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Frost was easily persuaded to enter heartily into the project; but she insisted on the first measure being to consult Mr. Calcott. He was the head of the old sound and respectable party the chairman of everything, both in county and borough and had the casting vote among the eight trustees of King Edward's School, who, by old custom, nominated each other from the landholders within the town.
'One comfort is, they don't like that, said James. 'Even Mrs. Calcott is not flattered by her precedence. I hope we shall soon be dropped out of their parties. As long as I do my duty by their sons, what right have they to impose the penance of their society on my wife? All the irksomeness of what she has left, and none of the compensations!
Sydney Calcott wrote to him in the name of various former scholars of Mrs. Frost, anxious to do her the last honours by attending the funeral.
He was dissatisfied, it is true, at the time of Shee's death, that he had not been made President; but this, as he well knew, was a matter that rested entirely with the Academy. 'What has the Academy done for me? he would ask petulantly; 'they knighted Calcott, why don't they knight me? This involved no charge against his critics.
He was at that moment called away; Lord Ormersfield's carriage had been announced, and his son was not in a quarter of the room where he wished to detain him. James could willingly have bitten Sydney Calcott for the observation, 'Poor Fitzjocelyn! he came out strong to-night. 'Very clever, said Isabel, wishing to gratify James. 'Oh yes, very; if he had ever taken pains, said Sydney.
Mansell's piano, which disconcerted all previous designs; Lord Ormersfield's handsome plate; and many a minor gift from old scholars, delighted to find an occasion when an offering would not be an offence. Even Mr. Calcott gave a valuable inkstand, in which Mrs. Frost and Louis beheld something of forgiveness. Isabel had expressed a wish that Mary should be one of her bridesmaids.
If it does not suit the interests of the theater to bring it out now, he surely should be told so, and not kept in a state of suspense, which cannot be delightful to any author, however little of an egotist he may be. Monday, 20th. Went to Kensington Gravel Pits to see Lady Calcott, and sat with her a long time.
'It was not severity, he said, 'it was temper. I richly deserved some portion of the rebuke, and it would have been well for me if that same temper had allowed me to listen to you, sir, or to reason. 'Well, said Mr. Calcott, kindly, 'you think very rightly about the matter, and a man of six-and-twenty has time to be wiser, as I tell Mrs. Calcott, when Sydney treats us to some of his theories.
Visits in England Wycombe Abbey: Lord Carrington, Madame de Stael, and Buonaparte David Ricardo Bowood: Lord Lansdowne, Bowles Miss Joanna Baillie's: Brodie, Dr. Holland, Lord Grenville Anecdotes of Lady Salisbury and Wilberforce Le Bas, Sir James Macintosh, Dumont. Letters from London to Mrs. Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton. Life in London Frank Lady Lansdowne, Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, Calcott, Mrs.
Calcott and others acted with great zeal and fidelity; and a rising, effected as suddenly and effectually as that which had made me a captive, placed me at liberty and in possession of the sovereignty of Man, as Regent for my son, the youthful Earl of Derby. Do you think I enjoyed that sovereignty long without doing justice on that traitor Christian?"
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