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The front benches are occupied by Rustic Youths, who beguile the tedium of waiting by smoking short clays, and trying to pull off one another's caps. Second Youth. At last WILLIAM CORDER to make me his wife I know not why strange misgiving 'as come over me.
Notwithstanding this sage resolution I did not write half a page of the said Demonology this day. I went to the Court, called on Mr. Cadell, returned dog-tired, and trifled my time with reading the trial of Corder.
I cannot forget how we thrilled in front of Whistler's Rosa Corder, which we were none of us, except Bob Stevenson, old enough to have seen when Whistler first exhibited it in London and Paris to a public unwilling to leave him in any doubt as to its indifference, how we talked and talked and talked until we had not time that morning to look at one other painting in the gallery, how it was not the fault of our articles if everybody did not squander upon it the attention refused not much more than a decade before.
His own temper did not err in the direction of meekness, but as he looked round the room he felt that a home such as this would drive him to any degree of humiliation. John knew what the young man's thoughts were; he resumed in a voice of exasperated bitterness. 'No, I haven't been to Corder I beg his pardon; Mister Corder James Corder, Esquire. But where do you think I went this mornin'? Mrs.
The lady admitted that the characters were well represented, and the drama very creditably got up. At length came a very sensational portion of the play. That part where Maria Martin is enticed into the Red Barn by Corder. In this exciting scene, Maria, as if having a presentiment of her fate, stands still and refuses to move.
"Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself, as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity." In the Second Month he spent a week at Chelmsford with Susanna Corder. His visit was prefaced by the following letter:
He walked right out into the middle of the road to stop the hansom you know how wide the road is there so that Corder couldn't hear his direction to the cabman, but he took the number as the cab went off. Corder ought to have collared him then and there, I think, but he was in a difficult position.
Fauntleroy for forgery, and on Thurtell for the murder of Mr. Weare. The murder of Maria Marten, by Corder, in the year 1828, excited the greatest interest all over the country. People came from Wales and Scotland, and even from Ireland, to visit the barn where the body of the murdered woman was buried. Every one of them was anxious to carry away some memorial of his visit.
Corder, she says, 'that black doctor has the evil eye! And never was a truer word spoke. He's been the bane and blight of this 'ere place, he has." He paused from sheer lack of breath, and having allowed him some little interval of repose: "But what has the evil eye to do with the laying of man-traps and the shooting of visitors who may chance to cross the estate?" I inquired. "Ah, that's it!
Miss Rose Corder and "the lady in the fur jacket" are equally cosmopolitan; so, too, is Miss Alexander. Only once has Mr. Whistler expressed race, and that was in his portrait of his mother. Then these three ladies Miss Corder, Lady Archibald Campbell, and "the lady in the fur jacket" wear the same complexion: a pale yellow complexion, burnt and dried.
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