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"Oh, it's quite a concentration, a quintessence of Protestant feeling," answered Vincent; "I consider myself a good Protestant; but the pleasure you have in hunting these men is quite sensual, Fusby." The Common-Room man here entered, and whispered to Carlton that a stranger was waiting for him in his rooms. "When do your men come up?" said Sheffield to Vincent. "Next Saturday," answered Vincent.
The light is extinguished, the door opened, and a terrific blow from a strong and scientifically levelled fist hurls the listener down-stairs to the next landing-place, from which resting-place he hears thundered after him for his information, "If you come back again, you scoundrel, I'll put you into the hands of Dr Fusby."
Johnson called on Young's son at Welwyn in June, 1781. Ante, iv. 119. Elwes and Mrs. Fusby. Memoirs of Philip Doddridge, ed. 1766, p. 171. So late as 1783 he said 'this Hanoverian family is isolée here. Ante, iv. 165. See ante, ii. 81, where he hoped that 'this gloom of infidelity was only a transient cloud. Boswell has recorded this saying, ante, iv. 194.
Then there is the relict of the late Major Fusby, of the Fusiliers, going to or returning from England. Mrs. She does not suffer from sea-sickness, but occasionally undergoes periods of nervous depression which require the administration of the stimulant already referred to.
"The Pope in his own states has given in," said Sheffield, "so we may well do the same." "Don't talk of the Pope," said Vincent, "I'm sick of the Pope." "The Pope?" said Fusby, overhearing; "have you heard that his Holiness is coming to England?" "Oh, oh," cried Vincent, "come, I can't stand this. I must go; good night t'you, Carlton. Where's my gown?"
"I believe the Common-Room man has hung it up in the passage; but you should stop and protect me from Fusby."
Neither did Vincent turn to the rescue, nor did Fusby profit by the hint; so poor Carlton, with the knowledge that he was wanted in his rooms, had to stay a good half-hour tête-
"Why, Fusby," said Vincent, overhearing and coming up, "you are like the three old crones in the Bride of Lammermoor, who wished to have the straiking of the Master of Ravenswood." Fusby nodded his person, but made no answer. "Not all three at once, I hope," said Sheffield.
It is a singular fact that the present voyage is strangely illustrative of remarkable events in the life of the late Fusby; there has not been a sail or a porpoise in sight that has not called up some reminiscence of the early career of the major; indeed, even the somewhat unusual appearance of an iceberg, has been turned to account as suggestive of the intense suffering undergone by the major during the period of his wound, owing to the scarcity of the article ice in tropical countries.
Young and his housekeeper were ridiculed, with more ill-nature than wit, in a kind of novel published by Kidgell in 1755, called "The Card," under the names of Dr. Elwes and Mrs. Fusby. In April, 1765, at an age to which few attain, a period was put to the life of Young. He had performed no duty for three or four years, but he retained his intellects to the last.
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