18/20 'And yet, do you know, I don't think,' with a very nice and neat emphasis on those two words: 'I _don't think_ I would state it emphatically. State it? In point of fact, Mr.Crisparkle, keeping our hearts warm and our heads cool, we clergy need do nothing emphatically.' So Minor Canon Row knew Neville Landless no more; and he went whithersoever he would, or could, with a blight upon his name and fame. Haggard and red-eyed, his hopes plainly had deserted him, his sanguine mood was gone, and all his worst misgivings had come back. |