nuggets where he had found them, because neither could trust the other
not to filch a few, if he had them in his own possession, and they could
not make a nice division without a pair of scales. "At any rate," he
said to himself, "there will be a pretty quarrel when they find them
gone."

Thus charitably did he brood over things that were not to happen. The
discovery of the Professors' hoard had refreshed him almost as much as
his sleep had done, and it being now past seven, he lit his pipe--which,
however, he smoked as furtively as he had done when he was a boy at
school, for he knew not whether smoking had yet become an Erewhonian
virtue or no--and walked briskly on towards Sunch'ston.




CHAPTER VII: SIGNS OF THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS CATCH MY FATHER'S EYE ON
EVERY SIDE


He had not gone far before a turn in the path--now rapidly
widening--showed him two high towers, seemingly some two miles off; these
he felt sure must be at Sunch'ston, he therefore stepped out, lest he
should find the shops shut before he got there.

On his former visit he had seen little of the town, for he was in prison
during his whole stay. He had had a glimpse of it on being brought there
by the people of the village where he had spent his first night in
Erewhon--a village which he had seen at some little distance on his right
hand, but which it would have been out of his way to visit, even if he