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The temptation was very great. Sir John wanted him to go, told him that he ought to go! Sir John was the man responsible for the whole matter. He, Bagwax, had done his best. Could it be right for him to provoke Sir John by contesting the matter, contesting it so much to his own disadvantage? Had he not done enough for honesty? enough to satisfy even that grand idea of duty?
'Of course one does feel oneself fretted when one has been obliged to miss two trains. 'Can I lend a hand? said Bagwax. 'It doesn't signify now. I can't catch anything before the 5.20. One does expect to get away a little earlier than that on a Saturday. What is it that you've found out? 'Do you really care to know? 'Of course I do, if it's anything in earnest.
His was a paternal and an affectionate heart, and he saw very plainly the pecuniary advantage of a journey to Sydney. And he knew too that, in official life as well as elsewhere, to those who have much, more is given. Now that Bagwax was to him in the light of a son, he wished Bagwax to rise in the world. 'I wouldn't give it up, said he. 'But what would you do?
Of course, a man has to do his duty. 'Some do, and more don't. That's as far as I see, Mr. Bagwax. 'I'm all for Nelson's motto, Mr. Jones, "England expects that every man this day shall do his duty." In repeating these memorable words Bagwax raised his voice. 'Sir John don't like to hear anything through the partition, Mr. Bagwax. 'I beg pardon.
'If Secretaries of State and judges of the Court of Queen's Bench only had their wits about them, the postage-stamp ought to have been quite sufficient, said Bagwax, sententiously. 'What more is there? 'For the sake of letting the world know what can be done in our department, it is a pity that there should be anything more. 'But there is something. For God's sake tell me, Mr. Bagwax.
Curlydown, who approved of Bagwax, had been angry, and Jemima herself had become sullen and unloving to her father. On that very morning Mrs. Curlydown had declared that she hated quarrels like poison. 'So do I, mamma, said Jemima, breaking her silence emphatically. 'Not that Mr. Bagwax is anything to anybody.
When I lay my head on my pillow at night and think that I, I, Thomas Bagwax, have restored that nameless one to her babe and her lord, I shall sleep even though that pillow be no better than a hard bolster. 'Jemima will look after that, said the father, laughing. 'But still I wouldn't give it up. Never give a chance up, they come so seldom.
It was all explained to me not long ago. Now the postmark is dated '73. There was an air of triumph about Bagwax as he said this which almost drove Curlydown back to hostility. But he checked himself merely shaking his head, and continued to look at the stamp. 'What do you think of that? asked Bagwax. 'You'd have to prove it. 'Of course I should.
But when it came to believing it, that was quite another thing. The man turning up exactly at the moment! And such a man! And then his pretending never to have heard of a case so famous! Never to have heard this story of his most intimate friend! And then his notorious poverty! Old Caldigate would of course be able to buy such a man. And then Sir John's fatuity as to Bagwax!
Bagwax; he will indeed. But at that moment Sir John's bell was rung, and Bagwax was summoned into the great man's room. Sir John was sitting at a large office-table so completely covered with papers that a whole chaos of legal atoms seemed to have been deposited there by the fortuitous operation of ages.
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