Meantime, as the doctor was splitting his breakfast orange, he heard a commotion in his office, two rooms removed: volleys of pidgin English, one voice in protest, the other dominant. Where's the dining room? And, say, can I have some eggs? This jam-tea breakfast gets my goat. His job as a painter was wearing him down acutely as he aged. Besides, by the time they were off his hands, old McClintock would be dropping in to have his liver renovated. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at tea, with their untrimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs when they sit down, their slangy disrespect; they no longer smoke, it is true, like the girls of the eighties and nineties, nevertheless to a fine intelligence they have the flavor of tobacco. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of vivacity and enjoyment. Consent to become my wife, and do not compel me to have recourse to violence to effect my purpose, and I will spare your son. I'll knock off at tea. There must be real Valjeans, else how could authors write about them? Supposing some day she met one of these astonishing creators, who could make one cry and laugh and forget, who could thrill one with love and anger and tenderness? Most of us have witnessed carnivals. No hair to fall awry, no powder to displace, no ruffles to crush; men are lucky.
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