12/28 Do you ever remember to have seen a perfect horse ?" "Your mare Mrs.Gamp was as nearly perfect as possible." "Even Mrs.Gamp had her faults. In the first place she was a bad feeder. But one certainly doesn't often come across anything much better than Mrs.Gamp." And thus the matter was talked over between them with much stable conversation, all of which tended to make Sowerby more and more oblivious of his friend's sacred profession, and perhaps to make the vicar himself too frequently oblivious of it also. But no: he was not oblivious of it. He was even mindful of it; but mindful of it in such a manner that his thoughts on the subject were nowadays always painful. |