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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Well, not often at my place, sir," replied Mrs. Marriner. "We're very particular." "Still sometimes, you know?" "Oh, I'll not say that they don't, sometimes, sir," admitted Mrs. Marriner. "We're all of us human creatures, as you're very well aware, sir." "This particular handkerchief may have got into a wrong basket?" urged Cotman. "It's possible?" "Oh, it's possible, sir," said Mrs. Marriner.
Meeking suddenly dropped back into his seat and began to shuffle his papers. The Coroner glanced at Cotman and Cotman, with a cynical smile, got to his feet and confronted the witness. "Was it your young man that you went out to meet at a quarter to eight o'clock that evening?" he asked. "Yes, sir," admitted the girl. "What's his name?" "Joe Green, sir."
Seccombe calls it; he continues: "Among the high lights of the illuminated capital of East Anglia were the Cromes, the Opies, John Sell Cotman, Elizabeth Fry, Dr. Rigby, the father of Lady Eastlake; but pre- eminent above all reigned the twin cliques of Taylors and Martineaus, who amalgamated at impressive intervals for purposes of mutual elevation and refinement.
Taylor was opening up to English readers a new field in German writings; John Sell Cotman was making a name for himself; and Opie, who “lived to paint,” was often seen at Earlham, Keswick, and in the city streets. Opie would fall upon the ear of the young lawyer’s clerk whenever he mixed in polite society.
Assuredly it is too far reduced to a monotonous convention to merit the serious study of races that have produced Cotman and Corot. Japanese landscape-drawing reduces things seen to such fewness as must have made the art insuperably tedious to any people less fresh-spirited and more inclined to take themselves seriously than these Orientals. A preoccupied people would never endure it.
Thus I began to acquire, without understanding the value of it, some conception of the elegant phases of early English watercolour painting, and there was one singular piece of a marble well brimming with water, and a greyish-blue sky over it, and dark-green poplars, shaped like wet brooms, menacing the middle distance, which Cotman himself had painted; and this seemed beautiful and curious to me in its dim, flat frame, when it was hoisted to a place on our drawing-room wall.
Wellesley's name has been very freely mentioned this morning I think it will be only fair, sir, that he should be allowed to go into that box at once, where he will give evidence on oath " "If Dr. Wellesley elects to go into the box," interrupted the Coroner, "I shall, of course, warn him in the usual way, Mr. Cotman.
The walls were dressed with a dull blue paper that looked like velvet. Here and there upon them hung a picture: a landscape of George Morland, lustily English, a Cotman, a Cuyp cows in twilight a Reynolds, faded but exquisitely genteel.
Cotman, to hold a full inquiry into the circumstances of the death of the late Mayor, and the police, or anybody else, as you know very well, are fully entitled to pursue any course they choose in the effort to get at the truth. Just as you are entitled to ask any questions of any witness, to be sure. You wish to question the present witness?"
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