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Every government, therefore, found him an useful servant; and there was nothing in his opinions or in his character which could prevent him from serving any government. "Sidney Godolphin," said Charles, "is never in the way, and never out of the way." This pointed remark goes far to explain Godolphin's extraordinary success in life.
He's a curious creature," Maxwell went on with a relish in Godolphin, as material, which his wife suffered with difficulty. "I wonder if he could ever be got into a play. If he could he would like nothing better than to play himself, and he would do it to perfection; only it would be a comic part, and Godolphin's mind is for the serious drama." Maxwell laughed.
"And if I followed your precepts, what other preliminaries would you enjoin?" "Not until thou engagest to perform them, will I tell thee more." "I engage!" "And swear?" "I swear!" The soothsayer rose and It was on the night of this interview that Constance, coming into Godolphin's room, found him leaning against the wall, pale, and agitated, and almost insensible.
And now, how delightful to her seemed that rugged way, as, with every moment, Godolphin's care Godolphin's hand became necessary; and he, inspired, inflamed by her company, by her touch, by the softness of her manner, and the devotion of her attention no, no! not yet was Lucilla forgotten! And now they stood within the Siren's Cave.
What, among the millions, the myriads, that around that desolate spot had loved, and forgotten love, was the brief passion of one mortal, withering as it sprung! Thus differently moralises the heart, according to the passion which bestows on it the text. Before he regained his home, Godolphin's resolve was taken.
The same fastidiousness which, in the affairs of the heart, had characterised Godolphin's habits and sentiments, characterised his new pursuits; the same thirst for the Ideal, the same worship of the Beautiful, and aspirations after the Perfect. It was not in Constance's nature to admit this smaller ambition; her taste was pure but not minute; she did not descend to the philosophy of detail.
Ah, how rejoiced, how elated with myself I should feel, if I could will over one like you to the great cause of honourable exertion!" For one instant Godolphin's eye sparkled, and his pale cheek burned but the transient emotion faded away as he answered "Eight years ago, when she who spoke to me was Constance Vernon, her wish might have moulded me according to her will.
Godolphin's heart misgave him: tremblingly he opened it, and read as follows: "DEAR PERCY, "I have news for you, which I do not know whether I should call good or bad. On the one hand, your cousin, that old oddity, Harry Johnstone, is dead, and has left you, out of his immense fortune, the poor sum of twenty thousand pounds.
"And if I followed your precepts, what other preliminaries would you enjoin?" "Not until thou engagest to perform them, will I tell thee more." "I engage!" "And swear?" "I swear!" The soothsayer rose and It was on the night of this interview that Constance, coming into Godolphin's room, found him leaning against the wall, pale, and agitated, and almost insensible.
With this fortune, which would place them, at least, in independence, she united in her kindly imagination the importance which she imagined Godolphin's talents must ultimately acquire; and for which, in her aristocratic estimation, she conceived the senate the only legitimate sphere.
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