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Unless I perceive, sir, in a very short time a due sense of your error and a lively repentance, my disapproval will take a very practical form." Mr. Bultitude fell back into his seat with a gasp.
"It would have been worse than fruitless to attempt to hurry on the crisis. It might have even prevented what I fondly hoped would come to pass." "Fondly hoped!" said Paul, "upon my word you speak plainly, sir." "Yes," said Mr. Blinkhorn. "You see I knew the Dick Bultitude that was, so well; he was frolicksome, impulsive, mischievous even, but under it all there lay a nature of sterling worth."
I believe by a gold mine he knows about somewhere, and a steam tramway in Lapland. But I don't like him very much he is so polite." It would be nothing short of an insult to the reader's comprehension, if I were to enter into an elaborate explanation of the effect this letter had upon Mr. Bultitude.
And, incredible as it may appear to all who have never been in his position, Mr. Bultitude went. It was almost an abdication, it was treachery to his true self; he knew the vital importance of firmness at this crisis. But nevertheless his courage gave way all at once, and he crawled up the bare, uncarpeted stairs without any further protest!
He was a tall and imposing personage, with a strong black beard and small angry grey eyes, slightly blood-tinged; he wore garments of a semi-clerical cut and colour, though he was not in orders. He held out a hand to each with elaborate geniality. "Ha, Bultitude, my boy, how are you? How are you, Jolland? Come back braced in body and mind by your vacation, eh? That's as it should be.
Bultitude recognised that the form and features were those of no stranger he had stumbled upon the very last person he had expected or desired to meet just then his flight was intercepted by his son's schoolmaster, Dr. Grimstone himself! The suddenness of the shock threw him completely off his balance.
Neither father nor son found himself exactly in the same position as before their exchange of characters. It took Mr. Bultitude considerable time and trouble to repair all the damage his son's boyish excesses had wrought both at Westbourne Terrace and in the City.
"Why, here you are!" she said, with an air of surprise, and kissing them with real kindness. "How cold you look! So you actually had to walk. No cabs as usual. You poor boys! come in and warm yourselves. You'll find all your old friends in the schoolroom." Mr. Bultitude submitted to be kissed with some reluctance, inwardly hoping that Dr. Grimstone might never hear of it. Mrs.
It is so fatally easy to say more than we mean in the desire to make as strong an impression as possible. Well for most of us that more fortunate than Mr. Bultitude we can generally do so without fear of being taken too strictly at our word. As he spoke these unlucky words, he felt a slight shiver, followed by a curious shrinking sensation all over him.
Well then, Bultitude, since you are prevented from performing what you promised to do, I'm sure you won't object to do what is fair and right in the matter?" "I don't think I quite follow you," said Mr. Bultitude. But he dreaded what was coming next. "It's very simple. You have taken money from these boys, and if you can't give them value for it, you ought to return all you took from them.
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