent, who is responsible," began Mr. Chiverton. Mr.
"Oh, we cannot wait for that we must do something meanwhile," said Sir Edward Lucas, understanding him literally. "I expect we shall have to manage our land less exclusively with an eye to our own revenue from it." Mr. Chiverton testily interrupted the young man's words of wisdom: "The fact is, Jack wants to be master himself.
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