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Marshall to send down one of her type-writing girls women are the most reliable as they have no memory for the important to Hornton Street or Phillimore Gardens, to do it under your supervision? I assure you that the typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
He chose on this occasion. And when at last he hailed a bus, declaring that he was due at home, Chichester expressed a hope that some day he would find himself in Hornton Street, and visit number 4a. The professor assented, and was carried westward. Several days passed, but he did not find himself near Horton Street, and he had ceased to visit the South Kensington Museum.
Joseph's been at it again successfully?" "I want you to judge." And thereupon Malling laid the case faithfully before the professor, describing not only the dinner in Hornton Street and his interview with Lady Sophia, but also the two sermons he had heard at St. Joseph's, and the rector's lamentable outburst of the previous night.
But he could not decide exactly what Stepton had meant. He felt inferior to the professor as he turned into Hornton Street. He did not hesitate, but went at once to the curate's door and rapped. No one answered. He rapped again, and touched the bell, half hoping, even while he did so, that there was no one within to hear.
Then he added, like a man urged on by some strong, almost overpowering desire to do a thing not quite natural to him: "But I wish you could spare an evening to come to dine with me. I live very modestly, of course. I'm in rooms, in Hornton Street do you know it? near Campden Hill? Number 4a as you'll see on my card. I wonder " "I shall be delighted to come." "When?"
To Malling, as he presently turned to the right, Hornton Street looked like an alley leading straight to the pit of despair, and when he tapped on the blistered green door of the small house where the curate lived, it was as if he tapped seeking admittance to all the sorrowful things that had been brought into being to beset his life with blackness. A neat servant-girl opened the door.
Shall I describe a curve, or come to him as the crow comes when making for a given point or is said to come, for I've never investigated that matter? What do you say?" "It's very difficult to say. On the day I dined in Hornton Street, Chichester certainly wanted to tell me something. He asked me to dine, I am almost sure, in order that he might tell it to me."
Joseph's, if he Malling found himself walking in thick darkness, he meant to bring Stepton into the matter, whether at Stepton's desire or against it. Meanwhile he would see if there was enlightenment in Hornton Street. On the Wednesday the spell of fine weather which had made London look strangely vivacious broke up, and in the evening rain fell with a gentle persistence.
On the night following the dinner in Hornton Street, Malling went to the Covent Garden Opera House to hear "La Traviata." The well-worn work did not grasp the attention of a man who was genuinely fond of the music of Richard Strauss, with its almost miraculous intricacies, and who was willingly captive to Debussy.
And Cerberus, by the way, was always ready to let 'em in. It was when they wanted to get out that Good evening. I hope you don't mind climbing." "Thank you, no," said Chichester. "Sit down." "I am afraid I disturb you." "I'm bound to say you do. But what does it matter?" "As you didn't find your way to Hornton Street, I thought I would venture." "Very good of you. This is a soft chair."
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