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All the money in his mother's family has come to him, and he is the heir to Lord Daniel's great Derbyshire property. Twelve years ago I used to hear him talked about incessantly by the Cambridge men one met. "Citizen Flaxman" they called him, for his opinion's sake. He would ask his scout to dinner, and insist on dining with his own servants, and shaking hands with his friends' butlers.
Here we halted and raised contributions, took money of the country and of the open towns, to exempt them from plunder. Twice we faced the town of Cambridge, and several of our officers advised his Majesty to storm it.
A turn of the Gulf Stream and the descendants of the Puritans would lose the last vestige of their inherited consciences and bask in the sun like happy animals. But though the sky was violet, the bright sunlight was cold. Maggie walked briskly along, by the water park, out by the great houses in Longwood, to the light bridge which swept over the river to Cambridge.
The Cambridge platform of 1648, which embodied the orthodox features of the Congregational system as determined up to that time, gave place to the Half-Way Covenant of 1657 and 1662, which owed its rise to the coming to maturity of the second generation, the children of the first settlers, now admitted to membership but not to full communion a wide departure from the original purpose of the founders.
The boyish compliment pleased Mrs. Goddard. It was long since any one had flattered her, for flattery did not enter into the squire's system for making himself agreeable. "Do they teach that sort of thing at Cambridge?" she asked demurely. "What sort of thing?" "Making little speeches to ladies," said she. "No I wish they did," said John, laughing. "I should know much better how to make them.
The lectures upon French history were, however, the last performance which represented anything like his full powers. In October 1847 my brother went into residence at Trinity College, Cambridge. 'My Cambridge career, he says, 'was not to me so memorable or important a period of life as it appears to some people. He seems to have extended the qualification to all his early years.
World-states and aristocracies of steel and fire, things that were as real as coal-scuttles in Billy's rooms away there at Cambridge, were now remoter than Sirius. He was expected to shave, expected to bath, expected to go in to the bright warmth and white linen and silver and china of his breakfast-table. And there he found letters and invitations, loaded with expectation.
'Cambridge four wickets down for 115, but and the young man stared, 'it must be, it is Pussy Merton! 'And you, Clancy Minor, why are you not converting the Heathen Chinee? You deserve a death of torture. 'Goodness! How do you know that? asked Clancy. 'I know many things, answered Merton. 'I am not sure which of you is Mr. Bathe. Clancy presented Mr.
So Cynthia was hearing all about Cambridge, and the very examination about which Molly had felt such keen interest, without having ever been able to have her questions answered by a competent person; and Roger, to whom she had always looked as the final and most satisfactory answerer, was telling all she wanted to know, and she could not listen.
I listened with astonishment when I heard him begin to speak of Homer, of Horace, and of Virgil; and still more when he quoted several passages, by memory, from each of these authors, pronouncing the words, and laying his emphasis, with as much propriety as I could possibly have expected, had he been educated at Cambridge or at Oxford.
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