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'I had the pleasure, I believe, of seeing you, yesterday? said Goodchild. 'I cannot undertake to say for certain, was the grim reply of the One old man. 'I think you saw me? Did you not? 'Saw YOU? said the old man. 'O yes, I saw you. But, I see many who never see me. A chilled, slow, earthy, fixed old man. A cadaverous old man of measured speech.
I brand him publicly, no matter how mild he may look about the eyes, or how sleek he may be about the coat, as a systematic betrayer, whenever he can get the chance, of the confidence reposed in him. What do you mean by laughing and shaking your head at me? 'Oh, Thomas, Thomas! said Goodchild. 'You had better give me my hat; you had better let me get you that physic.
The Assistant, on the other hand, turning presently to ask the Doctor some question, looked at him with a wan smile as if he were his whole reliance and sustainment in life. It was in vain for the Doctor in his easy-chair, to try to lead the mind of Mr. Goodchild in the opposite easy-chair, away from what was before him. Let Mr.
"I wonder if Granny was rocked in it!" said Terry. "She would have to be very little," said Turly dubiously. "Of course she was little. I can quite fancy Gran'ma little. Some people must have been born grown-up. Miss Goodchild was born grown-up, I know. Of course she's nice, but she couldn't ever have been little, Turly." "Nobody could be born grown-up," said Turly.
He was evidently relieved to turn away, and to take his white face and his wild eyes to a table in a recess among the bottles. But, though he stood there, compounding the lotion with his back towards them, Goodchild could not, for many moments, withdraw his gaze from the man. When he at length did so, he found the Doctor observing him, with some trouble in his face.
'Not one living creature, interposed Thomas, 'who is not, in one way or another, interested in horses, and who is not, in a greater or less degree, an admirer of them. Taking the horse as an animal in the abstract, Francis, I cordially despise him from every point of view. 'Thomas, said Goodchild, 'confinement to the house has begun to affect your biliary secretions.
Yonder! Whether he pointed to the room above, or to the room below, or to any room in that old house, or to a room in some other old house in that old town, Mr. Goodchild was not, nor is, nor ever can be, sure.
No, sir, proceeded Goodchild, with a disparaging assumption of the Scottish accent, 'I'd get me oop and peetch into somebody. Wouldn't you? 'I wouldn't have anything to do with her, yawned Thomas Idle. 'Why should I take the trouble? 'It's no trouble, Tom, to fall in love, said Goodchild, shaking his head. 'It's trouble enough to fall out of it, once you're in it, retorted Tom.
The lazy travellers were thus placed on a more intimate footing with the Doctor than the casual circumstances of the meeting would of themselves have established; and when Doctor Speddie rose to go home, remarking that he would send his assistant with the lotion, Francis Goodchild said that was unnecessary, for, by the Doctor's leave, he would accompany him, and bring it back.
'How do you propose that we get through this present afternoon and evening? demanded Thomas Idle, after two or three hours of the foregoing reflections at Allonby. Mr. Goodchild faltered, looked out of window, looked in again, and said, as he had so often said before, 'There is the sea, and here are the shrimps; let us eat 'em'!
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