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Updated: May 11, 2025
Side by side with Lady Forthundred, it is curious to put Evesham with his tall, bent body, his little-featured almost elvish face, his unequal mild brown eyes, his gentle manner, his sweet, amazing oratory. He led all these people wonderfully. He was always curious and interested about life, wary beneath a pleasing frankness and I tormented my brain to get to the bottom of him.
It is very easy indeed to generalise about a class or human beings, but much harder to produce a sample. Was old Lady Forthundred, for instance, fairly a sample?
"We're a peerage," she said, "but none of us have ever had any nonsense about nobility." She turned and smiled down on me. "We English," she said, "are a practical people. We assimilate 'um." "Then, I suppose, they don't give trouble?" "Then they don't give trouble." "They learn to shoot?" "And all that," said Lady Forthundred. "Yes. And things go on.
"It's not an ideal arrangement." "Tell me anything better," said Lady Forthundred. On the whole, and because she refused emphatically to believe in education, Lady Forthundred scored.
Sometimes better than others, but they go on somehow. It depends very much on the sort of butler who pokes 'um about." I suggested that it might be possible to get a secure twenty thousand a year by at least detrimental methods socially speaking. "We must take the bad and the good of 'um," said Lady Forthundred, courageously.... Now, was she a sample? It happened she talked.
We came at last incidentally, as our way was, to an exchange of views. It was as nearly a quarrel as we had before I came over to the Conservative side. It was at Champneys, and I think during the same visit that witnessed my exploration of Lady Forthundred.
It occurred to me that I was in the presence of the aristocratic theory currently working as distinguished from my as yet unformulated intentions. "You'll get a lot of loafers and scamps among 'um," said Lady Forthundred. "You get loafers and scamps everywhere, but you'll get a lot of men who'll work hard to keep things together, and that's what we're all after, isn't ut?
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