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Though, Rickie, you will have to accept the Jacksons' invitation." "I cannot possibly go. I have been too rude; with Widdrington we always meet here. I'll stop with the boys " His voice caught suddenly. He had opened Mrs. Silt's letter. "The Silts are not ill, I hope?" "No. But, I say," he looked at his wife, "I do think this is going too far. Really, Agnes." "What has happened?"
It was granted, with the sum of five hundred pounds to defray the expense of the journey. Leicester's Journal, 103. Heath, 331. Were the minutes of this conversation committed to paper immediately, or after the Restoration? of Whitelock and Widdrington, declared that the dissolution would be dangerous, and the establishment of the proposed council unwarrantable.
"He wants to bind the college together. He wants to link us to the beefy set." "I do like Hornblower," he protested. "I don't try." "And Hornblower tries to like you." "That part doesn't matter." "But he does try to like you. He tries not to despise you. It is altogether a most public-spirited affair." "Tilliard started them," said Widdrington.
I must get back to my work." "You think this all nonsense," said Ansell, detaining him. "Please remember that if I do act, you are bound to help me." Widdrington looked a little grave. He was no anarchist. A few plaintive cries against Mrs. Elliot were all that he prepared to emit. "There's no mystery," continued Ansell. "I haven't the shadow of a plan in my head.
It is unfortunate that this, the most tragic and moving of all Northumbrian tales, should be most widely known by means of the prosy imitation ballad by Dr. Percy, whose ability as a poet did by no means equal his zeal as a collector of ballads. The hero of the sorrowful tale is said to have been a Bertram of Bothal, who loved fair Isabel, daughter of the lord of Widdrington.
The opposition was silenced; and a committee of thirty-eight members was appointed to receive information and to devise the most eligible manner of proceeding. Among the more influential names were those of Widdrington and Whitelock, Scot and Marten. But the first two declined to attend; and, when the clerk brought them a summons, retired into the country.
I don't see why they should, and no more do you; and that's why I want you to go to Sawston, if only for one night." Ansell shook his head, and looked up at the dome as other men look at the sky. In it the great arc lamps sputtered and flared, for the month was again November. Then he lowered his eyes from the cold violet radiance to the books. "No, Widdrington; no.
But his Grace intimated the most ignominious and painful parts of the sentence were usually remitted. Lord Nithisdale, unlike Lord Widdrington and Lord Kenmure, who had referred in terms of anguish to their wives and children, had made no appeal on the plea of those family ties, to which few of his judges could have been insensible.
His superior replied, in a lofty strain of voice, "Do not tell me of the carrier and his wain, and of the hen-coops coming from Norfolk with the poultry; a loyal man would have sent an express he would have gone upon his stumps, like Widdrington. What if the king had lost his appetite, Master Kilderkin? What if his most Sacred Majesty had lost his dinner?
Of the two best known versions of the ballad, the one here given is the more poetical by far; the other, however, contains the account of the courage of Hugh Widdrington which has made the gallant squire immortal.
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