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"To the south of the famous city of Oxford, between it and the town of Abingdon, lies a neat covert called Bagley Wood: in the which, on a Sunday evening a bare two months ago, I chose to wander with my stage copy of Mr. Otway's Orphan a silly null play, sirs, if not altogether the nonsense for which Abingdon, two nights later, condemned it.
Otway's regiment was instantly ordered to advance from the body of the reserve, and sustain the right wing, which the enemy twice in vain attempted to penetrate.
The conduct of the amour between Lady Fulbank and Gayman, founded as it is on Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure, has nothing in common with Otway's intrigue between Beaugard and Portia The Atheist which owes itself to Scarron's novel, The Invisible Mistress. p. 222 the Gad-Bee's in his Quonundrum. Gad-Bee, vide supra. Quonundrum or Conundrum. A whim; crotchet; maggot; conceit.
I don't know that it's so much the city, as the neighbourhood. You see, we're not so very far away from one of the beaches which it is thought the Germans, if they did try a landing, would choose as a good place." Mrs. Otway's extreme astonishment showed in her face. "You know I never gossip, Mary, so you may take what I say as being true. But I beg you to keep it to yourself.
may not be aware of the precise historical connexion of the incidents of Otway's play with the events of history. They are taken, in the main, from an atrocious conspiracy formed at Venice in 1618.
She opened the front door on to the empty, darkened street; and then, to Mrs. Otway's great surprise, she suddenly bent forward and kissed her warmly. "Well, my dear," she exclaimed, "I'm glad to have seen you even for a moment, and I hope your business, whatever it be, will be successful.
On that morning, immediately after her return home, Rose had gone up to her room, declaring that she had had breakfast though she, Anna, knew well that the child had only had an early cup of tea.... But if Anna sympathised with and understood the feelings of the younger of her two ladies, she had but scant toleration for Mrs. Otway's restless, ill-concealed unhappiness.
England had just declared war on Germany, and Anna was Mrs. Otway's faithful, highly valued German servant. It was this quality of mind, far more than the fact that she had been born, sixty years ago, in the Palace at Witanbury, which gave her the position she held in the society of the cathedral town.
Scenes of this nature are found in Zola's Nana, in Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved, in Albert Juhelle's Les Pecheurs d'Hommes, in Dostojevski.
Otway's journey to London, the easy earning by good old Anna of a florin for Alfred Head's brief sight of Jervis Blake's letter, and the exchange of confidences between the mother and daughter, were comparatively happy, peaceful days at the Trellis House. Her visit to 20, Arlington Street, had greatly soothed and comforted Mrs. Otway.
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