"I begin to feel it. But I can't alter my nature."
"I never was so much surprised in my life," said Lord Chiltern. "When
I used to look at you in the dock, by heaven I envied you your pluck
and strength."
"I was burning up the stock of coals, Chiltern."
"You'll come all right after a few weeks. You've been knocked out of
time;--that's the truth of it."
Mr. Low treated his patient with more indulgence; but he also was
surprised, and hardly understood the nature of the derangement of the
mechanism in the instrument which he was desirous of repairing. "I
should go abroad for a few months if I were you," said Mr. Low.
"I should stick at the first inn I got to," said Phineas. "I think I
am better here. By and bye I shall travel, I dare say,--all over the
world, as far as my money will last. But for the present I am only
fit to sit still."
Mrs. Low had seen him more than once, and had been very kind to him;
but she also failed to understand. "I always thought that he was such
a manly fellow," she said to her husband.
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