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What Is man? Lust and greed tempered by fear and an irrational vanity." "I don't agree with that," said Mr. Lewisham. "You will as you grow older," said Chaffery. "There's truths you have to grow into. But about this matter of Lies let us look at the fabric of society, let us compare the savage.
He wore a cotton shirt and linen collar, and a very nice black satin tie that Mrs. Lewisham had bought on her own responsibility during the day. She naturally wanted him to look all right. Mrs. Chaffery appeared in the half light of the passage as the top of a grimy cap over Ethel's shoulder and two black sleeves about her neck.
Chaffery's frequent and pathetic acknowledgments of Lewisham's goodness only partly relieved his disposition to a philosophical bitterness. And the practical issues were complicated by excursions upon the subject of Chaffery, what he might have done, and where he might have gone, and whether by any chance he might not return. When at last Mrs.
"Here is more! What is this?" He perceived that the girl started. He saw Chaffery, the Medium, look instantly over Smithers' shoulders, saw his swift glance of reproach at the girl. Abruptly the situation appeared to Lewisham; he perceived her complicity. And he stood, still in the attitude of triumph, with the evidence against her in his hand! But his triumph had vanished.
Chaffery astonished Lewisham by suddenly displaying a complete acquaintance with his status as a South Kensington teacher in training. "I suppose you have some money beyond that guinea," said Chaffery offhandedly. "Enough to go on with," said Lewisham, reddening. "And you look to them at South Kensington, to do something for you a hundred a year or so, when your scholarship is up?"
But the thing is ... it isn't right." "We're coming to that," said Chaffery. "It's evident we look at things in a different light." "That's it. That's just what we've got to discuss. Exactly!" "Cheating is cheating. You can't get away from that. That's simple enough." "Wait till I've done with it," said Chaffery with a certain zest. "Of course it's imperative you should understand my position.
"As though pepper and mustard were not facts," said Lewisham, scoring his solitary point that evening. Chaffery admitted the collapse of his image in very complimentary terms, and Lewisham could not avoid a glance across the table at Ethel. He remembered that Chaffery was a slippery scoundrel whose blame was better than his praise, immediately afterwards.
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