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It has been quite mistakenly suggested that Westwood was Otway's theatrical name. Westwood was a professional actor of mediocre though useful attainments. p. 300 unsuit. A rare form of 'unsuitable'. p. 304 devoir. Endeavour; effort. This passage is quoted in the N.E.D. p. 305 The Representation of the Wedding.

Piers did not at once accept the offer, for difficulties had arisen on the side of his friend Moncharmont, who, on Otway's announcement of inability to carry out the scheme they had formed together, turned in another direction.

Her voice was inexpressibly soft; it was, according to that incomparable simile of Otway's, "like the shepherd's pipe upon the mountains, When all his little flock's at feed before him." The effect it had upon Harley, himself used to paint ridiculously enough; and ascribed it to powers, which few believed, and nobody cared for.

Otway?" Thereupon sounded Piers Otway's voice. "I should like to say that as I have no legal claim whatever upon my father's estate, I do not wish to put forward a claim of any other kind. Let that be understood at once." There was silence. They heard the waters of the beck rushing over its stony channel. For how many thousand years had the beck so murmured?

He liked to forget himself in contemplation of Piers Otway's youth and soundness. He had pleasure, too, in Piers' talk, which reminded him of Jerome Otway, some half-century ago. Mrs. Jacks was staying with her own family, and from that house would pass to others, equally decorous, where John had promised to join her.

But even so, at the thought of Jervis Blake becoming a private, Rose Otway's heart contracted with pain, and, yes, with vicarious shame. Still, she made up her mind, there and then, that she would not give him up, that she would write to him regularly, and that as far as was possible they would remain friends.

"You will have heard, from the squire, that you are gazetted to Otway's regiment which, with others, is to cross the Atlantic in a few weeks, when it is generally supposed war will be formally declared. Your experience will be of great use to you, and ought to get you a good staff appointment.

"You child," said the Spaniard, taking Lucien by the arm, "have you ever thought over Otway's Venice Preserved? Did you understand the profound friendship between man and man which binds Pierre and Jaffier each to each so closely that a woman is as nothing in comparison, and all social conditions are changed? Well, so much for the poet."

"Now you shall tell me anything you care to, about business," said the host, when they had seated themselves in the library. "And after that I have something to show you something you'll like to see, I think." Otway's curiosity was at a loss when presently he saw his host take from a drawer a little packet of papers. "I had forgotten all about these," said Mr. Jacks.

When she complains, In Southern's, Rowe's, or Otway's moving strains, The brilliant drops that fall from each bright eye The absent pomp with brighter gems supply, Forgive us then if we attempt to show In artless strains a tale of private woe. So it appears that 'Barnwell' was something new, yet not entirely new.