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Caffyn is going to recite something; come upstairs, all of you, and listen. For Mrs. Langton had begged him to do something to amuse the children. 'I don't want them to dance too much, she had said. 'If you could manage to cool them down before supper. 'I'll cool them down! said Caffyn to himself, with one of his peculiar impulses to safe and secret malevolence.
He had made himself a name in literature while Reynolds and the Wartons were still boys. He was about twenty years older than Burke, Goldsmith, and Gerard Hamilton, about thirty years older than Gibbon, Beauclerk, and Langton, and about forty years older than Lord Stowell, Sir William Jones, and Windham. Boswell and Mrs.
Langton was summoned to Rome to attend the Lateran Council, and was detained there until the deaths of Innocent III. and King John, after which he was permitted to return to his see and passed the remainder of his life in comparative tranquillity, siding strongly with the national party under Hubert de Burgh.
In regard to a lawyer, I know of one in whom I have thorough confidence. He will by this time, I hope, have set up for himself, and I could not place the matter in better hands." Owen had frequent conversations with Mr Leigh and Langton, but no one else on board had any idea that the apparently friendless young midshipman was the claimant to a title and handsome estate.
I must see Humphrey, and be candid with him." "But Alice and Edith, where are they gone, father?" "That I can inform you. I have a letter from Langton on the subject, for I begged him to find out.
Not knowing where he might be, he addressed the letters to Langton Park, but he received no replies. At length the ship was ready for sea, and, dropping down the Thames, stood out in the channel for a cruise. We must now return to Lyme. The cordial reception Stephen Battiscombe met with from the Duke made him more than ever devoted to his cause.
It occurred to them perhaps to Stephen Langton too that they could keep their churches open, and ring their bells, without the Pope's permission as well as with it. So, they tried the experiment and found that it succeeded perfectly.
Call upon me to-morrow morning, an hour before noon, and I will have letters ready for you." Edward rose to depart, and thanked Mr. Langton for his kindness. "Farewell, Master Armitage," said Langton; "to-morrow, at the eleventh hour!"
Nor was his courage merely passive. Beauclerk did not find it so when at his country house he saw Johnson go up to two large dogs which were fighting and beat them till they stopped: nor did Langton when he warned Johnson against a dangerous pool where they were bathing, only to see Johnson swim straight into it; nor did the four ruffians who once attacked him in the street and were surprised to find him more than a match for the four of them.
A boat-hook and a couple of oars had been found floating close to the boat, and the men had placed them on the bottom. Langton proposed to Owen to swim round and pick up others. They succeeded in finding three more, but the rest by that time had drifted out of sight. They returned with those they had regained, and resumed their seats.
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