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The serenity of these gatherings, whether at Mr. Ashbee's or at Mr. Arbuthnot's, was never ruffled unless somebody happened to introduce politics or the Shakespere-Bacon Question. Arbuthnot the Liberal was content to strike out with his back against the wall, so to speak, when attacked by the Conservative Burton, Ashbee and Payne; but Arbuthnot the Baconian frequently took the offensive.
Afterwards, in submitting the papers to the Admiralty, Rodney wrote, "I am ashamed to mention what appears to me the real cause, and from whence Mr. Arbuthnot's chagrin proceeds, but the proofs are so plain that prize-money is the occasion that I am under the necessity of transmitting them.
Colonel Arbuthnot's anxieties were not confined to tidal waves and the discontents of his garrison.
Go home, or I'll strangle' His own utterance was arrested by the fierce grasp of Mr Arbuthnot, who seized him by the throat, and hurled him to the further end of the room. 'Speak on, woman; and quick! quick! What have you to say? 'That your son, dearest lady, she answered, throwing herself at Mrs Arbuthnot's feet, 'is as truly your own child as ever son born of woman!
The servants yawned. Yes the four visitors, while their bodies sat that was Mrs. Fisher's or lay that was Lady Caroline's or loitered that was Mrs. Arbuthnot's or went in solitude up into the hills that was Mrs. Wilkins's were anything but torpid really. Their minds were unusually busy.
He thrust the crumpled letter into his pocket, and said in a low, quick whisper: 'There is some one coming! Not a word, remember not a word! At the same time, he wheeled his chair half round, so that his back should be towards the servant we heard approaching. 'I am sent, sir, said Mrs Arbuthnot's maid, 'to ask if the post has arrived.
Though suggestion did not override discretion, Arbuthnot resented it in all its forms. Your partial interference in the conduct of the American War is certainly incompatible with principles of reason, and precedents of service. Though Rodney's step was unusual, his position as Arbuthnot's superior officer, locally present, was impregnable.
The second condition necessary to the existence of a river, namely, the higher land enclosing its basin, might, in this case, have been either Arbuthnot's Range, or that between the Darling and the Lachlan; and this seemed to me to involve a question of at least equal importance to that of the river itself, for, had the fall of all the waters above-mentioned, been to the north-west, it was obvious that such a range must have been the dividing ridge or spine connecting the eastern and western parts of Australia, and which, when once investigated was likely to be the key to the discovery of all the rivers on each side, and to the other subordinate features of this great island.
The books were to be translated by Rehatsek and a Hindu pundit named Bhagvanlal Indraji, Burton and Arbuthnot were to revise and annotate, and Arbuthnot was to find the money. Burton fell in with the idea, as did certain other members of Arbuthnot's circle, who had always been keenly interested in Orientalism, and so was formed the famous Kama Shastra Society.
It must not be supposed that erotic literature was the only subject upon which they conversed, though as hierarchs of the Kama Shastra Society they naturally bestowed upon that and curious learning considerable attention. Religion was also discussed, and Arbuthnot's opinions may be gathered from the following citation from his unpublished Life of Balzac which is now in my hands.
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