George Bernard Shaw

“ Let us go back."
"If you wish," said Herbert, reluctantly. "But I warn you that London is full of begging impostors."
Meanwhile Mr Sutherland, finding his spectacles where he had left them, took them up; wiped them with his handkerchief; and was turning away, when he found himself confronted by the strange man, who had risen.
"Sir," said the man, raising his shabby hat, and speaking in a subdued voice of remarkable power: "I have been a tutor; and I am a musician. I can convince you that I am an honest and respectable man. I am in need of employment. ”

“ Divinity students are too narrow and dogmatic to be comfortable to live with."
"There!" exclaimed Mr. Sutherland, suddenly indignant: "you are beginning to make objections. Do you expect to get an angel from heaven to teach Charlie?"
"No, papa; but I doubt if anything less will satisfy him."
"I will speak to some of my friends about it," said Herbert. "There is no hurry for a week or two, I suppose?"
"Oh, no, none whatever," said Mr. Sutherland, ostentatiously serene after his outbreak: "there is no hurry certainly. But Charlie must not be allowed to contract habits of idleness ”

“ Sutherland, turning from the memorial, and putting his spectacles on the bench beside him. "It is quite a study. I wish I had this business of Charlie's off my mind."
"You will find a tutor for him without any difficulty," said Herbert. "There are hundreds to choose from in London."
"Yes; but if there were a thousand, Charlie would find a new objection to every one of them. You see the difficulty is the music."
Herbert, incommoded by a sudden movement of the strange man, got a little nearer to Mary, and replied, "I do not think the music ought to present much difficulty. ”

“ He was clean shaven, and had a rugged, resolute mouth, a short nose, marked nostrils, dark eyes, and black hair, which curled over his low, broad forehead.
"He is certainly not a handsome man," said the lady; "but he will do us no harm, I suppose?"
"Of course not," said the younger gentleman seriously. "But I can get some chairs, if you prefer them."
"Nonsense! I was only joking." As she spoke, the man on the bench looked up at her ”