[No Name by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookNo Name CHAPTER X 24/33
"He'll romp with the miller's children, and gossip with the mother, and hob-and-nob with the father.
At the last moment when he has got five minutes left to catch the train, he'll say: 'Let's go into the counting-house and look at the books.' He'll find the books dreadfully complicated; he'll suggest sending for an accountant; he'll settle the business off hand, by lending the money in the meantime; he'll jog back comfortably in the miller's gig; and he'll tell us all how pleasant the lanes were in the cool of the evening." The little character-sketch which these words drew was too faithful a likeness not to be recognized.
Mrs.Vanstone showed her appreciation of it by a smile.
"When your father returns," she said, "we will put your account of his proceedings to the test.
I think," she continued, rising languidly from her chair, "I had better go indoors again now and rest on the sofa till he comes back." The little group under the portico broke up.
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