orm justified his fond respect for it.

For that day he was contented with the negative luxury of complete
repose; the more so as, in every attempt to move, he felt the same
numbness of limb as that with which he had woke, accompanied by a kind
of painful weight at the back of the head, and at the junction which the
great seat of intelligence forms at the spine with the great mainspring
of force; and, withal, a reluctance to stir, and a more than usual
inclination to doze. But the next day, though these unpleasant
sensations continued, his impatience of thought and hate of solitude
made him anxious to go forth and seek some distraction. No distraction
left to him but the gaming-table--no companions but fellow-victims in
that sucking whirlpool. Well, he knew a low gaming-house, open all day
as all night. Wishing to add somewhat to the miserable remains of the
L1 borrowed on the horse, that made all his capital, he asked Bridgett,
indifferently, to oblige him with two or three sovereigns; if she had
them not, she might borrow them in the neighbourhood till her mistress
returned. Bridgett answered, with ill-simulated glee, that her mistress
had given positive orders that Mr. Losely was to have everything he
called for, except--money. Jasper coloured with wrath and shame; but
he said no more--whistled--took his hat--went out--repaired to the
gaming-house--lost his last shilling, and returned moodily to dine in
Podden Place. The austerity of the room, the loneliness of the evening,
began now to inspire him with unmitigated disgust, which was added in
fresh account to his old score of repugnance for the absent Arabella.
The affront put upon him in the orders which Bridgett had so faithfully
repeated made him yet more distastefully contemplate the dire necessity
of falling under the rigid despotism of this determined guardian: it was
like going back to a preparatory school, to be mulcted of pocket-money,
and set in a dark corner! But what other resource? None but appeal to
Darrell--still more intolerable; except--he paused in his cogitation,
shook his head, muttered "No, no." But that "except" would
return!--except to forget his father's prayer and his own
promise--except to hunt out Sophy, and extract from the generosity,
compassion, or fear of her protectress, some such conditions as he would
have wrung from Darrell. He had no doubt now that the girl was with Lady
Montfort; he felt that, if she really loved Sophy, and were sh