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The canal property of the Duke of Bridgwater, with the Lancashire estates, are now vested in the Earl of Ellesmere, a nobleman who well knows, and conscientiously works out, the axiom, "that property has its duties as well as its rights." A visit to Worsley will prove what an enlightened and benevolent landowner can do for a population of colliers and bargemen.
Still, however, it was enjoined on the governante and her charge, to visit Kirk-Truagh from time to time, and to consider themselves as under the management and guardianship of Mistress Christian a state of subjection, the sense of which Deborah endeavoured to lessen, by assuming as much freedom of conduct as she possibly dared, under the influence, doubtless, of the same feelings of independence, which induced her, at Martindale Hall, to spurn the advice of Mistress Ellesmere.
Don't you observe, Dunsford, that when Ellesmere wants to attack us, and does not exactly see how, he mutters to himself sarcastically, sneering himself up, as it were, to the attack. Ellesmere. You and Dunsford are both wild for music, from barrel- organs upwards. Milverton. I confess to liking the humblest attempts at melody. Dunsford.
To complete Ellesmere's theory, we may say that all those injuries to books which we choose to throw upon some wretched worm, are but the wounds from rival books. Ellesmere. Certainly. But now let us proceed to polish up the weapons of another of these spiteful creatures. Dunsford. Yes. What is to be our essay to-day, Milverton? Milverton. Fiction. Ellesmere. Now, that is really unfortunate.
Most thoughtful men have probably some dark fountains in their souls, by the side of which, if there were time, and it were decorous, they could let their thoughts sit down and wail indefinitely. That long Byron wail fascinated men for a time; because there is that in Human Nature. Luckily, a great deal besides. Ellesmere. I delight in the helpful and hopeful men. Milverton.
I say "our," for when a cathedral is within ten miles of us, we feel a property in it, and are ready to battle for its architectural merits. Ellesmere. You know I am not a man to rave about cathedrals. Milverton. I certainly do not expect you to do so. To me a cathedral is mostly somewhat of a sad sight.
"Is the wench turned silly," exclaimed the lady, something angrily, "that she does not obey my orders, and return at regular hours?" "She may be turning silly," said Ellesmere mysteriously; "or she may be turning too sly; and I think it were as well your ladyship looked to it." "Looked to what, Ellesmere?" said the lady impatiently. "You are strangely oracular this morning.
These trains will not wait even for critics, so, for the present, good-bye. I had scarcely seated myself at our usual place of meeting before the friends entered, and after greeting me, the conversation thus began: Ellesmere. Upon my word, you people who live in the country have a pleasant time of it.
Finding that I lived near at hand, the Prince expressed his desire to the Earl that I should exhibit to Her Majesty some of my graphic lunar studies. On receiving a note to that effect from the Countess of Ellesmere, I sent a selection of my drawings to the Hall, and proceeded there in the evening. I had then the honour of showing them to the Queen and the Prince, and explaining them in detail.
And so he grows cautious; and is very loth to communicate to anybody his more cherished opinions, unless they fall in exactly with the stream. Added to which, I think there is in these times less than there ever was of a proselytising spirit; and people are content to keep their opinions to themselves more perhaps from indifference than from fear. Ellesmere. Yes, I agree with you.
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