He glanced at his watch. ”
“Can’t we go down into Italy?”
“No,” he said; “it won’t run to that now. The little streaks upon the
germinating area of an egg, the nervous movements of an impatient horse, the
trick of a calculating boy, the senses of a fish, the fungus at the root of a garden
flower, and the slime upon a sea-wet rock—ten thousand such things bear their
witness and are illuminated. “I had a faint idea once that things were as you say they are, but the affair of
the ring—of the unexpected ring—puzzled me. "My name is Kneebone," added
the portly personage, stepping forward. Sanguine they were not. ‘You will not guess again?’
‘No, no, I am quite out of ideas. Do you
know, I am beginning to believe that we only exist nowadays by the tolerance of
these millionaire tradesmen. . The little matter of an accent may be misleading, I grant you, but
—’
He was interrupted, and with impatience. You must
think of this evening, John, sometimes—as a sort of atonement.
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