I hate, I despise the man."
"Dear Fanny," expostulated the old man, gently, "this is
unchristian and unjust. Mr. Gashwiler is a powerful, a very
powerful man! His work is a great one; his time is preoccupied
with weightier matters."
"His time was not so preoccupied but he could make use of poor
Expectant," said this wounded dove, a little spitefully.
Nevertheless it was some satisfaction to know that Dobbs had at
last got a place, no matter how unimportant, or who had given it to
him; and when I went to bed that night in the room that had been
evidently prepared for their conjugal chamber, I felt that Dobbs's
worst trials were over. The walls were hung with souvenirs of
their ante-nuptial days. There was a portrait of Dobbs, aetat. 25;
there was a faded bouquet in a glass case, presented by Dobbs to
Fanny on examination-day; there was a framed resolution of thanks
to Dobbs from the Remus Debating Society; there was a certificate
of Dobbs's election as President of the Remus Philomathean Society;
there was his commission as Captain in the Remus Independent
Contingent of Home Guards; there was a Freemason's chart, in which
Dobbs was addressed in epithets more fulsome and extravagant than
any living monarch.
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