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Only don't think I frivol about it, Torp. I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell, thanks. There was an uncomfortable pause. Then Torpenhow said blandly, 'What did the Governor of North Carolina say to the Governor of South Carolina? 'Excellent notion. It is a long time between drinks. There are the makings of a very fine prig in you, Dick, said the Nilghai.
Dick poked and patted the stuff for a few minutes, and, 'Is it like anything in the world? he said drearily. 'Take it away. I may get the touch of the blind in fifty years. Do you know where Torpenhow has gone? The Nilghai knew nothing. 'We're staying in his rooms till he comes back. Can we do anything for you? 'I'd like to be left alone, please. Don't think I'm ungrateful; but I'm best alone.
'That was months ago, and I only objected to your making money for travelling expenses. You've shot your bolt here and it has gone home. Go away and do some work, and see some things. 'Get some of the fat off you; you're disgracefully out of condition, said the Nilghai, making a plunge from the chair and grasping a handful of Dick generally over the right ribs.
'There's grit in Dick, said the Nilghai, an hour later, when the room was emptied of all save the Keneu. 'It was the sacred call of the war-trumpet. Did you notice how he answered to it? Poor fellow! Let's look at him, said the Keneu. The excitement of the talk had died away. Dick was sitting by the studio table, with his head on his arms, when the men came in. He did not change his position.
At this point the conference broke up in disorder, because Dick would not open his mouth till the Nilghai held his nose fast, and there was some trouble in forcing the nozzle of the bellows between his teeth; and even when it was there he weakly tried to puff against the force of the blast, and his cheeks blew up with a great explosion; and the enemy becoming helpless with laughter he so beat them over the head with a soft sofa cushion that that became unsewn and distributed its feathers, and Binkie, interfering in Torpenhow's interests, was bundled into the half-empty bag and advised to scratch his way out, which he did after a while, travelling rapidly up and down the floor in the shape of an agitated green haggis, and when he came out looking for satisfaction, the three pillars of his world were picking feathers out of their hair.
'It hurts, he moaned. 'God forgive me, but it hurts cruelly; and yet, y'know, the world has a knack of spinning round all by itself. Shall I see Torp before he goes? 'Oh, yes. You'll see him, said the Nilghai. The sun went down an hour ago, I wonder if I face towards home; If I lost my way in the light of day How shall I find it now night is come? Old Song. 'MAISIE, come to bed.
I can't kill myself in three days. It only means a touch of D. T. at the worst. 'If I give you three days more will you promise me to stop work and the other thing, whether the picture's finished or not? 'I can't. You don't know what that picture means to me. But surely you could get the Nilghai to help you, and knock me down and tie me up.
And yet the men here who've done their work in a well-warmed studio all their lives, with a policeman at each corner, say that I charge too much for my pictures. 'They are buying your work, not your insurance policies, dear child, said the Nilghai. 'I gambled with one to get at the other. Don't preach. Go on with the "Pilot." Where in the world did you get that song?
Northward the lights of Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square threw a copper-coloured glare above the black roofs, and southward by all the orderly lights of the Thames. A train rolled out across one of the railway bridges, and its thunder drowned for a minute the dull roar of the streets. The Nilghai looked at his watch and said shortly, 'That's the Paris night-mail.
I shall share these rooms with the Nilghai till Torpenhow returns. There will be a batch of unbridled "specials" coming to town in a little while, and these will serve as their headquarters. Another reason for sending Torpenhow away. Thus Providence helps those who help others, and' here the Keneu dropped his measured speech 'we can't have you tied by the leg to Dick when the trouble begins.
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