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"And may I ask to whom you are going to pay this delicate attention?" "Oh, I thought you knew to poor Mrs. Amyot. She's been lecturing all over the South this winter; she's simply haunted me ever since I left New York and we had six weeks of her at Bar Harbor last summer! One has to take tickets, you know, because she's a widow and does it for her son to pay for his education.
My expression, whatever it was, caught the quick eyes of Mlle. Celeste. Being in merriment herself, she was the readier to make scorn of my sulky countenance. She pealed out a derisive laugh. "Oh, the sour face! Is that what comes of your eternal reading?" I had in my hand a volume of Plutarch in the French of Amyot. Her ridicule of reading annoyed me.
He brought the library of Fontainebleau to Paris, where his father had made the beginning of a new collection out of the confiscated property of the Président Ranconnet, and gave the management of the whole to the venerable Amyot.
In the old "Taming of a Shrew" , reprinted by Thomas Amyot for the Shakespeare Society in 1844, the hero's servant is named Sander, and this seems to have given the hint to Lacy, when altering Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," to foist a 'Scotsman into the action. Sawney was one of Lacy's favourite characters, and occupies a prominent position in Michael Wright's picture at Hampton Court.
He is best known by his translation of Plutarch, from the French of Amyot, in fine, forcible, idiomatic English, which was the repertory from which Shakespeare drew his knowledge of ancient history: in Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus North's language is often closely followed.
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