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"Heaven help us all!" went through me, "Here's another gone mad." The spectacle put our search momentarily from my mind. I knew Crump's head to be none of the strongest, and I should never have guessed what had actually happened for surely this was a strange place and way in which to stumble upon old Admiral Pendarves' treasure!
This is no work for a woman. You are wet, you may get hurt " "And you?" she retorted. Then, in a lower voice, "Don't stop me, Mr. Pendarves; don't try to keep me from going. I can't stay quietly here, and wait, and wait, and not know what's happened. I think I should go mad. I must go. You are wasting time; your grandfather oh, can't you understand?"
These heroines were Lady Huntingdon, the Duchess of Queensberry, the Duchess of Ancaster, Lady Westmorland, Lady Cobham, Lady Charlotte Edwin, Lady Archibald Hamilton and her daughter, Mrs. Scott, and Mrs. Pendarves, and Lady Frances Saunderson. I am thus particular in their names, since I look upon them to be the boldest assertors, and most resigned sufferers for liberty, I ever read of.
Pendarves, who some years later became the wife of Swift's friend, Dr. Delany, a celebrated preacher and afterward dean of Down, was much attracted by the many virtues hidden under the apparent misanthropy of this wonderful man, and kept up a correspondence with him until his intellect failed.
Now, I won't swear, but I'm morally certain that guineas haven't been what they call in circulation for years and years and years." "You're always seeing them in subscription lists," Miss Oliver objected. "Take our Emergency Fund 'Charles Pendarves Tresawna, Esq., J.P., twenty-five guineas." "I seem to remember that the Squire paid by cheque," said Mrs Polsue drily.
She gave me a woeful glance; and I understood that, according to her poor little code, it would be more "respectable" to resume her journeyings with the fat crystal-gazer than to stay in the house with Nick Pendarves as his grandfather's housekeeper. She had made up her mind, and would stand to it at all costs.
It had been carried on with reckless extravagance, and the noble directors were in all probability not very expert men of business. The scandalous behaviour of all concerned in Astyanax may well have caused a falling-off in the subscriptions. Mrs. Pendarves, who was a lady of unimpeachable conduct, continued to go to the opera, but she was a serious lover of music and a personal friend of Handel.
Pendarves, "sweet, clear and firm, but not strong enough, I doubt, for the stage. He sings like a gentleman, without making faces, and his manner is particularly agreeable." Perhaps Handel's friendship with Mrs. Pendarves had given him a sure insight into the taste of English gentlewomen. In the summer of 1729 Handel paid a visit to his mother at Halle; she was then blind and half paralysed.
"Go to bed, I tell you!" he screamed, and half rose, brandishing his rod of correction. Somebody pulled at my sleeve; it was the girl. "Please come away, Mr. Pendarves; please do come away, sir, just for a minute, and then he'll forget it," she urged; and, with her earnest air of responsibility: "It's so bad for him." In the kitchen, Zaira Mary Smith was getting supper ready, as it appeared.
Only I haven't hurt anything, Mr. Pendarves; I I only scrubbed and cooked and cleaned a little. I was so happy: there was no harm, it seemed to me. And when I pretended to be the housekeeper, that that was just a little game I played with myself; it was silly, I dare say, but, after all, it did no harm, either. It was like another game I play by myself sometimes of having a birthday, you know?
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