that he affected any special freedom of manner, or that he altogether
avoided any change in his mode of speaking to them. A slight blush came
upon his sallow face as he first spoke to Mrs. Clavering, and he hardly
did more than say a single word to Fanny. But he carried himself as
though conscious of what he had done, but in no degree ashamed of the
doing it. The Rector's manner to him was stiff and formal; seeing which,
Mrs. Clavering spoke to him gently, and with a smile. "I saw you were a
little hard on him, and therefore I tried to make up for it," said she
afterward. "You were quite right," said the husband. "You always are.
But I wish he had not made such a fool of himself. It will never be the
same thing with him again." Harry hardly spoke to Mr. Saul the first
time he met him, all of which Mr. Saul understood perfectly.

"Clavering," he said to Harry, a day or two after this, "I hope there is
to be no difference between you and me."

"Difference! I don't know what you mean by difference."

"We were good friends, and I hope that we are to remain so. No doubt you
know what has taken place between me and your sister."

"Oh, yes; I have been told, of course."

"What I mean is, that I hope you are not going to quarrel with me on
that account? What I did, is it not what you would have done in my
position--only you would have done it successfully?"

"I think a fellow should have some income, you know."

"Can you say that you would have waited for income before you spoke of