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'What's the meaning of all this? Do speak intelligibly! What's the fellow up to? 'I am quite serious. He is studying for Orders has been for this last year. In desperation, Christian turned to another phase of the subject. 'Then Malkin was mistaken? 'Plainly. 'And you mean to tell me that Peak ? Give me more details. Where's he living? How has he got to know people like these Warricombes?
Concerning Miss Moorhouse he cared only for the report she might make of him to the Warricombes. Before long, the carriage was stopped that he might enjoy one of the pleasantest views in the neighbourhood of the city.
At ten o'clock Godwin set out for his usual walk, choosing the direction of the Old Tiverton Road. It was a fortnight since he had passed the Warricombes' house. At present he was disposed to indulge the thoughts which a sight of it would make active.
But to what end this inquiry? He could not even be certain that Martin was the man he had in mind, and even were he right in all his conjectures, what had he to do with the Warricombes? Ten years ago the family had received him courteously as Buckland's fellow-student; he had spent an hour or two at their house, and subsequently a few words had passed when they saw him on prize-day at Whitelaw.
'If I met that man in a room, I should be curious about him; I should see at once that he didn't belong to the vulgar; I should desire to hear him speak. And the Warricombes were not lacking in discernment. He would compare more than favourably with Mr. Moorhouse, whose aspect, bright and agreeable enough, made no promise of originality. It must be time to go down.
The Warricombes must have immediately detected any pretentiousness, were it but in a necktie; that would impress them more unfavourably than signs of poverty. But he defied inspection. Not Sidwell herself, doubtless sensitive in the highest degree, could conceive a prejudice against him on this account. His misgivings were overcome.
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