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1The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighbourhood before I
2got there. I found the Blue Boar in possession of the intelligence, and I found that it made a great change in the
3Boar's demeanour. Whereas the Boar had cultivated my good opinion with warm assiduity when I was coming into property,
4the Boar was exceedingly cool on the subject now that I was going out of property. It was evening when I arrived, much
5fatigued by the journey I had so often made so easily. The Boar could not put me into my usual bedroom, which was
6engaged (probably by some one who had expectations), and could only assign me a very indifferent chamber among the
7pigeons and post-chaises up the yard. But I had as sound a sleep in that lodging as in the most superior accommodation
8the Boar could have given me, and the quality of my dreams was about the same as in the best bedroom. Early in the
9morning, while my breakfast was getting ready, I strolled round by Satis House. There were printed bills on the gate and
10on bits of carpet hanging out of the windows, announcing a sale by auction of the Household Furniture and Effects, next
11week. The House itself was to be sold as old building materials, and pulled down. LOT 1 was marked in whitewashed
12knock-knee letters on the brew house; LOT 2 on that part of the main building which had been so long shut up. Other lots
13were marked off on other parts of the structure, and the ivy had been torn down to make room for the inscriptions, and
14much of it trailed low in the dust and was withered already. Stepping in for a moment at the open gate, and looking
15around me with the uncomfortable air of a stranger who had no business there, I saw the auctioneer's clerk walking on
16the casks and telling them off for the information of a catalogue-compiler, pen in hand, who made a temporary desk of
17the wheeled chair I had so often pushed along to the tune of Old Clem. When I got back to my breakfast in the Boar's
18coffee-room, I found Mr. Pumblechook conversing with the landlord. Mr. Pumblechook (not improved in appearance by his
19late nocturnal adventure) was waiting for me, and addressed me in the following terms:-- "Young man, I am sorry to see
20you brought low. But what else could be expected! what else could be expected!" As he extended his hand with a
21magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. "William," said Mr.
22Pumblechook to the waiter, "put a muffin on table. And has it come to this! Has it come to this!" I frowningly sat down
23to my breakfast. Mr. Pumblechook stood over me and poured out my tea--before I could touch the teapot--with the air of a
24benefactor who was resolved to be true to the last. "William," said Mr. Pumblechook, mournfully, "put the salt on. In
25happier times," addressing me, "I think you took sugar? And did you take milk? You did. Sugar and milk. William, bring a
26watercress." "Thank you," said I, shortly, "but I don't eat watercresses." "You don't eat 'em," returned Mr.
27Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from
28watercresses were consistent with my downfall. "True. The simple fruits of the earth. No. You needn't bring any,
29William." I went on with my breakfast, and Mr. Pumblechook continued to stand over me, staring fishily and breathing
30noisily, as he always did. "Little more than skin and bone!" mused Mr. Pumblechook, aloud. "And yet when he went from
31here (I may say with my blessing), and I spread afore him my humble store, like the Bee, he was as plump as a Peach!"
32This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new
33prosperity, saying, "May I?" and the ostentatious clemency with which he had just now exhibited the same fat five
34fingers. "Hah!" he went on, handing me the bread and butter. "And air you a-going to Joseph?" "In heaven's name," said
35I, firing in spite of myself, "what does it matter to you where I am going? Leave that teapot alone." It was the worst
36course I could have taken, because it gave Pumblechook the opportunity he wanted. "Yes, young man," said he, releasing
37the handle of the article in question, retiring a step or two from my table, and speaking for the behoof of the landlord
38and waiter at the door, "I will leave that teapot alone. You are right, young man. For once you are right. I forgit
39myself when I take such an interest in your breakfast, as to wish your frame, exhausted by the debilitating effects of
40prodigygality, to be stimilated by the 'olesome nourishment of your forefathers. And yet," said Pumblechook, turning to
41the landlord and waiter, and pointing me out at arm's length, "this is him as I ever sported with in his days of happy
42infancy! Tell me not it cannot be; I tell you this is him!" A low murmur from the two replied. The waiter appeared to be
43particularly affected. "This is him," said Pumblechook, "as I have rode in my shay-cart. This is him as I have seen
44brought up by hand. This is him untoe the sister of which I was uncle by marriage, as her name was Georgiana M'ria from
45her own mother, let him deny it if he can!" The waiter seemed convinced that I could not deny it, and that it gave the
46case a black look. "Young man," said Pumblechook, screwing his head at me in the old fashion, "you air a-going to
47Joseph. What does it matter to me, you ask me, where you air a-going? I say to you, Sir, you air a-going to Joseph." The
48waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that. "Now," said Pumblechook, and all this with a most
49exasperating air of saying in the cause of virtue what was perfectly convincing and conclusive, "I will tell you what to
50say to Joseph. Here is Squires of the Boar present, known and respected in this town, and here is William, which his
51father's name was Potkins if I do not deceive myself." "You do not, sir," said William. "In their presence," pursued
52Pumblechook, "I will tell you, young man, what to say to Joseph. Says you, "Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest
53benefactor and the founder of my fortun's. I will name no names, Joseph, but so they are pleased to call him up town,
54and I have seen that man." "I swear I don't see him here," said I. "Say that likewise," retorted Pumblechook. "Say you
55said that, and even Joseph will probably betray surprise." "There you quite mistake him," said I. "I know better." "Says
56you," Pumblechook went on, "'Joseph, I have seen that man, and that man bears you no malice and bears me no malice. He
57knows your character, Joseph, and is well acquainted with your pig-headedness and ignorance; and he knows my character,
58Joseph, and he knows my want of gratitoode. Yes, Joseph,' says you," here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me,
59"'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode. He knows it, Joseph, as none can. You do not know it, Joseph,
60having no call to know it, but that man do.'" Windy donkey as he was, it really amazed me that he could have the face to
61talk thus to mine. "Says you, 'Joseph, he gave me a little message, which I will now repeat. It was that, in my being
62brought low, he saw the finger of Providence. He knowed that finger when he saw Joseph, and he saw it plain. It pinted
63out this writing, Joseph. Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's. But that man said
64he did not repent of what he had done, Joseph. Not at all. It was right to do it, it was kind to do it, it was
65benevolent to do it, and he would do it again.'" "It's pity," said I, scornfully, as I finished my interrupted
66breakfast, "that the man did not say what he had done and would do again." "Squires of the Boar!" Pumblechook was now
67addressing the landlord, "and William! I have no objections to your mentioning, either up town or down town, if such
68should be your wishes, that it was right to do it, kind to do it, benevolent to do it, and that I would do it again."
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