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But, upon the whole, there was a more subtle joy in the enunciation of certain other remarks, supposed to come from somebody else: 'I met Mr. Freydon, Mr. Nicholas Freydon, you know, this afternoon. He had looked in at Rawlence's studio in Macquarie Street. In fact, I believe he stayed there to dinner before going on to his rooms at North Shore.
I useter to swear by Blick's Backache Pills; but now, I wouldn't have them on me mind. They're no class at all, be this stuff. Give me Simpkins's Red Marvel, every time, an' I don't care if it snows! You try it, Mr. Freydon. I gladly abide by my word of yesterday. The portion of my days here in the bush which I like best is the dawn time.
Of all the place names, the names of countries that the world has ever known, was ever one so simply magic as this England? ... This document was a certificate entitling Freydon to a passage to England by an Orient line steamer. Upon inquiry at the offices of the line in Sydney, I found that, twenty-eight days before his death, my friend had booked and paid for a passage to London.
Nicholas Freydon; Mr. Landon, the disgracefully well-known painter, Mr. Foster and Mr. Jones, both of the Fourth Estate, though frequently taken for quite respectable members of society. We may not have a Fleet Street here, you know, Freydon, but we have one or two rather decent newspapers, as you may have noticed. He turned to the still smiling young Chinaman.
'Ah, John, began his father, 'this is Mr. Perkins's "Nickperry"; you remember? Nick Freydon. He referred to a letter on the table. 'Shorthand, you know, and all that. Well, what about it? D'jew remember? 'Yes, yes, to be sure. Well, what about it? This seemed to be a favourite phrase between father and son. 'Well, what was it you said? Thirty-five bob for a start, eh?
A moment later I heard his voice from an adjacent corridor; 'Has the doctor gone? it asked. I did not hear the answer. But a minute or two later a tall man in a frock coat entered the room and walked up to me. I could see the top of a stethoscope protruding from one of his inner breast-coat pockets. 'Name of Freydon? he said tersely. 'Yes. 'Ah! Will you step this way, please, to my room?
He also told me, as I sat at the open window, that he did not think much of my stewardship of my own body. 'Let me tell you, Mr. Freydon, you have been sailing several points closer to the wind than a man has any right to sail. If you treated a child so, or a servant, aye, or a dumb beast, some preventive society would be at you for cruelty and neglect.
Freydon, As you are probably aware, I am now in the chair of the Advocate, and a pretty uneasy seat I find it, so far. It occurs to me that we might be able to do something for each other. Will you give me a call here between three and four one afternoon this week, if you are not too busy. Yours sincerely, Henry Arncliffe. The letter gave me rather a thrill.
Freydon my brother often speaks of you, you know and so you must have had lots of experience of this sort of thing; enough to have made you as hardened as royalty, I should think. I always think of authors and journalists as living very much in the limelight.
'There was a pawnticket in the name of Freydon.... She passed away less than an hour ago.... The condition ... heart undoubtedly accelerated ... alcoholism ... a very short time, in any case.... Medically, an inquest would be quite unnecessary, but.... Will you come with me, and ...
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