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The old gables fronting upon Holborn pleased his fancy; he liked to pass under the time-worn archway, and so, at a step, estrange himself from commercial tumult, to be in the midst of modern life, yet breathe an atmosphere of ancient repose. He belonged to an informal club of young men who called themselves, facetiously, the Hodiernals. Vixi hodie!
He told of his favourite restaurants, of his unfashionable club, of a few houses where, at long intervals, he called or dined, of the Hodiernals, of a dozen other small matters. 'What a life, sighed the listener, 'compared with mine! 'We'll remedy that, some day. 'When? she asked absently. 'Wait just a little. You don't wish to tell your father? 'I daren't tell him.
His view of woman the Hodiernals talked much of woman differed considerably from his thoughts of the individual women with whom he associated; protesting oriental sympathies, he nourished in truth the chivalry appropriate to his years and to his education, and imaged an ideal of female excellence whereof the prime features were moral and intellectual. He had no money of his own.
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