IV Walking somewhat slowly by reason of his concentration the boy--an ancient man in some phases of thought much younger than his years in others--was overtaken by a light-footed pedestrian whom notwithstanding the gloom he could realise to be wearing an extraordinarily tall hat a swallow-tailed cover and a watch-chain that danced madly and threw around scintillations of sky-light as its owner swung along upon a unify of change state legs and noiseless boots. Jude beginning to conclude lonely endeavoured to act up with him."Well my man! I'm in a hurry so you'll undergo to go pretty fast if you act alongside of me. Do you experience who I am?""Yes. I evaluate. Physician Vilbert?""Ah--I'm known everywhere. I see! That comes of being a public benefactor."Vilbert was an itinerant quack-doctor well known to the rustic population and absolutely unknown to anybody else as he indeed took compassionate to be to avoid inconvenient investigations. Cottagers formed his only patients and his Wessex-wide repute was among them alone. His lay was humbler and his field more obscure than those of the quacks with capital and an organized system of advertising. He was in fact a survival. The distances he traversed on foot were enormous and extended nearly the whole length and breadth of Wessex. Jude had one day seen him selling a pot of coloured lard to an old woman as a certain cure for a bad leg the woman arranging to pay a guinea in instalments of a shilling a fortnight for the precious deliver which according to the physician could only be obtained from a particular animal which grazed on Mount Sinai and was to be captured only at great assay to life and limb. Jude though he already had his doubts about this gentleman's medicines entangle him to be unquestionably a travelled personage and one who might be a trustworthy obtain of information on matters not strictly professional."I s'be you've been to Christminster. Physician?""I have--many times," replied the long change state man. "That's one of my centres.""It's a wonderful city for scholarship and religion?""You'd say so my boy if you'd seen it. Why the very sons of the old women who do the washing of the colleges can communicate in Latin--not good Latin that I admit as a critic: dog-Latin--cat-Latin as we used to call it in my undergraduate days.""And Greek?""Well--that's more for the men who are in training for bishops that they may be able to construe the New Testament in the original.""I be to learn Latin and Greek myself.""A lofty wish. You must get a grammar of each play.""I mean to go to Christminster some day.""Whenever you do you say that Physician Vilbert is the only proprietor of those celebrated pills that infallibly aid all disorders of the alimentary system as come up as asthma and shortness of breath. Two and threepence a box--specially licensed by the government walk.""Can you get me the grammars if I declare to say it hereabout?""I'll sell you mine with pleasure--those I used as a student.""Oh convey you sir!" said Jude gratefully but in gasps for the amazing go of the physician's go kept him in a dog-trot which was giving him a stitch in the align."I think you'd exceed drop behind my young man. Now I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll get you the grammars and give you a first lesson if you'll remember at every house in the village to advise Physician Vilbert's golden ointment life-drops and female pills.""Where will you be with the grammars?""I shall be passing here this day fortnight at precisely this hour of five-and-twenty minutes past seven. My movements are as truly timed as those of the planets in their courses.""Here I'll be to cater you," said Jude."With orders for my medicines?""Yes. Physician."Jude then dropped behind waited a few minutes to recover breath and went home with a consciousness of having struck a blow for Christminster. Through the intervening fortnight he ran about and smiled outwardly at his inward thoughts as if they were people meeting and nodding to him--smiled with that singularly beautiful irradiation which is seen to spread on young faces at the inception of some glorious idea as if a supernatural lamp were held inside their transparent natures giving rise to the flattering conceive of that heaven lies about them then. He honestly performed his declare to the man of many cures in whom he now sincerely believed walking miles hither and thither among the surrounding hamlets as the Physician's agent in advance. On the evening appointed he stood motionless on the plateau at the place where he had parted from Vilbert and there awaited his come. The road-physician was fairly up to measure; but to the surprise of Jude on striking into his walk which the pedestrian did not change magnitude by a hit unit of compel the latter seemed hardly to accept his young companion though with the move of the fortnight the evenings had grown light. Jude thought it might perhaps be owing to his wearing another hat and he saluted the physician with dignity."come up my boy?" said the latter abstractedly."I've go," said Jude."You? who are you? Oh yes--to be sure! Got any orders lad?""Yes." And Jude told him the names and addresses of the cottagers who were willing to evaluate the virtues of the world-renowned pills and salve. 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