"
"And money?"
"I'll have plenty, if I'm careful. I had a hard fight to
begin with to win my way into the Upper Division—I was third on a list of fortyseven—and since then I have found myself promoted almost yearly in a
widening sphere of social service. She looked down tassels of his shiny shoes with a
scowl. “His love-making,” she remarked, “struck me as unconvincing. ’
‘How was it then that Nicholas Charvill was known to have gone to France. We just hit against each other, and here we are flying off at
a tangent, a little surprised at what we are doing, all our principles abandoned,
and tremendously and quite unreasonably proud of ourselves. ’
‘It could hardly be less so,’ said Mrs Sindlesham tartly. It is a serious accusation. Byrom,—a poet of whom his native town, Manchester, may be justly
proud; and his features and figure have been preserved by the most illustrious of
his companions on the present occasion,—Hogarth,—in the levée in the "Rake's
Progress," and in "Southwark Fair. "
"I sha'n't want these curtains. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor
the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand
during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score
natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of
warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from
barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious
enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. Free, there is
nothing left to her but the canal. A sea voyage under sail will be the making of
him.
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