H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole

Name: The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920) — Chapter 8
Author: H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole

The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

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“The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920) — Chapter 8”, published in 1920, is a work by H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole. It explores elements such as Bobby, Mudd and Foulkes.

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Bobby explained.
“Well,” said Tozer, “I forgive you. It was good intent spoiled by atavism. You returned to your old self for a moment, like your uncle Simon. Do you know, Bobby, I believe this disease of your uncle's is more prevalent than one would imagine—though, of course, in a less acute form. We are all always returning to our old selves, by fits and starts—and paying for the return. You see what you have done to-day. Your uncle Simon has done nothing more foolish. You both found your old selves. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ The Ravenshaws were a proud race, and the old admiral, Bobby's father, who lost all his money in Patagonian bonds, was the proudest of the lot and he had handed his pride to his son.
Yes, leaving even the office aside, uncle Simon must be looked after. Now, if uncle Simon had been a lunatic, the task would have been abominable but simple. But a man who had suddenly developed extraordinary youth, yet was, so the doctor said, sane, a man who must be just humored and led, was a worse proposition. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Playing bear leader to a young fool was an entirely different thing from being a young fool oneself. Even his experience of an hour ago told Bobby this. That short experience was his first sharp lesson in the disgustingness of folly. He shied at the prospect of going on with the task. But uncle Simon must be looked after. Bobby couldn't get over or under that fence.
“Well, I'll do what I can,” said he. “I'll come round to-morrow morning. But see here, Mudd, where does he get his money from?”
“He's got ten thousand pounds hid somewhere,” said Mudd. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ It was going out, but I had an uncle who did it. This is interesting.” Then he exploded. He had never seen Simon, the solicitor; otherwise his mirth might have been louder.
“It's very easy to laugh,” said Bobby, rather huffed, “but you wouldn't laugh if you were in my shoes. I've got to look after him.”
“I beg your pardon,” said Tozer. “Now let me be serious. Whatever happens you have got a fine ficelle for a story. I'm in earnest. It only wants working out.”
“Oh, good heavens!” said Bobby, “does one eat one's grandmother? ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ It can't be—but it is—it's the relative!”
“The one you told me of that fired you out and cut you off with a shilling?”
“Yes. Uncle Simon. No, it's not! It can't be! It is, though. In a straw hat!”
“And squiffy,” said Foulkes.
Bobby got up and, leaving the other, strolled to the bar casually. The man at the bar was toying with a glass of soda water supplied to him on sufferance. Bobby got close to him. Yes, that was the right hand with the white scar, got when a young man “hunting,” and the seal ring.
The last time Bobby had met uncle Simon was in the office in Old Sergeant's Inn. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Robert, and you've got to help, being the only relative.”
“Couldn't that doctor man take care of him?”
“Not he,” said Mudd. “He's given me instructions. The master is just to be let alone, in reason. Any thwarting or checking might send him clean off. He's got to be led, not driven.”
Bobby whistled softly and between his teeth. He couldn't desert uncle Simon. He never remembered that uncle Simon had deserted him for just such conduct or even less, for Bobby, stupid as he was, had rarely descended to the position he had found uncle Simon in a little while ago. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Robert.”
“Mudd,” said Bobby, when they were in the hall again, “what is it?”
“He's gone,” said Mudd, “gone in the head.”
“Mad?”
“No, not mad. It's a temporary abrogation—one of them new diseases, the doctor says. It's his youth come back on him, grown like a wisdom tooth. Yesterday he was as right as you or me, this morning he started off for the office as right as myself. It must have struck him sudden. Same thing happened last year and he got over it. It took a month, though.”
“Good heavens!” said Bobby. “I met him in a bar, by chance. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Then, nodding to the bartender, “'Nother, same as mine.”
“What have you been doing?” asked Bobby vaguely, as he took the glass.
“Roun' the town—roun' the town,” replied the other. “Gl'd to meet you. ”

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