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By the first post next morning came a card, whereon Earwaker had written: 'Be here, if you can, at two o'clock. Shall be glad to see you. 'So you have been new-furnishing! Godwin remarked, as he was admitted to the chambers. 'You look much more comfortable. 'I'm glad you think so. It is the general opinion.
Earwaker was musing, a wrinkle of uneasiness at the corner of his eye. 'She isn't the kind of woman, you know, one can regard as a mother. But we are the best possible friends. She may, perhaps, think of me as a possible son-in-law. Poor thing; I hope she does. Perhaps it will help to put her mind at rest about the girls.
'But they sail in ten days, and well, I'm afraid I couldn't get ready in time. And then I've promised to look after some little affairs for Mrs. Jacox some trifling money matters. But later in the year who knows? Earwaker half repented of his promise to visit the Jacox household, but there was no possibility of excusing himself. So on Sunday he journeyed with his friend down to Wrotham. Mrs.
'Has it come to your knowledge, Earwaker asked of him, 'that Bruno Chilvers is exciting the orthodox world by his defence of Christianity against neo-heathenism? 'Chilvers? No. 'Mrs. Morton tells us that all the Church newspapers ring with his name. 'Please don't think, cried Mrs. Morton, with the same anxious look as before, 'that I read such papers.
'Have you seen that odd creature Malkin lately? she asked of Christian, a day or two after. 'No, I haven't; I thought of him to make up our dinner on Sunday; but you had rather not have him here, I daresay? 'Oh, he is amusing. Ask him by all means, said Marcella, carelessly. 'He may have heard about Peak from Earwaker, you know. If he begins to talk before people'
But is that any reason why my youth should be frustrated? We have only one life, and I want to live mine throughout. Soon after this Peak rose. He remembered that the journalist's time was valuable, and that he no longer had the right to demand more of it than could be granted to any casual caller. Earwaker behaved with all friendliness, but their relations had necessarily suffered a change.
I want to go to South America and the Pacific islands. Earwaker has a friend, who has just come back from travel in the tropics; the talk about it has half decided me to leave England. I have been saving money for years to that end. 'You never spoke of it to me, Marcella replied, turning a bracelet on her wrist. 'Should you go alone? 'Of course. I couldn't travel in company.
By careful insistence on the idea of self-sacrifice, Earwaker by degrees demolished the arguments his friend kept putting forward. Thomas, who had gone impatiently to the window, turned round with words that were meant to be final. 'It's quite decided. You begin your preparations at once, and to-morrow morning you go on board with us.
Malkin stared with eyes of anguish into his friend's face, and at length whispered thickly: 'I said I would! 'What? Take leave? 'Marry her! Earwaker had much ado to check an impatiently remonstrant laugh. He paused awhile, then began his expostulation, at first treating the affair as too absurd for grave argument.
The pursuit of this argument led Earwaker to ask: 'What proportion of the clergy can still take that standing in stolid conscientiousness? 'What proportion are convinced that it is untenable? returned Peak. 'Many wilfully shut their eyes to the truth. 'No, they don't shut their eyes! cried Godwin.
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