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He looked at Dale; but Dale looked another way. For a moment he thought of Tooke's permission to appeal to him when he wanted a friend: but Tooke was not within hearing; and he dismissed the thought of pointing out Tooke to anybody's notice.
Tooke's mouth the words which were oftenest heard from him, "Proceed, gentlemen;" and into Mr. Carnaby's, "Hold your din." Firth was too busy with his sense-verses to mind the little boys, as they giggled, with their heads close together, over Hugh's sheet of paper; but the usher was never too busy to be aware of any fun which might possibly concern his dignity.
Tooke came to see the work when it was done, and returned to Mr. Shaw's with the boys, in order to pay Holt his half-crown immediately, and yet so that the widow should not see. Hugh's eye followed Mr. Tooke's hand as it went a second time into his pocket; and he was conscious of some sort of hope that he might be paid something too.
Tooke beckoned him up with Dale's class, when they carried up their themes; and, seeing how red his face was, the master bade him not be afraid. But how could he help being afraid? The themes were not read directly. It was Mr. Tooke's practice to read them out of school-hours. On this occasion, judgment was given the last thing before school broke up the next morning.
We talked it all out, and I came to some perception of the fearful ordeal it had been first, in the decision neither to shut his eyes, nor to conceal that they were open; and then in the lack of presence of mind and the sense of confusion that always beset him when browbeaten and talked down, so that, in the critical contest with Tooke, he felt as if his feet were slipping from under him, and what had once been clear to him was becoming dim, so that he had only been assured that he had held his ground by Tooke's redoubled persuasions and increased anger.
It did not look so very high as Hugh had fancied it. One thing which he had never seen or heard of was the bell, under its little roof on the ridge of Mr. Tooke's great house. Was it to call in the boys to school, or for an alarm?
He is said to have retorted upon some one who had boasted that English courts of justice were open to all classes: 'So is the London tavern to all who can pay. That is in the spirit of Bentham; and yet Bentham complains that Horne Tooke's disciple, Burdett, believed in the common law, and revered the authority of Coke. In brief, the creed of Horne Tooke meant 'liberty' founded upon tradition.
Mr Tooke came to see the work when it was done, and returned to Mr Shaw's with the boys, in order to pay Holt his half-crown immediately, and yet so that the widow should not see. Hugh's eye followed Mr Tooke's hand as it went a second time into his pocket; and he was conscious of some sort of hope that he might be paid something too.
So he thought, and so every reader has thought since, with the exception of teachers and writers upon grammar. Mr. Windham, indeed, who was a sophist, but not a logician, charged him with having found "a mare's-nest;" but it is not to be doubted that Mr. Tooke's etymologies will stand the test, and last longer than Mr.
Stewart, in fact, accepts a good deal of Horne Tooke's doctrine, though calling Tooke an 'ingenious grammarian, not a very profound philosopher, but holds, as we shall see, that the materialistic tendency can be avoided. As becomes a nominalist, he attacks the syllogism upon grounds more fully brought out by J. S. Mill. Upon another essential point, he agrees with the pure empiricists.
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