The Loud Halo
“Some days after his advertisement had appeared in a Highland paper Hector turned up at my cottage with a sheaf of letters he had received in reply.
‘It’s a grand day,’ he proffered with beguilement in his blue eyes and a diffidence in his voice that was no doubt induced by the fact that it was at least six weeks since our last meeting and that I had, on that occasion, soundly upbraided him for daring to borrow my one and only toothbrush. He had been bewildered and hurt by my attack and had ...been quick to assure me that he had put the brush back most carefully in its tumbler beside the water bucket where it was always kept. What he hadn’t been able to reassure me about was why, when I came to use the toothbrush, its bristles should have been fuzzy with black hair that was exactly the same shade and texture as his own.
‘Why, Hector!’ I greeted him now with genuine cordiality, for no one could help loving him whatever he did, ‘where on earth have you been all this time?MoreLess
‘It’s a grand day,’ he proffered with beguilement in his blue eyes and a diffidence in his voice that was no doubt induced by the fact that it was at least six weeks since our last meeting and that I had, on that occasion, soundly upbraided him for daring to borrow my one and only toothbrush. He had been bewildered and hurt by my attack and had ...been quick to assure me that he had put the brush back most carefully in its tumbler beside the water bucket where it was always kept. What he hadn’t been able to reassure me about was why, when I came to use the toothbrush, its bristles should have been fuzzy with black hair that was exactly the same shade and texture as his own.
‘Why, Hector!’ I greeted him now with genuine cordiality, for no one could help loving him whatever he did, ‘where on earth have you been all this time?MoreLess
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