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首页tess of the durbervillesCHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 4

        `the Young Idea

        ternations of feeling in t first dialogue betom and Pio mark tercourse even after many om never quite lost t Pural enemy, o Py: deformity: enaciously to impressions once received: as ion predominates over t aion, ternal remaio    it    instance. But t    to like Pin exercises,    could only be found out be a lucky cell sug stories about es om, because t trokes. ar could cut a t: o cut cus upid story, and    care to    again. But irrups and lifting tle-axe cracked at o and too-y knig Bannockburn, tom felt all tation of sympat at    at on to top of , ening t illery of epits at     al of peevisibility ervieom of a perpetually recurrial ailment -    nervous irritability,    t-bitterness produced by ty. In ts of susceptibility every glance seemed to o be cy or    - at t it    glance, and P indifference as a s blundering patronage ogetimes make urn upon te savagely, and , ained    Paugom found, to , t er gave o dra brooks and rustic bridges and ruins all ness of black-lead surfadig t nature, if anytiny; and as toms feeling for turesque in landscape    present quite latent, it is not surprising t Mr Goodris seemed to eresting form of art. Mr tulliver ention t tom s to some business , t tom seemed to be learning not sort:    tom sulliver must not mind payira for dra tom be made a goo turn o any purpose. So it    tom selling ed as a master if noodrice at t of ton? By o make aremely fine point to o represent landscape y enden o details,    extremely dull.

        All ters egrity, and before ture. In t is no fable t telling s and large s, and ioned not to ts but to tellect -    relation. tlemen o solve o readjust tios and ts are not easily starved to deato be - to raise t one o do good    a loo clergymen:    t if to turn out very poor    a elling be expected to kno education e and difficult business? any more ted to ion. Mr Stellings faculties rai in a strait line, and y to spare. But among toms poraries ru to find t after many days, tom tulliver. Educatioirely a matter of luck - usually of ill-luck - in tant days. tate of mind in y pared    of old-fasulliver, or for t men, u pic system, and e of tage, o give tter star in life t necessarily take to tence of ter urn of linen, fork, and spoon. It ance    brougo t youleman, at ty,    closed ions by an imprudent marriage: ot fat for to be on tion of a grammar svisited by issioners o tages of a large and lofty building, togeter, toote indistiness and iion    te of tless, ed; but all ripeness beage less esteemed in t.

        tom tulliver, tisime s of more or less relevant kno deal of strictly relevant ignorance,    so very unlucky. Mr Stelling ion t a groain y kindness in    made o see tom looking e issues belonging to everyday duties; not quite petent to    inpetelemen must live, and    private fortu is difficult to see eelly if to do iover. Besides it    of toms mental stitution t ies could not be nouris of knoelling o unicate. A boy born    poions must suffer ty of al deficy, just as if er tion saned by tice of our venerable aors    to give ional dulness of a boy ime t. And Mr Stelling    a boy so stupid at signs and abstraust be stupid at everyt revereleman could aug ice of our venerable aors to apply t ingenious instrument to tigig in order to elioent facts: to begin    ts ent, and    to tigelling    all boys y could learn    o teac be tig be insisted on y, and a page of Virgil be ay, to ence and stimulate a too languid ination to Latin verse.

        le during tudies and so apt, t Mr Stelling could obtai by y oms dulness. Gentlemen s and ambitious iions do sometimes disappoint to carry t is, t s demand some otion besides an unusual desire for    is t tal gentleme, ticulam aurae being obstructed from s by a too y appetite. Some reason or otelling deferred tion of many spirited projects - ing of , after turniudy ion, sat doo one of tom o so o make some s being cross-examined into betrayal t irely ral in tter.    s of circumstances; and    on tentedly enougion tended as education at all.    ood to be ion, ice of reading, ing and spelling, carried on by an elaborate appliance of unintelligible ideas and by muc to learn by rote.

        in tom uraining; per a boy in tract existing solely to illustrate taken education, but a boy made of flesions irely at tances.

        t improvement in    on to Mr Poulter, ter, om - a source of ual pleasure. Mr Poulter,    to ruck terror into ts of tremulous in t from age, but from treme perversity of ton boys ain ill, ial ereess, rousers tigrapped, and on turday afternoons om, ionally spirited air, as of a superannuated cracted by episodes of ive muceresting to tom tories out of tom    some disgust on learning t or and Ac possibly never ed. But ton ers reminisces of ter, it appeared,    talavera, and ributed not a little to terror    of infantry ernoo ton rict privacy, lest jealousies seem for t fine felloer. ttended al after    ers flesime. On less personal matters ected ant it, only taking care not to give t of y to any loose notions ing military ory. Any one o a kno t of silent pity to Mr Poulter:    prating person rampled out of    t go-off, as    talk about tom did not escape irritating er occasionally, by y ing otary matters ters personal experience.

        `And General olfe, Mr Poulter?    er? said tom,    all tial ed on th Bony.

        `Not at all! said Mr Poulter, ptuously. `Not!... one of stern and, om and made    in his own person.

        `No, no! Mr Poulter inue, on ing to a pause in ter not talk to me about General olfe.    die of s a poor ion, I sider. Any ots ud hakilled a fellow like General olfe.

        `Mr Poulter, tom    any allusion to the sword-exercise!

        For a long    t, and smiled patronisingly, as Jupiter may oo ambitious request. But oernooy minutes lo t - just for tom to look at.

        `And t tles, Mr Poulter? said tom, . ` ever cut a Frens head off?

        `hree heads.

        `But you    besides? said tom. `I s best, because you could s em first and spear em after. Bang! Ps-s-s-s! tom gave te pantomime to indicate t of pulling trigger and ting the spear.

        `A to close figer, involuntarily falling in oms ent tom leaped back y.

        `O but, Mr Poulter, if yoing to do tom, a little scious t    stood    me go and call Po see you, you know.

        `! ter ptuously. `s the use of his looking on?

        `O but    deal about figom, `and o figtle-axes.

        `Let    from er, cougtle preliminary play to .

        tom ran in to Pernoons    t tunes for ool, e ice, and , impromptu syllables to a tune of Arnes; w his fancy.

        `e, Pom, bursting in. `Dont stay r la la ter do he carriage-house!

        terruption - toms tones ing across tes to ion of Poulter ter. And tom, in to say to prevent Mr Poulter from t, ed on tion to fetc Ped to ion om    uress of his personal pride.

        Purning red,    passion,

        `Get a! Dont e bello me - youre not fit to speak to anyt a cart horse!

        It    t time P tom    ood so well.

        `Im fit to speak to sometter ted imp! said tom, ligely at P    you - because youre er t Im an    mans son, and your fathers a rogue - everybody says so!

        tom flung out of ter rangely o slam doors elling, o be    by ty lines of Virgil. In fact, t lady did presently desd from    t cessation of Pting in a terly.

        `s tter, akem?     noise about? he door?

        Pily dried    ulliver o go out h him.

        `And rouble about? said Mrs Stelling.

        P e of t so    oanding very mu invitation to s of elling    a loving, tender-ed    ted er your less, represent a great social po it is not poher power could win Philip from his personal reserve.

        o ion, `My tooterical again.

        t once, and Pion - it ion to enable o excuse o accept eau-de-cologne, and to refuse creosote in sequence, but t was easy.

        Meanime sent a poisoned arroo P, uro ter    eye, ing tions of    but inappreciative rats. But Mr Poulter o say, ators could ook no notice of toms return, being too entirely absorbed in t and t - tom, not    a slig Mr Poulters fixed eye a for someto cut besides t a distance as possible. It    until Mr Poulter paused and ion from    tom felt t to be repeated.

        `Mr Poulter, said tom, wtle wo keep.

        `No, no, youleman, said Mr Poulter, s do yourself some misc.

        `No, Im sure I    - Im sure Id take care and not    myself. I s take it out of t I could ground arms , and all t.

        `No, no, it    do, I tell you, it    do, said Mr Poulter, preparing to depart. ` ud Mr Stelling say to me?

        `O, I say, do, Mr Poulter! Id give you my five-s me keep tom, reac ttractively large round of silver. ted t as well as if he had been a philosopher.

        `ell, said Mr Poulter, ill deeper gravity, `you must keep it out of sight, you know.

        `O yes, Ill keep it uom, eagerly, `or else at ttom of my large box.

        `A me see, no of t ing yourself.

        t process er felt t ed iousness and said, `ell, ulliver, if I take t is to make sure as youll do no mische sword.

        `O no, indeed, Mr Poulter, said tom delig, miger age.

        `But if Mr Stelling cat, said Mr

        Poulter, pocketing t.

        `O airs study on Saturday afternoons, said tom,    disined to a little stratagem in a riump    enter Mr or Mrs Stelling - to er some sideration,    in t be nig t onis    round    er, and make    t o be a soldier. t Maggie     o see tom before s to a b-sch Lucy.

        If you teen     be an exceptionally o a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rat never, since you o a martial attitude and fro is doubtful    pacific people at o fancy tic spectacles, mig of a `public.
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