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But as his health had suffered greatly from the Indian climate, he came back to England in 1794, and the East India Company voted him "the unusual grant of a pension of L500 per annum" on his retirement from official duties. Soon after his return to England he met and married Charlotte Amyatt, and went to live at Escot, Ottery St. Mary. Here their family of twelve children was reared.
"The skull is yours," said the squire, skipping over to Mr. Cranium. "I am perfectly satisfied," said Mr. Cranium. "The lady is yours," said the squire, skipping back to Mr. Escot. "I am the happiest man alive," said Mr. Escot, and he flew off as nimbly as Squire Headlong himself, to impart the happy intelligence to his beautiful Cephalis.
"The affection," said Mr Escot, "of two congenial spirits, united not by legal bondage and superstitious imposture, but by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues, is the only counterbalancing consolation in this scene of mischief and misery. But how rarely is this the case according to the present system of marriage!
"I am inclined to think, on the contrary," said Mr Escot, "that the deterioration of man is accelerated by his blindness in many respects wilful blindness to the truth of the fact itself, and to the causes which produce it; that there is no hope whatever of ameliorating his condition but in a total and radical change of the whole scheme of human life, and that the advocates of his indefinite perfectibility are in reality the greatest enemies to the practical possibility of their own system, by so strenuously labouring to impress on his attention that he is going on in a good way, while he is really in a deplorably bad one."
Mr Cranium fell into a profound reverie: emerging from which, he said, looking Squire Headlong full in the face, "Do you think Mr Escot would give me that skull?" "Skull!" said Squire Headlong. "Yes," said Mr Cranium, "the skull of Cadwallader." "To be sure he will," said the squire. "Ascertain the point," said Mr Cranium. "How can you doubt it?" said the squire.
Mr Escot then detailed by what means he had become possessed of it, which gave birth to various remarks from the other individuals of the party: after which, rising from table, and taking the skull again in his hand, Observe this skull. Even the skull of our reverend friend, which is the largest and thickest in the company, is not more than half its size.
Escot, in the language of Hamlet, "man and boy, forty years." The sexton turned pale; the period named was so nearly the true. "During this period you have, of course, dug up many bones of the people of ancient times. Perhaps you can show me a few." The sexton grinned a ghastly smile. "Will you take your Bible oath you don't want them to raise the devil with?" "Willingly," said Mr. Escot.
Mr Escot passed a sleepless night, the ordinary effect of love, according to some amatory poets, who seem to have composed their whining ditties for the benevolent purpose of bestowing on others that gentle slumber of which they so pathetically lament the privation. The deteriorationist entered into a profound moral soliloquy, in which he first examined whether a philosopher ought to be in love?
Foster, as soon as they were again in motion, "that the wild man of the woods could not transport himself over two hundred miles of forest with as much facility as one of these vehicles transports you and me." "I am certain," said Mr. Escot, "that a wild man can travel an immense distance without fatigue; but what is the advantage of locomotion?
Squire Headlong anxiously watched the tower as the smoke rolled away; but when the shadowy curtain was withdrawn, and Mr. Panscope was discovered, alone, in a tragical attitude, his apprehensions became boundless, and he concluded that a flying fragment of rock had killed Mr. Cranium. Mr. Escot arrived at the scene of the disaster just as Mr.
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