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I can put it to them that, from an English point of view, considering the tremendous importance of your business, considering the financial collapse which would follow oh, we'll be able to manage." "Thank you," said Ascher, "but that purely legal aspect of the matter does not at the moment strike me as the most important or the most pressing.
In words of genuine sympathy the writer explained that Ascher had been unfortunate enough to forge the signature to a bill. She would not see him again for the next five years. God comfort her! The letter was signed: "A fellow-sufferer with your husband." As it had been with her old father, after he had bidden her a last farewell, so it was now with Gudule.
I felt that my time had come to speak. If I was to justify Gorman's confidence in me as an "influence," I must say something. Besides Ascher was looking at me inquiringly. "I'm not a business man," I said, "and I'm afraid that my opinion isn't worth much, but I think " I hesitated. Ascher's eyes were fixed on me, and there was a curiously wistful expression in them.
I was eating a very small piece of fish when he spoke to me, and was trying to guess what the sauce was flavoured with. It occurred to me suddenly that I might have broken in upon some sort of private anniversary, a day which Ascher and his wife observed as one of abstinence. There was, I could scarcely fail to notice it, a sense of subdued melancholy about our proceedings.
There is in the end only the original Gorman with his single head. "Anyhow," said Gorman, "I'm keeping in with Mrs. Ascher." He winked at me as he said this. I like Gorman's way of adding explanatory winks to his remarks. I should frequently miss the meaning, the full meaning of what he says if he did not help out his words with these expressive winks.
Miss Gibson, though anxious to be polite, was not likely to know or care anything about Ireland. Gorman left us and joined them. "Well," I said to Ascher, "what do you think of this performance in Galway?" "Have you read the newspapers?" he said. "The headlines," I replied. "I couldn't very well help reading them." Ascher stepped across the carriage and picked up one of the papers from the floor.
I can believe for instance that they would fight, would suffer the incredible hardships of a soldier's life, would endure pain and would die, without any heroics or fuss or shouting. Men of my class and my training could not do those things without great effort. Those men would do them simply, naturally." "Ascher," I said, "I have a confession to make to you. I understand German.
The first thing I thought of was a quotation from Edgar Allan Poe. "I pacified Psyche and kissed her," I murmured, "and tempted her out of the gloom." I said the lines in what I am convinced is the proper way, as if they were forced from me, as if I spoke them to myself and did not mean them to be heard. I do not think Mrs. Ascher knew them. I fear she suspected me of making some sort of joke.
"Why don't you ask me where I've left my luggage?" he suddenly cried. "I'll fetch it myself if you'll tell me where it is," Ephraim remarked, in all simplicity. "Upon my word, you make me laugh," cried Ascher, and a laugh like that of delirium burst from his lips. "All I can say, Ephraim, is, the most powerful giant upon earth would break his back beneath the weight of my luggage!"
Nations grow rich, that is to say, get comfort, ease, and even luxury, only when other nations are growing rich too, only because other nations are growing rich." "The way to grow rich," I said, "is to make other people rich. Is that it? It sounds rather like one of the what do you call them? counsels of perfection in the Gospel." "Perhaps it is a religious truth too," said Ascher. "I don't know.
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