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Would that some of those friends had recorded for our delight the wit that, alas! has vanished like the smoke through which it was engendered. What would we not give for the table-talk of Henry Fielding. Chap. iii. Miscellanies, ed. 1743, vol. ii. p. 62. In the Miscellanies of 1743. Fielding, Austin Dobson, 1907. App. iv.
Austin Dobson has rendered so prettily in a villanelle, may come within the scope of this Muse, for it has a playfulness mingled with its melancholy, a sadness in its play. Perhaps, too, if Horace is to be done into verse, these old French forms seem as fit vehicles as any for Latin poetry that was written in the exotic measures of Greece.
This devotion to duty was indeed rare in those days, when passion was supreme and pure love was almost unknown. Mr. Dobson says that this one trait by which she gave real expression of virtue is profoundly a product of her mental self. Her instinct would have led her to self-abandonment, so common in that day, but her "man by the head" self was stronger than her "woman by the heart" self.
Politics Ridgeley Holman Dobson was interested in politics; his lecture had been about something-or-other political she wished, now, she'd paid more attention to what he'd talked about. Politics, it seemed, was a promising field in the broadening life of women. And they always had a Sheriff in Cherryvale. Just what were a Sheriff's duties? And how old must one be to become a Sheriff?
Who and what was this man "plain John Freake," as he called himself, who carried large sums of money, domineered over self-important burgesses and mayors, who was served by such well-appointed horsemen, whom Master Dobson, a parliament man, feared, and my Lord Brocton had thought it worth while to attempt to put out of the way?
It is a true note of its kind; but you see, ma'am, it is a joint-stock bank, and there are reports out that it is likely to break. Mr Johnson is only doing his duty, ma'am, as I am sure Mr Dobson knows." But Mr Dobson could not respond to the appealing bow by any answering smile.
As we walked away he asked my name and profession, and I thought he smiled with peculiar satisfaction when I said I was a student of medicine. "Oh, indeed!" he said; "well we shall see. But here we are. This is the house of my good friend Dobson. City man capital fellow, like all City men ahem! He has put his house at my disposal at this very trying period of my existence."
And yet Planus's words sometimes recurred to his thoughts, especially in the evening when Sidonie, after all the commotion attendant upon the completion of her toilette, went away to the theatre with Madame Dobson, leaving the apartment empty as soon as her long train had swept across the threshold.
Dear old Dobson gave us ten pounds, and the concert fund is turning out well." Wrayson lit a cigarette and looked back from the open door. "You're more at home with philanthropy than horrors, Colonel," he remarked. "Good night, everybody!" The Baroness was looking her best, and knew it. She had slept well the night before, and her eyes were soft and clear.
One of them seemed to be brewing just then. "I fear Hans and Considine will get wet jackets before they arrive," said Frank Dobson, rising and going to the window. "Hans and Considine!" exclaimed Gertie, with a flush; "are they here?" "Ay, they came with me as far as Grahamstown on business of some sort. By the way, what a big place that is becoming, quite a town!
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