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Matheson described as a Busman's Holiday." At mention of Dr. Matheson's name Adderley visibly started. "So you know Matheson," he murmured. "I didn't know you had ever met him." Plainly to hide his confusion he stood up, and crossing the room drew my attention to a rather fine silver bowl of early Persian ware.
I used to stand on London Bridge and watch the steamers loading and discharging from the grimy overhanging warehouses. A busman's holiday, you say. But there didn't seem anything else to do while I was waiting for a ship. I found my old British Museum Reading Room pass among my papers at home and I used it one day to look in upon my bygone haunts.
"For some reason best known to themselves Jennings and Knox have decided upon a Busman's Holiday. Very well. Why grumble?" "You are quite right, Doctor," Jennings admitted. "When I was on service here in the Straits Settlements I declared heaven knows how often that the country would never see me again once I was demobbed.
Next day we found ourselves many miles behind the firing-line, once more in France, with a whole month's holiday in prospect, comfortably conscious that one could walk round a corner or look over a wall without preliminary reconnaissance or subsequent extirpation. As for the holiday itself, unreasonable persons are not lacking to point out that it is of the busman's variety.
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