Far
away there was the one woman for this boy of mine—some human being who
would understand the dear fool better than all the rest of the world. The ladder was now within reach. . The doctor expected her to seize upon the subtle
inference that there was something furtive, even criminal, in the manner the
patient set this obligation upon humanity at large, to look after him in the event
of his death. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion
and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present
it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal
description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those
valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a
swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of
determined women at war with the universe. It was now whitening, hissing, and seething like
an enormous cauldron. “They are full of the usual foolish stories. \"I don't eat lunch. I’ve
called half a dozen times at her flat, and she won’t see me. "I am surprised we have received no summons for attendance to-day," he
remarked; "perhaps the other robber may be secured. "
"Awake!—to be sure I am, my flash cove," replied Sheppard; "I'm down as a
hammer. His pipe
hung dead in his teeth, but the smoke was dense about him. When he said, “Let’s go and
see the wart-hog,” she thought no one ever had had so quick a flow of good
ideas as he; and when he explained that sugar and not buns was the talisman of
popularity among the animals, she marvelled at his practical omniscience. "
As she said this, she drew a little aside, while Mrs.
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