Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
genius. He is greater with the populace than ever he was before. It was as if he had some secret power; some mysterious means to keep up his influence. He holds conferences with the Archbishop, as in these old days which you and I remember. Barrios is useless. But for a military head they have the pious Hernandez. And they may raise the country with the new cry of the wealth for the people."
"Will there be never any peace? Will there be no rest?" Mrs. Gould whispered "I thought that we—"
"No!" interrupted the doctor. "There is no peace and rest in the development of material interests. They have their law and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. Mrs. Gould, the time approaches when all that the Gould Concession stands for shall weigh as heavily upon the people as the barbarism, cruelty, and misrule of a few years back."
"How can you say that, Dr. Monygham?" she cried out, as if hurt in the most sensitive place of her soul.
"I can say what is true," the doctor insisted obstinately. "It'll weigh as heavily, and provoke resentment, bloodshed, and vengeance, because the men have grown different. Do you think that now the mine would march upon the town to save their Señor Administrador? Do you think that?"
She pressed the backs of her entwined hands on her eyes and murmured hopelessly:
"Is it that we have worked for, then?"
The doctor lowered his head. He could follow her
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