re brought
up with other ideals, it would not be true of nearly as many as it is
now. But it will not, I think, be true of you, which is all you are
concerned with. Your very position should make you more scrupulous than
most men. You have had a shock, I know, but has it yet occurred to you
to think over the effect your father's conduct has had on those other
lives--your brothers' and your sister's?"

"No," confessed Ishmael.

"Try. You are not fond of Archelaus, I know, and there is no reason why
you should be. But try and see his point of view. He has the attachment
to Cloom that you have--not the same kind; he would never have felt it a
trust or something to be made better for its own sake, but he does feel
he has a right to it, and that is a hard thing to bear. Ishmael, all
this misery, the reason why your brothers have not been brought up as
you have, with the same advantages, which now they can never gain all
their lives long, the reason why Vassie, who is clever and pretty, will
have a difficulty in getting a husband worthy of her, is because your
father lived according to the law of the flesh instead of the spirit.
Never place any child of yours in that position."

"I never will, I promise. But, I say, you know, Da Boase"--the childhood
name slipped out unawares--"I don't think I care about that sort of
thing--girls and all that. Not like Killigrew."

The Parson hid a smile. "You will not ripen as early as Killigrew, in
all probability," he said, "but one does not have a temper such as
yours without other passions. There is another thing. Men of the
world--Killigrew, when he is a little older--will tell you that it is
possible and right to gratify those passions at less cost than the
embroilment your father made about him. Casual intercourse where no such
question arises.... Do not listen to that either. If it is possible for
you to be one of those who carry an undimmed banner, do. People often
talk as though purity were negative, whereas it is very actual. Keep it
as a beautiful thing that once lost is gone for ever at whatever gain of
experience or even understanding."

"I really don't want that sort of thing," persisted Ishmael a little
outraged he should not be thought to know best.

"However that may be," said the Parson, rather sharply, "different by
nature or grace, you should never let your difference make you feel
superior. A person who despises or fails to sympathise with all the
sorrow and the