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But after dinner came the time when the painfullest scene was daily enacted. Mrs. Chump drank Port freely. To drink it fondly, it was necessary that she should have another rosy wineglass to nod to, and Mr. Pole, whose taste for wine had been weakened, took this post as his duty.
Now, to those who have any regrets or sadnesses in the background of memory, the painfullest of all times are these anniversaries. One is forced round face to face with the past and the unalterable, to gaze on it, perchance, through blinding tears. The days return unchanged: but, oh, to what changed hearts! Were they not thinking of the Canadian exiles to-day, at home, at dear old Dunore?
To all this, Mr Pancks, snorting and blowing in a more and more portentous manner as he became more interested, listened with great attention; appearing to derive the most agreeable sensations from the painfullest parts of the narrative, and particularly to be quite charmed by the account of William Dorrit's long imprisonment. 'In conclusion, Mr Pancks, said Arthur, 'I have but to say this.
The pleasantest part of the occasion by far, to Clennam, was the painfullest. Gowan himself was touched, and answered Mr Meagles's 'O Gowan, take care of her, take care of her! with an earnest 'Don't be so broken-hearted, sir. By Heaven I will!
"He is both a valiant man and a wise man, and the painfullest that ever I knew," he said; adding as a secret that "five hundred Englishmen of the best Flemish training had flatly and shamefully run away," when the fight had been renewed by Hohenlo and Norris.
But no, my uneasy spirit kept dragging me back at quarter-hour intervals; and always I saw Backus drinking his wine fairly and squarely, and the others throwing theirs away. It was the painfullest night I ever spent. The only hope I had was that we might reach our anchorage with speed that would break up the game. I helped the ship along all I could with my prayers.
Of these there are two sorts; some live unmarried and chaste, and abstain from eating any sort of flesh; and thus weaning themselves from all the pleasures of the present life, which they account hurtful, they pursue, even by the hardest and painfullest methods possible, that blessedness which they hope for hereafter; and the nearer they approach to it, they are the more cheerful and earnest in their endeavours after it.
"He is both a valiant man and a wise man, and the painfullest that ever I knew," he said; adding as a secret that "five hundred Englishmen of the best Flemish training had flatly and shamefully run away," when the fight had been renewed by Hohenlo and Norris.
I have seen men transformed to beasts through its use; I have seen more suicides from the effect of opium since I have been in China than from any other cause in the course of my life. As I write I have around me painfullest evidence of the crudest ravishings of opium among a people who have fallen victims to the craving. There is only one opinion to be formed if to himself one would be true.
But while Salisbury was supreme, Bacon, though very alert and zealous, was mainly busied with his official work; and the Solicitor's place had become, as he says, a "mean thing" compared with the Attorney's, and also an extremely laborious place "one of the painfullest places in the kingdom." Much of it was routine, but responsible and fatiguing routine.
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