ROBINSON THINKS IT “THE THING” TO ENCOURAGE NATIVE INDUSTRY WHEREVER HE GOES, AND SO BUYS A GERMAN PIPE.
“KELLNER!”
WHILE BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON SUPPED, A PARTY OF PHILOSOPHERS CARRY ON AN ÆSTHETICAL DISCUSSION, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT OF PIPES AND BEER.
“* * * THE NIGHT WAS BEAUTIFUL, SO WE DETERMINED AFTER SUPPER TO HAVE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED CASTLE—JONES AND I DID, THAT IS TO SAY, FOR ROBINSON WAS SO FATIGUED WITH TRAVEL THAT HE DECLINED MOVING, MUTTERING SOMETHING ABOUT ‘CASTLE CAN WAIT.’ WE ASCENDED; THE MOON SHONE BRIGHTLY THROUGH THE RUINS, AND BATHED THE LANDSCAPE IN ITS SILVERY LIGHT, THE BEAUTIFUL NECKAR FLOWING AT OUR FEET. UNDER US LAY THE TOWN, A THOUSAND LIGHTS TWINKLING IN THE STILLNESS.” * * “SUDDENLY, TO OUR HORROR, THERE APPEARED UPON THE TERRACE ‘THE BORE!’” —Extract from Brown’s Journal.
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“AT LAST HE LEFT US. BUT NOT BEFORE HE HAD TAKEN FROM HIS POCKET ALETTER RECEIVED THAT MORNING FROM GREEN (’YOU KNOW GREEN, OF COURSE,’ HESAID, ‘EVERYBODY DOES’), AND READ IT ALOUD FROM BEGINNING TO END. ITTOLD OF A ‘GOOD THING’ SAID AT THE CLUB BY SMITH; AND OF TWO MARRIAGES,AND A DUEL LIKELY TO COME OFF, BESIDES SEVERAL INTERESTING PARTICULARSREGARDING THE WINNER OF THE ST. LEGER.” —Ibid. WHEN JONES AND BROWN WERE LEFT ONCE MORE ALONE, THEY WANDERED ANDPONDERED AMONGST THE RUINS, AND MORALISED OVER THE INSTABILITY OFTHINGS—THEY WERE EVEN BECOMING SENTIMENTAL—WHEN, SUDDENLY, ATERRIFIC SOUND WAS HEARD—LIKE THE BARKING OF A DOG—AND THENEXT MOMENT THE ANIMAL HIMSELF WAS SEEN EMERGING FROM THE DARKNESS, ANDMAKING TOWARDS THEM AT THE TOP OF HIS SPEED. THEY TURNED AND FLED! | |