The academician . hings about hishouse—his teapot Good heavens !,! exclaimed Mr. i76 THE ACADEMICIAN. Chesham, so testily as to make start. I never saw such awoman ! I ask her if a mans a gentleman,and she launches forth about his teapot! I beg your pardon, my dear, falteredhis wife. Oh, it doesnt matter! I shall neverteach you to be coherent in your conversa-tion—may as well give it up. There was silence for a few minutes,during which Mr. Chesham breathed sostertorously that his wife feared she hadnearly provoked him into an apoplectic he next spoke, however, it was inthe
The academician . hings about hishouse—his teapot Good heavens !,! exclaimed Mr. i76 THE ACADEMICIAN. Chesham, so testily as to make start. I never saw such awoman ! I ask her if a mans a gentleman,and she launches forth about his teapot! I beg your pardon, my dear, falteredhis wife. Oh, it doesnt matter! I shall neverteach you to be coherent in your conversa-tion—may as well give it up. There was silence for a few minutes,during which Mr. Chesham breathed sostertorously that his wife feared she hadnearly provoked him into an apoplectic he next spoke, however, it was inthe most mellifluous of voices. Is it not nearly dinner-time, my pet ? Yes, darling, only ten minutes more. Ah, I feel quite exhausted. In fact, if it were not so impossible, I should almost fancy I felt hungry. I think, my WHEN ONE LOVESr 177 love, in honour of Miss Durants news,that a bottle of champagne would not beamiss. Eh ? Suppose you get up a coupleof that last Perrier Jouet—will you, myvery dear love ?. VOL. I. 12 CHAPTER IX. QUALIFYING FOR THE POSITION. Hubert was quite as much astonished atConnies engagement as Mabel and hermother had been, although perhaps forrather different reasons. He had alwaysbeen so accustomed to look upon Connieas a very charming child, who neededall the protection and care of himselfand Robson, that it startled him to findthat other people should see her in anotherlight. And that Stephen Baring, aman whom all the world reverenced andlooked up to on account of his genius, QUALIFYING FOR THE POSITION. 179 who had surmounted and emerged sotriumphantly from those difficulties whichhe himself found so terrible and heart-breaking—that this man, now at the zenithof his fame, should choose for the lifelongcompanion of his master-mind a—dearlittle thing like Connie, a child to whomthe word art was almost represented bypicture-books, and who, good little girlthough she was, was as unfit to mate witha clever and distinguished man as a wrenwith a
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