8/19 "You don't mean to tell me," he said, "that this is the ill-dressed, unwashed, unmannerly little brat whom your wife brought into the office one day, and who turned the ink bottles upside down and rubbed the gum on his hands ?" "This is the child," Burton admitted. Neither of them found words easy. He's got a list of books to read--classics every one of them." "Poor little fellow!" Mr.Waddington said to himself. "And to think that in three weeks or a month--" "And in the meantime," Burton interrupted, "here he is on my hands. |