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"I have just come from a meeting of leading manufacturers," said Mr. Acton, "and they wished me to express to you their urgent request, I may say solicitation, that you will veto this bill." After Mr. Acton's departure, Quincy rang for his secretary, to whom he delivered the papers containing his official decisions. Mr.
After the first game of the season, when Acton had turned out in all his glory, Dick had thereupon offered to resign his captaincy, even pressing, with perhaps suspicious eagerness, Acton's acceptance of that barren honour. But Acton did not bite. Captains were supposed to turn out pretty well every day with their strings, and Acton was not the sort of fellow to have his hands tied in any way.
Footer is more his line, I take it." "Are you going to have a try for the eleven, Jim, this year?" "I'll see how things shape. If Phil Bourne gives me the hint that I have a chance, I'll take it, of course." "Will he give Acton the hint, think you?" "I shouldn't say so," said Jim, as Acton's stumps waltzed out of the ground for the fourth time. "He can't play slows for toffee."
In truth, if man were but an hibernating animal, invisible as dormice in the winter, and only to be seen with summer swallows, Acton's cottage at Hurstley might have been a cantle cut from the Elysian-fields. But there are certain other seasons in the year, and human nature cannot long exist on the merely "picturesque in summer."
It was in 1885 that Mr. then recently made Professor Creighton, showed me at Cambridge an extraordinarily interesting summary, in Lord Acton's handwriting, of what should be the principles the ethical principles of the modern historian in dealing with the past. They were, I think, afterward embodied in an introduction to a new edition of Machiavelli.
You all liked Bourne before I appeared on the scene, with good reason, and I do hope you will all give him your votes, for, and I say it absolutely sure of its truth, the best fellow in St. Amory's is Bourne. That is all I can say." Mivart got up before the fellows had time to recover from their astonishment, and said "I have great pleasure in seconding Acton's proposal.
He compared Biffen's house to a water lily growing in a muddy pond, and again as a Phoenix risen from the ashes; and he gave us, with circumstantial details, every round of the footer housers, their two eleven caps, and the Perry Exhibition, and darkly hinted at Acton's exclusion from the eleven. He wound up his awful farrago in one glorious burst of solemn fury
They were greeted by soft strains of sweet music. The Bonds were all prepared with flattering speeches, but the sight of the Richmond family surprised them as greatly as George Acton's return had done, and words failed them. "They have complained to him," whispered Mr. Bond, "and so he has dragged them here in their shabby clothes. Such impertinence on their part."
Acton's cottage was one of those doubtful domiciles, whose only recommendation it is, that they are picturesque in summer.
Acton, who straightened herself in her chair, watched him steadily while he made his confession. He paused with a gesture of deprecation. "In one sense, it is a preposterous folly, but I am not quite sure that folly is not now and then better than wisdom," he added. "It has certainly proved to be so in my case." "No doubt." Mrs. Acton's tone was suggestive.
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