10/16 And for twopence I'd do it." "Do it, then," said Lambert, swinging his stick impatiently. "It would be funnier than the bosh you and Barker talk." Quin, standing on the top of the hill, stretched his hand out towards the main avenue of Kensington Gardens. We are standing upon an elevation under the open sky, a peak as it were of fantasy, a Sinai of humour. We are in a great pulpit or platform, lit up with sunlight, and half London can see us. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man." "I don't know what you are talking about," said Lambert, contemptuously. |