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'Of course, he said placidly, 'that puts quite a different complexion upon the matter, Dr. Greatrex. I'm very glad to hear young Mr. Le Breton's such an excellent and trustworthy person. But the fact is, that Schurts man gave me quite a turn for the moment, with his sanguinary notions.
Greatrex, said Edie innocently, stepping up to him in her bright elastic fashion, 'let me introduce you to our friend Herr Schurz, whose name I dare say you know the German political economist. He's come down to Pilbury to deliver a lecture here, and we've been fortunate enough to put him up at our little lodging. The doctor bowed very stiffly.
She was glad, at any rate, that he'd got another berth, with a conscientious, earnest, Christian man like Dr. Greatrex.
Do you know, I positively see Mr. Blenkinsopp, father of that odious boy Blenkinsopp major, distinctly visible to the naked eye, walking across the front lawn on the grass too to our doorway. The pupil's parent is really the very greatest bane of all the banes that beset a poor harassed overdriven schoolmaster's unfortunate existence! 'Blenkinsopp? Mrs. Greatrex said reflectively. 'Blenkinsopp?
She had better call on me in person; it may be worth her while. At home every day, 10 3, this week. As for yourself, you need not address me through Greatrex. I have seen you pull No. 6, and afterward stroke in the University boat, and you dived in Portsmouth Harbor, and saved a sailor. "Yours very truly, "And did you?" "Did I what?" "Dive and save a sailor."
'I wish very much I could have gone to the station to see you off, Le Breton, he said, pressing his hand warmly; 'but it wouldn't do, you know, it wouldn't do, and Mrs. Greatrex wouldn't like it. People would say I sympathised secretly with your political opinions, which might offend Sir Matthew Ogle and others of our governors.
Greatrex had a sort of distant bowing acquaintance with my mother; so I hope their influence might help me into it. 'Well, Ernest? Edie cried again, feeling pretty certain in her own heart what was coming next, and reddening accordingly. 'Well, Edie, in that case, would you care to marry at once, and try the experiment of beginning life with me upon two hundred a year?
Edie looked at Ernest, and Ernest looked at Edie and the landlady; and then they all three burst out crying together without further apology. Perhaps it was the old Adam left in Ernest a little; but though he could stand kindness from Dr. Greatrex or from Mr.
Greatrex observed to the new master, 'you've taken rooms for yourself in West Street for the present you'll take a house on the parade by-and-by, no doubt. Now, which church do you mean to go to? 'Well, really, Ernest answered, taken a little aback at the suddenness of the question, 'I haven't had time to think about it yet. The doctor frowned slightly.
Greatrex, who's a kind-hearted good sort of man in his way, is perfectly satisfied with it; but my heart isn't in it, you see, and can't be in it.
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