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There was the question, proposed by Benjulia's inveterate suspicion of Ovid! The bare doubt cost him the loss of a day's work. He reviled poor Mr. Morphew as "a born idiot" for not having plainly stated what the patient's malady was, instead of wasting paper on smooth sentences, encumbered by long words.
"Whoever she is," he proceeded, "Zo wonders why you don't kiss her." This specimen of Benjulia's attempts at pleasantry was not exactly to Ovid's taste. He shifted the topic to his little sister. "You were always fond of Zo," he said. Benjulia looked thoroughly puzzled. Fondness for anybody was, to all appearance, one of the few subjects on which he had not qualified himself to offer an opinion.
The doctor was confined to the house by an attack of gout. If Ovid wanted information on the subject of Canada, Ovid must go to him, and get it. That was all. "Have you ever been to Doctor Benjulia's house?" Carmina asked. "Never." "Then all you have told me about him is mere report? Now you will find out the truth! Of course you will go?"
He had not forgiven his elder brother's rudeness yet and he knew, by experience, the one weakness in Benjulia's character which, with his small resources, it was possible to attack. "Thank you for your kind inquiries," he replied. "Never mind my head, so long as my heart's in the right place.
Oh, the insignificance of man, except I am going to make a joke, Ovid except when he pleases his old mother by going away for the benefit of his health! And where are you going? Has sensible Carmina advised you? I agree with her beforehand, whatever she has said." Ovid informed his mother of Benjulia's suggestion, and asked her what she thought of it. Mrs.
It was not easy to meet that question with a plain reply. If Ovid asserted that Benjulia's chemical experiments were assumed for some reason known only to himself as a cloak to cover the atrocities of the Savage Science, he would only raise the doctor in his mother's estimation. If, on the other hand, he described what had passed between them when they met in the Zoological Gardens, Mrs.
In the meantime, Ovid and his cousin had not been unobservant of what was passing at a little distance from them. Benjulia's great height, and his evident familiarity with the child, stirred Carmina's curiosity. Ovid seemed to be disinclined to talk of him. Miss Minerva made herself useful, with the readiest politeness. She mentioned his odd name, and described him as one of Mrs.
Perhaps, you will not allow that special circumstances make any difference?" On the contrary, Mr. Mool made every allowance. At the same time, he waited to hear what the circumstances might be. But Mrs. Galilee had her reasons for keeping silence. It was impossible to mention Benjulia's reception of her without inflicting a wound on her self-esteem.
Ovid felt no desire to make a voyage of exploration to Benjulia's house and said so plainly. Carmina used all her powers of persuasion to induce him to change his mind. Mrs. "I shall order the carriage," she said, assuming a playfully despotic tone; "and, if you don't go to the doctor Carmina and I will pay him a visit in your place."
As she approached the window, a man outside passed by it on his way to the house. She pointed to him; and repeated Benjulia's own words: "Somebody to enjoy it with you," she said. She opened the dining-room door. The man-servant appeared in the hall, with a gentleman behind him. The gentleman was a scrupulously polite person.
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