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Except for political meetings, and a literary lecture or two, with a magic-lantern and a piano, we have not much social relaxation at Bulcester. We object to promiscuous dancing, on grounds of conscience. Also, of course, to the stage. 'Ah, so you do allow for the claims of conscience, do you? 'For what do you take me, sir? Only, of course the conscience must be enlightened, said Mr.
These badges, sir' the client pointed to his own crimson decorations 'proclaim that I have been vaccinated on both arms, as a testimony to the immortal though, in Bulcester, maligned discovery of the great Jenner. Sir, I am hooted in the public streets of my native town, where Anti-vaccinationism is a frenzy. Mr. Rider Haggard, the author of Dr.
'The principles of the good old cause, the Puritan cause, were as pure as glycerinated lymph, and he proposed to found a Liberal Vaccinationist League. They are great people for leagues at Bulcester, and they like the initials L. V. L. There was no drinking of toasts, for there was nothing to drink them in, and do you know, Mr. Merton? I think it must be nearly luncheon time.
In my opinion it would be best to write to her from Bulcester, on the official paper of the Literary Society. For Merton wished to acquaint Miss Martin with the nature of her mission, lecturing being an art which she had never cultivated. 'There is just one thing, remarked Mr. Warren hesitatingly. 'This young lady, if our James lets his affections loose on her how would that be, sir?
"How the D I mean, how do you know, Miss Martin, about my private affairs?" "I have friends in Bulcester who esteem you. No, I must not mention names, but I come, not too late, I hope, to bring you security. She shall be preserved from this awful scourge, and you shall be her preserver."
I have made one of my villains do that, but that is not my idea. Perfectly harmless, my idea. 'But sensational, I fear? asked Merton. 'Some very cultured critics might think so, the lady admitted. 'But I am sure to succeed, and I hear the merry, merry wedding bells of the Bulcester tabernacle ringing a peal for the happy pair. 'Well, what is the plan? 'That is my secret. 'But I must know.
Our people, somehow, always want their literary lectures to be about novels. I try to make the lecturers take a lofty moral tone, and usually entertain them at my house, where I probe their ideas, and warn them that we must have nothing loose. Once, sir, we had a lecturer on "The Oldest Novel in the World." He gave us a terrible shock, sir! I never saw so many red cheeks in a Bulcester audience.
His opinions about the beneficent effects of vaccination were known to be at the opposite pole from those of the intelligent population of Bulcester. On the next day but one Miss Martin again entertained Merton at her club, and demurely presented him with three documents. These were Mr.
You said that your Society indulged in literary lectures: is your programme for the season filled up? 'I am President of the Bulcester Literary Society, said Mr. Warren, 'and I ought to know. We have a vacancy for Friday week; but why do you inquire? In fact I want a lecturer on "The Use and Abuse of Novels," now you ask.
But, mind you, no more of it! Let James be he will do very well." 'How was James to do very well? Why were my fascinations not to be exercised, as per contract? I began to suspect the worst, and I was thinking of nothing else while we drove to the premises of the Bulcester Literary Society. Could Jane have drowned herself out of the way, or taken smallpox, which might ruin her charms?
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