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"I say it is impossible in law, as Sir R. Phillimore, 1 Phill., International Law, vol. 1, p. 316, has said in a passage I read with the most respectful concurrence, but too long for full quotation." "It is unnecessary for me to trace how it became the Common Law of England that whosoever breathes the air of England cannot be a slave."
Also, of course, there are exceptions in the matter of learning; real scholars like Professor Gilbert Murray or Professor Phillimore are not ignorant, though they are gentlemen.
"He had almost overtaken him was, in fact, not more than thirty yards from him when from out of one of the two end houses No. 22, Phillimore Terrace, in fact a man, in nothing but his night-shirt, rushed out excitedly, and, before D 21 had time to intervene, literally threw himself upon the suspected individual, rolling over and over with him on the hard cobble-stones, and frantically shrieking, 'Thief!
Politically he was no longer a great power, for the party whose cause he had half espoused had met with a distinct reverse, and he himself was without a seat in Parliament, but amongst the masses his was still a name to conjure with. Socially his marriage with Blanche Phillimore had scarcely proved the disaster which every one had anticipated. Her old ways and manner of life lay in the background.
Sloane Gardens, Tuesday. My dear Sir Leslie, I am so sorry, but I must scratch for to-morrow night. L. is going North on some mysterious expedition, and I am afraid that he will want me to go with him. In fact, he has already said so. Ask me again some time, won't you? Yours ever, Blanche Phillimore. Berenice folded up the letter and returned it. "It is a little extraordinary," she remarked.
If the people of London are proud of what was done by Sir Christopher Wren, they lament perhaps still more what he was not permitted to do. They are now attempting to execute some of his plans. Miss Lucy Phillimore, his biographer, says: "Wren laid before the king and Parliament a model of the city as he proposed to build it, with full explanations of the details of the design.
Then Slidell and Mason were arrested, and I began to calculate how long I might remain in the country. "There is no danger. We are quite right," the lawyers said. "There are Vattel, and Puffendorff, and Stowell, and Phillimore, and Wheaton," said the ladies. "Ambassadors are contraband all the world over more so than gunpowder; and if taken in a neutral bottom," etc.
She drew a little breath, and she went a good deal further than she had meant to go. "It has been suggested to me," she said, "that your reappearance was due to a woman's influence. Is this true?" "A woman had something to do with it," he admitted. "Who is she?" "Her name," he answered, "is Blanche Phillimore. It was the person to whom you yourself alluded."
Phillimore swept into the room, elaborately gowned for her drive in the park, dispersing perfumes in all directions and bestowing a dazzling smile upon him. "I felt very much inclined not to see you at all," she declared. "How dared you keep away from me all this time? You haven't been near me since I moved in here. What do you think of my little house?" "Charming!" he declared.
Phillimore rose abruptly from her seat. "Have you got the brandy and soda, Hester?" she asked. "I'm afraid I forgot it, mother," the girl answered. "Mayn't I make you some Russian tea? I've had the lemon sliced." The woman laughed, a little unnaturally. "What a dutiful daughter," she exclaimed. "That's right! I want looking after, don't I? I'll have the tea, Hester, but send it up to my room.
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