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The Roman Catholic peers, by prematurely attempting to force their way into the Privy Council and the House of Lords, might lose their mansions and their ample estates, and might end their lives as traitors on Tower Hill, or as beggars at the porches of Italian convents.
They went to their work again, but drawing breath first; something had spoken to them, something from beyond. Great marvels were about them at all times; in the winter were the stars; in winter often, too, the northern lights, a firmament of wings, a conflagration in the mansions of God. Now and then, not often; not commonly, but now and then, they heard the thunder.
Soames had halted in front of them, and was looking up at the light in her windows. 'If he goes in, thought Jolyon, 'what shall I do? What have I the right to do? What the fellow had said was true. She was still his wife, absolutely without protection from annoyance! 'Well, if he goes in, he thought, 'I follow. And he began moving towards the mansions.
Amos Perley, another son of Oliver Perley seems to have inherited some poetical taste from the Palmers, and is credited with the following amongst other rhymes: "Wrapt in dark mantles of the night Was Bonnel when he took his flight; Elijah-like he tried to fly To the bright mansions in the sky.
On the other hand, the class which had the money, no matter how that money was gotten, irrespective of how much fraud or sacrifice of life attended its amassing, stood out with a luminous distinctness. It arrogated to itself all that was superior, and it exacted, and was invested with, a lordly deference. It lived in the finest mansions and laved in luxuries.
Both may have visited the same mansions, but not at the same time; for one was bidden to the festal hall, and the other to the sick-chamber; he was the guest of Pleasure and Prosperity, and she of Anguish. Rose, after their separation, was long secluded within the dwelling of Mr. Toothaker, whom she married with the revengeful hope of breaking her false lover's heart.
It was one of those cottages which bespeak the ease and luxury not often found in more ostentatious mansions an abode which, at sixteen, the visitor contemplates with vague notions of poetry and love which, at forty, he might think dull and d -d expensive-which, at sixty, he would pronounce to be damp in winter, and full of earwigs in the summer.
Their Hamlet-like consciousness of the "many mansions" of truth tends to paralyse the impetus of their challenge. They are so often, too, dramatists and novelists rather than prophets, and their work, while it gains in sympathy and subtlety, loses in directness.
The inhabitants suddenly aroused from their security went to the barriers of the city and obstructed the streets with vehicles; to remove what still remained in Moscow the means of transportation and the time allowed for this purpose were insufficient. Those who remained had nothing to lose and were glad to take revenge on the rich by burning and pillaging their mansions.
He wished Sibyl to live in her own way, grudged her nothing, admired and cherished her with undiminished fervour; but in Oxford and Cambridge Mansions it cost him a great effort to pretend to be at home. The years of wandering had put him hopelessly out of touch with what Sibyl called society.
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