7/7 Stay! Can you tell we what IS The True, The Beautiful, The Innocent, The Virtuous ?" "They are things that commence with a capital letter," said the Boy, promptly. A frightful and instantaneous change overspread his features. His noble brow was corrugated with baser lines of calculation. His black eye, serpent-like, glittered with suppressed passion. Dropping upon his hands and feet, he crawled to the curbstone and hissed after the retreating form of the Baronet, the single word:-- "Bilk!". |