Chapter 12: XII

XII The Sweat of an Honest Man’s Brow Mr. Mortimer Lightwood and Mr. Eugene Wrayburn took a coffeehouse dinner together in Mr. Lightwood’s office. They had newly agreed to set up a joint establishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton, on the brink of the Thames, with a lawn, and a boathouse; and all things fitting, and were to float with the stream through the summer and the Long Vacation. It was not summer yet, but spring; and it was not gentle spring ethereall…