Bachelors Anonymous
“It tuned up his system and imparted a gentle glow. The day following his visit to Mr Llewellyn being adequately balmy, he set off down Park Lane and had reached the neighbourhood of Fountain Court when he observed approaching him the young man Pickering whose acquaintance he had made on the previous evening.
He greeted him with the utmost warmth, and so kindly and paternal was his manner that Joe, whose morale was at its lowest ebb, threw off perhaps five per cent of the gloom which was wrappin...g him as if in a garment and replied to his ‘Ah, Mr Pickering’ with an ‘Oh, hullo, Mr Trout’ which, though in many respects resembling a voice speaking from the tomb in a story by Edgar Allan Poe, was reasonably cordial.
‘A lovely afternoon,’ said Mr Trout. He felt no embarrassment at this encounter.
Members of Bachelors Anonymous never felt embarrassment when meeting those in whose matrimonial plans they had interfered. To him Joe was just another out-patient who had come to him needing treatment, and this treatment he had given him.MoreLess
He greeted him with the utmost warmth, and so kindly and paternal was his manner that Joe, whose morale was at its lowest ebb, threw off perhaps five per cent of the gloom which was wrappin...g him as if in a garment and replied to his ‘Ah, Mr Pickering’ with an ‘Oh, hullo, Mr Trout’ which, though in many respects resembling a voice speaking from the tomb in a story by Edgar Allan Poe, was reasonably cordial.
‘A lovely afternoon,’ said Mr Trout. He felt no embarrassment at this encounter.
Members of Bachelors Anonymous never felt embarrassment when meeting those in whose matrimonial plans they had interfered. To him Joe was just another out-patient who had come to him needing treatment, and this treatment he had given him.MoreLess
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