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On the very next morning, so Henry Wilson relates, a meeting of about twenty members of the House was held; among their leaders were Israel Washburn, Jr., of Maine, and Edward Dickinson and Thomas D. Eliot of Massachusetts; and it was agreed that the best hope lay not in the Whig organization, but in a new party, for which the name "Republican" was chosen; and of which this occasion might now be considered the birth and christening.
Morton's work on Episcopacy, and a vindication of the Church of England against the attacks of the famous Edward Bagshawe. In this letter Dorothy describes some husbands whom she could not marry. See what she expects in a lover! Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life? Could George Eliot herself have done more for us in like space?
George Eliot describes two of her characters as being "in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion when each is sure of the other's love and all its mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the slightest gesture into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent."
"He looks pretty ghastly." "Do you know what's the matter with him?" "How can I know? He doesn't tell me anything." "It's ever since he heard that Anne's going." "He's worried about her. So am I. So are you." "He isn't worrying. He's fretting.... Eliot do you think he cares for her?" Eliot didn't answer her.
Eliot himself seems to have become discouraged and to have abandoned his own ideal, for only seven years after writing the above he came to advocate the division of the whole national school system into three classes: that for the upper class, that for the middle class, and that for the masses of the people and he even insisted that this division is democratic if the elevation of the pupil from one class to the other is made "easy."
"I mean lots of these complaints are really mere red tape; some self-important employee is trying to look busy. A little investigation usually puts that straight." "Of course," she acquiesced, and he breathed a sigh of relief. "That happens, too, but Miss Eliot says that the conditions out there are really dreadful."
Eliot spoke to him quietly in a low tone: "Springer has deserted us," he said. "If I'd had you on the bench and ready, I'd surely sent you onto the firing line to relieve Grant. Get somebody to catch you and limber your arm up. I may let you finish the game." So Hooker peeled off and went at it warming up while Oakdale made a desperate but futile effort to gather some more tallies.
I can hardly bear to have her in my house after the way she acted about those fearful places." "Well, all that district is the limit, of course. She isn't the only landlord." "But she didn't see those people." "She's human, I guess didn't want to see disturbing things." "I would have torn down those cottages with my own hands!" burst forth Geneviève. E. Eliot stared.
Rooms were engaged at Beck Hall, and the young men began their inspection of the classic city on the Charles. "This city is on the square," remarked Tom. "Lafayette, Central, Putnam, Harvard, Brattle, and some more on the East side I suppose." "The college is on the square too," said Quincy, "as long as Dr. Eliot is Prexie."
"And he's just as well out of the way," she added briskly, "till we've got this tangle straight" little dreaming that her nephew was responsible for the whole knotting of the tangled skein. By kindly probing she elicited the real, grim tragedy which lay behind all the gossip, and her anger against Eliot knew no bounds.
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