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"In five minutes," Grimthorpe declares, "all the papers were put down and everyone had gathered round him to listen and laugh." At the end of the meal one Yorkshireman after the other begged the host to follow the lunch with a dinner and invite them to meet the wonder again.
Ernest Beckett, now Lord Grimthorpe, a lover of all superiorities, who has known the ablest men of the time, takes pleasure in telling a story which shows Oscar Wilde's influence over men who were anything but literary in their tastes. Mr.
Perhaps he hoped for an open verdict. Perhaps he wasn't quite right in his mind. I have told you the story as I remember it and my memory is not perfect. Personally I've always been a bit sorry for Grimthorpe. It is quite possible that all those hints as to his "queerness" were invented by his wife to excuse herself.
Burlington House would protest, of course, that it is not a shop; but now at last objects are to be shown in it which the great mass of the public expects to see only in shops and expects to be produced merely to sell. We remember how Lord Grimthorpe called Morris a poetic upholsterer.
"In five minutes," Grimthorpe declares, "all the papers were put down and everyone had gathered round him to listen and laugh." At the end of the meal one Yorkshireman after the other begged the host to follow the lunch with a dinner and invite them to meet the wonder again.
I used to lead Jack with a string in the same manner as I had done the other, for educational purposes, and Lord Grimthorpe jocularly called me Jack's prisoner. But I must let him tell his own story in his own way when his turn comes.
Grimthorpe was a curious-looking person, even at forty; in appearance a mixture of Julius Caesar, several unpleasant-featured Doges of Venice, and Voltaire in middle age. His looks were not entirely his fault and doubtless acquired for him, in his moral character, a worse definition than he deserved.
Does your keeper let you go without being attached to a string?" "No, no," says my lord "no, no; Jack's attached to me now." Thereupon dear old Grimthorpe, who loved a joke, laughed till his elbows rested on his knees as he stooped down. "Well," said he, "that's good, Hawkins, very good indeed."
"What date was that?" "Back in 1860. Even I remember what a sensation this masterpiece created. It was designed by E. B. Dennison, afterward Lord Grimthorpe, and was placed one hundred and eighty feet above the ground some halfway up the tower of one of the buildings.
And she was now sure that whilst she had closed those orbs she had heard as indeed she had, only it was Sir Grimthorpe himself some one stealing into the room. She communicated her suspicions to the doctor.
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