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I allude to the famous North Briton, No. 45, for which, as constituting a seditious libel, Wilkes, then member for Aylesbury, was, in spite of his privilege as a member, seized and imprisoned in the Tower . We know from the experiences of recent times how ready the House of Commons is to throw Parliamentary or popular privileges to the winds whenever they stand in the way of political resentment, and so it was in our fathers' times.
He is well acquainted with Lord Aylesbury, too; and I can tell you there are a good many suspicions in that quarter. There is another noble lord, Lord Montgomery, implicated; and all these good folks are suspected," and he proceeded to read a list of some twenty or thirty names.
I made a drawing of the Dowager Countess of Aylesbury, better known as "Lady A."; Colonel Saunderson a famous Orangeman did a sketch of Gladstone for me; while Alma Tadema gave me one of Queen Victoria, done in four lines.
He leaned upon a corner of the table, staring at me intently. "From the south?" I echoed. Harley glanced in the direction of the open door. "Presently," he said, "we shall have to tell Aylesbury everything that we know. After all, he represents the law; but unless we can get Inspector Wessex down from Scotland Yard, I foresee a miscarriage of justice.
Aristocracy alone can keep a certain high reticence of soul and body, a certain noble distance between the sexes." The Duke of Aylesbury, who had a clouded recollection of having squirted soda-water down the neck of a Countess on the previous evening, looked somewhat gloomy, as if lamenting the theoretic spirit of the Latin race.
So marked is the effect of the combined thickening and shortening that in the Aylesbury breed which is the most typically representative one the leg-bones have become 70 per cent. heavier than they should be if their thickness had continued to be proportional to their length.
For I was country-born and country-bred, and though even in our little town of Aylesbury, where my father was a farmer, we were used to hearing tales of the sea and to the sight of those who had fought the king's battles by land and sea, I had never until that morning caught sight of the ocean.
I said, "It is then, gentlemen, truely lucky for me; for if I had displeased the Duke, and he had wished it, there is not a Campbell among you but would have been ready to bring John Wilkes's head to him in a charger. It would have been only, 'Off with his head! So much for Aylesbury." I was then member for Aylesbury. Mr.
If you add to this that the person with whom I have the chief, if not only, transactions, is the most reasonable, equal-tempered, and gentleman-like man imaginable, and Lady Aylesbury the same, you will certainly think I have no reason to complain; and I am far from complaining.
"Quite so, but not at the expense of my patient's reason." He was a resolute man, this country practitioner, and I saw Harley smiling in grim approval. "I have expressed my opinion," he said, finally, walking out of the room; "I shall leave the responsibility to you, Inspector Aylesbury. Good morning, gentlemen." Inspector Aylesbury scratched his chin. "That's awkward," he muttered.
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