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I bid her, if she could, slide it into my uncle's hand, unseen; at least unseen by my brother or sister, for fear it should meet, through their good office, with the fate she had bespoken for it. She would not undertake for that, she said. I am now in expectation of the result. But having so little ground to hope for their favour or mercy, I opened Mr. Lovelace's letter.
It is a fact of the long sifting and kneading to which time subjects the material of its perfect things. One could not get a better example of what I mean than Lovelace's song To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, without which no anthology of English verse could possibly be published.
"Our Faith and troth All time and space controls, Above the highest sphere we meet, Unseen, unknown, and greet as angels greet." How comes it that in the fierce fighting days the soldiers were so tuneful, and such scholars? In the first edition of Lovelace's "Lucasta" there is a flock of recommendatory verses, English, Latin, even Greek, by the gallant Colonel's mess-mates and comrades.
Allin thought he had never heard anything so beautiful as the one of Lovelace's. And he was so sorry to have them go that he looked at Primrose with wistful eyes. "When I am quite strong I am coming around to Madam Wetherill's for half a day." She blushed and nodded. He was very tired and turned over in his chair, and in his half sleepiness could still see Primrose Henry.
In this respect no writer has ever equalled Thucydides. He was a perfect master of the art of gradual diminution. His history is sometimes as concise as a chronological chart; yet it is always perspicuous. It is sometimes as minute as one of Lovelace's letters; yet it is never prolix. He never fails to contract and to expand it in the right place.
Lovelace's morals, from what he heard of him in town; yet his two intimates talked of his being more regular than he used to be.
You'll see, that I approve of Lovelace's advice upon this subject. I am not willing to allow the weight of your answer to him on that head, which perhaps ought to be allowed it.* * See Letter XXXI. of this volume. You must be the less surprised at the inventions of this man, because of his uncommon talents. He is said to be revengeful: a very bad quality!
Of course you are married, and so am I; but marriage does not alter the heart. I did not cease to love you because I would not marry you. You could not cease to love me merely because I refused you. When I acknowledged to myself that Mr. Houghton's income was necessary to me, I did not become enamoured of him. Nor I suppose did you when you found the same as to Miss Lovelace's money."
Lovelace's companions: you'll be pleased to take notice of that! Mr. Hickman said, this put him out of countenance. I stared at him, and with such a meaning in my eyes, as he knew how to take; and so was out of countenance again.
On the whole, honours were even, though, if anything, slightly in Lovelace's favour, since he had filled up the scrum with a School House forward and a member of Benson's, a small and rather insignificant House, instead of giving the colours to men in Buller's. But next term there would be fewer rows.
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