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The listeners joined in laughter, and Malkin, after a moment's hesitation, allowed his face to relax in good-humoured sympathy. 'Now look here! he cried. 'You Earwaker; suppose you sent conscience to the devil, and set yourself to please Runcorn by increasing the circulation of your paper by whatever means. You would flourish, undoubtedly.
'There's a strong feminine element in you, Malkin; that's exactly the kind of talk with which women drive men to frenzy. 'Feminine element! shouted the traveller with hot face. 'What do you mean? I propose to take a cab with you, and you' Earwaker turned away laughing. 'Time and distance are nothing to you, and I shall be very glad of your company. Come by all means.
His thoughts kept turning to London, though not because Sidwell might still be there. He felt urgent need of speaking with a friend. Moxey was perhaps no longer to be considered one; but Earwaker would be tolerant of human weaknesses. To have a long talk with Earwaker would help him to recover his mental balance, to understand himself and his position better.
They parted, and for a week did not see each other. Then, on Monday evening, when Earwaker was very busy with a mass of manuscript, the well-known knock sounded from the passage, and Malkin received admission. The look he wore was appalling, a look such as only some fearful catastrophe could warrant. 'Are you busy? he asked, in a voice very unlike his own.
Martin rested in the faith that, without effort of his own, the mysteries of life and time would ere long be revealed to him. Earwaker spent Christmas with his relatives at Kingsmill.
Earwaker! cried her mother, when it was time to go. 'What a delightful afternoon you have given us! We must think of you from now as one of our very best friends. Mustn't we, Lily? But troubles were yet in store. Malkin was strongly opposed to a religious marriage; he wished the wedding to be at a registrar's office, and had obtained Bella's consent to this, but Mrs.
After a year of waiting upon Providence, Earwaker had received the offer of a substantial appointment much more to his taste than those he had previously held. He was now literary editor of a weekly review which made no kind of appeal to the untaught multitude. 'I have decided to dwell here for the rest of my life, he added, looking round the walls.
Earwaker understood much by this avowal, and wondered whether his friend desired him so to do. 'Well, I can't say that I have any affection for the race, he replied. 'I certainly believe that, socially and politically, there is less hope of them than of the lower orders in any other part of England. 'They are damned by the beastly conditions of their life! cried Godwin, excitedly.
Moxey offered his arm to the one lady present as guest, and Earwaker did the same courtesy to the hostess. Mr. Morton, a meditative young man who had been listening with a smile of indifference, sauntered along in the rear with Godwin Peak. At the dinner-table Peak was taciturn, and seemed to be musing on a disagreeable subject. To remarks, he answered briefly and absently.
'No, I haven't! I have behaved with the utmost discretion. Bella thinks of me only as of a friend much older than herself. 'I don't believe it! 'Nonsense, Earwaker! A child of fifteen! 'The other day you had quite a different view, and after seeing her again I agreed with you. She is a young girl, and if not already in love with you, is on the way to be so.
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