While the girl kept the patient from dwelling upon his misfortunes, whatever these were, he himself would have to keep the girl from brooding over hers. Hitherto you’ve seen only my easy, kindly side. You must know, Sir, when he was a lad, the day after he broke into his master's house in Wych Street, he picked a gentleman's pocket in our church, during sarvice time,—that he did, the heathen. That is what stands between us, if you would know—that. ’ He took the thing from Melusine’s listless grasp and went on, ‘Now then, what’s all this here argy-bargy with Pottiswick?’ Melusine opened her eyes and straightened up. But I shan't let him off thus. He had a flattish, perhaps, it should be called, a flattened nose, and a brown, leathernlooking hide, that seemed as if it had not unfrequently undergone the process of tanning. If she had once known him, if he were some former neighbour, it would be comprehensible. It is we who have become the parasites and toys. " "Here!" ejaculated Wood, with a look of alarm. But he was now too deeply moved to trace a certain unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors. "We were talking shop," said McClintock, rising.
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