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No. 174. Faenum habet vn cornu, longe fuge; dummodo risum Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcet amico. HOR. Lib. i. Sat. iv. 34. Yonder he drives avoid that furious beast: If he may have his jest, he never cares At whose expense; nor friend nor patron spares. THE laws of social benevolence require, that every man should endeavour to assist others by his experience.
But I knew not its significance. 'What do they think of Fuge down here? I asked. 'I don't expect they think of him, said my host. He pulled a pouch and a packet of cigarette papers from his pocket. 'Have one of mine, I suggested, hastily producing my case. He did not even glance at its contents. 'No, thanks, he said curtly. I named my brand.
You see, I was naturally in an awfully nervous state, Minnie. So I told Collins to turn back. Fuge, our new butler, is of an extremely curious disposition, and I couldn't bear the idea of him prying about and perhaps reading that letter before Cloud got it. And just as I was picking up the letter to fasten it I heard Cloud in the next room. Oh! I never felt so queer in all my life!
At this moment I am anxious to know where my friends are domiciled; I don't know where to sleep. "My boy," said Lucien, "I put into practice a motto by which you may secure a quiet life: Fuge, late, tace. I am off."
'San Remo is a winter place. No one ever goes there before December. 'Oh, is it? the lady murmured negligently. 'Then that would be just like Simon Fuge. I was never afraid of him, she added, in a defiant tone, and with a delicious inconsequence that choked her husband in the midst of a draught of beer. 'You can laugh, she said sturdily.
Apparently he had forgotten the decease. 'Do you often see the Gazette? I asked, perhaps in the hope of attracting him back to Fuge. 'No, he said; 'the musical criticism is too rotten. Involuntarily I bridled.
That morning the mood of the nursery was apparently unpropitious. He and I were alone. I begged him not to pretermit his GUARDIAN, but to examine it and give me the news. He agreed, scarcely unwilling. 'There's a paragraph in the London correspondence about Fuge, he announced from behind the paper. 'What do they say about him? 'Nothing particular. 'Now I want to ask you something, I said.
I had been thinking a good deal about the sisters and Simon Fuge. And in spite of everything that I had heard in spite even of the facts that the lake had been dug by a railway company, and that the excursion to the lake had been an excursion of Sunday-school teachers and their friends I was still haunted by certain notions concerning Simon Fuge and Annie Brett.
'Well, she said, 'ask anybody down here, ANY-body! And see what they'll say. 'No, Mr Brindley put in, 'don't go about asking ANY-body. You might get yourself disliked. But you may take it it isn't true. 'Most certainly, his wife concurred with seriousness. 'We reckon to know something about Simon Fuge down here, Mr Brindley added. 'Also about the famous Annie.
She seemed a very clever woman, I must say. But I've been thinking it over, and I've come to the conclusion that it won't do for you to go. I don't like the idea of it you in London for six weeks or more alone. You must do what you can here. And if you fail this time you must try again. 'But I can stay in the same lodgings as Sarah Fuge. The house is kept by her cousin or some relation.
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