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Like other intolerant folk
he was now paying for his prejudices.
"An erotic little beast," Keith went on. "And a typical Hebrew--a
scoffer. Have you noticed what a disruptive and irreverential brood
they are? They move up and down society like some provocative fluid,
insensible to our ideals; they take a diabolical pleasure in shattering
our old-established conceptions of right and wrong. I confess I like
them for that; they need shattering, some of those conceptions. And
they have their weaknesses too, their Achilles heel--music, for
instance, or chess. When next you are in town don't forget to go to
that little chess club of theirs over Aldgate East station. It is
better than a play to watch their faces. And with all this materialism
they have a mysterious feminine leaven of enthusiasm and unworldliness.
What pecuniary advantage could Marten expect to gain from his
minerals?"
"A professorship."
"Why, possibly. He had the professorial temperament; there was not much
poetry in his composition.


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