7/17 Dr.Peter Yatt jeered at globules: Dr.John Cormyn mourned over human creatures treated as cattle by big doses. The Rev.Septimus Barmby satisfactorily smoked: Mr.Peridon traced mortal evil to that act. Dr.Schlesien had his German views, Colney Durance his ironic, Fenellan his fanciful and free-lance. And here was an optimist, there a pessimist; and the rank Radical, the rigid Conservative, were not wanting. All of them were pointedly opposed, extraordinarily for so small an assembly: absurdly, it might be thought: but these provoked a kind warm smile, with the exclamation: 'They are dears!' They were the dearer for their fads and foibles. |