![]() ![]() Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. His father cultivated art and self-realisation his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. ![]() His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion. He had not attained it by any tame tradition. He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists. ![]() Nor was his hatred of anarchy hypocritical. Gabriel Syme was not merely a detective who pretended to be a poet he was really a poet who had become a detective. ![]()
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