Excerpt from The Alabaster Box
I thought you would be surprised my dear boy." With these words he concluded a communication which had been brief but startling; and his manner was aggressive, even defiant.
"Yes," his son replied, "I have - I confess - been surprised. I have never, in fact, in all my life been so much - surprised."
He spoke slowly, and, since words may sometimes enlarge their meanings with the manner of utterance, anyone might have thought that the surprise included disgust.
The two were sitting in a dining-room, and it was after dinner. One of them was a man of sixty-five or perhaps seventy; the other was a young man of twenty-five. The elder man sat in one of those chairs invented for persons afflicted with paralysis, and provided with wheels, which the patient can if he pleases use by himself. The decanters stood on the table, and the old man helped himself to a glass of port.
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