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"Why, Mr. Piper! " was Oliver's first and wholly inane remark.
It was not what he had intended to say at all -- something rather more / dramatic and on the lines of "Shoot if you must this old grey head, / but if you will only listen to a reasonable explanation -- " had been / uppermost in his mind. But the sight of Peter's father crouched over / what must be Mrs. Severance's body, his weak hands fumbling for her / wrist and heart, his voice thin with a senile sorrow as if he had / been stricken at once and in an instant with a palsy of incurable age, / brought the whole world of Southampton and house-parties and reality / that Oliver thought he had lost touch with forever, back to him so / vividly that all he could do was gape at the tableau on the floor.