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So far as Mr. Burton and I are concerned, and Mr. Bomford, too, you must please remember that we are profoundly and absolutely convinced of the almost miraculous properties of this preparation. Its romantic history is a thing we have thoroughly attested. Our only fear at the present moment is that too large a quantity of the constituents of the beans which Mr.
"Certainly you may keep the half-crown, dear," he assented. "It is one of the privileges of your age to accept presents. Now run along into the other room, and I will come in and fetch you presently." The child held out his hand once more to Mr. Bomford. "It is exceedingly kind of you to give me this, sir," he said. "I can assure you that the drawing block will be a great pleasure to me."
No one else in the world save yourself is of any real account." "A thousand pounds," Mr. Bomford interposed, "is a great deal of money for a young man in your position." "It is a very great deal," Burton admitted. "But what you and Mr. Cowper both seem to forget is the very small part that money plays in the acquisition of real happiness.
"I am very much pleased indeed to see Mr. Bomford," she assured him. "I," he murmured, "am glad that I have seen him." Edith looked at him covertly. "I do not think," she said, "that I quite approve of your tone this afternoon." "I am quite sure," he retorted, "that I do not approve of yours." She made a little grimace at him. "Let us agree, then, to be mutually dissatisfied.
"He is even worse than Mr. Bomford." Burton shivered a little as he leaned back and closed his eyes. "It is a nightmare!" he groaned. "Have you seen all those advertisements of brain foods? The advertisement columns of our magazines and newspapers are full of them. Their announcements grin down upon us from every hoarding. Do you know that we are going to do the same thing?
I am tired, Edith. Come and walk with me." She glanced out of the window. "I think," she said demurely, "that I am expected to go for a ride with Mr. Bomford." "Then please disappoint him," he pleaded. "I do not like your friend Mr. Bomford. He is an egotistical and ignorant person. We will go across the moors, we will climb our little hill. Perhaps we might even wait there until the sunset."
Bomford would have me barter for money, brought me out of the unclean world and showed me how beautiful life might be showed me, indeed, what beauty really is. There is no religion has ever brought such joy to the heart of a man, nor any love, nor any of the great passions of the world have opened such gates as they have done for me.
"Would you like me to go into the other room, father?" he asked. "I can leave my work quite easily for a time, and I have several books there." Mr. Bomford screwed an eyeglass into his eye and looked across at the child. "What an extraordinarily forgive my remark, Mr. Burton but what an extraordinarily well-behaved child! Is it possible that this is your boy?"
"I've seen his photograph in the drawing-room," Burton reminded her. Edith frowned. "He is really much better looking than that," she said with emphasis. "It is perhaps as well," Burton retorted, "especially if he is in the habit of going about unattended." Edith ignored his last speech altogether. "Mr. Bomford is also," she went on, "extremely pleasant and remarkably well-read.
"I am quite sure," she said decidedly, "that Mr. Bomford would not like that." "What does it matter?" he answered. "A man like Mr. Bomford has no right to have any authority over you at all. You are of a different clay. I am sure that you will never marry him. If you will not walk with me, I shall work, and I am not in the humor for work. I shall probably spoil one of my best chapters."
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