Let me suggest that you have a talk with my father.' Peak reflected on the proposal, and replied to it with grave thoughtfulness: 'That's very kind of you, but I should have a difficulty in asking Mr.
Warricombe's advice.

I'm afraid I must go on in my own way for a time.
It will be a few months, I daresay, before I can release myself from my engagements in London.' 'But I am to understand that your mind is really made up ?' 'Oh, quite!' 'Well, no doubt we shall have opportunities of talking.

We must meet in town, if possible.

You have excited my curiosity, and I can't help hoping you'll let me see a little further into your mind some day.

When I first got hold of Newman's _Apologia_, I began to read it with the utmost eagerness, flattering myself that now at length I should understand how a man of brains could travel such a road.