[The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Evil Genius CHAPTER XIX 3/13
"I am glad to find you remember me as kindly as I remember you." Those were his first words when he and Randal shook hands. "You might have felt sure of that," Randal said. The Captain's modesty still doubted. "You see, the circumstances were a little against me.
We met at a dull dinner, among wearisome worldly men, full of boastful talk about themselves.
It was all 'I did this,' and 'I said that'-- and the gentlemen who were present had always been right; and the gentlemen who were absent had always been wrong.
And, oh, dear, when they came to politics, how they bragged about what they would have done if they had only been at the head of the Government; and how cruelly hard to please they were in the matter of wine! Do you remember recommending me to spend my next holiday in Scotland ?" "Perfectly.
My advice was selfish--it really meant that I wanted to see you again." "And you have your wish, at your brother's house! The guide book did it. First, I saw your family name.
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