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"Very Young" Gayerson had the same big blue eyes and the same way of pouting his underlip when he was excited or troubled. But the Venus Annodomini checked him sternly none the less. Too much zeal was a thing that she did not approve of; preferring instead, a tempered and sober tenderness. "Very Young" Gayerson was miserable, and took no trouble to conceal his wretchedness.
He told the Venus Annodomini that his father was coming up, and she flushed a little and said that she should be delighted to make his acquaintance. Then she looked long and thoughtfully at "Very Young" Gayerson; because she was very, very sorry for him, and he was a very, very big idiot. "My daughter is coming out in a fortnight, Mr. Gayerson," she said. "Your WHAT?" said he.
She, with her back to the curtained window, watched the effect of her sentences and smiled. "Very Young" Gayerson's papa came up twelve days later, and had not been in Simla four and twenty hours, before two men, old acquaintances of his, had told him how "Very Young" Gayerson had been conducting himself. "Young" Gayerson laughed a good deal, and inquired who the Venus Annodomini might be.
"Certainly," said "Very Young" Gayerson. "I am going down to-morrow morning. My ponies are at your service, Sir." The Venus Annodomini looked at him across the half-light of the room, and her big gray eyes filled with moisture. She rose and shook hands with him. "Good-bye, Tom," whispered the Venus Annodomini. Little Blind Fish, thou art marvellous wise, Little Blind Fish, who put out thy eyes?
"Daughter," said the Venus Annodomini. "She's been out for a year at Home already, and I want her to see a little of India. She is nineteen and a very sensible, nice girl I believe." "Very Young" Gayerson, who was a short twenty-two years old, nearly fell out of his chair with astonishment; for he had persisted in believing, against all belief, in the youth of the Venus Annodomini.
Perhaps he thought her five and twenty, or perhaps she told him that she was this age. "Very Young" Gayerson would have forded the Gugger in flood to carry her lightest word, and had implicit faith in her. Every one liked him, and every one was sorry when they saw him so bound a slave of the Venus Annodomini.
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it never realized, in fact, the necessity of parting with it and took for her more chosen associates young people. Among the worshippers of the Venus Annodomini was young Gayerson.
He suggested that his son had better cut his leave short and go down to his duties. This led to an unfilial answer, and relations were strained, until "Young" Gayerson demmanded that they should call on the Venus Annodomini. "Very Young" Gayerson went with his papa, feeling, somehow, uncomfortable and small. The Venus Annodomini received them graciously and "Young" Gayerson said: "By Jove!
Presently, he heard the Venus Annodomini saying: "Do you know that your son is one of my most devoted admirers?" "I don't wonder," said "Young" Gayerson. Here he raised his voice: "He follows his father's footsteps. Didn't I worship the ground you trod on, ever so long ago, Kitty and you haven't changed since then. How strange it all seems!" "Very Young" Gayerson said nothing.
"Very Young" Gayerson's papa held a Division or a Collectorate or something administrative in a particularly unpleasant part of Bengal full of Babus who edited newspapers proving that "Young" Gayerson was a "Nero" and a "Scylla" and a "Charybdis"; and, in addition to the Babus, there was a good deal of dysentery and cholera abroad for nine months of the year.
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