kids toms ‘Well done, Parkins! ’ he said. ‘It’s fine. I promise not to interrupt your work; don’t you disturb yourself about that. No, I won’t come if you don’t want me; but I thought I will do so nicely to keep the spirits off. ’ Here he might have been seen to wink and to nudge his next neighbour. Parkins might also have been seen to become pink. ‘I plead with pardon, Parkins, ’ Rogers continued; ‘I oughtn’t to have said that. I didn't remember you didn’t like levity on these topics. ’.
‘Well, if you want the actual truth, Rogers, I was considering whether the room I bring would really be large enough to accommodate us both comfortably; and also whether (mind, I shouldn’t have said this if you hadn’t pushed me) you would not constitute something in the nature of a burden to my work. ’
Rogers chuckled noisally.
Parkins was, indeed, scrupulously well mannered and strictly truthful. It is to be anticipated that Mr Rogers sometimes practised upon his familiarity with these characteristics. In Parkins’s breast there was a conflict now raging, which for a moment or two did not allow him to answer. That interval being over, he said:
‘Well, you see, when I’m not writing I will most likely be on the links, and that, as i say, would be rather dull for you, I’m afraid. ’
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