. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . are sent to provide the pabulum for us men ofletters. With what complacency did my wife listen to thesomcAvhat long-winded and pompous oratory of Tregarvan !He pompous and commonplace ? Tregarvan spoke Avithexcellent good sense. That wily woman never showed sheAvas tired of his conversation. She praised him to Philipbehind his back, and Avould not allow a word in his dispar-agement. As a doctor Avill punch your chest, your liver,your heart, listen at your lun
. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . are sent to provide the pabulum for us men ofletters. With what complacency did my wife listen to thesomcAvhat long-winded and pompous oratory of Tregarvan !He pompous and commonplace ? Tregarvan spoke Avithexcellent good sense. That wily woman never showed sheAvas tired of his conversation. She praised him to Philipbehind his back, and Avould not allow a word in his dispar-agement. As a doctor Avill punch your chest, your liver,your heart, listen at your lungs, squeeze your pulse, andwhat not, so this practitioner studied, shampooed, auscul-tated Tregarvan. Of course, he alloAved himself to be oper-ated upon. Of course, he had no idea that the lady Avasflattering, Avheedling, humbugging him; but thought thathe Avas a very well-informed, eloquent man, Avho had seenand read a great deal, and had an agreeable method of im-parting his knowledge, and that the lady in question Avas asensible Avoman, naturally eager for more information. Go, ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD. 171 #%T^-. ^> to. Delilah! I understand your tricks ! I know many anotherOmphale in London, Avho will coax Hercules away from hisclub, to come and listen to her wheedling talk. One great difficulty we had was to make Philip read Tre-garvans own articles in the Review. He at first said he 172 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP could not, or that he could not remcniLei them ; so thatthere was no use in reading- them. And Philips new mas-ter used to make artful allusions to his own writings in thecourse of conversation, so that our unwary friend would findhimself under examination in any casual interview with Tre-garvan, whose opinions on free-trade, malt-tax, income tax,designs of Russia, or what not, might be accepted or denied,but ought at least to be known. We actually made Philip getup his owners articles. We put questions to him, privily,regarding them — coached him, accor
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