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At any rate, he would sit listening to her and smoking, as she made him do while she talked politics and socialism to him; and though he said little in return, she made the most of it, and was sure anyway that he was glad to see her come in, and must some time read the labour newspapers and Venturist leaflets she brought him, for they were always well thumbed before they came back to her.
I come across them sometimes at the Venturist meetings, and have always admired their ability. Last year I could do nothing practical to meet your wishes. This year, however, there is an opening on the Clarion, and I should like to discuss it with you. Are you in town or to be found? I could come any afternoon next week, early I go down to the House at four or on Saturdays.
"You a Venturist? So am I. Joy! Won't you shake hands with me, as comrades should? We are a very mixed set of people, you know, and between ourselves I don't know that we are coming to much. But we can make an alderman dream of the guillotine that is always something. Oh! but now we can talk on quite a new footing!"
And in milder measure their sister, who possessed more artistic gift than either of them, was like unto them. Marcella saw much of these three persons, and something of their friends. She went with them to Socialist lectures, or to the public evenings of the Venturist Society, to which the brothers belonged.
She began to talk eagerly and cleverly, showing a very fair training in the catch words of the school, and a good memory as one uncomfortable person at the table soon perceived for some of the leading arguments and illustrations of a book of Venturist Essays which had lately been much read and talked of in London.
While Louis had renounced his art, and devoted himself to journalism, unpaid public work and starvation, that he might so throw himself the more directly into the Socialist battle, Anthony had remained an artist, mainly employed as before in decorative design. Yet he was probably the more fierce Venturist and anticapitalist of the two.
Wharton sat among the little group, far too clever to patronise a cat, let alone a Venturist, but none the less master and conscious master of the occasion, because it suited him to take the airs of equality.
Instead, however, she found herself saying, as she looked carelessly out of window "Oh! go on." "Well, then" he drew himself up suddenly and wheeled round upon her "you have the gift of compromise. That is invaluable that will take you far." "Thank you!" she said. "Thank you! I know what that means from a Venturist. You think me a mean insincere person!"
"I do," said Wharton, smiling again. "Mayn't I for the present do what I will with mine own? I return in their wages some of my ill-gotten gains as a landowner. It is all makeshift, of course." "I understand!" exclaimed Marcella, nodding to him "you could not be a Venturist and keep up game-preserving?" Wharton met her bright eye with a half deprecating, reserved air.
Wharton was disagreeably reminded of the Venturist habit of never accepting anything that was said quite as it stood of not, even in small things, "swearing to the words" of anybody. He was conscious of the quick passing feeling that his judgment, with regard to Denny, ought to have been enough for Craven.
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