have done for this man?

CHAPTER V.

I had not been in haste to conclude my arrangements, for, independently
of my wish to render myself acquainted with the small useful crafts that
might be necessary to me in a life that makes the individual man a state
in himself, I naturally desired to habituate my kindred to the idea of
our separation, and to plan and provide for them all such substitutes
or distractions, in compensation for my loss, as my fertile imagination
could suggest. At first, for the sake of Blanche, Roland, and my mother,
I talked the Captain into reluctant sanction of his sister-in-law's
proposal to unite their incomes and share alike, without considering
which party brought the larger proportion into the firm. I represented
to him that unless he made that sacrifice of his pride, my mother would
be wholly without those little notable uses and objects, those
small household pleasures, so dear to woman; that all society in the
neighborhood would be impossible, and that my mother's time would hang
so heavily on her hands that her only resource would be to muse on the
absent one and fret. Nay, if he persisted in so false a pride, I told
him, fairly, that I should urge my father to leave the Tower. These
representations succeeded; and hospitality had commenced in the old
hall, and a knot of gossips had centred round my mother, groups of
laughing children had relaxed the still brow of Blanche, and the Captain
himself was a more cheerful and social man. My next point was to engage
my father in the completion of the Great Book. "Ah! sir," said I, "give
me an inducement to toil,--a reward for my industry. Let me think, in
each tempting pleasure, each costly vice,--No, no; I will save for the
Great Book! And the memory of the father shall still keep the son from
error. Ah, look you, sir! Mr. Trevanion offered me the loan of L1,500
necessary to commence with; but you generously and at once said 'No; you
must not begin life under the load of debt.' And I knew you were right
and yielded,--yielded the more gratefully that I could not but forfeit
something of the just pride of manhood in incurring such an obligation
to the father of--Miss Trevanion. Therefore I have taken that sum from
you,--a sum that would almost have sufficed to establish your younger
and worthier child in the world forever. To that child let me repay it,
otherwise I will not take it. Let me hold it as a trust for the Great
Book; and promise m