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I am, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, GEORGE VILLIERS. June 23rd . At Borrow's suggestion the President of the Bible Society, Lord Bentley, wrote to Mr Villiers thanking him for the services he had rendered in connection with the Spanish programme.
"The Catholic Times" as late as 1900 was still angry with Borrow's "crass anti-Catholic bigotry." I should have expected them to laugh consumedly at a priest, a parson and a publican who deserve places in the same gallery with wicked earls and noble savages of popular fiction. It may be true that this "creation of Borrow's most studied hatred" is, as Mr.
They looked upon him with fear and awe. . . . In his heart, Borrow was fond of the little ones, though it amused him to watch the impression his strange personality made upon them. Even to the last the old sensitiveness occasionally flashed out, as on the occasion of a visit from the Vicar of Lowestoft, who drove over with an acquaintance of Borrow's to make the hermit's acquaintance.
Borrow's chief regret at leaving Russia was that his active life was interrupted, perhaps at an end. He was dreading the old life of unprofitable study with no complete friends. But luckily, when he had only been a month in England, the Bible Society resolved to send him to Lisbon and Oporto, to look for openings for circulating the Bible in Portugal and perhaps in Spain.
When he returned it was in obedience to a dream, in which he saw his master ride on a black horse up to his inn yet this was immediately after Borrow's landing on his third visit to Spain, of which "only two individuals in Madrid were aware."
The poor woman was distracted, and from time to time she begs for encouraging letters. In response to one of these appeals, John Murray wrote with rare insight into Borrow's character, and knowledge of what is most likely to please him: "There are passages in your book equal to De Foe." The preface when eventually submitted to John Murray disturbed him somewhat.
The Bible and the Newgate Calendar these twain were George Borrow's favourite reading, and all save the psychologist and the pedant will applaud the preference. For the annals of the 'family' are distinguished by an epic severity, a fearless directness of speech, which you will hardly match outside the Iliad or the Chronicles of the Kings.
Borrow had learned the language of the bards "chiefly by going through Owen Pugh's version of 'Paradise Lost' twice" with the original by his side. Captain Borrow's thoughts were frequently occupied with the future of his younger son, a problem that had by no means been determined by signing the articles that bound him to Simpson & Rackham.
Borrow detested O'Connell as a "Dublin bully . . . a humbug, without courage or one particle of manly feeling." I wish sincerely the blackguards would break out at once; they will never be quiet until they have got a sound licking, and the sooner the better." The finer side of Borrow's character was shown in his eagerness to obtain employment.
Such a liberty with fact and date would be quite in accordance with Borrow's autobiographical methods. Thus the "Veiled Period" may be assumed to have been one of wandering. The seven years are gloomy and mysterious, but not utterly dark. There is a hint here, a suggestion there a letter or a paragraph, that gives in a vague way some idea of what Borrow was doing, and where.
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