"Her father's Ill health was of the same indefinite kind, and he sat in his chair as usual. But the day after her arrival he was unusually bright. He had a rational scheme for living, and Tess asked him what it was.

'I'm thinking of sending round to all the old anti-queerians in this part of England,' he said, 'asking them to subscribe to a fund to maintain me. I am sure they'd see it as a romantical, artistical, and proper thing to do. They spend lots o' money in keeping up old ruins, and more interesting to 'em still, if they'd only knowed of me. Would that somebody would go round and tell 'em what there was living among 'em and that they thinking nothing of him!'" ( )