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Fine cedars were dotted about before the house in a haphazard pattern, making it clear that some of their number had died from old age. As the car drew up, the hall-­‐porter came down the steps of the hotel with a note in his hand. ’ he asked. Mr Pym took the note and read it. It was from Charles, to say that he had arrived at the hotel the day before, and not finding any of his family there, had left again to go Aying with a friend; but they would both be back for dinner that night. Orvil squirmed.

The full wine-­‐skin belly swung dangerously from side to side. Orvil shut his eyes, then opened them again. The fat man’s pectoral muscles were so relaxed and overlaid with fat that they looked like pretty adolescent girl’s breasts. Orvil could see them dancing and bouncing about under the white cotton, and he caught clearer glimpses when the unbuttoned shirt blew wide open. He wanted to laugh now. They looked so gay and ridiculous; like two little animated castle-­‐puddings. Suddenly dull drum-­‐beats stopped the singing.

At least that is what he called it. He had heard it last term on a master’s gramophone. Triumphant sounds of pain flowed out of him. He was singing loudly now, trying to fill in the various instruments of the orchestra below and above the theme. He felt in his heart that it should be quite possible to sing three parts at once, just as it is possible to hear them. When he had first heard the Thaïs gramophone record, he had not given it much attention, but the rather frightening eccentric master, in his two pairs of tinted glasses, had impressed it on him by walking up and down the room talking about it, and then by playing it again.

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