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"I haven't seen Mr Cotterill yet," said Mrs Capron-Smith. "When did you come?" Denry asked. "Only this afternoon." She continued to talk. As he looked at her, listening and responding intelligently now and then, he saw that Mrs Capron-Smith was in truth the woman that Ruth had so cleverly imitated ten years before. The imitation had deceived him then; he had accepted it for genuine.
"Bit late now, isn't it?" "Not it. If only some one who really knows the town, and has faith in the property market, would come down with a couple of thousand well, he might double it in five years." "Really!" "Yes," said Cotterill. "Look at Clare Street." Clare Street was one of his terra-cotta masterpieces. "You, now," said Cotterill, insinuating.
Yet Denry neither liked Mr Cotterill nor trusted him. The next incident in these happening was that Mrs Machin received notice from the London firm to quit her four-and-sixpence-a-week cottage. It seemed to her that not merely Brougham Street, but the world, was coming to an end. She was very angry with Denry for not protecting her more successfully.
When Cotterill caught sight of Denry he straightened himself into a certain uneasy perkiness. "Young man," he said in a counterfeit of his old patronising tone, "come in here. You may as well hear about it. You're a friend of ours. Come in and shut the door." Nellie was not in view. Denry went in and shut the door. "Sit down," said Cotterill.
Of course I shall be very sorry to lose her and Mrs Cotterill, too. But...." "I expect you're right," Denry concurred. And they sped on luxuriously through the lamp-lit night of the Five Towns. And Denry pointed out his house as they passed it.
Still following the book-lists, I perceive that Mr. Swinburne has dedicated a rousing lyric and some vigorous sonnets to the memory of Gondremark; that name appears twice at least in Victor Hugo's trumpet-blasts of patriot enumeration; and I came latterly, when I supposed my task already ended, on a trace of the fallen politician and his Countess. It is in the "Diary of J. Hogg Cotterill, Esq."
There was a closer contact in Edinburgh with South Africa than elsewhere, owing to the constant presence at that University of a large number of students from South Africa. A public meeting was held in Edinburgh, among the speakers whereat were Bishop Cotterill, who had lived many years in South Africa; Mr. Gifford, who had been a long time in Natal; Professor Calderwood, and Dr.
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