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"There is more of me than of most men more to suffer. Nature was generous to the little germs when she made this big Keredec; she offered them room for their campaigns of war." "You'll take a cigarette?" "I thank you; if you do not mind, I smoke my pipe."
But he rolled the book cavalierly to the floor, limbered up by sections to receive me, and offered me a hearty welcome. "Ha, my dear sir," he cried, "you take pity on the lonely Keredec; you make him a visit. I could not wish better for myself. We shall have a good smoke and a good talk." "You are improved to-day?" I asked, it may be a little slyly. "Improve?" he repeated inquiringly.
It does not whiten my guilt that the shaft did not reach him. "I've told her all I know," he said readily, and the unconscious pathos of the answer smote me. "And all that Keredec has let me know. You see I haven't " "But do you think," I interrupted quickly, anxious, in my remorse, to divert him from that channel, "do you think Professor Keredec would approve, if he knew?"
Liking for both men increased with acquaintance, and for the younger I came to feel, in addition, a kind of championship, doubtless in some measure due to what Keredec had told me of him, but more to that half- humourous sense of protectiveness that we always have for those young people whose untempered and innocent outlook makes us feel, as we say, "a thousand years old."
It appeared to me that we were revolving in enormous circles in the ether, and I had long since given my last gasp, when there came a great roaring wind in my ears and a range of mountains toppled upon us both; we went to earth beneath it. "Ha! you must create violence, then?" roared the avalanche. And the voice was the voice of Keredec.
The two women were crying in each other's arms. "Good-bye!" sobbed Anne Elliott. Mrs. Harman turned to Keredec. "Good-bye! for a little while." He kissed her hand. "Dear lady, I shall come within the year." She came to me, and I took her hand, meaning to kiss it as Keredec had done, but suddenly she was closer and I felt her lips upon my battered cheek. I remember it now.
Saffren's cheeks and temples were flushed as they had been when I saw him returning that afternoon; and his eyes were wide, fixed upon Keredec in a stare of utter amazement. "Yes, that is true," he said slowly. "How did you know?"
Keredec stood in the doorway, bare-headed and in his shirt-sleeves; in one hand he held a travelling-bag, which he immediately gave me, setting his other for a second upon my shoulder. "Thank you, my good, good friend," he said with an emotion in his big voice which made me glad of what I was doing.
If, in taking this coign of vantage, I had any subtler purpose than to seek a draught against the warmth of the night, it did not fail of its reward, for just as I had begun to drowse, the gallery steps creaked as if beneath some immoderate weight, and the noble form of Keredec emerged upon my field of vision.
Amedee and his fellows of Les Trois Pigeons had judged wrongly of his nationality; his face was of the lean, right, American structure; but they had hit the relation between the two men: Keredec was the master and "that other monsieur" the scholar a pupil studying boys' textbooks and receiving instruction in matters and manners that children are taught.
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