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Updated: August 4, 2024
I had arranged with Maschka that Schofield should bring me the whole of the work Andriaovsky had left behind him; and he arrived late one afternoon in a fourwheeler, with four great packages done up in brown paper.
"In the first place, if you don't mind," I replied, "perhaps we'd better run over together the things you've brought. The daylight will be gone soon." "Just as ye like, Harrison," he said, "just as ye like. It's all the same to me...." I cleared a space about my writing-table at the window, and we turned to the artistic remains of Michael Andriaovsky.
Secretively he had kept one package until the last. He now removed its wrappings and set it against a chair. "There!" he cried. "I'll thank ye, Harrison, for your opinion of that!" It was the portrait Andriaovsky had refused to sell me a portrait of himself. The portrait was the climax of the display.
I had been on the point of sitting down in that chair, but I changed my mind and took another. "That's right," said Andriaovsky, in that wonderful English which he had picked up in less than three years, "don't sit in the wisdom-seat; you might profane it." I knew what he meant. I felt for my pipe and slowly filled it, not replying.
They "we," as apparently Andriaovsky had lingered behind for the purpose of reminding me had perhaps talked a little more soaringly than the ordinary, that was all.
Sick men and women in more than one hospital lie in wards provided by Martin Renard and myself; and I am not dishonoured in my Institution at Poplar. Those vagrant wanderings with Andriaovsky have enabled me to know the poor and those who help the poor. My personal labours in the administration of the Institute are great, for outside the necessary routine I leave little to subordinates.
Either you shouldn't have come to me at all, or you should deny yourself the gratification of these slurs." "Slurrrrs?" he repeated loweringly. "Both of you you and Miss Andriaovsky, or Maschka as I call her, tout court. Don't suppose I don't know as well as you do the exact worth of my 'sleuth-hound, as you call him.
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