Here in Brighton they are always getting up morning
or afternoon concerts for charitable purposes; and I wish, Miss Honnor,
when you happen to be interested in any of these, you would let me know;
I should be delighted to run down and volunteer my services. I should be
just delighted. It would be something saved. If I were struck down by an
illness, and had to lie thinking, I could say to myself that I had done
this little scrap of good--not much for a man to do, but I suppose all
that could be expected from a singer."
She could not understand this strange disparagement of himself and his
profession; and she may have been vaguely afraid of the drift of these
confidences; at all events, when she had thanked him for his generous
offer, she rose and went to the portfolio.
"There are some things here that I think will interest you, Mr. Moore,"
she said. "They only arrived last night, and I was just putting them
away when you came in."
He went to the portfolio; she took out two or three large photographs
and handed them to him; the first glance showed him what they
were--pictures of the Aivron and the Geinig valleys, with the rocks and
pools and overhanging woods he knew so well.
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