One
or two people were coming"An awful swell now," said
Richard

"Good--till this evening then," said Richard, and went his way, "jolly
glad" (that was quite true) to have met that queer chap, who hadn't
changed one bit since he had been at school--just the same knobbly,
chubby little boy then, with prejudices sticking out all over him, but
uncommonly brilliant--won the Newcastle

Prickett Ellis, however, as he turned and looked at Dalloway
disappearing, wished now he had not met him or, at least, for he had
always liked him personally, hadn't promised to come to this party
Dalloway was married, gave parties; wasn't his sort at allHe would
have to dressHowever, as the evening drew on, he supposed, as he had
said that, and didn't want to be rude, he must go there

But what an appalling entertainment! There was Joynson; they had nothing
to say to each otherHe had been a pompous little boy; he had grown
rather more self-important--that was all; there wasn't a single other
soul in the room that Prickett Ellis knewSo, as he could not
go at once, without saying a word to Dalloway, who seemed altogether
taken up with his duties, bustling about in a white waistcoat, there he
had to standIt was the sort of thing that made large gucci bag his gorge riseThink
of grown up, responsible men and women doing this every night of their
lives! The lines deepened on his blue and red shaven cheeks as he leant
against the wall in complete silence, for though he worked like a horse,
he kept himself fit by exercise; and he looked hard and fierce, as if
his moustaches were dipped in frostHe bristled; he gratedHis
meagre dress clothes made him look unkempt, insignificant, angular

Idle, chattering, overdressed, without an idea in their heads, these
fine ladies and gentlemen went on talking and laughing; and Prickett
Ellis watched them and compared them with the Brunners who, when they
won their case against Fenners' Brewery and got two hundred pounds
compensation (it was not half what they should have got) went and spent
five of it on a clock for himThat was a decent sort of thing to do;
that was the sort of thing that moved one, and he glared more severely
than ever at these people, overdressed, cynical, prosperous, and
compared what he felt now with what he felt at eleven o'clock that
morning when old Brunner and MrsBrunner, in their best clothes,
awfully respectable and clean looking old people, had called in to give
him that small token, as the old man put it, tiffany silver standing perfectly upright
to make his speech, of gratitude and respect for the very able way in
which you conducted our case, and MrsBrunner piped up, how it was all
due to him they feltAnd they deeply appreciated his
generosity--because, of course, he hadn't taken a fee

And as he took the clock and put it on the middle of his mantelpiece, he
had felt that he wished nobody to see his faceThat was what he worked
for--that was his reward; and he looked at the people who were actually
before his eyes as if they danced over that scene in his chambers and
were exposed by it, and as it faded--the Brunners faded--there remained
as if left of that scene, himself, confronting this hostile population,
a perfectly plain, unsophisticated man, a man of the people (he
straightened himself) very badly dressed, glaring, with not an air or a
grace about him, a man who was an ill hand at concealing his feelings, a
plain man, an ordinary human being, pitted against the evil, the
corruption, the heartlessness of societyBut he would not go on
staringNow he put on his spectacles and examined the picturesHe read
the titles on a line of books; for the most part poetryHe would have
liked well enough to read some of his old favourites spy bag fendi again--Shakespeare,
Dickens--he wished he ever had time to turn into the National Gallery,
but he couldn't--no, one could notReally one could not--with the world
in the state it was inNot when people all day long wanted your help,
fairly clamoured for helpThis wasn't an age for luxuriesAnd he
looked at the arm chairs and the paper knives and the well bound books,
and shook his head, knowing that he would never have the time, never he
was glad to think have the heart, to afford himself such luxuriesThe
people here would be shocked if they knew what he paid for his tobacco;
how he had borrowed his clothesHis one and only extravagance was his
little yacht on the Norfolk BroadsAnd that he did allow himself, He
did like once a year to get right away from everybody and lie on his
back in a fieldHe thought how shocked they would be--these fine folk--if
they realized the amount of pleasure he got from what he was old
fashioned enough to call the love of nature; trees and fields he had
known ever since he was a boy

These fine people would be shockedIndeed, standing there, putting his
spectacles away in his pocket, he felt himself grow more and more
shocking every instantAnd it was a very disagreeable feelingHe did
not feel white chanel purse this--that he loved humanity, that he paid only fivepence an
ounce for tobacco and loved nature--naturally and quietlyEach of these
pleasures had been turned into a protestHe felt that these people whom
he despised made him stand and deliver and justify himself"I am an
ordinary man," he kept sayingAnd what he said next he was really
ashamed of saying, but he said it"I have done more for my kind in one
day than the rest of you in all your lives Indeed, he could not help
himself; he kept recalling scene after scene, like that when the
Brunners gave him the clock--he kept reminding himself of the nice things
people had said of his humanity, of his generosity, how he had helped
themHe kept seeing himself as the wise and tolerant servant of
humanityAnd he wished he could repeat his praises aloudIt was
unpleasant that the sense of his goodness should boil within himIt was
still more unpleasant that he could tell no one what people had said
about himThank the Lord, he kept saying, I shall be back at work
to-morrow; and yet he was no longer satisfied simply to slip through the
door and go homeHe must stay, he must stay until he had justified
himselfBut how could he? In all that room full of people, he did not
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