Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. “Why not? They tell me that London is impossible till after ten, and I want my first impressions to be favourable. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. At any rate, here I am, and here I shall be, twenty thousand feet above all your poison-reeking cities, up where God’s wind comes fresh from heaven, very near indeed to the untrodden snows. It is extraordinary. And yet he knew clearly and definitely what he purposed to do, what the future would be. “I think,” he said, “that I would fetch any one whom he has asked to see. You are an artist by the Divine right of birth, but whatever form of expression may come to you at some time it will not be painting. . Meat pies with sweet crust were stuffed with macaroni, steaks of pork and beef were pounded thin and grilled rare, capons had been marinated in plum wine and cinnamon, and veal sausages stewed in cream were served over fine noodles: all the dishes that he loved were present. I thought then perhaps you didn’t care, that you were like so many of them.
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