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"What are you going to make of yourself when you are grown up, Oyvind?" said she, suddenly. "For a houseman's son, there are not many openings," he replied. "The school-master says you must go to the seminary," said she. "Can people go there free?" inquired Oyvind. "The school-fund pays," answered the father, who was eating. "Would you like to go?" asked the mother.
He and his comrades were evidently, then, Houseman's desperate associates; and they too, though they were borne too rapidly by Aram to be able to rein in their horses on the spot, had seen the solitary traveller, and already wheeled round, and called upon him to halt! The lightning was again gone, and the darkness snatched the robbers and their intended victim from the sight of each other.
Aram replied not to this question; but threatened him, if he spoke of his being in Clarke's company that night; vowing revenge either by himself or some other person if he mentioned any thing relating to the affair. This was the sum of Houseman's evidence. A Mr.
Nor to Walter was the scene without something more impressive and thrilling than its mere pathos alone. He, now standing beside the corpse of Houseman's child, was son to the man of whose murder Houseman had been suspected. The childless and the fatherless, might there be no retribution here?
When Mr. Neal first came to Fields, Jones & Houseman's, timid and green from the country, he had been repelled by the lack of interest in his new problems on the part of his fellow clerks, and he had then put on for the first time that armor of indifference which now clung to him with the familiarity of an accustomed garment.
"We can surely thank Him without wearing silver buttons," observed the father. "Yes, but to let Oyvind go to the dance, dressed as he was yesterday, is not thanking Him either." "Oyvind is a houseman's son." "That is no reason why he should not wear suitable clothes when we can afford it." "Talk about it so he can hear it himself!"
Gaunt revived, her fainting, so soon after Mr. Atkins's proposal, had produced a sinister effect on the minds of all present; and every face showed it, except the wary Houseman's. On her retiring, it broke out first in murmurs, then in plain words. As for Mr. Atkins, he now showed the moderation of an able man who feels he has a strong cause.
Said Atkins, very impressively, "And, mark my words, at the bottom of that very sheet of water there, I shall find the remains of the late Griffith Gaunt." At these solemn words, coming as they did, not from a loose unprofessional speaker, but from a lawyer, a man who measured all his words, a very keen observer might have seen a sort of tremor run all through Mr. Houseman's frame.
I did not feel remorse, but I felt regret. The thought that had I waited three days I might have been saved, not from guilt, but from the chance of shame, from the degradation of sinking to Houseman's equal of feeling that man had the power to hurt me that I was no longer above the reach of human malice, or human curiosity that I was made a slave to my own secret that I was no longer lord of my heart, to shew or to conceal it that at any hour, in the possession of honours, by the hearth of love, I might be dragged forth and proclaimed a murderer that I held my life, my reputation, at the breath of accident that in the moment I least dreamed of, the earth might yield its dead, and the gibbet demand its victim; this could I feel all this and not make a spectre of the past: a spectre that walked by my side that slept at my bed that rose from my books that glided between me and the stars of heaven, that stole along the flowers, and withered their sweet breath that whispered in my ear, 'Toil, fool, and be wise; the gift of wisdom is to place us above the reach of fortune, but thou art her veriest minion! Yes; I paused at last from my wanderings, and surrounded myself with books, and knowledge became once more to me what it had been, a thirst; but not what it had been, a reward.
Is this your whole ground for suspicion; the mere circumstance of Houseman's being last seen with Clarke?" "Consider also the dissolute and bold character of Houseman. Clarke evidently had his jewels and money with him they were not left in the house. What a temptation to one who was more than suspected of having in the course of his life taken to plunder!
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