Volume V Part 46 (2/2)
Nevertheless, I did not rest at Dover; and as soon as I got to London I shut lish attack of the spleen, while I thought of Pauline and strove to forget her Jarbe put , when he came into hed afterwards
”Sir,” said he, ”the old woain”
”The old hag! Does she want me to choke her?”
”Good heavens-no, sir! She is very fond of you, seeing you seeht”
”Go and tell her never to think such things again, and as for you
”I will do as you wish, sir”
”Then leave me”
EPISODE 23--THE ENGLISH
CHAPTER X
Eccentricity of the English--Castelbajac Count Schwerin-- Sophie at School--My Reception at the Betting Club-- The Charpillon
I passed a night which seee, feeling as if I could kill a man on the smallest provocation It seeht so beautiful, was like aclothes, and walked into a coffee-house, where I saw a score of people reading the papers
I sat down, and, not understanding English, passed oers and comers I had been there some time whenas follows in French:
”Tommy has committed suicide, and he ise, for he was in such a state that he could only expect unhappiness for the rest of his life”
”You are quite reatest composure
”I was one of his creditorsan inventory of his effects I feel satisfied that he has done a very foolish and a very childish thing; he ht have lived on comfortably, and not killed himself for fully six months”
At any other tih, and, as it was, I felt as if the incident had donesaid a word or spent a penny, and I went towards the Exchange to get soave me what I wanted directly, and as I walked out with hi individual, whose name I asked
”He's worth a hundred thousand,” said the banker
”And who is that other man over there?”
”He's not worth a ten-pound note”
”But I don't want to hear what they are worth; it's their names I want”
”I really don't know”
”How can you tell howtheir names?”