He and I
daily gather fresh principles. I believe great things are before me,
and am strong in the hope of being able by-and-by to effect much.
"As for you I bid you Godspeed. Be bold but logical, speculative but
cautious, daringly courageous, but properly circumspect withal," etc.,
etc.
I think this may do for the present.
CHAPTER LV
I HAD called on Ernest as a matter of course when he first came to
London, but had not seen him. I had been out when he returned my call,
so that he had been in town for some weeks before I actually saw
him, which I did not very long after he had taken possession of his
new rooms. I liked his face, but except for the common bond of
music, in respect of which our tastes were singularly alike, I
should hardly have known how to get on with him. To do him justice
he did not air any of his schemes to me until I had drawn him out
concerning them. I, to borrow the words of Ernest's landlady, Mrs.
Jupp, "am not a very regular church-goer" -I discovered upon
cross-examination that Mrs. Jupp had been to church once when she
was churched for her son Tom some five-and-twenty years since, years
since, but never either before or afterwards; not even, I fear, to
be married, for though she called herself "Mrs.
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