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Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out11. Chapter XI (continued)"No, we didn't congratulate them," said Hewet. "They seemed very happy." "Well," said Hirst, pursing up his lips, "so long as I needn't marry either of them--" "We were very much moved," said Hewet. "I thought you would be," said Hirst. "Which was it, Monk? The thought of the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you," he said to Helen, "he's capable of being moved by either." Rachel was a good deal stung by his banter, which she felt to be directed equally against them both, but she could think of no repartee. "Nothing moves Hirst," Hewet laughed; he did not seem to be stung at all. "Unless it were a transfinite number falling in love with a finite one--I suppose such things do happen, even in mathematics." "On the contrary," said Hirst with a touch of annoyance, "I consider myself a person of very strong passions." It was clear from the way he spoke that he meant it seriously; he spoke of course for the benefit of the ladies. "By the way, Hirst," said Hewet, after a pause, "I have a terrible confession to make. Your book--the poems of Wordsworth, which if you remember I took off your table just as we were starting, and certainly put in my pocket here--" "Is lost," Hirst finished for him. "I consider that there is still a chance," Hewet urged, slapping himself to right and left, "that I never did take it after all." "No," said Hirst. "It is here." He pointed to his breast. "Thank God," Hewet exclaimed. "I need no longer feel as though I'd murdered a child!" "I should think you were always losing things," Helen remarked, looking at him meditatively. This is page 143 of 389. [Mark this Page] Mark any page to add this title to Your Bookshelf. (0 / 10 books on shelf) Buy a copy of The Voyage Out at Amazon.com
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