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Then he went to bed with Dick, who counted every hour as it struck, and rose in the morning with a painfully clear head to receive Torpenhow's more formal congratulations and a particular account of the last night's revels. 'You aren't looking very happy for a newly accepted man, said Torpenhow. 'Never mind that it's my own affair, and I'm all right. Do you really go? 'Yes.
'Torp's away; Bessie hates me; I can't get at the notion of the Melancolia; Maisie's letters are scrappy; and I believe I have indigestion. What give a man pains across the head and spots before his eyes, Binkie? Shall us take some liver pills? Dick had just gone through a lively scene with Bessie. She had for the fiftieth time reproached him for sending Torpenhow away.
Two minutes later Dick had thrown himself down on the floor and was deep in the portfolio, chuckling lovingly as he turned the drawings over and thought of the price at which they had been bought. The afternoon was well advanced when Torpenhow came to the door and saw Dick dancing a wild saraband under the skylight. 'I builded better than I knew, Torp, he said, without stopping the dance.
I remember how the students in Paris used to pig along. She may fall ill at any minute, and I shan't be able to help. Whew! this is ten times worse than owning a wife. Torpenhow entered the studio at dusk, and looked at Dick with eyes full of the austere love that springs up between men who have tugged at the same oar together and are yoked by custom and use and the intimacies of toil.
But the moon swept the smoke-wreaths away. And he turned from his meal in the villager's close, And he bayed to the moon as she rose. In Seonee. 'WELL, and how does success taste? said Torpenhow, some three months later. He had just returned to chambers after a holiday in the country. 'Good, said Dick, as he sat licking his lips before the easel in the studio. 'I want more, heaps more.
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.
I stole the cloth on purpose. What the mischief are the camel-corps doing yonder? Torpenhow shaded his eyes and looked across the scrub-strewn gravel. A bugle blew furiously, and the men on the bank hurried to their arms and accoutrements. "Pisan soldiery surprised while bathing," remarked Dick, calmly. 'D'you remember the picture? It's by Michael Angelo; all beginners copy it.
Gentlemen, she knew, were absurdly particular about their things. She giggled as a nervous housemaid giggles when she tries to explain the breakage of a pipe. 'I'm very sorry, but you remember I was I was angry with you before Mr. Torpenhow went away? 'You were very angry, child; and on my word I think you had some right to be. 'Then I but aren't you sure Mr. Torpenhow didn't tell you?
'All that's left of me. Sit down. Binkie's quite well, and I've been doing some good work. He reeled where he stood. 'You've done some of the worst work you've ever done in your life. Man alive, you're Torpenhow turned to his companions appealingly, and they left the room to find lunch elsewhere.
Haven't I told you that? 'You might be going to be hanged by the look of you, said Torpenhow. And the next day Torpenhow bade him good-bye and left him to the loneliness he had so much desired.
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