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"I began by an examination into 'The Milky Way." Sir Tiglath impounded another crumpet. "Go on, young man," he cried. "The old astronomer lendeth ear." The Prophet, who felt very much like a nervous undergraduate undergoing a viva-voce examination, continued, "I became deeply interested, strongly attracted by the the heavenly bodies. They fascinated me. I could think of nothing else."
We will ne'er like any as well as we like this one. So despatch. Nurse Crumpet.
The baker's son, young Crumpet, is sent to a grammar-school, "takes to his books, spends the best years of his life, as all eminent Englishmen do, in making Latin verses, learns that the Crum in Crumpet is long and the pet short, goes to the University, gets a prize for an essay on the Dispersion of the Jews, takes Orders, becomes a Bishop's chaplain, has a young nobleman for his pupil, publishes a useless classic and a Serious Call to the Unconverted, and then goes through the Elysian transitions of Prebendary, Dean, Prelate, and the long train of purple, profit, and power."
And indeed here was Peter at this stage of things, a mad I bundle of contradictions old as a judge when up against the Realities, young as Crumpet the puppy when staring at Romance. Give him bread and you have him of cast-iron stern, cold, hard of muscle, grim frown, stiff back, no smiles.
"Did you see it done?" asked Crumpet, with a grin at Hawkins. "How could I see it when I wasn't there?" "I guess no one else was there," growled Tom; "I've noticed whenever that sort of business is going on it's always a good ways off, and the people as sees it are the kind that don't amount to much in the way of telling the truth."
Then, of course, you will come to tea. Every one comes to tea." Crumpet, tired of the rabbit, worn out with adventure and peril, struggled into Peter's lap and slumbered with one ear lying back across his eyes. The sun slipped down upon the town and touched the black cathedral with flame, and turned the silver of the river into burning gold.
Gawd's truth, sir, you aren't never a-goin' to give me two sich treats as that? From now till Thursday with jist you jist you, sir? I'll go balmy on the crumpet I'll get to stickin' straws in my bloomin' 'air!" "You 'get to' the telephone and send that message to The Yard, if you know when you're well off," said Cleek, laughing.
I longed for a perpetual night and found the day almost intolerably irksome." Sir Tiglath's brick-red countenance was irradiated with a smile that did not lack geniality. "The old astronomer lendeth attentive ear to the young man's epic," he roared, through the crumpet. "He approveth the young man's admiration for the heavenly bodies. Go on."
There was a touch of monotony about the new life, and the good deeds that accompanied it, which, to a man of ardent temperament, was apt to pall. And Elk Street, instead of giving him the credit which was his due, preferred to ascribe the change in his behaviour to what they called being "a bit barmy on the crumpet."
'It seems to me as if he's gorn orf 'is bloody crumpet, he added as he watched Owen walking rapidly down the street. 'I can't understand why people can't mind their own bloody business: anyone would think the boy belonged to 'IM. That was just how the matter presented itself to Owen.
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