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I am reasonably fearful, had she heard and seen all this Poll Acton's nails might have possibly drawn blood from the cheeks of Jonathan Floyd. As it was, the little god of love kindly warded from his votaries the coming of so crabbed an antagonist.
"Am I not coming out strong?" said Acton, laughing to himself, "when I set the very niggers a-struggling for the greater glory of Biffen's or is it Acton's? Then, there's that exhibition, which we must try to get for this double-superlative house. Raven must beat that Sixth prig Hodgson, the very bright particular star of Corker's. Would two hours' classics, on alternate nights, meet his case?
I am reasonably fearful, had she heard and seen all this Poll Acton's nails might have possibly drawn blood from the cheeks of Jonathan Floyd. As it was, the little god of love kindly warded from his votaries the coming of so crabbed an antagonist.
An idea struck Rogers, and he said to all his chums, "Here's Bourne, you fellows; let him know we see him." The fags were delighted, and when Bourne entered the carriage next Acton's there was a long-drawn-out hoot for his especial benefit. "Another," said Rogers, whereat more soulful groans. "The last," said Rogers, and Bourne took his seat to a chorus of hisses and tortured howls.
The husband, by birth a native of Turin, and by profession a good-for-nothing, placed no obstacle in Acton's way, as the Englishman was generous with his money; but he had a knack of turning up at those moments when his absence would have been most desirable. The generous but proud and impatient Englishman could not be expected to bear this for long.
Manning always believed that this was the direct result of Mr. Russell's dispatches, which had acted as an antidote to the poison of Lord Acton's letters, and thus carried the day. If that was so, the discretion of biographers has not yet entirely lifted the veil from these proceedings Manning had assuredly performed no small service for his cause.
But Acton's heart was broken! scarcely could he lift up his head; and his work, though sturdy as before, was more mechanical, less high-motived: and many a year of dreary widowhood he mourned a loss all the greater, though any thing but bitterer, for the infants so left motherless.
Jack had an ecstatic ten minutes, the final round putting him in the seventh heaven of enjoyment. "All I could make out was Acton's white arms mixed with Alabama's black ones, and the sand flying in all directions. Stunning isn't the word for it!" As Acton and young Bourne pedalled leisurely home for roll call, Jack said
"Lord Acton's view of history," said Shane Leslie, "was that ideas, not men or events, made the differences between one era and the next." The mind is always the storm centre of revolutions, the breeding ground of the most conflicting theories.
Tranquil Morning. Proclamation of the Mayor. Mob cowed. Plunderers afraid of Detection. Dirty Cellars crowded with rich Apparel, Furniture, and Works of Art. Archbishop Hughes' Address. Useless Efforts. Acton's Forty-eight Hours without Sleep over. Change in Military Commanders in the City. General Brown relinquishes his Command. True Words. Noble Character and Behavior of the Troops and Police.
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