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It is difficult to disentangle now what I understood at this time 

and what I have since come to understand�察�but it seems to me that 

even in those childish days I was acutely aware of an invading and 

growing disorder。  The serene rhythms of the old established 

agriculture�察�I see now�察�were everywhere being replaced by 

cultivation under notice and snatch crops�察�hedges ceased to be 

repaired�察�and were replaced by cheap iron railings or chunks of 

corrugated iron�察�more and more hoardings sprang up�察�and contributed 

more and more to the nomad tribes of filthy paper scraps that flew 

before the wind and overspread the country。  The outskirts of 

Bromstead were a maze of exploitation roads that led nowhere�察�that 

ended in tarred fences studded with nails ��I don't remember barbed 

wire in those days�察�I think the Zeitgeist did not produce that until 

later���察�and in trespass boards that used vehement language。  Broken 

glass�察�tin cans�察�and ashes and paper abounded。  Cheap glass�察�cheap 

tin�察�abundant fuel�察�and a free untaxed Press had rushed upon a world 

quite unprepared to dispose of these blessings when the fulness of 

enjoyment was past。



I suppose one might have persuaded oneself that all this was but the 

replacement of an ancient tranquillity�察�or at least an ancient 

balance�察�by a new order。  Only to my eyes�察�quickened by my father's 

intimations�察�it was manifestly no order at all。  It was a multitude 

of incoordinated fresh starts�察�each more sweeping and destructive 

than the last�察�and none of them ever really worked out to a ripe and 

satisfactory completion。  Each left a legacy of products�察�houses�察�

humanity�察�or what not�察�in its wake。  It was a sort of progress that 

had bolted�察�it was change out of hand�察�and going at an unprecedented 

pace nowhere in particular。



No�察�the Victorian epoch was not the dawn of a new era�察�it was a 

hasty�察�trial experiment�察�a gigantic experiment of the most slovenly 

and wasteful kind。  I suppose it was necessary�察�I suppose all things 

are necessary。  I suppose that before men will discipline themselves 

to learn and plan�察�they must first see in a hundred convincing forms 

the folly and muddle that come from headlong�察�aimless and haphazard 

methods。  The nineteenth century was an age of demonstrations�察�some 

of them very impressive demonstrations�察�of the powers that have come 

to mankind�察�but of permanent achievement�察�what will our descendants 

cherish�拭 �It is hard to estimate what grains of precious metal may 

not be found in a mud torrent of human production on so large a 

scale�察�but will any one�察�a hundred years from now�察�consent to live 

in the houses the Victorians built�察�travel by their roads or 

railways�察�value the furnishings they made to live among or esteem�察�

except for curious or historical reasons�察�their prevalent art and 

the clipped and limited literature that satisfied their souls��



That age which bore me was indeed a world full of restricted and 

undisciplined people�察�overtaken by power�察�by possessions and great 

new freedoms�察�and unable to make any civilised use of them whatever�察�

stricken now by this idea and now by that�察�tempted first by one 

possession and then another to ill´considered attempts�察�it was my 

father's exploitahon of his villa gardens on the wholesale level。  

The whole of Bromstead as I remember it�察�and as I saw it lastit is 

a year ago nowis a dull useless boiling´up of human activities�察�an 

immense clustering of futilities。  It is as unfinished as ever�察�the 

builders' roads still run out and end in mid´field in their old 

fashion�察�the various enterprises jumble in the same hopeless 

contradiction�察�if anything intensified。  Pretentious villas jostle 

slums�察�and public´house and tin tabernacle glower at one another 

across the cat´haunted lot that intervenes。  Roper's meadows are now 

quite frankly a slum�察�back doors and sculleries gape towards the 

railway�察�their yards are hung with tattered washing unashamed�察�and 

there seem to be more boards by the railway every time I pass�察�

advertising pills and pickles�察�tonics and condiments�察�and suchlike 

solicitudes of a people with no natural health nor appetite left in 

them。 。 。 。



Well�察�we have to do better。  Failure is not failure nor waste wasted 

if it sweeps away illusion and lights the road to a plan。





6



Chaotic indiscipline�察�ill´adjusted effort�察�spasmodic aims�察�these 

give the quality of all my Bromstead memories。  The crowning one of 

them all rises to desolating tragedy。  I remember now the wan spring 

sunshine of that Sunday morning�察�the stiff feeling of best clothes 

and aggressive cleanliness and formality�察�when I and my mother 

returned from church to find my father dead。  He had been pruning 

the grape vine。  He had never had a ladder long enough to reach the 

sill of the third´floor windowsat house´painting times he had 

borrowed one from the plumber who mixed his paintand he had in his 

own happy´go´lucky way contrived a combination of the garden fruit 

ladder with a battered kitchen table that served all sorts of odd 

purposes in an outhouse。  He had stayed up this arrangement by means 

of the garden roller�察�and the roller had at the critical moment

rolled。  He was lying close by the garden door with his head queerly 

bent back against a broken and twisted rainwater pipe�察�an expression 

of pacific contentment on his face�察�a bamboo curtain rod with a 

tableknife tied to end of it�察�still gripped in his hand。  We had 

been rapping for some time at the front door unable to make him 

hear�察�and then we came round by the door in the side trellis into 

the garden and so discovered him。



;Arthur� ─ �I remember my mother crying with the strangest break in 

her voice�察 �What are you doing there�拭 �Arthur�  �AndSUNDAY� �



I was coming behind her�察�musing remotely�察�when the quality of her 

voice roused me。  She stood as if she could not go near him。  He had 

always puzzled her so�察�he and his ways�察�and this seemed only another 

enigma。  Then the truth dawned on her�察�she shrieked as if afraid of 

him�察�ran a dozen steps back towards the trellis door and stopped and 

clasped her ineffectual gloved hands�察�leaving me staring blankly�察�

too astonished for feeling�察�at the carelessly flung limbs。



The same idea came to me also。  I ran to her。  ;Mother� ─�I cried�察�

pale to the depths of my spirit�察 �IS HE DEAD�拭�



I had been thinking two minutes before of the cold fruit pie that 

glorified our Sunday dinner´table�察�and how I might perhaps get into 

the tree at the end of the garden to read in the afternoon。  Now an 

immense fact had come down like a curtain and blotted out all my 

childish world。  My father was lying dead before my eyes。 。 。 。   I 

perceived that my mother was helpless and that things must he done。



;Mother� ─�I said�察 �we must get Doctor Beaseley��and carry him 

indoors。;







CHAPTER THE THIRD



SCHOLASTIC





1



My formal education began in a small preparatory school in 

Bromstead。  I went there as a day boy。  The charge for my 

instruction was mainly set off by the periodic visits of my father 

with a large bag of battered fossils to lecture to us upon geology。  

I was one of those fortunate youngsters who take readily to school 

work�察�I had a good memory�察�versatile interests and a considerable 

appetite for commendation�察�and when I was barely twelve I got a 

scholarship at the City Merchants School and was entrusted with a 

scholar's railway season ticket to Victoria。  After my father's 

death a large and very animated and solidly built uncle in tweeds 

from Staffordshire�察�Uncle Minter�察�my mother's sister's husband�察�with 

a remarkable accent and remarkable vowel sounds�察�who had plunged 

into the Bromstead home once or twice for the night but who was 

otherwise unknown to me�察�came on the scene�察�sold off the three gaunt 

houses with the utmost gusto�察�invested the proceeds and my father's 

life insurance money�察�and got us into a small villa at Penge within 

sight of that immense facade of glass and iron�察�the Crystal Palace。  

Then he retired in a mood of good´natured contempt to his native 

habitat again。  We stayed at Penge until my mother's death。



School became a large part of the world to me�察�absorbing my time and 

interest�察�and I never acquired that detailed and intimate knowledge 

of Penge and the hilly villadom round about�察�that I have of the town 

and outskirts of Bromstead。



It was a district of very much the same character�察�but it was more 

completely urbanised and nearer to the centre of things�察�there were 

the same unfinished roads�察�the same occasional disconcerted hedges 

and trees�察�the same butcher's horse grazing under a builder's 

notice´board�察�the same incidental lapses into slum。  The Crystal 

Palace grounds cut off a large part of my walking radius to the west 

with impassable fences and forbiddingly expensive turnstiles�察�but it 

added t

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