Trewlove

"This gentleman is inquiring for a telegram sent here this afternoon, addressed 'Trewlove'."

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"Trewlove," said I, "you know, it seems, that I have written a play."

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"Trewlove," said I, "you shall pack for me to-morrow, and send off the servants on board wages.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

While Trewlove tortured himself to my model, was I, by painful degrees, exchanging brains with him?

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"Most unbecoming," said I. "Unwomanly," said Trewlove, with a sudden contortion of the face;

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"As for inconvenience, sir -- if I may remind you -- the course of Trewlove never did --"

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Therefore Trewlove is certainly an impudent scoundrel, and any grand jury would bring in a true bill against him for a swindler.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

I will not swear that for the moment I thought of Trewlove at all: but he remained at the back of my mind, and at Calais I began the process of precipitating him (so to speak) by a telegram advertising him of my return, and requesting that my room might be prepared.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

A wild suspicion occurred to me that 'Mr. Herbert' might be another name for Trewlove, and that Trewlove under that name was gaining a short start from justice.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

_My Tenant_ lay in the drawer of my writing-table in the Cromwell Road, and I was calculating how quickly a telegram would reach Trewlove with instructions to find and forward it.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903