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Whatever the facts, he was Stephen Bocqueraz, and she Susan Brown, and they understood each other, and were not afraid! Susan smiled as she thought of the romances built upon the histories of girls who were "led astray," girls who were "ruined," men whose promises of marriage did not hold. It was all such nonsense!
"Time to complete our work our books our histories," counselled Ambition. "Ask Death for time to do this last and crowning act of our great life." But the soldier's ears were deaf to the cries of Ambition; they heard another voice the voice of the soldier's heart and the voice whispered: "Nellie Nellie Nellie."
The amusement with which Elizabeth and her court were next day to be regaled was an exhibition by the true-hearted men of Coventry, who were to represent the strife between the English and the Danes, agreeably to a custom long preserved in their ancient borough, and warranted for truth by old histories and chronicles.
How he would himself have revelled in the paradox "that books which were household words with every cow-boy in Nevada, and every Baboo in Bengal, were condemned by men of culture as the work of a Philistine and a mannerist"; "how ballads which were the delight of every child were ridiculed by critics as rhetorical jingles that would hardly win a prize in a public school"; "how the most famous of all modern reviewers scarcely gave us one example of delicate appreciation or subtle analysis"; how it comes about "that the most elaborate of modern histories does not contain an idea above the commonplaces of a crammer's textbook" and so forth, in the true Black-and-White style which is so clear and so familiar.
In the histories of Alexander and Caesar we are frequently, and indeed impertinently, reminded of their benevolence and generosity, of their clemency and kindness.
Associated with the literary side of this great and bitter conflict a side only too much ignored in the discreet popular histories of the English Church are the names of Delaune, Defoe, Tindal, on the aggressive side, of Sacheverell and Drake on the defensive; each party, during the heat of battle, giving vent to sentiments so offensive to the other as to make it seem that fire alone could atone for the injury or remove the sting.
If past histories are to be raked up, I know of one which embraces a much wider area than London alone; Melbourne, for instance, and Paris and Vienna, to say nothing of more recent events!" "Do your worst, and I will do mine!" she replied, defiantly. "That is nothing to the point, however.
To the rescue from oblivion of their personal histories, a host of biographers have appeared, scattered over the whole period that has elapsed since their deaths to the present time. The first life that appeared of Tobias George Smollett came from the hands of his friend and companion, the celebrated Dr. Moore, himself a novel-writer of no mean fame.
They were not great or heroic, perhaps, those departed figures, whose ghosts haunt us in the red and yellow rooms, and in the stiff town garden; but they had their histories.
'Without doubt you know these histories better than I, he answered. 'But judge them how you will, it is very certain that the King, who loveth simple natures, loveth Privy Seal. 'Yet you have said that he lay under a great shadow, Katharine convicted him. 'Well, he said composedly, 'the balance is down against him. This league with Cleves hath brought him into disfavour.
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