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Their social converse was thus renewed, and, in the company of a third person, Miss Jayne, they continued to meet at frequent intervals. Among the admirers of Miss Todd were two young men who came to be widely known. These were Douglas and Shields. With the latter only we are concerned now.
Jayne, an excellent man, and, I am glad to add, he and I are warm personal friends. I am very sorry to say, though, that his children, I believe, are all gone, as are mine. There were other men who had risen to prominence in Illinois, of whom I wish to write, and some who were then new upon the stage of public life, whom I knew and who subsequently achieved distinction.
Jayne told the meeting that "the persons who were most liable to be guilty of cruelty to their children were those artisans who had taken up Secularist opinions, and who looked upon their children as a nuisance, and were glad to get them out of the way." Now, on the face of it, the statement is positively grotesque in its absurdity.
It announced the death in action of Lord Jasper Jayne. "My God!" he said, crumpling the paper as he gaped at the announcement. "Is it bad news, sir?" the post-mistress asked. "A friend of mine," he answered, turning to her. "Killed at the Front!" "Aw, dear," she said. "Aw, dear-a-dear! An' there'll be plenty more, sir. There's young fellas away from the village, sir. My own nephew's away.
Lamb, "was written by Mary Todd and Julia Jayne, afterward the wife of Senator Lyman Trumbull. After I had set up the poem, I took the copy from the hook and put it into my pocket. When Lincoln was informed by Simeon Francis, the editor of the 'Journal, that Shields had demanded the name of the author of the verses, he came around to the office and asked for the copy.
The portrait would be reproduced in the Daily Reflexion under the title of "Lady Cecily Jayne Does Her Bit." ... But she was beautiful, undeniably she was beautiful. As he looked at her, she raised her eyes, conscious perhaps of his stare, and smiled at him.... "She'd smile at anybody," he said to himself. "If she had any feeling at all for me, she'd be angry with me!" She came to him.
Tanqueray, where we find Aubrey Tanqueray seated squarely at his bachelor dinner-table with Misquith on his right and Jayne on his left. It may even be taken as a principle that, where it is desired to give to one character a special prominence and predominance, it ought, if possible, to be the first figure on which the eye of the audience falls.
I've tried to love some one else ... tried very hard!" "Who was it?" he asked. "No one you knew. It was after I'd seen you with Lady Cecily Jayne. I was jealous, Quinny!..." "My dear," he said, flattered by the oneness of her love for him. "But I couldn't. I just couldn't. I suppose I'm rather limited!" She made a wry smile as she spoke. "I felt stupid beside her.
"I say, Ninian, what was the name of the girl that Gilbert was so gone on at Cambridge? Lady something or other! He was rather sick with you for mentioning her...." "Oh, Lady Cecily Jayne!" "Is that her name? Who is she?" "Society female," said Ninian. "Takes an interest in literature and art in her spare time, but she doesn't know anything about either of them.
It is a curious fact and we commend it to the attention of Dr. Jayne and Mr. Waugh that the most sceptical country in Europe is the one where children are the best treated, and where there is no need for a Society to save them from the clutches of cruelty. There is positively a child-cultus in the great French cities, and especially in Freethinking Paris.
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