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"We might do it level in a cab," said I, for I saw a hansom crawling towards us. "Done," said the Rev. John Hatton. "Done, for half-a-crown!" I climbed into the hansom, and Malim, about to follow me, found that a constable, to whom the soil of the City had given spontaneous birth, was standing at his shoulder. "Wot's the game?" inquired the officer, with tender solicitude.
They are the cleverest men of their schools; they are the intellectual stars of their Varsities. I was at Oxford with Malim. He was a sort of tin god. Double-first and all that. Just like all the rest of them. They get what is looked upon as a splendid appointment under Government.
Formerly a newly-married husband was silent and bashful; now the wife surrenders herself to the first coachman that comes. Formerly the blessing of children was woman's pride; now if her husband desires for himseli children, she replies: Knowest thou not what Ennius says? "'-Ter sub armis malim vitam cernere Quam semel modo parere .
She even hesitated to give us her wonderful imitations of the customers at the fried fish shop, because in her heart she did not think such impersonations altogether suitable for a respectable married woman. It was Malim who got me elected to the Barrel Club. I take it that I shall pay few more visits there.
She could play on the piano from ear, and sing the songs of the street with a charming cockney twang. But there was nothing of the stage about her now. She was born for domesticity and, as the wife of Malim, she wished to forget all that had gone before.
He revolved slowly on his heels, keeping the end of the tube on the sky-line. Then he shut the instrument with a click, and said decisively: "Nothing in sight, sir." He followed his captain down below rubbing his hands cheerfully. For a good while there was no sound on the poop of the brig. Then the seacannie at the wheel spoke dreamily: "Did the malim say there was no one on the sea?"
Julian I seem to see him now sprawling in his hammock, sucking his pipe, planning an advertisement, or propounding some whimsical theory of life; and in his eyes he bears the pain of one whose love and life are spoilt. Julian no longer my friend. Kit and Malim what evenings are suggested by those names. Evenings alone with Malim at his flat in Vernon Place.
Rather must a people familiar with science see how small and ephemeral a thing is the pride of nations, knowing that both the peace of the world and the progress of civilisation are to be sought not by the hardening of national boundaries but in the substitution of cosmopolitan for national aspiration. By F. B. MALIM Master of Haileybury College
"Or ideas for advertisements for Julian," said Malim. "Anyway, I'll introduce you to him. Have you ever been in the Barrel?" "What's the Barrel?" "The Barrel is a club. It gets the name from the fact that it's the only club in England that allows, and indeed urges, its members to sit on a barrel. John Hatton is sometimes to be found there. Come round to it tomorrow night." "All right," I replied.
Cive Romano per orbem nemo vivit rectius. Quippe malim unum Catonem, quam trecentos Socratas.
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