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One of Sir John Rhys's Manx informants, an old man of sixty-seven, "had been a farm servant from the age of sixteen till he was twenty-six to the same man, near Regaby, in the parish of Andreas, and he remembers his master and a near neighbour of his discussing the term New Year's Day as applied to the first of November, and explaining to the younger men that it had always been so in old times.
But in this belief I was greatly mistaken, as I was afterwards fully convinced by the best evidence from various quarters. One of my informants was a German bookbinder of great respectability, settled in London, and for many years employed by the Admiralty as a confidential binder of records or journals containing secrets of office, &c.
Then commenced the details; and I was compelled to listen to a string of gossip that connected nearly all the people of mark, my informants had ever heard of in the great Commercial Emporium that was to be. How suitable is this name!
That, alas! is the one enemy against which no law can protect any son of Adam; since the real reasons that make or break a man are too absurd or too obscene to be reached from outside. Then I cast about in other quarters to discover what the cultivator was going to do about it. 'Oh, him? said one of my many informants. 'He's all right. There are about six ways of evading the Act that, I know of.
They did not see his divine informants, the axe, the tray, and the pestle. For this reason never throw away anything that has belonged to your ancestors. You will be punished by the gods if you do so.
They pooh-poohed their informants, professed to adhere without a doubt to their own first opinions, and the bust, to the great amusement of all the Florentine art-world, remained in its place of honor at the Louvre, exhibited as a cinque-cento terra-cotta for a long time after all Florence was perfectly cognizant of its real history, and after the young artist had produced three or four other busts all equally marked by unmistakable cinque-cento characteristics.
Even Park, to whom so brilliant a description of the city was given by some of his informants, was told by others that it was surpassed in opulence and size by Houssa, Walet, and probably by Jinnie.
It was here that I was told outright that Alexander must either divorce Draga or go. What was to follow was uncertain. They wished, if possible, to avoid a revolution. I was even begged to work a propaganda in favour of Petar Karageorgevitch in England. Above all to write to The Times, and my informants said they trusted to my honour not to betray their names.
England hath e'er been friendly to the American, and you had been more fittingly received had our informants been less negligent." Here the Queen shot a glance at poor Sir Walter Raleigh, who now seemed the personification of discomfiture. "By what name are you called?" Elizabeth continued. "Wise," said Rebecca, very graciously, "Rebecca Wise." "Lady Rebecca, will you sit nearer?"
It is not improbable that they would have shrunk from some of the disclosures which they made, had they known that they would be published. Nevertheless we feel assured that in making them public, we shall not betray the informants, concealing as we do their names and the estates to which they belong.
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