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From Mrs. Tenterden to Mrs. Montague Mount, 170A, Ebury Street, S.W. YACHT "MARIE," SOUTHAMPTON. July 23rd, 1901. I promised to let you know how I got on, and to write as soon as there was anything to write about. So here goes. I am on board Jack Vivian's yacht, and a ripper it is. That is to say, I am on the yacht in the day, but sleep at the South Western Hotel.
But this is one of those hasty inferences which have no other foundation than a mere coincidence of time in the supposed cause and effect. Montesinos. For which you have furnished a proverbial illustration in your excellent story of Tenterden Steeple and Goodwin Sands. Sir Thomas More. That illustration would have been buried in the dust if it had not been repeated by Hugh Latimer at St.
Lord Tenterden approved of the making of the new judge, but wished his functions had been better defined. The Duke of Cumberland said the Non-contents had it; but he said it too late, and his people did not wish to divide. Lord Londonderry would have voted against us. I fear he is half mad. The House seems to treat him so.
We had then Lord Lilford, who rested too much on his notes, but who has a good manner. He drew his points well, and spoke like a man, not like a boy. Lord Tenterden was not powerful. Lord Grey spoke better than he has done since 1827. He made a speech too long, and indeed the last half-hour was of no use.
But now, as they faced each other, Barnabas observed something else; John Peterby's lips were compressed, and in his eye was anxiety, the which had, somehow, got into his voice when he spoke, though his tone was low and modulated: "Sir, if you are for London to-night, we had better start at once, the coach leaves Tenterden within the hour."
But this I know, that since her advent I have changed from the happiest girl in the world into one of the most miserable. Mrs. Tenterden is the widow of Colonel Tenterden, who was a brother officer of Jack's father, Colonel Vivian. Her husband died in India about six months ago, and she has lately returned to England. Jack had never seen her before, but Mrs.
You ask my advice, and to use a phrase of my brother Tom's, "I give it you in once." Don't be a little goose and bother your pretty little head. I am older than you, and I understand women of the Mrs. Tenterden type. They amuse men for a time, and very often take them captive, but in nineteen cases out of twenty the prisoner escapes. In other words, they are not the women who men care to marry.
You will doubtless wonder why I, who am, as a rule, a quiet, harmless little dove, should indulge in such sinful feelings, but you will cease doing so when I tell you the truth. Mrs. Tenterden has set her cap at Jack! He has I know it fallen under the spell of the enchantress. And she is an enchantress.
But that prosperity, such as it was, neither began with Grattan's Parliament nor ended with it had, indeed, no more connection with the Irish Parliament in any of its phases than had the Goodwin Sands with Tenterden steeple.
Moore, 'how say you to this matter? What think you to be the cause of these shelves and sands which stop up Sandwich haven? "'Forsooth, sir, quoth he, 'I am an old man; I think that, Tenterden steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands.
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