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Now, for example, he told them I don't quite like to repeat it, for it's sheer blasphemy I call it but he told them in a Greek Testament lesson that the Apostles themselves were a sort of Republicans Socialists, I think Charlie said, or else Chartists, or dynamiters. I'm not sure he didn't say St. Peter himself was a regular communist! Dr. Greatrex drew a long breath. 'I should think, Mr.
You must have seen about it in the "Times." 'I remember, Mrs. Greatrex answered, in placid contentment; 'and I should say you can't do better than take him immediately. It'd be an excellent thing for the school, certainly.
'Well, Maria, said the doctor, in a dubious tone of voice, as soon as Ernest was fairly out of hearing, 'what do you think of him? 'Think! answered Mrs. Greatrex, energetically. 'Why, I don't think at all. I feel sure he'll never, never, never make a schoolmaster! 'I'm afraid not, the doctor responded, pensively. 'I'm afraid not, Maria.
Meanwhile, Dr. Greatrex had taken Ernest into the breakfast-room the study was already monopolised by Mr.
Very lucky, really, isn't it? 'Considering that there are some thirty millions of people in England, I believe, Dr. Greatrex, said his wife with dignity, 'that some seventy of those have answered your advertisement, and that you haven't yet given me an opportunity even of guessing which it is of them all, I'm sure I can't say so far whether it's lucky or otherwise.
This is a most unexpected pleasure. We hadn't the least idea you were in Pilbury. When did you come here? 'I came last night, Dr. Greatrex, answered the dreaded parent respectfully: 'we've come down from Staffordshire for a week at the seaside, and we thought we might as well be within hail of Guy and Charlie.
'You're very kind, Dr. Greatrex, he said with genuine feeling. 'I see you mean well by me, and I'm very, very sorry if I've unintentionally caused you any embarrassment. 'Not at all, not at all, my dear fellow. Don't mention it. We'll tide it over somehow, and I'll see whether I can get you anything else to do that you're better fitted for.
He's got ideas of his own, I regret to say; and, what's worse, they're not the right ones. 'Oh, he'll never do, Mrs. Greatrex continued, scornfully. 'Nothing at all professional about him in any way.
"I'll write to-night and send a letter to Greatrex; we shall perhaps get an answer the day after to-morrow." "Ah! you are not the one to go to sleep in the service of a friend. A writer, did you say? What does he write?" "Fiction." "What, novels?" "And dramas and all." Lady Bassett sighed incredulously. "I should never think of going to Fiction for wisdom."
It was hard work, for though the doctor himself was really at bottom a kind-hearted man, with a mere thick veneer of professional humbug inseparable from his unhappy calling, Mrs. Greatrex was a veritable thorn in the flesh to poor little natural honest-hearted Edie.
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