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Warricombe's delight expressed itself in every permissible way: on each occasion she exclaimed, 'How clever he is! Sidwell cast frequent glances at her brother, in whom a shrewder eye could have divined conflict of feelings disgust at the glorification of Chilvers and involuntary pleasure in the successive defeats of his own conqueror in Philosophy.
It was Warricombe's voice that next sounded: 'Peak's behaviour seems mysterious, he began, with ironic gravity. 'I don't pretend to understand him. What's your view of his character, Mr. Malkin? 'I know him very slightly indeed, Mr. Warricombe. But I have a high opinion of his powers. I wonder he does so little. After that article of his in The Critical'
'Not as a doubt of Miss Moorhouse's sincerity. I can't see that a belief in the Christian religion is excluded by any degree of intellectual clearness. 'No your views have changed, Peak? 'On many subjects, this among them. 'I see. The words fell as if involuntarily from Warricombe's lips.
Walsh had a frank liking for her society. He was often to be seen in Mrs. Warricombe's drawing-room, and at Mrs Gale's he yet more frequently obtained occasions of talking with her. The candour with which he expressed himself on most subjects enabled her to observe a type of mind which at present had peculiar interest for her.
What reason can there be? Mrs. Warricombe's voice was suspended by a horrible surmise. 'Of course we shall go to-day, Sidwell, she continued, in nervous haste. 'To think of that man having the impudence to call and sit talking with you! If I could have dreamt' 'Mother, said Sidwell, gravely, 'I am obliged to see Mr. Peak, either this evening or to-morrow morning. 'To to see him ? Sidwell!
Above the mantelpiece hung a few small photographs, but the wall-space at disposal was chiefly occupied with objects which illustrated Mr. Warricombe's scientific tastes. On a stand in the light of the window gleamed two elaborate microscopes, provocative of enthusiasm in a mind such as Godwin's. In a few minutes, Fanny silently retired.
Warricombe's invitation permitted him once more to follow his desire, he felt assured that Marcella was back in London, and the sense of distance helped to banish her among unrealities. The hours had never pressed upon him with such demand for resolution.
Warricombe's mind and temper were insensibly modified by influences which operated through her maternal affections, influences no doubt aided by the progressive spirit of the time. The three boys Buckland, Maurice, and Louis were distinctly of a new generation.
Warricombe's interest was of course to be anticipated; and it seemed probable enough that Peak, exerting all the force of his character and aided by circumstances, might before long convert this advantage to a means of ascendency over the less self-reliant nature. But here was no instance of a dotard becoming the easy prey of a scientific Tartufe. Martin's intellect had suffered no decay.
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