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"We can talk of that presently." "Nothing interests me more." "That is not true," he said, taking a chair near her; "there are many things which must interest both of us much, much more than that stupid Meeting." "I prefer not to speak of them now, Beauclerk." "I can't go on in this uncertainty. I am beginning to think I am a blundering fellow where women are concerned.
He put his arm round her waist, and as she inclined her face ever so slightly toward his, he kissed her cheek. "How can I help you?" she asked. "Let us marry." "I don't wish to marry any one just yet, Beauclerk," she said; "I like my liberty. I don't feel that I should make either a good wife, or a contented one, as I am now. I want to see more and think more before I give up my will to another."
But as you are going to marry a public man, that is as well. Your life will have many absorbing interests." "Oh yes," returned Agnes; "I hope to help Beauclerk in his constituency, and with the members of his Association." "So far as I can make out they are a weak, selfish lot, but these qualities do not affect the question of his duties toward them."
Beauclerk said, 'No; for that every wise man who intended to shoot himself, took two pistols, that he might be sure of doing it at once. Lord cook shot himself with one pistol, and lived ten days in great agony. Johnson. Here again there was a cessation of arms. Johnson told me, that the reason why he waited at first some time without taking any notice of what Mr.
Beauclerk, like wits in general, had a propensity to satire, on which Johnson once took him to task in this rough style "You never open your mouth but with the intention to give pain; and you have now given me pain, not from the power of what you have said, but from my seeing the intention." At another tine, applying to him that line of Pope's, slightly altered, he said
Besides, nations may be said if we allow the Scotch to be a nation, and to have gaiety, which they have not. You are an exception, though. Come, gentlemen, let us candidly admit that there is one Scotchman who is cheerful. BEAUCLERK. 'But he is a very unnatural Scotchman. I, however, continued to think the compliment to Garrick hyperbolically untrue.
His old inmates, Levett and Miss Williams, had gone before him; Goldsmith and Garrick and Beauclerk had become memories of the past; and the gloom gathered thickly around him. The old man clung to life with pathetic earnestness. Though life had been often melancholy, he never affected to conceal the horror with which he regarded death.
Topham Beauclerk, of whom he said: "No man ever was so free when he was going to say a good thing, from a look that expressed that it was coming; or, when he had said it, from a look that expressed that it had come." XI. Johnson's Humanity to Children, Servants, and the Poor
That he could win the warm affection of such a man as Beauclerk is one more proof of the breadth of his sympathies. The most surprising people felt his fascination.
When Eustace Budgel was walking down to the Thames, determined to drown himself, he might, if he pleased, without any apprehension of danger, have turned aside, and first set fire to St. James's palace. On Tuesday, April 27, Mr. Beauclerk and I called on him in the morning.
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