Please, if you
wish to live.'
"So, with Pyramids beside me day by day, I re-wrote the play, and
whenever I felt a thing to be utterly impossible and false I put it
down with a grin. And every character I made to talk clap-trap
sentiment while Pyramids purred, and I took care that everyone of
my puppets did that which was right in the eyes of the lady with
the lorgnettes in the second row of the dress circle; and old
Hewson says the play will run five hundred nights.
"But what is worst," concluded Dick, "is that I am not ashamed of
myself, and that I seem content."
"What do you think the animal is?" I asked with a laugh, "an evil
spirit"? For it had passed into the next room and so out through
the open window, and its strangely still green eyes no longer
drawing mine towards them, I felt my common sense returning to me.
"You have not lived with it for six months," answered Dick quietly,
"and felt its eyes for ever on you as I have. And I am not the
only one. You know Canon Whycherly, the great preacher?"
"My knowledge of modern church history is not extensive," I
replied. "I know him by name, of course.
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