Your servant, Miss Carmichael! I
congratulate my friend and partner on a friend and prospective partner,
in life as well as law, so infinitely superior, and I trust you will
allow an oldish man to congratulate you on being won by as fine a young
fellow as ever lived." When the good Q.C. left the room, the patient
remarked: "Everybody shows me so much kindness, now, Marjorie, when I
have all I want in yours."
"Is it kindness, Eugene, only kindness?"
"No, no, it is love, Marjorie, isn't it, undying love? Would you think
me very foolish if I were to go back for once to Wilks' and my habit of
reciting all sorts of poetry?"
"I could not stand all sorts, Eugene. There are some that Marjorie
quotes which are simply awful. She says she gets them from Guff."
"Oh, this isn't that kind. It is Greek, Modern Greek:--
O Erot' antherotate,
Glyke kai hilarotate,
Tou kosmou kybernete.
Esen ho nous, to soma mou,
To stethos, kai to stoma mou,
Latreuei kai keryttei."
"That is very pretty, Eugene, for love in a general kind of way--love in
the aibstrac', as the metaphysical Scotch girl said.
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