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Updated: June 13, 2025
Dunsford. Do not say "one:" I should not have disagreed with the great Protestant leaders in the Reformation, for instance. Ellesmere. Humph. Milverton. If we get aground upon the Reformation, we shall never push off again else would I say something far from complimentary to those Protestant proceedings which we may rather hope were Tudoresque than Protestant. Ellesmere. No, that is not fair.
Dunsford's purpose in telling his love-story, was to caution Mildred against falling in love with Milverton. She told him there was no danger. Once, she frankly said, she had long struggled with her feelings, not only from natural pride, but for the sake of Blanche, who loved Milverton better and would be less able to control her love.
My readers would, perhaps, like one to tell them something of the characters of Ellesmere and Milverton; but it would ill become me to give that insight into them, which I, their college friend and tutor, imagine I have obtained. Their friendship I could never understand.
Nothing would please him better than to see in large letters, on one of those advertising vans, "Great match! Victoria Park!! Eleven of Fleet Street against the Eleven of Saffron Hill!!!" Milverton. Well, there is a great deal in the spirit of Young England that I like very much, indeed that I respect. Ellesmere.
Milverton. It must be confessed that these people do make their humility somewhat obnoxious. Yet, after all, you allow that they know their deficiencies, and they only say, "I know I have not much to recommend me, but I wish to be loved, nevertheless." Ellesmere. Ah, if they only said it a few times! Besides, there is a little envy mixed up with the humility that I mean. Dunsford.
Milverton. I know what you mean. There is a kind of pity for the people now in vogue which is most effeminate. It is a sugared sort of Robespierre talk about "The poor but virtuous People." To address such stuff to the people is not to give them anything, but to take away what they have.
Then I see a man like D , a judicious, reasonable, conversable being, knowing how to be silent too a man to go through a campaign with and I find he cannot read or write. Milverton. This sort of contrast is just the thing to strike you, Ellesmere: and yet you know as well as any of us that to bring forward such contrasts by way of depreciating education would be most unreasonable.
Our hearts may be touched at our being loved by people essentially distasteful to us, whose modes of talking and acting are a continual offence to us; but whether we can love them in return is a question. Milverton. Yes, we can, I think. I begin to see that it is a question of degree. The word love includes many shades of meaning.
"It's true," said the inspector, with much amusement. "It might be a description of Watson." "Well, I am afraid I can't help you, Lestrade," said Holmes. "The fact is that I knew this fellow Milverton, that I considered him one of the most dangerous men in London, and that I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
"It's true," said the inspector, with amusement. "It might be a description of Watson." "Well, I'm afraid I can't help you, Lestrade," said Holmes. "The fact is that I knew this fellow Milverton, that I considered him one of the most dangerous men in London, and that I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
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