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Part I: The Enigmas of Innocent Smith | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
Chapter V. The Allegorical Practical Joker |
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"I want the rest to go in," said Michael in a clear voice, "because I want the whole of this garden in which to talk to you." There was an atmosphere of irrational doubt; it was really getting colder, and a night wind had begun to wave the one or two trees in the twilight. Dr. Warner, however, spoke in a voice devoid of indecision. "I refuse to listen to any such proposal," he said; "you have lost this ruffian, and I must find him." "I don't ask you to listen to any proposal," answered Moon quietly; "I only ask you to listen." He made a silencing movement with his hand, and immediately the whistling noise that had been lost in the dark streets on one side of the house could be heard from quite a new quarter on the other side. Through the night-maze of streets the noise increased with incredible rapidity, and the next moment the flying hoofs and flashing wheels had swept up to the blue-railed gate at which they had originally stood. Mr. Smith got down from his perch with an air of absent-mindedness, and coming back into the garden stood in the same elephantine attitude as before. "Get inside! get inside!" cried Moon hilariously, with the air of one shooing a company of cats. "Come, come, be quick about it! Didn't I tell you I wanted to talk to Inglewood?" |
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