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Moreover, the Professor knew how to converse, and could be brill- iantly entertaining; there was nothing to find fault with in his appearance; and if Janet was satisfied, Allen was. He knew his uncle hated foreigners, but for his own part, he thought nothing so dull as English respectability. For once the Colonel declared that Bobus had more sense!
The new-comer bowed with suavity, saying, in excellent English "It is to your sister that in both senses I owe my entrance, and to the lady, your mother, that I owe my apology." And before Caroline well knew what was going on, he had one knee to the ground, and was kissing her hand. "The tableau is incomplete, Janet," said Bobus, whom Caroline heartily wished away.
As to the being a sound religious man, her mother might seek in vain for a man of real ability who held those old-fashioned notions. They were very well in her father's time, but what would Bobus say to them? She evidently thought Demetrius would triumph in his private interview with her mother, but if Caroline had had any doubt before, that would have removed it.
The author of "Lacon" says "that if all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, there would be very little blood spilt in that way;" and it was certainly astonishing to compare the zeal with which Mr. Bobus busied himself about this "affair" with that testified by him on another occasion when he himself was more immediately concerned. The morning came. Mr.
Jock would have kept back the knowledge from her, but she was too uneasy about Bobus for him not to tell her. She saw it in the same light, feared that her son would never entirely forgive her, but went on writing affectionate letters to him all the same, whether he answered them or not. Oh, what a pang it was that she had never tried to make the boy religious in his childhood.
However, Bobus would not countenance the irregular practitioner by escorting his mother to River Hollow; and as he was in one of the surly moods in which he was dangerous to any one who meddled with him, especially Janet, his mother was glad not to have to keep the peace between them.
"No, but don't you see? That is what is so dreadful. He only just reads with Bobus because mother ordered him; and he hates it because he thinks it is of no use, for he will never be well enough to go to college.
She found it long ago, but did not think it valid, and only kept it out of sight because she thought it would make me unhappy." "It is a pity she did not go a step further," observed Bobus. "Why did she produce it now?" "I found it. Boys, you must know the whole truth, and consider how best to screen your sister.
"Yes, I've a chance of getting on Cameron's staff in India." "Oh, that's all right, old fellow! Why, you'll be my next neighbour." "But about mother? You don't seriously think Ali and Armie will be nothing but dead weights on her?" "Only as long as there's anybody to hold them up", said Bobus, perceiving that his picture had taken an effect the reverse of what he intended.
Bobus found some relief in laying the blame on Jock, but when Armine heard the illness ascribed to a long course of anxiety and harass, he was conscience-stricken, as he thought how often his perverse form of resignation had baffled her pleadings and added to her vexations. Words, impatiently heard at the moment, returned upon him, and compunction took its outward effect in crossness.
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