Crisparkle, what need I have of study in all ways. Not to mention
that you have advised me to study for the difficult profession of
the law, specially, and that of course I am guiding myself by the
advice of such a friend and helper. Such a good friend and
helper!'
He took the fortifying hand from his shoulder, and kissed it. Mr.
Crisparkle beamed at the books, but not so brightly as when he had
entered.
'I gather from your silence on the subject that my late guardian is
adverse, Mr. Crisparkle?'
The Minor Canon answered: 'Your late guardian is a--a most
unreasonable person, and it signifies nothing to any reasonable
person whether he is ADverse, PERverse, or the REverse.'
'Well for me that I have enough with economy to live upon,' sighed
Neville, half wearily and half cheerily, 'while I wait to be
learned, and wait to be righted! Else I might have proved the
proverb, that while the grass grows, the steed starves!'
He opened some books as he said it, and was soon immersed in their
interleaved and annotated passages; while Mr. Crisparkle sat beside
him, expounding, correcting, and advising. The Minor Canon's
Cathedral duties made these visits of his difficult to accomplish,
and only to be compassed at intervals of many weeks. But they were
as serviceable as they were precious to Neville Landless.
When they had got through such studies as they had in hand, they
stood leaning on the window-sill, and looking down upon the patch
of garden.
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