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For there are two ways of getting on in this world: one is to get credit for being cleverer than you are, and the other to be cleverer than your neighbour suspects. But the latter plan is seldom followed, for the satisfaction it provides must necessarily be shared with no confidant. Colville knew where to look for Mrs. St.
It was Dormer Colville, who laid aside his waterproof as he came and greeted her as an old friend. He had, indeed, known her since her early childhood, and had always succeeded in keeping pace with her, even in the rapid changes of her last year at school. "Here is an adventure," he said, shaking hands. "But I can see that you have taken no harm, and have not even been afraid.
The woman had a Roman Catholic Missal in her pocket, and the child a small locket with a miniature portrait in it." "Of the Queen Marie Antoinette?" suggested Colville, quickly. "It may well have been. It is many years since I saw it. It was faded enough. I remember that it had a fall, and would not open afterward. No one has seen it for twenty-five years or so."
And taste and conscience are by no means so certain of what they want you to do as Nature was." "Yes," said the minister, "I see what you mean." He joined Colville in leaning on the parapet, and he looked out on the river as if he saw his meaning there.
Morton's case there might be peculiarly mitigating circumstances." "What do you mean?" "When I met him first at Mrs. Bowen's I used to think that it was Miss Graham in whom he was interested " "I can assure you," interrupted Colville, "that she was never interested in him." "Oh no; I didn't suppose that," returned the old man tranquilly. "And I've since had reason to revise my opinion.
It is hard for any man to deny merits attributed to him, especially if he has been ascribing to himself the opposite demerits. But Colville summoned his dispersed forces to protest against this. "Oh, no, no," he cried. "Anything but that. My conduct has been selfish and shameful. If you could understand all "
He somewhat laboriously hoisted himself up, his head emerging from his tumbled collar like the head of a tortoise aroused from sleep, and gave into Colville's affectionate grasp a limp and nerveless hand. "No one could feel for you more sincerely than I do," Colville assured him, drawing forward a chair, "more than I have done all through these trying months."
Colville's manners were considered perfect, especially by those who were unable to detect a fine line said to exist between ease and too much ease. Mr. Marvin recollected John Turner well. Ten years earlier he had, indeed, corresponded at some length with the Paris banker respecting a valuable engraving. Was Mr. Colville interested in engravings?
To Colville, whom her girlish slimness in her ball costume had puzzled after his original impressions of Junonian abundance, she did not so much dwindle as seem to vanish from the proportions his visions had assigned her that first night when he saw her standing before the mirror.
Capes Wiwiki and Brett we have no previous acquaintance with, though we have heard of the Bay of Islands, over whose wide entrance they are the twin sentinels. And then in slow succession we sight the Poor Knights Islands, Bream Head, the Hen and Chickens, the Barrier Islands Great and Little, Cape Colville, Rodney Point, and the Kawau, Sir George Grey's island home.
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