Capitolo 18
family with many excellent investments, or very deserving
objects of the Christian charity. It is my business in the life as his
brother-in-law and secretary, to decline with thanks the excellent one
investments, and to throw cold and judicious water on the objects of
charity. Also me me, as the almoner of the great man I am a lot
sought after. People casually allude in front of me to histories without arts
of "taken care of poor in Cumberland, you know, the Mr. Wentworth", or widows
in Cornwall, poets without a penny with epic poem in their desks, and young
painters that have need but the breath of a patron to open to them the
doors of an Academy that it admires. I smile and I seem wise, while me
you administer cold water in minute doses; but I never bring one of
these cases to Mr. Charles, except in the rare one or almost not udito*-of
event where I think there is really anything them.
Since then our small adventure with the Clairvoyant to Nice, Mr. Charles,
who is constitutionally cautious, you/he/she had also been more accurate than
usual on the possible cheats. And, as opportunity would have him, there
is hardly sat opposite us to of hôte of the table to the Schweitzerhof--'the tis
a whim of Amelia to dine to of hôte of the table; she says her you/he/she cannot be born
to be canned on every day in the private rooms with "too much family"--a
man that left-looks with dark hair and eyes, evident from his
eyebrows that overhang bushy. My first attention had called the
eyebrows in question from a beautiful small priest that sat to our side,
and what it observed that they was done on certain great and bristly
hair that (he told us) you/he/she had been traced by Darwin to our monkey
ancestors. Small very pleasant individual, this fresh-faced young
priest, on his/her turn of honeymoon with a beautiful face pee wife, a Scottish bonnie
girl with a fascinating accent.
I looked at the closing of eyebrows. Then a sudden thought struck me. "Face
does he/she believe that they is his really?" I asked some parish priest; "or it is them