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In a more humorous moment the father would some  times say : " Have you been buying any aesthetic things lately, Henry IN A MORE HUMOROUS MOMENT THE FATHER WOULD SOMETIMES SAY HAVE YOU BEEN BUYING ANY ESTHETIC THINGS LATELY HENRY
n his mind for some time. He felt a kind of importance in consequence of it ; he seemed to himself to be embarking on a fresh epoch in his existence. He dined at his club, and dined well. Thoughts of a love-touched future, black coffee, a small o-lass of kirsch, and another of the cigarettes that could only be obtained by favour occupied him for the next two minutes. Then he proceeded to write two letters. His first letter was to his father, and Henry Burnage's letters to his father were exceed- ingly unlike his letters to anybody else. The elder Burn age had started life with a small shop, and although he had long ago retired from his business he had never been able to feel properly ashamed of it ; and he never said even a passably brilliant thing about the THE OCTAVE OF CLAUDIUS. 43 commercial spirit and the middle classes. This alone made him different from the kind of man that his son was. The father was somewhat Puritanical, and quite uncultured ; here again the son was different.  THAT THE RESOLUTION WAS TAKEN IT HAD BEEN HOVERING IN HIS MIND FOR SOME TIME HE FELT A KIND OF IMPORTANCE IN CONSEQUENCE OF IT HE SEEMED TO HIMSELF TO BE EMBARKING ON A FRESH EPOCH IN HIS EXISTENCE HE DINED AT HIS CLUB AND DINED WELL THOUGHTS OF THE LOVE TOUCHED FUTURE BLACK COFFEE A SMALL GLASS OF KERCHED AND ANOTHER OF THE CIGARETTES THAT COULD ONLY BE OBTAINED BY FAVOUR OCCUPIED HIM FOR THE NEXT TWO MINUTES THEN HE PROCEEDED TO WRITE TWO LETTERS HIS FIRST LETTER WAS TO HIS FATHER AND HENRY BURNAGE'S LETTERS TO HIS FATHER WERE EXCEEDINGLY UNLIKE HIS LETTERS TO ANYBODY ELSE THE ELDER BURNISH HAD STARTED LIFE WITH A SMALL SHOP AND ALTHOUGH HE HAD LONG AGO RETIRED FROM HIS BUSINESS HE HAD NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FEEL PROPERLY ASHAMED OF IT AND HE NEVER EVEN SAID A PASSIVELY BRILLIANT THING ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT AND MIDDLE CLASSES THIS ALONE MADE HIM DIFFERENT FROM THE KIND OF MAN THAT HIS SON WAS THE FATHER WAS SOMEWHAT PURITANICAL AND QUITE UNCULTURED HERE AGAIN THE SON WAS DIFFERENT
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