7/9 I wish I could find some quiet place to which I could retire to hold communion with my own thoughts, and practise, if I thought fit, either of my trades." "What trades ?" said Mr.Petulengro. "Why, the one which I have lately been engaged in, or my original one, which I confess I should like better, that of a kaulomescro." {62} "Ah, I have frequently heard you talk of making horseshoes," said Mr.Petulengro. "I, however, never saw you make one, and no one else that I am aware, I don't believe. Come, brother, don't be angry,--it's quite possible that you may have done things which neither I nor any one else has seen you do, and that such things may some day or other come to light, as you say nothing can be kept secret. Be that, however, as it may, pay the reckoning, and let us be going. |