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Updated: May 8, 2025
'I need not say how much personal advantage it would be to me to have the benefit of your experience, but my conscience tells me that I should not do it so I think I'll go to sleep. Mr. Neverbend did not know what to make of his companion; whether to admire the high tone of his official honesty, or to reprobate his idleness in refusing to make himself master of the report.
'No, I will not stop at Plymouth, he said, as he passed by Taunton; and on reaching Exeter he declared that he had fully made up his mind on the subject. 'We'll get a chaise at Plymouth, said Alaric. 'I think there will be a public conveyance, said Neverbend. 'But a chaise will be the quickest, said the one. 'And much the dearest, said the other.
It may be as well to explain here that my own eldest son, as fine a boy as ever delighted a mother's eye, was only two years younger than Eva, and that my wife, Mrs Neverbend, had of late got it into her head that he was quite old enough to marry the girl. It was in vain that I told her that all that had been settled while Jack was still at the didascalion.
Neverbend remained above with one of the mining authorities; one attendant miner also remained with them. 'Now, Sir, said the authority, 'if you are ready, the ladder is quite free. Free! What would not Neverbend have given to be free also himself! He looked down the free ladder, and the very look made him sink.
Of what Mrs Neverbend had gone through in providing birds, beasts, and fishes, not to talk of tarts and jellies, for the dinner of that day, no one but myself can have any idea; but it must be admitted that she accomplished her task with thorough success.
"I don't mean to say that he can really play cricket," Jack had said that morning, speaking with great authority; "but he is the best fellow in the world, and will do exactly what you ask him." But he was out now; and Jack, with over 200 still to make, declared that he gave up the battle almost as lost. "Don't say that, Mr Neverbend," whispered Eva. "Ah yes; we're gone coons.
Scott had come all the way to Tavistock on purpose to ask him to drink brandy-punch at the Blue Dragon! Another day went wearily and slowly on with Alaric and Mr. Neverbend.
'Down here, is it? said Alaric peeping over. 'I'll go first, said the guide; and down he went, down, down, down, till Neverbend looking over, could barely see the glimmer of his disappearing head light. Was it absolutely intended that he should disappear in the same way? Had he bound himself to go down that fiendish upright ladder? And were he to go down it, what then?
Columbus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Harvey, and Wilberforce, and Cobden, and that great Banting who has preserved us all so completely from the horrors of obesity, would not have been named with honour more resplendent than that paid to the name of Neverbend. Such had been my ambition, such had been my hope.
"But he might go off, Mr Neverbend," whispered Grundle; "and where should I be then? If he was to get across to Auckland, or to Sydney, and to leave some one to manage the property for him, what could you do? That's what I want to know. The law says that he shall be deposited on a certain day." "He will become as nobody in the eye of the law," said I, with all the authority of a President.
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