The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton

Author:G.K. Chesterton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Classics
Published: 2010-08-23T23:00:00+00:00

The first exchange of salutations and introductions was commonplace enough, and consisted, indeed, of the inevitable repetition of excuses for the eccentric seclusion of the host. He had gone fishing again, of course, and must not be disturbed till the appointed hour, though he sat within a stone's throw of where they stood.

You see it's his only hobby, observed Harker, apologetically, and, after all, it's his own house; and he's very hospitable in other ways.

I'm rather afraid, said Fisher, in a lower voice, that it's becoming more of a mania than a hobby. I know how it is when a man of that age begins to collect things, if it's only collecting those rotten little river fish. You remember Talbot's uncle with his toothpicks, and poor old Buzzy and the waste of cigar ashes. Hook has done a lot of big things in his time--the great deal in the Swedish timber trade and the Peace Conference at Chicago--but I doubt whether he cares now for any of those big things as he cares for those little fish.

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