Though he walked by the side of the governor, he seldom
exchanged a word with him, but appeared wholly absorbed in the contemplations
inspired by a broadbowled Dutch pipe. Sections and pages had been pasted together, and all through both
Testaments a word had been blotted out. Wood
dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion,
essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper
to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as
we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted
the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he
had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. “Is that you, Nigel?” she asked. “Are you a special sort of clergyman,” she said, after a pause, and
looking down her nose at him, “or do you go to the Universities?”
“Oh!” he said, profoundly. “I loathe afternoon
concerts, and——”
She was really like her sister he thought, impressed for a moment by the soft
brilliancy of her smile. Along the inner
side was a wonderfully arranged series of displayed specimens that Russell
himself had prepared. “But, my dear,” she began, “it is Impossible! It is quite out of the Question.
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