Words chime and ring in her ears, as if she
positively enjoyed theact of writing. For the first time, perhaps, in this long
intercourse Sir Bussy mayhave seen all that Mr. A learned man must also be a man of
theworld. And he meant, he really meant, thisilliterate Cockney!
Sir Bussy never took a refusal without a
struggle.
One must be sparing in onesdiet, and active, and
take regular exercise, like brother H. Buying and selling and amalgamatingand
monopolizing isnt enough. He felt with his fingers inside his collar and had no word
to say.
I dont quite see myself doing that, he
said.
Isnt a Saturday weekly perhaps a better
medium?
He beareth his misery best, that hideth itmost he
told himself.
His sense of antagonism to Sir Bussy faded
andvanished. The sister of Gabriel Harvey was not to be the mistress ofa married
nobleman. Out of its tedious tensions these hypnoticrevelations had arisen. Then
slowly, almost submissively, he turned his face towards hislodging in Pontingale
Street. One must be sparing in onesdiet, and active, and take regular exercise, like
brother H.
Asingularly humane view of learning survived in the
breast of theold and disappointed scholar.
Parhamglared, speechless, at his
companion.
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