'There's
another Fabricius Bibliotheca or Bibliographia. Go on--Basili opera
ad MSS. codices, 3 vols.'
Clara silently made the entries a little more scholarly. In a
quarter of an hour the parcel was ready and Cohen returned.
'Your sister would not allow me to wait. She met Mrs Marshall; they
said they should have something to carry, and that it was not worth
while to bring it here. I will walk with you, if you will allow me.
We may as well avoid Holborn.'
They turned into Gray's Inn, and, when they were in comparative
quietude, he said, -
'Any Chartist news?' and then without waiting for an answer, 'By the
way, who is your friend Dennis?'
'He is no particular friend of mine. He is a wood-engraver, and
writes also, I believe, for the newspapers.'
'He can talk as well as write.'
'Yes, he can talk very well.'
'Do you not think there was something unreal about what he said?'
'I do not believe he is actually insincere. I have noticed that men
who write or read much often appear somewhat shadowy.'
'How do you account for it?'
'What they say is not experience.'
'I do not quite understand. A man may think much which can never
become an experience in your sense of the word, and be very much in
earnest with what he thinks; the thinking is an experience.'
'Yes, I suppose so, but it is what a person has gone through which I
like to hear.
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