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This was Senator Sumner; and there, in fact, the young man's education began; there it ended. Going over the experience again, long after all the great actors were dead, he struggled to see where he had blundered. In the effort to make acquaintances, he lost friends, but he would have liked much to know whether he could have helped it.
Not aware of their being in town, however, I blundered on Sir John, I believe, the first day of his coming, and the day after I had called at Mrs. Jennings's. He asked me to a party, a dance at his house in the evening. Had he not told me as an inducement that you and your sister were to be there, I should have felt it too certain a thing, to trust myself near him.
So I was a brute and blundered. 'You must forgive me, Miss Grayling, but I am not feeling very well, and I don't think I'm up to any more dancing. Good-night. The weather out of doors was in tune with my frame of mind, I was in a deuce of a temper, and it was a deuce of a night.
French writers do injustice to their own army and general, when they revive malignant calumnies against Wellington, and speak of his having blundered into victory. No blunderer could have successfully encountered such troops as those of Napoleon, and under such a leader.
And you would ask me, 'Why are you so ashamed of your name that you take another? Now, as that is not in the Catechism, it would have been more difficult for me to answer, and so I would have blundered and stumbled and made such a fool of myself that you would have despised me. No, I could not endure that, and so I acted with audacious boldness. You are not sorry, are you?"
"Out across the waves it blundered, rising little by little from the water, and now, to my horror, I saw another monstrous bird swinging in the air above it, squealing as it turned on its vast wings. Before I could speak we touched the beach, and I half lifted her to the shore. "'Quick! I repeated. 'We must not wait.
His pen tore fiercely over the paper as something whispered: "Women? Yes. But another Arithelli ?" "I have something more to think of than Love. All the women in the world would not make me waste an hour." The stolid niece blundered heavily about the room, doing things that were entirely unnecessary, and raising much dust.
In the end he took to presenting himself at the theatre in various stages of drunkenness, and on one unlucky night he practically settled his own fate by falling down on the stage after he had blundered over his lines a dozen times. The public saw little of him after that, for he had not the power of Kean, or Cooke, or Brooke. They all go the same way when they slip as Devine did.
A boy shewed her the way It was her cries and his, mingled with the blasphemies of the wretches above, which I had heard! Her first word again was murder! 'Fly! Save him, save him! I rushed forward The noise above stairs was dreadful I blundered and missed the stairs, but the terrified boy had run after me to shew me.
"When she mentioned her name. Who could have supposed that you an inveterate enemy to the Roman Catholic Church would have christened your daughter by the name of a Roman Catholic Saint?" He listened to this with a smile. Had I happily blundered on some association which his mind was still able to pursue? "You happen to be wrong this time," he said pleasantly.
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