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Giving vent to her feelings in cries, she uttered shriek after shriek, and would have thrown herself into the water, in her eagerness to follow them, had not Davie Cheyne come behind her, and, seizing her in his arms, drawn her back from the edge of the precipice.
He read the papers, however, and "for the first time realised what a tragedy the life in Cheyne Row had been." That he exaggerated the purport of what he read is likely enough. When there are quarrels between husband and wife, a man naturally inclines to take the woman's side. Froude, as he says himself, was haunted by Mrs.
The whole region about him must have been greatly changed during his residence there, for the Thames Embankment was constructed long after he removed to Chelsea. We had some little difficulty in finding the place we were in search of. Cheyne Row is a passage which reminded me a little of my old habitat, Montgomery Place, now Bosworth Street.
Cheyne unknown in the lecture-room. He did not pour it out in preaching; delicately, unobtrusively and on the whole rather humorously he managed to present to me in a most disillusionizing light that conception of the university held by me and my intimate associates.
We shall stand it on the ground between us, and when it strikes, we fire." Antonio had, in the heat of his narrative, leant forward across the table. With quick gestures he described the whole scene, so that Miss Cheyne could see it as it had passed before his eyes. "There is a madness, Senorita," he went on, "which shows itself by a thirst for blood. I looked at Bernaldez.
He settled in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, a place made famous by More, Erasmus, Bolingbroke, Smollett, Leigh Hunt, and many lesser lights of literature, and began to enjoy the first real peace he had known since childhood. In 1837 appeared The French Revolution, which first made Carlyle famous; and in the same year, led by the necessity of earning money, he began the series of lectures German.
If he liked you, there could be no mistake about it. One evening when I was engaged in composing a theme for Mr. Cheyne on no less a subject than the interpretation of the work of William Wordsworth, I found myself unexpectedly sprawling on the floor, in my descent kicking the table so vigorously as to send the ink-well a foot or two toward the ceiling.
"Well, yes, sir that is I mean to say he talks just like that, sometimes that is, when it's anything he cares about." "Indeed!" said Mr. Cheyne. "That's interesting, most interesting. In all my experience, I do not remember a case in which a gift has been developed so rapidly.
" Right over there to the left, Pedro. Heaps o' room for you and your crowd. Why, that's what I tell 'em all the time, Mr. Cheyne. There's big money in it, but I presume that don't affect you any. What we want is " A heavy hand fell on his broadcloth shoulder, and the flushed skipper of a Portland coal-and-ice coaster spun him half round.
He had, during an adventurous life, had little to do with women, and Miss Cheyne soon convinced him of the fact that many qualities such as independence, courage, and energy were not, as he had hitherto imagined, the monopoly of men alone. But the interest thus aroused did not seem to be mutual.
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