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The Marquis's picture will still hang in his house until we are ready for it. It is the best specimen of Antonio del Rincon, and will fetch a big price in New York when we have time to go and get it," he laughed. "Is Franklyn to help the Maxwell woman again?" asked Mr. Howell, who was known as an expert valuer of antiques and articles of worth, and who had an office in St. James's.
The king was alarmed at the yoke which he saw prepared for him. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 400 Franklyn, p. 199. Franklyn, p. 178. All the other complaints against him were mere pretences. A little before, he was the idol of the people. No new crime had since been discovered.
* Rushworth, vol. i. p. 398. Sanderson's Life of Charles I., p. 58. * Franklyn, p. 203, etc Parliament. Hist. vol. vii p. 300
Samuel Franklyn, the rich banker, was a man universally respected and admired, and the marriage, though Mabel was fifteen years his junior, won general applause; his bride was an heiress in her own right breweries and the story of her conversion at a revivalist meeting where Samuel Franklyn had spoken fervidly of heaven, and terrifyingly of sin, hell and damnation, even contained a touch of genuine romance.
FRANKLYN. Just so. Consequently, when Adam had the Garden of Eden on a lease for ever, he took care to make it what the house agents call a highly desirable country residence. But the moment he invented death, and became a tenant for life only, the place was no longer worth the trouble. It was then that he let the thistles grow.
LUBIN. You and your newspaper confederates took the peace out of my hands. The peace did not find me out because it did not find me in. FRANKLYN. Come! Confess, both of you! You were only flies on the wheel. The war went England's way; but the peace went its own way, and not England's way nor any of the ways you had so glibly appointed for it.
"I'm very sorry, but I'm not going to have any more time wasted. Now then, my lads, capstan bars, and bring that anchor up with a run. You, James Lynton," he went on, as the men ran to obey their orders, "I'm ashamed of your goings-on. What have you been about? Walking in your sleep, I suppose." "I dunno," said the second mate, scratching one ear. "I can only recollect Mr Franklyn Briscoe saying "
An assembly was accordingly summoned to meet on the twenty-fifth of November ensuing. * 15th Feb. 1610. Spotswood. Franklyn, p. 29. Yet this assembly, which met after the king's departure from Scotland, eluded all his applications; and it was not till the subsequent year, that he was able to procure a vote for receiving his ceremonies.
"You're badly snubbed, Franklyn," George said. "This rain is nothing." A summer shower crashed down as he spoke; a mob of shoppers, breathless for shelter, drove them inwards. "George," said Mr. Franklyn, seating himself, "your base mind thinks I have designs on this girl. I grieve at so distorted a fancy.
When Edmonds, the king's resident at Brussels, made remonstrances to the archduke Albert, he was answered, that the orders for this armament had been transmitted to Spinola from Madrid, and that he alone knew the secret destination of it. * Franklyn, p. 48. Franklyn, p. 44. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 14. * Franklyn, p. 42, 43. Rushworth, vol. i p. 15. Kennet, p. 723.
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