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He explained that his chief mate was an excellent man in every respect and that he could not think of dismissing him so as to give me the higher position; but that if I consented to come as second officer I would be given certain special advantages and so on. I told him that if I came at all the rank really did not matter. "I am sure," he insisted, "you will get on first rate with Mr. Paramor."
"I don't know," he said; "I think I prefer the truth." "Bad endings and the rest," said Mr. Paramor, pausing under one of Nelson's lions and taking Shelton by a button. "Truth 's the very devil!" He stood there, very straight, his eyes haunting his nephew's face; there seemed to Shelton a touching muddle in his optimism a muddle of tenderness and of intolerance, of truth and second-handedness.
Paramor waited, biting his pencil; a smile flickered on his mouth, and was decorously subdued. It was Shelton's turn to walk about. "If she marries again," he repeated to himself. Mr. Paramor was a keen fisherman; he watched his nephew as he might have watched a fish he had just landed. "It's very usual," he remarked. Shelton took another turn. "She forfeits," thought he; "exactly."
"Nothing but an operation will cure it," said Mr. Paramor; "and before operating there's a preliminary process to be gone through. It was discovered by Lister." Gregory answered "Paramor, I hate your pessimism!" Mr. Paramor's eyes haunted Gregory's back. "But I am not a pessimist," he said. "Far from it.
Paramor leaned forward. "My dear friend," he said earnestly, "I don't say for a minute that our system doesn't cause a great deal of quite unnecessary suffering; I don't say that it doesn't need reform. Most lawyers and almost any thinking man will tell you that it does. But that's a wide question which doesn't help us here. We'll manage your business for you, if it can be done.
Can't drink it myself I've had to put down two hogsheads of the Jubilee wine. Paramor, fill your glass. Take that chair next to Paramor, Vigil. You know Barter?" Both Gregory's face and the Rector's were very red. "We're all Harrow men here," went on Mr. Pendyce. And suddenly turning to Mr. Paramor, he said: "Well?"
He explained that his chief mate was an excellent man in every respect and that he could not think of dismissing him so as to give me the higher position; but that if I consented to come as second officer I would be given certain special advantages and so on. I told him that if I came at all the rank really did not matter. "I am sure," he insisted, "you will get on first rate with Mr. Paramor."
'How dare he speak of her like that! Mr. Paramor's voice broke in on his meditations. "Still cooling your heels? Why did you play the deuce with us in there?" "I hate a sham," said Gregory. "This marriage of my ward's is a sham. She had better live honestly with the man she really loves!" "So you said just now," returned Mr. Paramor. "Would you apply that to everyone?" "I would."
"Not in face, not in face; but they've both got " Mr. Paramor's meaning was lost in a smile; and Mrs. Pendyce, who did not know that the word "Pendycitis" was on the tip of his tongue, smiled vaguely too. "George is very determined," she said. "Do you think oh, do you think, Mr. Paramor, that you will be able to persuade Captain Bellew's solicitors " Mr.
Gregory, who had been staring at his untouched wineglass, turned his face, very flushed, and began speaking in a voice that emotion and anger caused to tremble. He avoided looking at the Rector, and addressed himself to Mr. Paramor. "George can't give up the woman who has trusted herself to him; that would be playing the cur, if you like.
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