. The Idle Apprentice
II. 8 or 1. Maggot was equipped in a
light blue riding-habit, trimmed with silver, a hunting-cap and a flaxen peruke,
and, instead of a whip, carried a stout cudgel. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock,
under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished
intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally
developed. And if one were to love some
one very much, it’s just so that one would be blindest, just when one wanted
most to see. . Jolly nice girl, too. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. “And that only brings me up to about sixty-five!
“A glittering wilderness of time
That to the sunset reaches
No keel as yet its waves has ploughed
Or gritted on its beaches.
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