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Looking over at the sly sideways smile which
seemed to fill all the foreground opposite me, I
could not help recalling old Lord Pentarry and
his minion. Tools must be tooled in the de
Quincey sense, he had said, as he stood wiping
the billhook on his smalls, over the welter that
had once been so incomparable a lieutenant. I
felt I could not do less. Maturity can always be
depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. Young
women are green : I spoke horticulturally. My
metaphor was drawn from fruits. The scottish
nobleman had also spoken of a green stick
fracture. Green was the name of the victim.
Those little golden escapes, those logical
thoughts, came on me like stars upon some
gloomy grove, as Henry said. And then arrived
the blinding realisation that if I did not do the
thing myself---and I am not that type---I would
be merely robbing a whirlwind to reap a
scorpion. I would have to think it over.
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Original text:
Looking over at the sly sideways smile which
seemed to fill all the foreground opposite me, I
could not help recalling old Lord Pentarry and
his minion. Tools must be tooled in the de
Quincey sense, he had said, as he stood wiping
the billhook on his smalls, over the welter that
had once been so incomparable a lieutenant. I
felt I could not do less. Maturity can always be
depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. Young
women are green : I spoke horticulturally. My
metaphor was drawn from fruits. The scottish
nobleman had also spoken of a green stick
fracture. Green was the name of the victim.
Those little golden escapes, those logical
thoughts, came on me like stars upon some
gloomy grove, as Henry said. And then arrived
the blinding realisation that if I did not do the
thing myself---and I am not that type---I would
be merely robbing a whirlwind to reap a
scorpion. I would have to think it over.
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