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"That may be; there have always been more children than grown men," returned Bascombe. "For my part, I would sweep away all illusions, and get at the heart of the affair." "But," said Wingfold, with the look of one who, as he tries to say it, is seeing a thing for the first time, "does not the acorn-cup belong to the acorn?
He went home a little quieter of heart, as if he had heard from afar something sweet and strange. George Bascombe was a peculiar development of the present century, almost of the present generation. In the last century, beyond a doubt, the description of such a man would have been incredible. I do not mean that he was the worse or the better for that.
Only there was the question whether his presumed commission was verily truth or no. It must be allowed that a good deal turns upon that. According to the judgment of some men who thought they knew him, Bascombe was as yet I will not say incapable of distinguishing, but careless of the distinction between not a fact and a law, perhaps, but a law and a truth.
During the week the hope had almost settled into conviction; and one consequence was that, although she was not a whit more inclined to introduce George Bascombe to the sick-chamber, she found herself not only equal, but no longer averse to meeting him; and on the following Saturday, when he presented himself as usual, come to spend the Sunday, she listened to her aunt, and consented to go out with him for a ride in the evening, however, when Mrs.
"It hurted my arm 'tween the shoulder an' elbow a lil bit at first, but I've grawed used to it now." "How ever shall I repay you, kind Joan, for all your trouble and your long walks and pretty stories?" "I doan't need no pay. If 'twas a matter o' payin', 'twould be a wrong thing to do, I reckon. Theer's auld Bascombe up Paul him wi' curls o' long hair an' gawld rings in's ears.
It was incontestably with such a view that he had signed the articles and sought holy orders and that without a single question as to truth or reality in either act. "Your silence is honesty, Mr. Wingfold, and I honour you for it," said Bascombe.
Bascombe was on the point of saying he objected to it nowhere except in church, but for his aunt's sake, or rather for his own sake in his aunt's eyes, he restrained himself, and uttered his feelings only in a peculiar smile, of import so mingled, that its meaning was illegible ere it had quivered along his lip and vanished.
Everybody who knew him, counted George Bascombe a genuine good fellow, and George himself knew little to the contrary, while Helen knew nothing. One who had only chanced to get a glimpse of her in her own room, as in imagination my reader has done, would hardly have recognised her again in the drawing-room.
Helen sighed, thinking how ill that had worked with Emmeline. Ever since George Bascombe had talked about the Polwarths that day they met him in the park, she had felt a sort of physical horror of them, as if they were some kind of unclean creature that ought not to be in existence at all.
The fourth week had very near sped and still she remained firm; while behind the scenes, when he did see her, John found no help from Nelly Bascombe. In fact he marked that she'd got to grow rather impatient on the subject and didn't appear to be so interested in her fate, or yet his, as formerly.
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