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Acting upon this telegram, I returned to the abode of Mr. Goodge, told him his terms were to be complied with, showed him the telegram, at his request, and asked for the letters. I ought to have known my reverend friend better than to imagine he would part with those ancient documents except for money upon the counter. He smiled a smile which might have illuminated the visage of Machiavelli.
"I think you said there were forty-odd letters," I remarked, before I proceeded to count the documents in the presence of Mr. Goodge. That gentleman looked at me with an air of astonishment, which, had I not known him to be the most consummate of hypocrites, would have seemed to be simplicity itself. "I said from thirty to forty," he exclaimed; "I never said there were forty-odd letters."
I inquired the name of the present minister. He is called Jonah Goodge, began life as a carpenter, and is accounted the pink and pattern of piety. Oct. 4th. A letter from Sheldon awaited me in the coffee-room letter-rack when I went downstairs to breakfast. "MY DEAR HAWKEHURST, Don't be disheartened if the work seems slow at first. You'll soon get used to it.
It was the only problem in existence to which his fatalism did not supply the key. He knew himself to be a better man than Billy Goodge. There was no doubt about it. At school, where Billy was the woodenest blockhead, he was top of his class. He knew things about troy weight and geography and Isaac and the Mariners of England of which Billy did not dream.
It was as if the point d'Alençon ruffle of Chesterfield had been dropped in the study of John Wesley. In a moment there flashed into my mind an idea which has haunted me ever since. He had been with Jonah Goodge in the course of that day, and had bought him over to cheat me.
The subject of this memoir, and author of the work which follows it, was born in Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, on the 5th of February 1832. He was my elder brother by about eighteen months.
When he had bought it there crossed his mind the silly thought of its signification of the infinite leagues that lay between him and Billy Goodge. He could pawn it for ten pounds it would be like pawning his heart's blood but where? Not in Morebury, even supposing there was a pawnbroker's in the place. He had many friends in his profession, scattered up and down the land.
Goodge, and asking how far I should be authorised to remunerate that gentleman, or to pledge myself to remunerate him for such information as he might have to dispose of. Oct. 6th. A letter from Sheldon. "DEAR HAWKEHURST, There may be something very important behind that mysterious burial at Dewsdale.
I was delighted to find him seventy-five years of age at the most moderate computation, and I should have been all the better pleased if he had been older. I very quickly discovered that in Mr. Judson the linen draper I had to deal with a very different person from the Rev. Jonah Goodge.
Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other, the muddy mess which men call friendship. M'Kay for that was his name lived, as I have said, in Goodge Street, where he had unfurnished apartments.
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