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"Yes. Why?" "Only that it must have been you I saw with him." "And can you throw any light on the mystery?" Morriston asked. The girl shook her head. "None at all, I'm afraid." "Did Mr. Henshaw's manner or state of mind strike you as being peculiar?" "Not in the least," Miss Elyot answered with decision.
Ascham was not the first in his own time to preach such doctrine. Forty years before the publication of The Schoolmaster, Sir Thomas Elyot, in his book called The Governour, raised his voice against the barbarity of teachers 'by whom the wits of children be dulled, almost the very words of John Lyly.
"Why, Jasper Elyot King!" cried Polly, slipping out from under the doctor's palms, and seizing the two hands extended, she began to spin around as in the olden days, "did you ever, ever hear of anything so perfectly magnificent! But Ben and Joel and Davie!" and she paused on the edge of another pirouette. Dr. Fisher made haste to answer, "Polly, Mrs. Whitney will take care of them."
And here I am glad to find confirmation of my belief in the stalwart old Boke Named the Governour, published by Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531, the first treatise on education in the English tongue, and still, after all these years, one of the wisest.
Sir Thomas Elyot, in his Governour , complains that the falcons of his day consumed so much poultry, that, in a few years, he feared there would be a great scarcity of it. "I speake not this," says he, "in disprayse of the faukons, but of them which keepeth them lyke cockneyes."
These successors of Roger Ascham and Thomas Elyot and Philip Sidney were Puritanic, moralistic, practical; and with their "faith in God, faith in man and faith in work" they built an empire. Lowell's own mind, like Franklin's, like Lincoln's, had a shrewd sense of what concerns the common interests of all.
"Polly," said Jasper, taking her hand, "you know your mother will feel dreadfully if she knows you are worrying about it." "I know it," said Polly, bravely, raising her head; "and I won't why Jasper Elyot King!" for then she saw Grandpapa and Phronsie and the steerage baby. Jasper gave a halloo, and waved his hand, and Polly danced up and down and called, and waved her hands too.
And he looked round the company with a knowing smile. "What do you mean, Painswick?" Morriston asked eagerly. "Has anything more come to light?" "Only we have had a lady here, Miss Elyot, who says she danced with the poor fellow." "I only just took a turn with him, for the waltz was nearly over when he asked me," said the girl thus alluded to. "Did you wear a green dress?" Kelson asked eagerly.
"I remember them quite well, although we didn't know much about them." "Don't you recollect," Miss Elyot continued, "meeting this very Mr. Henshaw at a big garden party they gave. I know you played tennis with him." "Did I?" Miss Tredworth replied. "What a memory you have, Gladys. You can't expect me to recollect every one of the scores of men I must have played tennis with."
"During the short time we were together our talk was quite commonplace, mostly of the changes in the county." "Did he, Henshaw, know it formerly?" Morriston asked with some surprise. "Oh, yes," Miss Elyot answered, "he used to stay with some people over at Lamberton; you remember the Peltons, Muriel?" she turned to Miss Tredworth. "Of course you do." "Oh, yes," Muriel Tredworth answered.
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