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And indeed they both have you to look to, though the 'both' may be a new light to you." Lewisham growled, went from page 1 to page 3 conscious of their both looking to him now even intensely and discovered Chaffery in a practical vein.
Well, well there's many a deserving man has to do with less," and after a meditative pause he asked Lewisham to pass the beer. "Hev you a mother living, Mr. Lewisham?" said Mrs. Chaffery suddenly, and pursued him through the tale of his connexions. When he came to the plumber, Mrs. Chaffery remarked with an unexpected air of consequence that most families have their poor relations.
He might flash some dart of ridicule that would stick in their memory for ever. Lewisham tried to show that he did not want a visitor. But Chaffery was in high spirits, and could have warmed a dozen cold welcomes. He sat down without any express invitation in the chair that he preferred. Before Mr. and Mrs.
Many knaves are fools also most are but some are not. I know I am a knave but no fool. The essence of your knave is that he lacks the will, the motive capacity to seek his own greater good. The knave abhors persistence. Strait is the way and narrow the gate; the knave cannot keep to it and the fool cannot find it." Lewisham lost something of what Chaffery was saying by reason of a rap outside.
There was, of course, no servant, and the mother was something meandering, furtive, tearful in the face of troubles. Sometimes of an afternoon or evening she grew garrulous. "Mother does talk so sometimes." She rarely went out of doors. Chaffery always rose late, and would sometimes go away for days together.
"A fact is a synthesis of impressions," said Lagune; "but that you will learn when you are older. The thing is that we were at cross purposes. I told Chaffery you were beginners. He treated you as beginners arranged a demonstration." "It was a demonstration," said Smithers. "Precisely. If it had not been for your interruptions ..." "Ah!" "He forged elementary effects ..."
That she promised if it needed promising. There had already been dreadful trouble at home about the exposure at Lagune's. Her mother had sided with her stepfather and joined in blaming her. But was she to blame? "Of course you were not to blame," said Lewisham. Then he had decided to give Chaffery a sound lecture on his disastrous dishonesty. But it was Chaffery gave the lecture.
But why do you ask?" "Oh!... I wondered." "You noticed her eyes perhaps. She is the stepdaughter of that man Chaffery a queer character, but indisputably mediumistic. It's odd the thing should have struck you. Curiously enough I myself have fancied she might be something of a psychic judging from her face." "A what?" "A psychic undeveloped, of course. I have thought once or twice.
"I don't find life simple," said Lewisham, "but I do think there's a Right and a Wrong in things. And I don't think you have said anything so far to show that spiritualistic cheating is Right." "Let us thresh the matter out," said Chaffery, crossing his legs; "let us thresh the matter out.
Chaffery is a man of indisputable powers indisputable powers; but I am afraid I am very much afraid he has abused the conditions of the experiment. All this and his insults touch me rather nearly." He paused. Lewisham rose. "Do you mind if you come again?" asked Lagune with gentle politeness. Lewisham was surprised to find himself sorry. "He was a man of extraordinary gifts," said Lagune.
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