22/22 For I've noticed Mr.Smith since that day has never looked to me the same easy-minded happy gentleman he was when we first knew him. He would have had me go to cook for him at Elba, but Crickledon thought I'd better be independent, and Mr.Smith said to me, 'Perhaps you're right, Crickledon, for who knows how long I may be among you ?'" Herbert took the solace of tobacco in Crickledon's shop. Thence, with the story confirmed to him, he sauntered toward the house on the beach.. |