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For two years he did not begin to think of this idea, and then it was suddenly forced upon him. Ever since they had overheard those strangely intelligent self-communings, the Stotts had been perfectly aware that their wonderful child could talk if he would. Ellen Mary, pondering that single expression, had read a world of meaning into her son's murmurs of "learning."
"So do I. But then, what would become of Lenox? It is rather hard on the men, only I dare say they like it. Don't you think Mr. Henderson would like a place here?" "He cannot help being pleased with Lenox." "I'm sure he would if you are. I have hardly seen him since that evening at the Stotts'. Can I tell you? I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. You won't mind it in such an old woman?"
"It's very necessary to have air," he said. Something in the tone and pronunciation struck Challis, and awoke a long dormant memory. The sentence spoken, suddenly conjured up a vision of the Stotts' cottage at Stoke, of the Stotts at tea, of a cradle in the shadow, and of himself, sitting in an uncomfortable armchair and swinging his stick between his knees.
"Indeed!" commented Challis, with a lift of his thick eyebrows, "no Polynesians come to settle in Stoke, I trust?" "On broad lines, relevant on broad, anthropological lines, I mean," said Crashaw. Challis grunted. "Go on!" he said. "You may remember that curious er abnormal child of the Stotts?" asked Crashaw. "Stotts? Wait a minute. Yes!
Without waiting to say good-bye to the others, the Stotts paid their bill and departed, walking so erect in their indignation as they started down the road toward the Lake Hotel that they seemed to lean backward. It was not yet dark when Mr.
As he strolled back across the hall to the library, he tried to reconstruct the scene of the cottage at Stoke, and to recall the outline of the conversation he had had with the Stotts. "Lewes!" he said, when he reached the room in which his secretary was working. "Lewes, this is curious," and he described the associations called up by the child's speech.
He had given way on these important points so weakly; he had to find excuse, and he talked himself into a false belief with regard to the child he had baptised. He began with his wife. "I would allow more latitude to medical men," he said. "In such a case as this child of the Stotts, for instance; it becomes a burden on the community, I might say a danger, yes, a positive danger.
"The thing is so absurd," he said. "That is what we used to say at school," replied Challis. The Stotts' move to Pym was not marked by any incident. Mrs. Stott and her boy were not unduly stared upon as they left Stoke the children were in school and their entry into the new cottage was uneventful. They moved on a Thursday. On Sunday morning they had their first visitor.
I had adumbrated a scheme to arouse interest in his case among certain scholars and men of influence with whom I was slightly acquainted. I had been very much engrossed with these plans as I had made my way to the Stotts' cottage. I was still somewhat exalted in mind with my dreams of a vicarious brilliance.
There have been great men in the past who have done that, Lewes; there is no reason for us to doubt that still greater men may succeed them." "No; there is no reason for us to doubt that," said Lewes, and they walked on in silence towards the Stotts' cottage. Challis knocked and walked in. They found Ellen Mary and her son at the tea-table.
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