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He will always live in our recollection; and it will be useful to us all, in the great occasions of life, to reflect how Horner would act and think in them, if God had prolonged his life." Sydney Smith used to say, "Bobus and I have inverted the laws of nature. He rose by his gravity; I sank by my levity." Macaulay, "Lord Holland."
Nearer the beach, and on the opposite side of the valley, was "Verbena Cottage," the abode of Lieutenant Bobus, in command of the coast-guard; and still nearer the beach, some ten or a dozen yards back from the road, enclosed within a neat paling, sheltered by lofty trees, with a lovely flower-garden in front and an extensive fruit and kitchen-garden in the rear, stood "Sea View," a small but well-built house, in which resided the relict and daughter of the late "Cap'n" Walford.
Bobus had seen the lawyer in London, and with him concocted the agreement for signature, making the payments pass through the Wakefield office, the receipts being signed by Janet Hermann herself. "Why must all payments go through the office?" asked Caroline. "Because there's no trusting that slippery Greek," said Bobus.
The sister came out with them and asked them to breakfast. Mrs. Brownlow would not desert Allen and Bobus, but she wished Armine to spare himself more walking. Moreover, Babie discovered that some desertion of teachers would render their aid at the Sunday School desirable on that morning.
Allen saw she was vexed, and spoke more kindly, "There, never mind, mother. It is more than can be expected that ladies should see things in a reasonable light." "What is the reasonable light?" asked Bobus. Allen did not choose to hear, regarding Bobus not indeed as a woman, but as something as little capable of appreciating his reason. It was Janet who took up the word.
"It will save her trouble with her clerical friends if she only knows too late for a protest." Jock understood when he saw the stipulations against religious teaching, and recognised in the Principal's name an essayist whose negations of faith had made some stir. However, he only said, "It will be rather a blow." "There are limits to all things," replied Bobus.
So don't you set him up again to think himself forty martyrs all in one, or there will be no living with him." "If all boys were like him." Jock made a sound of horror and disgust that made her laugh. "He's all very well," added he in excuse; "but to think of all being like that. The world would be only one big muff." "But, Jock, what's this about Bobus being paid for doing people's exercises?"
Bobus gave a nod and smile, which his mother understood only too well as intimating acquiescence with wishes which he deemed feminine and conventional. "My poor boy," she said to herself, with vague alarm and terror, "what has he not picked up? I must read up these things, and be able to talk it over with him by the time he comes back from Norway."
"O yes, Bobus would do anybody's exercises at a penny for Latin, two for French, and three for Greek," said John, not aware of the shock he gave. "And Armine would not?" said his mother. "Was that it?" "Not only that," said John; "but the little beggar must needs up and say he would not help to act a falsehood, and you know nobody could stand that."
They must have known us by our uniforms to be English, but they had no idea we were their own shipmates. I guessed this by hearing Macquoid say to Bobus "Who can they be? Some poor fellows whose vessel must have gone down in the hurricane." "Hand them up carefully, now," said Perigal to the men who descended into the boat.
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