The Lesson of the Master: The Marriages, The Pupil, Brooksmith, The Solution, Sir Edmund OrmeMacmillan and Company, 1891 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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Стр. 135 - Later, when he found himself talking with the youngster in a way in which few youngsters could ever have been talked with, he thought of that clumsy moment on the bench at Nice as the dawn of an understanding that had broadened. What had added to the clumsiness then was that he thought it his duty to declare to Morgan that he might abuse him.
Стр. 155 - I've thought of all that - I've thought of a lot of things. They're so beastly worldly. That's what I hate most - oh, I've seen it! All they care about is to make an appearance and to pass for something or other.
Стр. 123 - Suede through a fat, jewelled hand and, at once pressing and gliding, repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear. He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs. Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan. He came back without the fan, only with the casual observation that he couldn't find it. As he dropped this cynical confession he looked straight...
Стр. 135 - The boy noticed in an instant that he had turned red. whereupon he turned red himself and pupil and master exchanged a longish glance in which there was a consciousness of many more things than are usually touched upon, even tacitly, in such a relation, It produced for Pemberton an embarrassment; it raised in a shadowy form a...
Стр. 127 - Moreover, he had caught in the boy's eyes the glimpse of a far-off appeal. ' Well, I'll do the best I can for you,' said Morgan ; with which he turned away again. He passed out of one of the long windows ; Pemberton saw him go and lean on the parapet of the terrace. He remained there while the young man took leave of his mother, who, on Pemberton 's looking as if he expected a farewell from him, interposed with, ' Leave him, leave him ; he's so strange ! ' Pemberton suspected she was afraid of something...
Стр. 163 - ... come from? He, Pemberton, might live on Morgan; but how could Morgan live on him? What was to become of him anyhow? Somehow the fact that he was a big boy now, with better prospects of health, made the question of his future more difficult. So long as he was markedly frail the great consideration he inspired seemed enough of an answer to it. But at the bottom of Pemberton's heart was the recognition of his probably being strong enough to live and not yet strong enough to struggle or to thrive.
Стр. 123 - Yet he was unwilling to take leave, treating his engagement as settled, without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large, affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat, jewelled hand and, at once pressing and gliding, repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear.
Стр. 138 - The explanation of this manoeuvre was that they had determined to spend the summer "in some bracing place"; but in Paris they dropped into a small furnished apartment — a fourth floor in a third-rate avenue, where there was a smell on the staircase and the portier was hateful — and passed the next four months in blank indigence. The better part of this baffled sojourn was for the preceptor and his pupil, who, visiting the Invalides and Notre Dame, the Conciergerie and all the museums, took a...