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Through the gateway flanked by tall recruiting posters came rather hurriedly a youth of no great stature, but of sturdy build and comely enough countenance, including bright brown eyes and fresh complexion. Though the dull morning was coldish, perspiration might have been detected on his forehead.
"What do you think of it?" the stranger respectfully asked, and John, aware of the respect in his voice and conscious that he did not know what to think of it, murmured, "Um-m-m! Not bad!" "Coldish, I think," the stranger continued. "Technically skilful, but hardly any feeling!" John considered for a moment or two, and then answered very judicially. "Yes!
"Come your ways in, joy!" she said hospitably. "I was expecting you'd come up tonight: I knew you'd want to have a word with me as soon as you could. Come in and sit you down by the fire it's coldish o' nights, to be sure, and there's frost in the air. "This gentleman may come in, too, mayn't he, Mrs. Hamthwaite?" asked Avice as she and Brereton stepped within the porch.
Some one had looked after the place; of course, I knew who it was. It began to get coldish, and I pulled the latch it was there just the same and went into the old room. I almost expected to see mother in her chair, and father on the stool near the fireplace, where he used to sit and smoke his pipe. Aileen's was a little low chair near mother's.
Presently he became aware that the men on either side of him were scanning his features and person with peculiar attention. "Coldish weather," remarked the red-haired man, looking at him in a friendly way. "It is," replied Miles, civilly enough. "Rather cold for bathin', ain't it, sir?" continued the detective carelessly, picking his teeth with a quill.
"It's there beyond, Miss, where you left it." "I expect it's all boiled away by this time," said Priscilla, "but of course the Primus stove may have gone out You never know beforehand how those patent machines will act. If it has gone out the soup will be all right, though coldish. Perhaps we'd better go back there." "Which would you like to do yourself, Priscilla," said Miss Rutherford.
Sponge? said her ladyship, tendering him her hand with an elegant curtsey. 'How are you, Mr. 'Coldish to-night, said he, stooping, and placing both hands to the bars. 'Coldish, repeated he, rubbing his hands and looking around. 'It generally is about this time of year, I think, observed Miss Glitters, who was quite ready to enter for our friend. 'Hope it won't stop hunting, said Mr. Sponge.
"You needn't try to make a fool of me," said Fanny, flushing deeply. "No, but she has, Paul; she's got beautiful hair." "It's a treat of a colour," said he. "That coldish colour like earth, and yet shiny. It's like bog-water." "Goodness me!" exclaimed one girl, laughing. "How I do but get criticised," said Fanny. "But you should see it down, Paul," cried Emma earnestly. "It's simply beautiful.
In the same majestic folio in which this anecdote may be found the Memoir prefixed to the History of Durham we are likewise told how, when at college, he was waiting on a Don on business; and, feeling coldish, stirred the fire. "Pray, Mr Surtees," said the great man, "do you think that any other undergraduate in the college would have taken that liberty?"
Two things seem alike, but one is stuffed, and the other hollow. Personality, then, must always be a vital factor since it colours and vitalises, as well as reinforces the meaning of the music. Spirit is a fact, but a beautiful personality will invest it with all the glamour of romance. The emotion may be "pure joy" but it needs a warm heart to give it out to full effect to a coldish world.
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