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108 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP
your room, I told you you had," he said abruptly. "Young gentlemen,
it is time for you to be off to Grey Friars. Is the cab at the
door, Brice ?" And he took out his watch—his great shining watch,
by which he had felt the pulses of so many famous personages,
whom his prodigious skill had rescued from disease. And at parting,
Phil flung his arms round his poor mother, and kissed her under
the glossy curls ; the borrowed curls ! and he looked his father
resolutely in the face (whose own glance used to fall before that of
the boy), and bade him a gruff good-night, ere we set forth for Grey
Friars.