[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER XXIX 17/77
"But I would in a minute if I saw clear to the nimble shilling.
Well, will you come on to Hillsborough and settle this? I've got the refusal for twenty-four hours, I consider." "Oh, if you think so, I will go on to Hillsborough.
But you said you were going to see your parents, after twenty years' absence and silence." "So I am; but they can keep; what signifies a day or two more after twenty years ?" He added, rather severely, as one whose superior age entitled him to play the monitor, "Young man, I never make a toil of a pleasure." "No more do I.But how does that apply to visiting your parents ?" "If I was to neglect business to gratify my feelings, I should be grizzling all the time; and wouldn't that be making a toil of a pleasure ?" Henry could only grin in reply to this beautiful piece of reasoning; and that same afternoon the pair were in Hillsborough, and Mr.Bolt, under Henry's guidance, inspected the grinding of heavy saws, both long and circular.
He noted, at Henry's request, the heavy, dirty labor.
He then mounted to the studio, and there Henry lectured on his models, and showed them working.
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