What do you think?"
Every one's dinner was spoilt. Theodore declared that really, when
one considered the complicated and expensive machinery of local
government, if sewer traps and _affluvias_ were allowed to exist in
the immediate neighbourhood of bakers' shops, why it really made one
inclined to think and ask whether there might not be something in
the arguments of the Socialists.
Christopher one day brought home some knickknack which he had bought
from a City pedlar, one of those men who stand at the edge of the
pavement between a vigilant police and a menacing vehicular traffic.
It amused his sister-in-law, who showed it to her husband. Theodore
having learnt whence it came was not a little concerned.
"Now, if that isn't like Christopher! When will that boy learn
ordinary prudence? The idea of buying things from a man whose
clothes more likely than not reek with infection! Dear me! Has he
never reflected where those fellows live? Destroy the thing at once
and wash your hands very carefully, I beg. I do hope you haven't
been making pastry or lemonade? As if the inevitable risks of life
were not enough.
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