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You may drag the water; you may let off the water; you may say, 'Those dace are extirpated, vain thought! the dace reappear as before; and in this respect the arms are really emblematic of the family. All the disorders and revolutions that have occurred in England since the Heptarchy have left the Chillinglys the same race in the same place.
Despite all the improvement in Tom's manners and culture, which raised him so much nearer to equality with the polite and instructed heir of the Chillinglys, Kenelm would have felt more in sympathy and rapport with the old disconsolate fellow-wanderer who had reclined with him on the grass, listening to the minstrel's talk or verse, than he did with the practical, rising citizen of Luscombe.
Was this a position in which the heir of the Chillinglys, a distinguished family, whose coat-of-arms dated from the earliest authenticated period of English heraldry under Edward III. as Three Fishes /azure/, could be placed without grievous slur on the cold and ancient blood of the Three Fishes? And then individually to himself, Kenelm, irrespectively of the Three Fishes, what a humiliation!
"And I come to you for their solution." Mr. Roach turned away his head, and pushed the bottle to Kenelm. "I am quite willing to concede," resumed the heir of the Chillinglys, "that a priesthood should stand apart from the distracting cares of a family, and pure from all carnal affections." "Hem, hem," grunted Mr. Roach, taking his knee on his lap and caressing it.
Kenelm felt there was an attempt to draw him out, to sound, to pump him, and replied only by monosyllables, generally significant of ignorance on the questions broached; and at the close, if the philosophical heir of the Chillinglys was in the habit of allowing himself to be surprised he would certainly have been startled when Mr.
Except, indeed, that he may have one fault which in the present day would be enough to unfit him for public life." "And what is that fault?" "Treason to the blood of the Chillinglys. This is the age, in England, when one cannot be too much of a Chillingly.
Besides these three male specimens of the Chillingly race, the fairer sex was represented, in the absence of her ladyship, who still kept her room, by three female Chillinglys, sisters of Sir Peter, and all three spinsters.
But she was very angry with herself in thinking that she failed to arouse any such ambition in the heir of the Chillinglys. It may here be said that Kenelm was not without great advantages of form and countenance. He was tall, and the youthful grace of his proportions concealed his physical strength, which was extraordinary rather from the iron texture than the bulk of his thews and sinews.
"Then I presume you would not be a democrat if, by the death of your cousin, you became heir to the Chillinglys." "I am not sure what I might be in that case. There are times when a democrat of ancient lineage and good estates could take a very high place amongst the aristocracy." "Humph! my dear Gordon, vous irez loin." "I hope to do so.
Sir Peter, who was near-sighted, put on his spectacles and examined the face of the new-born. "True," said he, "it has black eyes, very extraordinary: portentous: the first Chillingly that ever had black eyes." "Its mamma has black eyes," said Miss Margaret: "it takes after its mamma; it has not the fair beauty of the Chillinglys, but it is not ugly."
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