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He, Eldon Parr, who had been used to settle the destinies of men! His anger was suddenly at white heat; and his voice, which he strove to control, betrayed it.
And her argument! His feelings, as he listened to this tremendous arraignment of Eldon Parr by his daughter, are not easily to be described. To say that she had compelled him, the rector of St. John's, at last to look in the face many conditions which he had refused to recognize would be too definite a statement. Nevertheless, some such thing had occurred.
I'll see you and your Pope in the pit of Eldon, before I fight for either of you, so make the most of it." "Then you won't fight?" said I. "Not for the Pope," said the radical; "I'll see the Pope " "Dear me!" said I, "not fight for the Pope, whose religion you would turn to, if you were inclined for any.
"You'll sell them at ten and a quarter, I suppose?" Mr. Lladd shook his head. "But you offered them at that, you know." "I offered the whole lot at that price, and the offer is still open; though I am in no way particular about selling." Since ten dollars and a quarter a piece had been mentioned; the idea of paying more had become entirely obliterated from the mind of Eldon.
"You a woman would you try to ruin a widow and three helpless orphans?" "There you go again," passionately declared his sister, feeling the force of his argument, yet anxiously seeking to justify her position. "You claim to be a man of business, and yet you would condemn me for taking what is lawfully mine. Please remember, Eldon, that I am doing it for the sake of our departed sister's children.
Eldon was the very incarnation of the spirit of obstruction; and the Court of Chancery, over which he presided for a quarter of a century, was thought to be the typical stronghold of the evil principles denounced by Bentham.
The rector had listened to her, at first with amazement, then with more complicated sensations as she thus dispassionately discussed the foremost member of his congregation and the first layman of the diocese, who was incidentally her own father. In her masterly analysis of Eldon Parr, she had brought Hodder face to face with the naked truth, and compelled him to recognize it.
Tho' now upon the woolsack placed, With wealth, with power, with title graced, Once nearer was our lot. "Say by what name the hapless bard May best attract your kind regard Plain Jack? Sir John? or Eldon? Give from your ample store of giving, A starving priest some little living The world will cry out 'Well done.
"By Heaven, my girl, if you don't stop philandering in the dark with that young scoundrel, I'll pitch him into the first pit I see! You belong to me, and I'll kill you before another shall have you!" With a cry of mingled pain and terror the girl broke from him. Eldon Brand, who had seen the gesture without hearing the words, sprung with uplifted arm toward the man.
Asaph, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and the Lords Holland, Lauderdale, Auckland, Sidmouth, and Ellenborough. The opposers were, the Dukes of Clarence and Sussex, the Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of Westmoreland, and the Lords Eldon and Sheffield. At length a division took place, when there appeared to be in favour of it forty-three, and against it eighteen.
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