Do you know that I'm sorry now that I
didn't actually hit him?
didn't actually hit him?
Kipling - Poems
Well, I must say, Dick,
you've begun well. "
"He was interfering with me. It only meant a few pounds to him, but it
was everything to me. I don't think he'll bring an action. I gave him
some medical advice gratis about the state of his body. It was cheap at
the little flurry it cost him. Now, let's look at my things. "
Two minutes later Dick had thrown himself down on the floor and was deep
in the portfolio, chuckling lovingly as he turned the drawings over and
thought of the price at which they had been bought.
The afternoon was well advanced when Torpenhow came to the door and saw
Dick dancing a wild saraband under the skylight.
"I builded better than I knew, Torp," he said, without stopping the
dance. "They're good! They're damned good! They'll go like flame! I
shall have an exhibition of them on my own brazen hook. And that man
would have cheated me out of it!
Do you know that I'm sorry now that I
didn't actually hit him? "
"Go out," said Torpenhow,--"go out and pray to be delivered from the
sin of arrogance, which you never will be. Bring your things up from
whatever place you're staying in, and we'll try to make this barn a
little more shipshape. "
"And then--oh, then," said Dick, still capering, "we will spoil the
Egyptians! "
CHAPTER IV
The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn,
When the smoke of the cooking hung gray:
He knew where the doe made a couch for her fawn,
And he looked to his strength for his prey.
But the moon swept the smoke-wreaths away.
And he turned from his meal in the villager's close,
And he bayed to the moon as she rose.
--In Seonee.
"WELL, and how does success taste? " said Torpenhow, some three months
later. He had just returned to chambers after a holiday in the country.
"Good," said Dick, as he sat licking his lips before the easel in the
studio.
"I want more,--heaps more. The lean years have passed, and I approve of
these fat ones. "
"Be careful, old man. That way lies bad work.
you've begun well. "
"He was interfering with me. It only meant a few pounds to him, but it
was everything to me. I don't think he'll bring an action. I gave him
some medical advice gratis about the state of his body. It was cheap at
the little flurry it cost him. Now, let's look at my things. "
Two minutes later Dick had thrown himself down on the floor and was deep
in the portfolio, chuckling lovingly as he turned the drawings over and
thought of the price at which they had been bought.
The afternoon was well advanced when Torpenhow came to the door and saw
Dick dancing a wild saraband under the skylight.
"I builded better than I knew, Torp," he said, without stopping the
dance. "They're good! They're damned good! They'll go like flame! I
shall have an exhibition of them on my own brazen hook. And that man
would have cheated me out of it!
Do you know that I'm sorry now that I
didn't actually hit him? "
"Go out," said Torpenhow,--"go out and pray to be delivered from the
sin of arrogance, which you never will be. Bring your things up from
whatever place you're staying in, and we'll try to make this barn a
little more shipshape. "
"And then--oh, then," said Dick, still capering, "we will spoil the
Egyptians! "
CHAPTER IV
The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn,
When the smoke of the cooking hung gray:
He knew where the doe made a couch for her fawn,
And he looked to his strength for his prey.
But the moon swept the smoke-wreaths away.
And he turned from his meal in the villager's close,
And he bayed to the moon as she rose.
--In Seonee.
"WELL, and how does success taste? " said Torpenhow, some three months
later. He had just returned to chambers after a holiday in the country.
"Good," said Dick, as he sat licking his lips before the easel in the
studio.
"I want more,--heaps more. The lean years have passed, and I approve of
these fat ones. "
"Be careful, old man. That way lies bad work.
