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Updated: June 13, 2025
Where is his identity, where his responsibility? And if there is none for him, how does the accident of health bestow them on his neighbour? Questions of this sort had beset Richard Ancrum for years. On the little book-table to his right lay papers of Huxley's, of Clifford's, and several worn volumes of mental pathology.
I was curious to examine it, interposed Cecilia; 'and I am as much at a loss as you to understand what could have attracted him. One sentence . . . 'About the sheikh in the stables, where he accused the pretended physician? Yes, what was there in that? 'Where is the book? said Mrs. Grancey. 'Not here, I think. Cecilia glanced at the drawing-room book-table, and then at Mr.
The walls were hung with a set of William Nicolson's prints, strong, dark, distinct, slightly sinister in effect; a fine etching of Jean Francois Millet's Gleaners; and, in noticeable contrast to this last, a mezzotint of Romney's picture of Lady Hamilton spinning. Upon the book-table were a silver ash-tray and cigarette-box.
"Good," said my guardian. "It shall be done. Carried unanimously." "Carried unanimously," I repeated, going on with my work. It was a cover for his book-table that I happened to be ornamenting. It had been laid by on the night preceding my sad journey and never resumed. I showed it to him now, and he admired it highly.
Lord Arondelle, in his wedding dress, stood by the central book-table. As his costume was the regulation uniform of a gentleman's full dress, it needs no description here. Gentlemen array themselves much in the same style for a dinner or a ball, a wedding or a funeral the only difference to mark the occasion being in the color of the gloves. Lord Arondelle advanced to meet his bride.
Beside Huxley and Clifford, lay Newman's 'Sermons' and 'Apologia, and a little High Church manual of self-examination. And on the wall above the book-table hung a memorandum-slate on which were a number of addresses and dates the addresses of some forty boys whom the minister taught on Sunday in one of the Unitarian Sunday schools of Manchester, and visited in the week.
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