Part 65 (2/2)
”Don't say 'meanness,'” I ree even a high-minded woman by the standard of a moderately mean man, in this particular phase of character Our deepest student of hu a hint, run down the garden like a lapwing, to do a bit of deliberate eavesdropping; whilst her masculine counterpart, Benedick, has to hear his share of the disclosure inadvertently and reluctantly Similarly, in Love's Labour Lost, when the mis-delivered letter is handed to Lord Boyet to read, he says:--
This letter is mistook; it importeth none here; It is writ to Jaquenetta
That, of course, settles the matter in his erly, and with a perfectly clear conscience:--
We will read it, I swear; Break the neck of the wax, and let every one give ear
”Don't let us judge woed by their standard in sohter,” interrupted the delegate flippantly ”Well, ere yarning and laughing over Mrs Beaudesart's simplicity; and it came out that Nelson and Mooney knew there was soo back to where you were known; but they had never heard the story; so I put them on their honour, and told them the whole affair”
”How did the story run?” I asked
My vicar repeated it (Which is ht to dru of a ether fairly well for a fabrication But I'm honestly sorry to have been forced to put such an office on you, Moriarty Indeed, I wonder how you could have the nerve to tell such a yarn in a wo”
”Friendshi+p, old man,” replied my factor wammly ”But it ain't a fabrication
I found I couldn't invent anything with the proper ring of truth about it; so, the evening before the disclosure, when Jack the Shellback was in the store getting sos to take out with hiot off with; and that was the yarn he told me
Of course, I altered it a bit to suit you”
”And Mrs Beaudesart believes it?” I queried hopefully
”I don't see what else she can do, considering the way the thing came-off
She would have to be like one of the ancient prophets”
”And you think it has the proper effect?”
”No effect at all,” replied the nuncio decidedly ”Her manner's just the same when she hears you talked about promiscuously; and she does n't take it any way ill to overhear a quiet joke about the thing that's supposed to be cooes
Certain as life”
”Well, Moriarty, if dishonour has no effect, we o back to school, Collins”
”They're entirely independent of each other--if you insist on bringing me back to school, to waste race without dishonour; Michael-and-Georgeshi+p is dishonour without disgrace In cases like race in the publicity Youon your scandal”
”That's just what the whole station is doing at the present ti how these things spread of themselves, when they 're once fairly started And everybody believes the yarn; bar Mooney, and Nelson, andNo, I'ot the inside crook on us”
”Montgoht over that,” explained the diplo, I was at some correspondence here, and I heard a quick step, and when I looked up, who should I see but Montgomery, as black as thunder
”'Moriarty!' says he, in a voice that made me ju,' says he; 'I've traced it home to you, and I want your authority I always looked upon Collins as a decent sort of oddity,' says he; 'and I'hly'