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He threw such an imploring gaze into my face as he said 'Oh, Hal! that, reluctant as I was to be mixed up with superstition, I promised to execute his wishes; I promised also to keep the secret from all the world during his life, and after his death to share it with those two only from whom, for family reasons, it could not be kept my uncle Aylwin of Alvanley and my mother.
Aylwin, I need not tell you, was the name of the greatest man of this age, and I am anxious to know what is exactly your connection with him. 'You surprise me, I said. 'Out of our own family, in its various branches, there is, I have been told, no very large number of Aylwins, and I had no idea that one of them had become famous. 'I did not say famous, sir, but great; two very different words.
'Fancy, said my aunt, who was writing a letter at a little desk between two windows, 'fancy an Aylwin pulling the check-string, and then, with ladies in the carriage and the rain pouring During that day how many times I passed in front of the theatre I cannot say; but at last I thought the very men in the shops must be observing me.
'We will not haggle about words, Henry; give it what name may please you, it is all the same to me. But flirtations of this kind will sometimes grow serious, as the case of Percy Aylwin and the Gypsy girl shows. Now, Henry, I do not accuse you of entertaining the mad idea of really marrying this girl, though such things, as you know, have been in our family.
Then, with a manner at once suave and impersonal, he held open the door, and the husband and wife passed through. 'Ah, my dear Grieve, said Lord Driffield, laying his hand on David's shoulder, 'come here and be introduced to Canon Aylwin. I am delighted to have caught him for you. So David was swept away to the other side of the room, and Lucy was left forlorn and stranded.
Aylwin, it renders in Art the inevitable attitude of its own time and country towards the unseen world, and renders it as completely as did the masterpiece of Polygnotus in the Lesche of the 'Not in the flesh; in the spirit, who knows him so well?
The meaning of those tears must be fully accounted for, and if possible fully justified, for this little boy is to be the hero of this story. In other words, he is Henry Aylwin; that is to say, myself: and those who know me now in the full vigour of manhood, a lusty knight of the alpenstock of some repute, will be surprised to know what troubled me.
Since the appearance of Aylwin, I have received many letters enquiring whether the transmission of hysteria from one patient to another by means of a magnet is an imaginary experiment, or whether it is based on fact. It has been impossible for me to answer all these letters.
It is necessary to dwell upon such facts as the above to show how fully equipped is the author of Aylwin for understanding and depicting the great poet-painter, to whose memory he addressed the sonnet at the head of this note. As to the personality of Rossetti, to which Mr.
It was the smaller of these rooms into which we were now shown by the servant. The walls were covered with sketches and drawings in various stages, and photographs of sculpture. 'By Jove, that's dooced like! said Sleaford, pointing to my mother's portrait, which was standing on the floor, as though just returned from the frame-maker's: 'ask Cyril Aylwin if it ain't when you see him.
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