Chapter 23 No.23

May 16, 1904.-"It is long," says a note of the 16th of May, "since I wrote down any of Bettesworth's talk; but it flows on constantly-less vivacious than of old, perhaps, for he is visibly breaking since his illness in the spring, and is a stiff, shiftless, rather weary, rather sad old man; but his garrulity has not lost its flavour of the country-