The Eyes of Light A Novel Author:Arthur Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. PAUL EMBRACES A NEGLECTED ART. TT was in the course of one of the voyages of discovery for which, on a fine afternoon towards the end of the L... more »ong Vacation, Paul Morrow would occasionally abandon the scene of his articled clerkship in Lincoln's Inn Fields, that his soul was fired with a new ambition. The hour was four of the clock; the place, one of the thoroughfares of unlovely Pimlico; the precise spot, the threshold of the International College of Plain and Fancy Cookery. Beneath the shadow of this portentous edifice, Paul had paused, a prey to curious thoughts. " If I had a daughter," he concluded, when the commissionaire had already begun to eye him with suspicion, "it is here, and not at Girton, that she should take degrees. To think," he sighed, " to think that there are girls who wrinkle their pale brows over Plato, when they might be learning to make omelettes; who are concernedabout Greek accents, when they might be perfecting the accentuation of a mystic sauce." He shook his head sorrowfully, and fumbled in his pockets for a match. It was at this moment that Cynthia Murray, escorted by a hard-featured maid-servant, alighted from an omnibus and tripped lightly up the wide steps of the College. Paul's eyes followed her slim figure till it vanished behind the swing-doors, and for quite five seconds he forgot his cigarette. " Now, that's what I call a sensible girl," he assured himself, reflectively. " A devilish pretty —I mean, an extremely sensible girl." He mounted the steps slowly, and consulted the time-table which was displayed on a board at the side of the door. This hour, he observed, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays was devoted to " Entrees and Sauces, or Braising, Boning, etc." His face fell, as he reflected that these subjects seemed...« less