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Updated: June 16, 2025
The curtains were drawn back from both the windows, and in the clearness of the first autumnal frost a crescent moon hung above the woods, the silvery lawns, the plain. Not long after midnight Hallin seemed to himself to wake, full of purpose and of strength. He spoke, as he thought, to Aldous, asking to be alone with him. But Aldous did not move; that sad watching gaze of his showed no change.
"Do you know that man Wharton is getting an extraordinary hold upon the London working men?" said Hallin. "I have heard him tell that story of the game-preserving before. He was speaking for one of the Radical candidates at Hackney, and I happened to be there. It brought down the house. The rôle of your Socialist aristocrat, of your land-nationalising landlord, is a very telling one."
Upon my word, you have marched! or Edward Hallin has carried you. So now you think the poor are as well off as possible, in the best of all possible worlds is that the result of your nursing? You agree with Denny, in fact? the man who got up after me?" His tone annoyed her. Then suddenly the name suggested to her a recollection that brought a frown.
Look at that little fellow with his flowers! such an oddity of a child!" Then she raised her voice. "My dear, what a ramble you must have made. Come and have a shady chair and some tea." For answer Marcella, laughing, held up a glorious bunch of cuckoo-pint and marsh marigold, while little Hallin at her skirts waved another trophy of almost equal size.
The relation of such a habit of life and mind to the Collectivist and Socialist ideas now coming to the front in England, as in every other European country, is obvious enough. To Hallin the social life, the community, was everything yet to be a "Socialist" seemed to him more and more to be a traitor!
Her consciousness of her mother's respect and admiration for the man she was to marry was, oddly enough, never altogether pleasant to her. It brought with it a certain discomfort, a certain wish to argue things out. Hallin and Aldous parted with Frank Leven at Mellor gate, and turned homeward together under a starry heaven already whitening to the coming moon.
The opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water Swarth Fell, Hallin Fell, Place Fell one after the other; above the southern bend of the lake rose noble summits, softly touched with mist which the sun was fast dispelling. The sweetness of summer was in the air.
'Nothing too much, my good friend!" Aldous looked down upon the speaker with an anxiety quite untouched by Hallin's "chaff." "Miss Hallin tells me," he persisted, "that you are wearing yourself out with this lecturing campaign, that you don't sleep, and that she is more unhappy about you than she has been for months. Why not give it up now, rest, and begin again in the winter?"
"You're not going to one of his meetings, Miss Boyce!" cried Frank, in angry incredulity. Marcella hesitated an instant, half angry with Wharton. Then she reddened and threw back her dark head with the passionate gesture Hallin had already noticed as characteristic. "Mayn't I go where I belong?" she said "where my convictions lead me?" There was a moment's awkward silence. Then Hallin got up.
And that not for wealth's sake though a more equal distribution of property, and therewith of capacity, must inevitably tend to wealth but for the soul's sake, and for the sake of that continuous appropriation by the race of its moral and spiritual heritage. How is it to be done? Hallin, like many others, would have answered "For England mainly by a fresh distribution of the land."
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