s feelings are not
so easily overcome. It'll be hard for Martin Poyser to go to a strange place,
among strange faces, when he's been bred up on the Hall Farm, and his father
before him; but then it 'ud be harder for a man with his feelings to stay. I
don't see how the thing's to be made any other than hard. There's a sort o'
damage, sir, that can't be made up for.«
    Arthur was silent some moments. In spite of other feelings, dominant in him
this evening, his pride winced under Adam's mode of treating him. Wasn't he
himself suffering? Was not he too obliged to renounce his most cherished hopes?
It was now as it had been eight months ago - Adam was forcing Arthur to feel
more intensely the irrevocableness of his own wrong-doing: he was presenting the
sort of resistance that was the most irritating to Arthur's eager, ardent
nature. But his anger was subdued by the same influence that had subdued Adam's
when they first confronted each other - by the marks of suffering in a long
familiar face. The momentary struggle ended in the feeling that he could bear a
great deal from Adam, to whom he had been the occasion of bearing so much; but
there was a touch of pleading, boyish vexation in his tone as he said -
    »But people may make injuries worse by unreasonable conduct - by giving way
to anger and satisfying that for the moment, instead of thinking what will be
the effect in the future.«
    »If I were going to stay here and act as landlord,« he added, presently,
with still more eagerness - »if I were careless about what I've done - what I've
been the cause of, you would have some excuse, Adam, for going away and
encouraging others to go. You would have some excuse then for trying to make the
evil worse. But when I tell you I'm going away for years - when you know what
that means for me, how it cuts off every plan of happiness I've ever formed - it
is impossible for a sensible man like you to believe that there is any real
ground for the Poysers refusing to remain. I know their feeling about disgrace,
- Mr. Irwine has told me all; but he is of opinion that they might be persuaded
out of this idea that they are disgraced in the eyes of their neighbours, and
that they can't remain on my estate
