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A poet, such as you are, or a philosopher, an observer, like Doctor Bianchon, instead of vilifying the provincial woman and believing her depraved, would be able to guess the wonderful unrevealed poetry, every chapter, in short, of the sweet romance of which the last phrase falls to the benefit of some happy sub-lieutenant or some provincial bigwig."
He took Tuppence by the arm, and walked her to the window. "There she is." "Oh!" said Tuppence with a note of reverence in her voice, as she gazed down at the enormous car. "She's some pace-maker, I can tell you," said Julius complacently. "How did you get it?" gasped Tuppence. "She was just being sent home to some bigwig." "Well?" "I went round to his house," said Julius.
Cradell was gone, so that he did not see him on that afternoon; but he had an opportunity of shaking hands with Mr Love, who treated him with all the smiling courtesy due to an official bigwig, for a private secretary, if not absolutely a big-wig, is semi-big, and entitled to a certain amount of reverence; and he passed Mr Kissing in the passage, hurrying along as usual with a huge book under his arm.
The Bigwig smiled charming, rather whimsical, that smile. "Honestly, I'm not up to it. The spirit, you know, but the flesh ! My line is housing and wages, of course." 'There it is, thought Felix. It's all fiddling. One won't give up his shooting; another won't give up his power; a third won't give up her week-ends; a fourth won't give up his freedom.
A land dedicate to the week-end! Gardeners, goose ! And suddenly he saw that he was not alone. Half hidden by the angle of the wall, on a stone of the foundations, carefully preserved and nearly embedded in the nettles which Clara had allowed to grow because they added age to the appearance, was sitting a Bigwig.
And now and again some Bigwig versed in science murmured the word 'Fats. An agricultural population fed to the point of efficiency without disturbance of the existing state of things! Eureka! If only into the bargain they could be induced to bake their own brown bread and cook their potatoes well! Faces flushed, eyes brightened, and teeth shone.
"I don't understand all this," said he, rubbing his furrowed brow confusedly. "But it HAS a meaning, maybe, if I could find it out." "It means," returned the Bigwig family, suspecting something of what he said, "honour and glory in the highest, to the highest merit." "Oh!" said he. And he was glad to hear that.
I know you'll marry some awful bigwig, or some terribly clever fellow; won't she, Margaretta?" "Miss Oriel was saying so much in praise of you before you came out," said Margaretta, "that I began to think that her mind was intent on remaining at Greshamsbury all her life." Frank blushed, and Patience laughed.
There was so much reason in what he said, that the Bigwig family, getting wind of it, and being horribly frightened by the late desolation, resolved to unite with him to do the things that were right at all events, so far as the said things were associated with the direct prevention, humanly speaking, of another pestilence.
"Why truly," said he, "I have little time upon my hands; and if you will be so good as to take care of me, in return for the money I pay over" for the Bigwig family were not above his money "I shall be relieved and much obliged, considering that you know best." Hence the drumming, trumpeting, and speech-making, and the ugly images of horses which he was expected to fall down and worship.
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