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"But what if it were not forbidden? For Dr. Herrick asserts he has already demonstrated that." Sir Thomas interrupted, with odd quickness. "True, we must bear it in mind the man never married Did he, by any chance, possess a crystal of Venice glass three inches square?" And Borsdale gaped. "I found it with his manuscript. But he said nothing of it. . . . How could you guess?"
Borsdale incuriously perceived that old Sir Thomas rose, tense as a cat about to pounce, and that he caught the unstained knife from Borsdale's hand, and flung it like a javelin into the vapor which encompassed them. This gesture stirred the smoke so that Borsdale could see the knife quiver and fall, and note the tiny triangle of unbared plaster it had cut in the painted woman's breast.
Thus the two men came into a high-ceiled apartment, cylindrical in shape, with plastered walls painted green everywhere save for the quaint embellishment of a large oval, wherein a woman, having an eagle's beak, grasped in one hand a serpent and in the other a knife. Sir Thomas Browne seemed to recognize this curious design, and gave an ominous nod. Borsdale said: "You see Dr.
The poet writes as if he were instructing a dame's school as to the advisability of becoming omnipotent." "Well, well! I am not defending Dr. Herrick in anything save his desire to know the truth. In this respect at least, he has proven himself to be both admirable and fearless. And at worst, he only strives to do what Jacob did at Peniel," said Philip Borsdale, lightly.
Sir Thomas Browne always preferred to think that he was; whereas Philip Borsdale perversely considered the answer to be optional. Perversely, Sir Thomas protested, because he said that to believe in Herrick's sanity was not conducive to your own.
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