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It is a tale which every student of literature has delighted to read, how Coleridge and Southey, bent on founding their Pantisocracy, on the banks of the Susquehana, came to Bristol to charter a ship, and while they waited, dimly aware that they lacked funds for the adventure, anchored themselves in English homes by marrying the Fricker sisters.
At the close of the year 1794, a clever young man, of the Society of Friends, of the name of Robert Lovell, who had married a Miss Fricker, informed me that a few friends of his from Oxford and Cambridge, with himself, were about to sail to America, and, on the banks of the Susquehannah, to form a Social Colony, in which there was to be a community of property, and where all that was selfish was to be proscribed.
They married two sisters, the Misses Fricker, and a third sister married Robert Lovel, also a poet. The experiment of pantisocracy was fortunately never carried out, and Southey's career for the next eight years was exceedingly fragmentary; but in 1803 there was a reunion of the three sisters at Keswick, though one of the husbands, Lovel, was dead.
The boat bumped at last against the bank, and she drew a breath of relief. The journey had seemed interminable. Suddenly through the windy darkness there came to them the hoot of a motor-horn. "That's all right," said Brandon cheerily. "That's Fricker, wanting to know if all's well."
The fame of Coleridge as a poet had gone abroad, and the literary fledglings at Oxford sought to do the visitor honor in the proper way. Among others whom he met on this visit were Robert Southey and Robert Lovell, both poets of considerable local fame. Lovell had been married but a few months before to a young woman by the name of Fricker.
Bessie's heart had begun to beat very hard. "Is it?" said she in a tone of apprehension. "Do they profess to despise you?" "More than that they do despise me; they don't know how to scorn me enough. But you are not common, so why should you be afraid? My father is a master-mariner John Fricker of Great Yarmouth. What is yours?"
"I don't know what you mean," said Doris, looking her straight in the face. "No? Well, my dear, it isn't my business to enlighten you. If you really want to know, I must refer you to your husband. Surely that is Mrs. Fricker over there. You will not mind if she joins us?" "I am going!" Doris announced abruptly "I really only looked in to see if there were any letters."
His pale face with its heavy-lidded eyes stared, supremely contemptuous, into Brandon's suffused countenance. His composure was somehow disconcerting. "Suppose you get out," he suggested. "I can talk to you then in a language you will understand." "Curse you!" bawled Brandon. "Where's Fricker?" Caryl shrugged his shoulders. "You have seen him since I have. Are you going to get out?
Bessie had never wavered in her protecting kindness to Janey, and Janey served her now with devotion, and promised eternal remembrance and gratitude. When a fortnight came to an end at Luc-sur-Mer, Bessie returned to Bayeux, and Janey went back to the Rue St. Jean. Before the school reopened came into port at Caen the Petrel, and John Fricker, the master-mariner, carried away his daughter.
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