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He longed to ask Tregarva, but he was afraid not of the man, for there was a delicacy in his truthfulness which encouraged the most utter confidence; but of the subject itself; but curiosity conquered. 'What did Old Harry mean about the Nun-pool? he said at last. 'Every one seemed to understand him. 'Ah, sir, he oughtn't to have talked of it!
'And blindfolded and ignorant as they are, said Lancelot, 'they will be certain to cut their way out just in the wrong direction. 'I'm not so sure of that, sir, said Tregarva, lowering his voice. 'What is written'? That there is One who hears the desire of the poor.
'Pardon me, sir, answered Tregarva; 'but I never felt what a real substantial thing rank is, as I have since this sad misfortune of yours. 'And I have never till now found out its worthlessness. 'You're wrong, sir, you are wrong; look at the difference between yourself and me. When you've lost all you have, and seven times more, you're still a gentleman. No man can take that from you.
Lancelot thought it was the want of money, and offered to lend him ten pounds whenever he liked; but Tregarva shook his head. 'You have treated me, sir, as no one else has done like a man and a friend; but I am not going to make a market of your generosity. I will owe no man anything, save to love one another.
Lancelot, I verily believe, would have kept his promise, though he saw that the keepers gave ground, finding Cockney skill too much for their clumsy strength; but at last Harry Verney, who had been fighting as venomously as a wild cat, and had been once before saved from a broken skull by Tregarva, rolled over at his very feet with a couple of poachers on him.
You recollect, too, as you have read the Neo-Platonists, the result of their similar attempt. 'Idolatry and magic. 'True; and yet, such is the ambition of man, you who were just now envying Tregarva, are already longing to climb even higher than Saint Theresa. 'I do not often indulge in such an ambition.
But now I hear that that you are determined to be a poor man like us; and that you shan't be, while Paul Tregarva has ought of yours. So I've just brought all the books back, and there they lie in the hall; and may God reward you for the loan of them to his poor child! And so, sir, farewell; and he rose to go. 'No, Paul; the books and you shall never part.
'Tregarva, said Lancelot, as they were landing the next trout, 'where will that Crawy go, when he dies? 'God knows, sir, said Tregarva. Lancelot went thoughtful home, and sat down not to answer Luke's letter for he knew no answer but Tregarva's, and that, alas! he could not give, for he did not believe it, but only longed to believe it. So he turned off the subject by a question
Slowly and distrustfully a dripping scarecrow of rags and bones rose from his hiding-place in the water, and then stopped suddenly, and seemed inclined to dash through the river; but Tregarva held him fast. 'There's two on ye! That's a shame! I'll surrender to no man but you, Paul. Hold off, or I'll set the dog on ye! 'It's a gentleman fishing.
The younger one, Tregarva, was a stately, thoughtful-looking Cornishman, some six feet three in height, with thews and sinews in proportion. He was sitting on the bridge looking over a basket of eel-lines, and listening silently to the chat of his companion.
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