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Crisparkle interposed, remonstrating aside, in a friendly voice: 'Joe, Joe, Joe! don't forget yourself, Joe, my good fellow! and then, when Joe peaceably touched his hat, accosting the passenger with: 'Mr. Honeythunder? 'That is my name, sir. 'My name is Crisparkle. 'Reverend Mr. Septimus? Glad to see you, sir. Neville and Helena are inside.
'If I were dying, I feel as if a word from you would rally me; if my pulse had stopped, I feel as if your touch would make it beat again, said Neville. 'But I HAVE rallied, and am doing famously. Mr. Crisparkle turned him with his face a little more towards the light. 'I want to see a ruddier touch here, Neville, he said, indicating his own healthy cheek by way of pattern.
Crisparkle and his new charge, who took him to the omnibus, were so fervent in their apprehensions of his catching cold, that they shut him up in it instantly and left him, with still half-an-hour to spare. 'I know very little of that gentleman, sir, said Neville to the Minor Canon as they turned back. 'You know very little of your guardian? the Minor Canon repeated. 'Almost nothing!
Grewgious held decidedly to the general principle, that if you could steal a march upon a brigand or a wild beast, you had better do it; and he also held decidedly to the special case, that John Jasper was a brigand and a wild beast in combination. Thus advised, Mr. Crisparkle came back again and reported to Rosa, who in her turn reported to Helena.
The phrase smites home. 'Ah! thinks Mr. Crisparkle, 'his own words! 'Seeing what I have seen to-night, and hearing what I have heard, adds Jasper, with great earnestness, 'I shall never know peace of mind when there is danger of those two coming together, with no one else to interfere. It was horrible. There is something of the tiger in his dark blood. 'Ah! thinks Mr.
'I said, you know, that I should make you an antidote to those black humours; and you said you hoped I would consign them to the flames. 'And I still hope so, Jasper. 'With the best reason in the world! I mean to burn this year's Diary at the year's end. 'Because you ? Mr. Crisparkle brightens greatly as he thus begins. 'You anticipate me.
I have put this very gently to Mr. Crisparkle, for you know his self-denying ways; but still I have put it. What I have laid much greater stress upon at the same time is, that I am engaged in a miserable struggle with myself, and that a little change and absence may enable me to come through it the better. 'When to come back? 'In a fortnight. 'And going quite alone?
The Unlimited here put her head in at the door after having rapped, and been authorised to present herself announcing that a gentleman wished for a word with another gentleman named Crisparkle, if any such gentleman were there. If no such gentleman were there, he begged pardon for being mistaken. 'Such a gentleman is here, said Mr. Crisparkle, 'but is engaged just now.
Jasper's, who maligns him every day? In your heart you cannot mean it. From your heart you could not do it, if his case were yours. 'I have represented to Mr. Crisparkle, Helena, said Neville, with a glance of deference towards his tutor, 'that if I could do it from my heart, I would. But I cannot, and I revolt from the pretence. You forget however, that to put the case to Mr.
'Give me another instant! Tartar! The two shook hands with the greatest heartiness, and then went the wonderful length for Englishmen of laying their hands each on the other's shoulders, and looking joyfully each into the other's face. 'My old fag! said Mr. Crisparkle. 'My old master! said Mr. Tartar. 'You saved me from drowning! said Mr. Crisparkle.
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