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We'd gone down so I could be with her. "'Elwin is the name I have chosen for my son, says she to Angus the third day. "'Not so, says Angus, slumping down his one eyebrow clear across in a firm manner. 'You're too late. My son is already named. I named him Angus the night before he was born.
One of the last entries in his diary was, "Precious letter from dearest Elwin. December 10th, 1875." Elwin had, perhaps, a colder temperament, or did not express his devotion. But his regard would seem to have been as deep-seated; as indeed was shown in the finely drawn tribute he paid him after his death, and which is indeed the work of an accomplished writer and master of expression.
"Your cry awakened Lady Lashmore?" "Unfortunately, yes. Her nerves were badly shaken already, and this second shock proved too severe. Sir Elwin fears chest trouble. I am taking her abroad as soon as possible." "She was found insensible. Where?" "At the door of the dressing-room the door communicating with her own room, not that communicating with mine.
"An autopsy " "Nonsense!" cried Dr. Cairn. "Sir Elwin Groves had foreseen it so had I!" "But there are distinct marks of pressure on either side of the windpipe " "Certainly. These marks are not uncommon in such cases. Sir Michael had resided in the East and had contracted a form of plague. Virtually he died from it.
The last time I saw him was at that great fiasco, the production of the first Lord Lytton's posthumous play on the subject of Brutus, produced by Wilson Barrett, with extraordinary richness and pomp: a failure that led to an unpleasant dispute between Lytton's son and the lessee. When the Life of Dickens appeared, Elwin, as in duty bound, proceeded to review it in the Quarterly.
But what was this to his service when I was writing a Life of Sterne, and the friendly Forster, interesting himself in the most good-natured way, determined that it should succeed, and put me in communication with Elwin. No doubt he was interested in his protégé, and Elwin, always willing to please, as it were, received his instructions.
Elwin was, in fact, subject to moods and "nerves," and there were times when he shrank sensitively from the world and its associations he would answer no letters, particularly after the period of his many sore trials.
Elwin was made to retell, to Forster's convulsive enjoyment, though he had heard it before, a humorous incident of a madman's driving about in a gig with a gun and a companion, who up to that moment thought he was sane. The Sage of Chelsea had his smoke as usual, a special churchwarden and a more-special "screw" of tobacco having been carefully sent out for and laid before him.
Ford regretted that Borrow had "told so little about himself." Two friends praised it and foretold long life for it. Whitwell Elwin in 1857 said that "the truth and vividness of the descriptions both of scenes and persons, coupled with the purity, force and simplicity of the language, should confer immortality upon many of its pages."
There was no half way place with Jim. In October, 1902, he left Maj. Elwin expecting to go to St. Paul to work for Yerxa Bros. But Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19, his dead body was found in a room at the hotel Reardon, Seventh and Minnesota streets, St. Paul, where he had been staying since leaving Minneapolis.
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