 would say. »I
was never really stout enough for the stone trade, particularly the fixing.
Moving the blocks always used to strain me, and standing the trying draughts in
buildings before the windows are in, always gave me colds, and I think that
began the mischief inside. But I felt I could do one thing if I had the
opportunity. I could accumulate ideas, and impart them to others. I wonder if
the Founders had such as I in their minds - a fellow good for nothing else but
that particular thing?... I hear that soon there is going to be a better chance
for such helpless students as I was. There are schemes afoot for making the
University less exclusive, and extending its influence. I don't know much about
it. And it is too late, too late for me! Ah - and for how many worthier ones
before me!«
    »How you keep a-mumbling!« said Arabella. »I should have thought you'd have
got over all that craze about books by this time. And so you would, if you'd had
any sense to begin with. You are as bad now as when we were first married.«
    On one occasion while soliloquizing thus he called her Sue unconsciously.
    »I wish you'd mind who you are talking to!« said Arabella indignantly.
»Calling a respectable married woman by the name of that -« She remembered
herself and he did not catch the word.
    But in the course of time, when she saw how things were going, and how very
little she had to fear from Sue's rivalry, she had a fit of generosity. »I
suppose you want to see your - Sue?« she said. »Well, I don't mind her coming.
You can have her here if you like.«
    »I don't wish to see her again.«
    »O - that's a change!«
    »And don't tell her anything about me - that I'm ill, or anything. She has
chosen her course. Let her go!«
    One day he received a surprise. Mrs. Edlin came to see him, quite on her own
account. Jude's wife, whose feelings as to where his affections were centred had
reached absolute indifference by this time, went out, leaving the old woman
alone with Jude. He impulsively asked how Sue was, and then said bluntly,
remembering what Sue had told him: »I suppose they are still only husband and
wife in name
