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The vicar of Alverholme and his wife, when satisfied that Dyce's betrothed was a respectable person, consented to be present at the marriage. Not easily did Mrs.
So of William Hutton, whose name is mentioned in another place. Encouraged by a couplet which he read in Dyce's Spelling-book "Despair of nothing that you would attain, Unwearied diligence your end will gain," he sought to master everything that he undertook. One day he borrowed a dulcimer, and made one by it.
I have my hundred and fifty a year from Mrs. Woolstan, and that's quite enough for a bachelor. I shall pick up something else. In any case, I've no right to sponge on you; I've done it too long. If I had had the slightest suspicion " A sense of virtue lit up Dyce's countenance again. Nothing was more agreeable to him than the uttering of generous sentiments.
"With pleasure," he replied; and, as if feeling it insufficient, he added, "with great pleasure!" Dyce's lips forgot Mrs. Toplady; he smiled his own smile of genial satisfaction, and, as his way was when pleased, broke into effusive talk.
These questions are very difficult By the bye, Dyce, I want to speak to you about a matter that has been rather troubling me of late. Let us get it over now, shall we?" Dyce's animated look faded under a shadow of uneasiness. He regarded the vicar steadily, with eyes which gathered apprehension. "It's very disagreeable," pursued Mr. Lashmar, after puffing a pipe unlit.
The Repentance of Robert Greene, quoted in the memoir to Dyce's edition of his Dramatic Works. See chapter v. With reference to carnal vice, it cannot be denied that the corruption of Italy was shameful.
Lashmar digest her bitter disappointment, which came so close upon that of Dyce's defeat at Hollingford; but she was a practical woman, and, in the state of things at Alverholme, six hundred a year seemed to her not altogether to be despised. "My fear was," she remarked one day to her husband, "that Dyce would be tempted to marry money.