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For pure comedy that is of the midriff as well as of the brain, the inn scene with the astonishing Raikes as central figure is unsurpassed in all Meredith, and only Dickens has done the like. And to correspond in the fashionable world, there is Harrington's sister, the Countess de Saldar, who is only second to Becky Sharp for saliency and delight.
This, with a glance of intelligence at her sisters. 'Well, Mr. Raikes, said Andrew, 'you keep good hours, at all events eh? 'Up with the lark, said Old Tom. 'Ha! 'fraid he won't be so early when he gets rid of his present habits eh? 'Nec dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant, said Mr.
As Raikes proceeded in his narrative, his nephew was at first inclined to receive these weird confidences as features of the unhappy man's condition, but as the latter progressed, with a constantly increasing degree of his customary emotionless lucidity, his sincerity became apparent. "And now," concluded Raikes, "what have you to say to all this? Is it not worthy of a Poe or a Maupassant?
With a countenance as impassive as ever, he returned to Raikes and said: "Now for the hiding place."
Raikes was engaged in persuading his hat to assume something of the gentlemanly polish of its youth, and might have been observed now and then furtively catching up a leg to be dusted. Ere the wheels of the waggon stopped he had gained that ease of mind which the knowledge that you have done all a man may do and circumstances warrant, establishes.
But there were reasons for Nick's rare display of skill. Between his enjoyment of society and the melancholy it engendered in his mind by reflecting on him the age and decrepitude of his hat, Mr. John Raikes was doubtful of his happiness for some time.
There's that poor young creature up-stairs-somebody's victim she is: and nobody's to suffer but herself, the little fool! 'Yes, said Raikes. 'Ah! we regret these things in after life! and he looked as if he had many gentlemanly burdens of the kind on his conscience. 'It 's a wonder, to my mind, remarked the landlady, when she had placidly surveyed Mr.
Whatever objections may have been forming in the mind of the miser were quickly dissipated by a look from the Sepoy, and without another word Raikes and his nephew departed. "Well," inquired Gratz, when the two were again alone, "what have you to say to me that you do not want Raikes to hear?"
Raikes not being the man to spare them. Moreover, a surprise was afforded to Evan. Andrew stated to Old Tom that the hospitality of Main Street, Lymport, was open to him. Strange to say, Old Tom accepted it on the spot, observing, 'You're master of the house can do what you like, if you 're man enough, and adding that he thanked him, and would come in a day or two. The case of Mr.
When he had concluded this meager résumé, Gratz continued: "Now tell me about the nights." Raikes complied with a statement of his careful precautions; the watch of his sister upon the doorway during his absence, and his visits to the room of the Sepoy. "The Sepoy?" inquired Gratz. "Why do you call him that?"
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