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It is only in the Soudan that he could have a free hand, be of real use. There, a man, a real man, like Gordon, could show the world how civilisation can be accepted by desert races, despite a crude and cruel religion and low standards of morality." "All races have their social codes what they call civilisation," rejoined Kingsley.
"Here, gentlemen," continued Kingsley, "you see by what process I have lost my money. But it is not in the dice alone. Look at these cards. Do you note this trace of the finger-nail, here, and there, and there scarcely to be seen unless it is shown to you, but clear enough to the person that made it, and is prepared to look for it.
And the Homeric hexameter will have six words where the English hexameter has twelve or fourteen. Yet having set himself this utterly hopeless and thankless task, to write English hexameter, Kingsley produced some five hundred lines of Andromeda, which in rhythm, ease, rapidity, and metrical correctness are quite amongst the best in the language.
He, Kingsley, and all the good people are full of the deepest anxiety for our American affairs. They really do feel very deeply, seeing the peril so much plainer than we do in America. Sunday night. I fear I have delayed your letter too long.
Dicky thereupon suggested that Kingsley Bey was a government, and that the kourbash was not yet abolished in the English navy, for instance; also that men had to be shot sometimes. At last she had made a direct appeal to Kingsley Bey. She sent an embassy to him Dicky prevented her from going herself; he said he would have her deported straightway, if she attempted it.
This ended our conference. Kingsley rode home with him, while, throwing myself upon the ground, I surrendered myself to such meditations as were natural to the moods which governed me. They were dark and dismal enough. Edgerton had avowed his guilt. Could there be any doubt on the subject of my wife's? He had made no sort of qualification in his avowal of guilt, which might acquit her.
"I'll go down with you," said Huxley. The two traveled back instanter to Harrow, and, while Uncle Matt held the cat, Huxley who had begun life, let it be remembered, as surgeon to the Rattlesnake! examined him, the two black heads together. There is a rumor that Charles Kingsley was included in the consultation. Finally the limb was put in splints and left to nature. All went well.
It was then that he first began to be assailed by those charges of untruthfulness which reached their culmination more than twenty years later in the celebrated controversy with Charles Kingsley, which led to the writing of the Apologia.
My Lady hated slavery and unconsciously she kept a slave; she regarded Kingsley Bey as an enemy to civilisation and to Egypt, she detested him as strongly as an idealistic nature could and should and he had set out to marry her, the woman who had bitterly arraigned him at the bar of her judgment.
"Oh, don't think I undervalue his Excellency here," she said with a little laugh. "It is because he is strong, because he matters so much, that one feels he could do more. Ismail thinks there is no one like him in the world." "Except Gordon," interrupted Kingsley. "Except Gordon, of course; only Gordon isn't in Egypt. And he would do no good in Egypt. The officials would block his way.
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