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He lay on his side with his back towards us, and his face was hidden from us as we came in. The sister who sat with him made a sign that said, "Oh yes, you can come in, all of you; it will make no difference." The cell was so small that Jevons and I had to draw back and let Viola go in by herself. We two stood in the doorway and looked in.
Jevons recently, seek for the answer to mythological problems rather in the habits and ideas of the folk and of savages and barbarians than in etymologies and 'a disease of language. There are differences of opinion in detail: I myself may think that 'vegetation spirits, the 'corn spirit, and the rest occupy too much space in the systems of Mannhardt, and other moderns. Mr.
Jevons, that "it is quite impossible for Trade Unions in general to effect any permanent increase of wages," there is much force in his conclusion, that "every rise of wages which one body secures by mere exclusive combination, represents a certain extent, sometimes a large extent, of injury to the other bodies of workmen."
There with a most decided look of being up to something. Jevons didn't seem to mind him. You might have said that Charlie was another of the risks he took. In nineteen-thirteen Jimmy bought a motor-car. He was more excited about his motor-car than he had been about his house any of his houses. Even Viola was interested and came rushing down from her Belfry when it arrived.
There was very little about boxing that Reggie didn't know, but he appealed to Jevons with a charming deference as to an expert. The dear boy had a good deal of his sister's innocent veneration for the chaps who wrote the things they'd been reading, who could, that is to say, do something they couldn't do. And Jevons, once started on the boxing match, fairly let himself go.
She said it was a jolly good thing then that she'd brought hers. Perhaps it was. We had just got Jimmy and Reggie into their first sleep at six o'clock in the morning when the orders came for us to clear out. We went, as we had come, through Bruges. We drew up to rest in the Market Place under the Belfry. "You'd better look at it while you can, Viola," said Jevons. "You may never see it again."
He'll be here if he's anywhere in Ghent." But she was already on the kerb, brushing me aside. She had seen behind my back the approach of the concierge and she made for him. "Is Mr. Jevons in this hotel Mr. Tasker Jevons?" Yes, Mr. Chevons was in the hotel. Madame would find him in the lounge.
He must have mattered to Jevons when he brought him from Antwerp and when we buried him in Ghent. And the cross on his grave reproves me, reminding me that to his country he mattered supremely, after all. After Lokeren Jevons and I tried to come to terms with Viola. The conference took place upstairs in their bedroom, where we had withdrawn for greater privacy.
The girl of course looked surprised, but she caught my eye, and entered into the joke, and we both waited for developments. Then she suddenly said to him, 'Now let's talk about something else. It was too much for me. I nearly choked. I don't know what followed. Miss Jevons turned and asked me something.
He just sat there smoking amicably, just saying every now and then that he couldn't stand him; he was sorry I might be perfectly right and Jevons might be everything I said only he couldn't stand him; and he wasn't going to. Nothing would induce him to stop with Jevons. He didn't want to have anything to do with the little beast.
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