. Yet from time t

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his aristocratic
connections, the Cavendishes, that he determined to put a stop to his
son's courtship. George, at the outset of the momentous interview
with his father, speculated inwardly on his chances of being able to
soften the old man to a favourable view of 'the only wish that he had
ever framed with a feeling that savoured of intensity.' Before
entering the ornamental tower where his father awaited him, George
had composed his face to its usual expression of laziest
indifference. His imperturbability always 'had the effect of a goad
upon his

father's temper. His face never changed colour when the
old man's was purple. His voice never lost its measured drawl.' As
Mr. Piper turned and faced him you would never have traced the
sonship in George. There was nothing in common between the sallow,
indolent
face of the younger man,
and the spreading, heated face of the elder. George looked like any
club-lounger--not
unwilling to let it be seen that he is slightly bored, yet ready,
with perfect acquiescence, to go through with an hour or a forenoon
of
the infliction of boredom, as conveyed by a father's prese

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