dissatisfied, restless state of mind, which he was almost afraid to analyse. He
admired the inflexible integrity - and almost the pomp of principle - evinced by
Mr. Bradshaw on every occasion; he wondered how it was that Jemima could not see
how grand a life might be, whose every action was shaped in obedience to some
eternal law; instead of which, he was afraid she rebelled against every law, and
was only guided by impulse. Mr. Farquhar had been taught to dread impulses as
promptings of the devil. Sometimes, if he tried to present her father's opinion
before her in another form, so as to bring himself and her rather more into that
state of agreement he longed for, she flashed out upon him with the indignation
of difference that she dared not show to, or before, her father, as if she had
some diviner instinct which taught her more truly than they knew, with all their
experience; at least, in her first expressions there seemed something good and
fine; but opposition made her angry and irritable, and the arguments which he
was constantly provoking (whenever he was with her in her father's absence)
frequently ended in some vehemence of expression on her part that offended Mr.
Farquhar, who did not see how she expiated her anger in tears and
self-reproaches when alone in her chamber. Then he would lecture himself
severely on the interest he could not help feeling in a wilful girl; he would
determine not to interfere with her opinions in future, and yet, the very next
time they differed, he strove to argue her into harmony with himself, in spite
of all resolutions to the contrary.
    Mr. Bradshaw saw just enough of this interest which Jemima had excited in
his partner's mind, to determine him in considering their future marriage as a
settled affair. The fitness of the thing had long ago struck him; her father's
partner - so the fortune he meant to give her might continue in the business; a
man of such steadiness of character, and such a capital eye for a desirable
speculation, as Mr. Farquhar - just the right age to unite the paternal with the
conjugal affection, and consequently the very man for Jemima, who had something
unruly in her, which might break out under a régime less wisely adjusted to the
circumstances than was Mr. Bradshaw's (in his own opinion) - a house ready
furnished, at a convenient distance from her home - no near relations on Mr.
Farquhar's side, who might be inclined to consider his residence as their own
for an