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The Warden-Part3_Antony Trollope(1815-1882)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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man, believing the precepts which he teaches, and believing

also that he acts up to them; though we cannot say that he



would give his coat to the man who took his cloak, or that he

is prepared to forgive his brother even seven times. He is



severe enough in exacting his dues, considering that any laxity

in this respect would endanger the security of the church; and,



could he have his way, he would consign to darkness and

perdition, not only every individual reformer, but every



committee and every commission that would even dare to ask a

question respecting the appropriation of church revenues.



'They are church revenues: the laity admit it. Surely the

church is able to administer her own revenues.' 'Twas thus



he was accustomed to argue, when the sacrilegious doings of

Lord John Russell and others were discussed either at Barchester



or at Oxford.

It was no wonder that Dr Grantly did not like John Bold,



and that his wife's suggestion that he should become closely

connected with such a man dismayed him. To give him his



due, the archdeacon never wanted courage; he was quite

willing to meet his enemy on any field and with any weapon.



He had that belief in his own arguments that he felt sure of

success, could he only be sure of a fair fight on the part of his



adversary. He had no idea that John Bold could really prove

that the income of the hospital was malappropriated; why,



then, should peace be sought for on such base terms? What!

bribe an unbelieving enemy of the church with the sister-in-law



of one dignitary and the daughter of another--with a

young lady whose connections with the diocese and chapter of



Barchester were so close as to give her an undeniable claim to

a husband endowed with some of its sacred wealth! When



Dr Grantly talks of unbelieving enemies, he does not mean to

imply want of belief in the doctrines of the church, but an



equally dangerous scepticism as to its purity in money matters.

Mrs Grantly is not usually deaf to the claims of the high



order to which she belongs. She and her husband rarely

disagree as to the tone with which the church should be defended;



how singular, then, that in such a case as this she should be

willing to succumb! The archdeacon again murmurs 'Good



heavens!' as he lays himself beside her, but he does so in a

voice audible only to himself, and he repeats it till sleep relieves



him from deep thought.

Mr Harding himself has seen no reason why his daughter



should not love John Bold. He has not been unobservant of

her feelings, and perhaps his deepest regret at the part which



he fears Bold is about to take regarding the hospital arises from

the dread that he may be separated from his daughter, or that



she may be separated from the man she loves. He has never

spoken to Eleanor about her lover; he is the last man in the



world to allude to such a subject unconsulted, even with his

own daughter; and had he considered that he had ground to



disapprove of Bold, he would have removed her, or forbidden

him his house; but he saw no such ground. He would probably



have preferred a second clerical son-in-law, for Mr Harding,

also, is attached to his order; and, failing in that, he



would at any rate have wished that so near a connection should

have thought alike with him on church matters. He would



not, however, reject the man his daughter loved because he

differed on such subjects with himself.



Hitherto Bold had taken no steps in the matter in any way

annoying to Mr Harding personally. Some months since,



after a severe battle, which cost him not a little money, he

gained a victory over a certain old turnpike woman in the



neighbourhood, of whose charges another old woman had

complained to him. He got the Act of Parliament relating to



the trust, found that his protegee had been wrongly taxed,

rode through the gate himself, paying the toll, then brought



an action against the gate-keeper, and proved that all people

coming up a certain by-lane, and going down a certain other



by-lane, were toll-free. The fame of his success spread widely

abroad, and he began to be looked on as the upholder of the



rights of the poor of Barchester. Not long after this success, he

heard from different quarters that Hiram's bedesmen were






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