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But he had, it would seem with some justice, the reputation of being a learned king. Some doubtful evidence has been interpreted to mean that he could both speak and read English. Certainly he cherished a love of books and reading remarkable, at that time, in a man of the world, and he seems to have deserved his reputation of a ready, and even eloquent, speaker.
As you see, we both have come up in the world a bit since then. Mr. Speaker, this 92d Congress has a chance to be recorded as the greatest Congress in America's history. In these troubled years just past, America has been going through a long nightmare of war and division, of crime and inflation. Even more deeply, we have gone through a long, dark night of the American spirit.
"I should think that that ought to stay the flow of subscriptions." Lord Arranmore, who was standing on the hearthrug smoking a cigarette, joined languidly in the conversation. You think that Brooks ought to take some notice of Lavilette's impudence, then?" "Well, I'm afraid his not doing so looks rather fishy," the first speaker remarked.
And the speaker hid his head under the blankets, in humorous affectation of modesty. All this time the miserable little cockney he was a tailor by trade had been grovelling under the feet of the Crow and his companions. "Let me h'up, gents" he implored "let me h'up. I feel as if I should die I do." "Let the gentleman up," says the humorist in the bunk.
"Our route will be along the Ganges till we come to Luckieserai Junction, where the loop-line falls into the main line," the Hindu gentleman began. "Is it much of a fall, sir?" asked Felix. "I don't understand you, Mr. McGavonty," replied the speaker blankly.
In his section on example as a rhetorical argument he shows how stories and fables may enliven and enforce a point. He illustrates by Pliny's story of the grateful dragon, and by Appian's story of the grateful lion, how a speaker may enlarge on the duty of gratitude among men.
"Have you the wick?" asked the one who carried the lantern. "Here it is," answered the other. At the voice of this last speaker, Grimaud started and felt a shudder creeping through his very marrow. He rose gently, so that his head was just above the round of the barrel, and under the large hat he recognized the pale face of Mordaunt. "How long will this fuse burn?" asked this person.
After a moment she added: "If only you leave him to me and don't spoil things." "How could I spoil my own music?" he asked. But she only answered: "Oh, Claude, there are things you don't understand!" "So the darned rester's come back, has he?" Crayford was the speaker.
"But to return to our subject, C. Carbo, of the same age, was likewise reckoned an Orator of the second class: he was the son, indeed, of the truly eloquent man before-mentioned, but was far from being an acute Speaker himself: he was, however, esteemed an Orator. His language was tolerably nervous, he spoke with ease, and there was an air of authority in his address that was perfectly natural.
He did so, naming two speeches, one of which he zealously declared had the style of Cicero; the other that of Demosthenes. Johnson becalmed the speaker by agreeing with him as to the excellence of the speeches, and then adding, "I wrote them both." The gruffness of Ursa Major should never be likened to that of the Sage of Chelsea.
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