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Subsequently Dr. Clarke was taken to task by his diocesan, the Bishop of London, for altering the doxology into an accordance with Arianism. He was for many years known among a certain class of admirers as 'the great Dr. Clarke. Among those who were at least interested in, if not influenced by the doctor was Queen Caroline, the clever wife of George II.
"Lyde, you forget to include one other among those prostrate before Betty's charms," said Alice. "Oh, yes, you mean Mr. Clarke. To be sure, I had forgotten him," answered Lydia. "How odd that he should be the one to find you the day you hurt your foot. Was it an accident?" "Of course. I slipped off the bank," said Betty. "No, no. I don't mean that. Was his finding you an accident?"
"The Lord be merciful to our sinful souls, for I never saw this place before!" "Breakers ahead!" shouted Clarke. "Beach her, Alderton! Run her ashore on yon headland! We that can swim may save ourselves! Beach her, I say!" "And I say no such coward thing," retorted Alderton. "About with her, men! Row, row for your lives! Bend down to it! So! Pull, pull! I see a channel ahead and smooth water!
'There is but one thing, Captain, I broke in eagerly. 'It is as much, or more, for your own sake than mine that I ask it. Do not allow this unhappy man to be murdered. Murgatroyd's face flushed with anger. 'You are a plain speaker, Captain Clarke, said he. 'This is no murder. It is justice. What harm do we here? There is not an old housewife over the whole countryside who does not bless us.
To show so much anxiety on so important a point is not one of the least glorious features in the life of a general placed at the head of a triumphant army. The Directory had sent General Clarke to treat for peace, as second plenipotentiary.
All the boys, McKelvey, Keith, Clarke, Johnston, Graham, Walker, Smith, Reid, Diplock, Palmer, Larkins, Gould, Salter, Mudge, and many others whom I did not know so well, gathered around us and wanted to know how we had fared, and the story of our attempt and subsequent punishment formed the topic of conversation for days.
"That is of most importance to himself and me. It can't interest you." "It interests me very much," Clarke returned, with an ironical smile. "I must ask you to let me tell you what I know." Challoner consented, and Clarke gave what the Colonel admitted was a very accurate account of the action on the Indian frontier.
V., who took it to the late Mr. David Bogue, well known for his general shrewdness and enterprise. He had the book to read and consider over night, and in the morning returned it, declining to take it at the very moderate price of five pounds. "Vizetelly at once put the volume into the hands of a friendly printer and brought it out on his own account, through the nominal agency of Clarke & Co.
"Master Clarke might have won his liberty with the rest, but he refused to take any part in the spectacle today at Carfax." "Yet he never circulated the books," broke out Garret. "He ofttimes cautioned me against importing too many of the treatises written in Germany. He would not approve all that they contained. He could have cast such books upon the flames without violating his conscience.
And when he had bidden her good-by, and had received the tremendous farewells of Jimmy, he realized that she had made upon him an impression which, though soft, was certainly deep. He thought of how a cushion looks when it lies on a sofa in an empty room, indented by the small head of a woman who has been thinking, thinking alone. For a moment he was out of shape, and Mrs. Clarke had made him so.
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