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The reviewing you can do yourself, as we can always send you the books, and there is no pressing hurry about them. The general work we will manage somehow won't we, Morgan?" "Of course we will; as well as and perhaps better than he could do it himself, eh? Ha, ha!" "But seriously, Vellacott," continued Mr. Bodery, "things will go on just as well for a time.
It burnt in a dull and somewhat flickering manner for some years; then a new hand fed the flame, and its light spread afar. It was from pure good nature that Mr. Bodery held out a helping hand to the son of his old friend, Walter Vellacott, when that youth appeared one day at the office of the Beacon, and in an off-hand manner announced that he was seeking employment.
This may be false, and indeed I doubt it; in the first place, because Southmolton is a busy place for talking; and in the next, that I do not think the action would have lain at law, especially as the maid lost nothing, but used it all for her wedding next month with Dick Vellacott, of Mockham.
Two cups very weak and one stronger. Then two thin slices of crustless bread had to be buttered. This operation required great judgment and impartiality. "Excuse me, Nephew Vellacott!" said Aunt Judith, with dangerous severity. "Is that first slice intended for Aunt Hester? It appears to me that the butter is very thick much thicker than on the second, which is doubtless intended for me!"
"Hang money! Now, I should think that you make as much of it in a month as I do in a year. You're a young man, and as far as I know ye, ye're a successful one. Life spreads out before you like a clean chart. I'm an old 'un my time is nearly up. I've lived what landsmen call a hard life, and now I'm slowly goin' home. Ay, Mr. Vellacott, goin' home!
In the midst of this walked man the lord of all humbly, silently, with bowed head and unadmiring eyes man whose life was vouchsafed for the enjoyment of all these things. A little square patch of sunlight lay on the stone floor of the small cell allotted to Christian Vellacott.
Bodery?" He gave a little jerk with his head in the direction of the house he had just left. "I do not know." "I was told last night that he was a friend of this Christian Vellacott a protector." The two Frenchmen looked at each other in silence. Signor Bruno was evidently alarmed his lips were white and unsteady.
The truth was that there was no one in the office of the Beacon who knew anything whatever about French home politics but Christian Vellacott. A continuance of these disturbances would necessarily assume political importance, and might even lead to a crisis. This meant an instant recall for Vellacott. In a crisis his presence in London or Paris was absolutely necessary to the Beacon.
Vellacott," he continued tentatively, "that there are two sides to every question." The Englishman smiled and moved slightly in his chair, drawing in his feet and leaning forward. "Implying, I presume," he said lightly, "that in this particular question you are on one side and I upon the other." "Alas! it seems so." Vellacott leant back in his chair again and crossed his legs.
Presently he drew aside the curtain which hid a small recess near the door, whore a simple bed and a small table were concealed. With a brush he smoothed back his sleek hair, and, dipping the ends of his fingers into a basin of water, he wiped them carefully. Thus he prepared to receive Christian Vellacott. He returned to his chair and seated himself somewhat wearily.
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