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Greville's George IV. and William IV., iii. 155, 167-69, 171. Bentham's Works, x. 571. Romilly's Memoirs, ii. 67, 222. I now turn to the general political theory of which Mill was the authoritative exponent. The Encyclopædia article upon 'Government' gives the pith of their doctrine.
I am reminded by this recollection of my pleasant professional fellowship with Miss Ellen Tree of a curious instance of the unprincipled, flagrant recklessness with which scandalous gossip is received and circulated in what calls itself the best English society. In Mr. Charles Greville's "Memoirs," he makes a statement that Miss Tree was never engaged at Covent Garden.
"The decisive moment arrived; and Lady Greville's insanity was, in the opinion of her physicians and attendants, confirmed for life. She relapsed into that state of composed but decided aberration of mind, in which she still remains.
What's the attraction?" "You can't get a rise out of me to-night," said Rose. "Not after what I've been through to-day. Madame Gréville's been talking to me. She thinks American women are dreadful dubs, or she would if she knew the word thinks we don't know our own game. Do you agree with her?" "I'll tell you that," he said, "after you answer my question. What's the attraction?"
It was lucky for her that she was too much hurried to dwell on this vexation; she almost ran to save herself from being late, and scarcely heard Sam's mutterings about wishing to break Martin Greville's head. "You need not hurry so much," he said; "there's a shorter cut, only I suppose you can't get through a gap." "Can't I?" she laughed; and he led her on straight through the Short- horns.
But there are bright exceptions, in the lives of literary men and women, and in some of those of noted public men in church and state. Thus, there are few books more enjoyable than Sydney Smith's Memoirs and Letters, or Greville's Journals covering the period including George IV to Victoria, or the Life and Letters of Macaulay, or Mrs.
Pretty soon, of course, she'd have to come hack to earth, where certain monstrously terrifying questions were waiting for her. Madame Gréville's final apothegm had suggested one of them.
It was, she declared, a "dreadful and really scandalous book," and she could not say "how HORRIFIED and INDIGNANT" she was at Greville's "indiscretion, indelicacy, ingratitude towards friends, betrayal of confidence and shameful disloyalty towards his Sovereign."
You will find me here in my winter quarters until the end of May, then from June to the end of October at Baden-Baden, where we have built a villa. I would always be happy to see you and talk over old times. I have just finished reading the third volume of Greville's Memoirs and have been very much struck by your notes, without which some passages would not have been intelligible.
"Oh, if I could only be dead, too!" He lay there, crying, till Henri had finished washing the supper dishes and had put them clumsily away. The rank odor of tobacco, stealing up the stairs, told him that Brossard had settled down to enjoy his evening pipe. Through the casement window that was still ajar came the faint notes of an accordeon from Monsieur Gréville's garden, across the way.
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