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Won't you come down and shoot a pheasant or two before you return to the Highlands?" "Well, the fact is," Macleod said, hesitatingly, "my friend and I by the way, let me introduce you Lord Beauregard, Major Stuart the fact is, we ought to go back directly after we have settled this business." "But a day or two won't matter. Now, let me see. Plymley comes to us on Monday next, I think.
SYDNEY SMITH, Letters of Peter Plymley, 1807. From the outcry which arose in the last years of the late Government at the revelations which came to be known as the MacDonnell mystery one would have thought that Conservatives could look back to a record unstained by any traffic with the unclean thing for which they express such horror.
The unexpurgated edition of the Apologia may rank with the Provincial Letters; but the creator of Peter and Abraham Plymley stands alone. The meeting-house in Old Jewry was built in 1701 and destroyed in 1808. It "covered 2600 square feet, and was lit with six bow windows." Dr. Rees was its last minister. When it was proposed to exclude King's College from the re-constituted University of London.
Session after Session, emancipating Bills were brought into Parliament, and were supported by Castlereagh and Canning in opposition to their colleagues. The clergy of the Church of England fashioned, almost to a man, on the model of Abraham Plymley were dreadfully alarmed. Bishops charged against the proposed concession.
With this practical comment on the baseness of human nature, I bid you adieu! All that I have so often told you, Mr. Abraham Plymley, is now come to pass.
And then again there is the grievance which consists in exclusion from the higher posts of the Professions. "Look at human nature. Your boy Joel is to be brought up to the Bar: has Mrs. Plymley the slightest doubt of his being Chancellor? Do not his two shrivelled aunts live in the certainty of seeing him in that situation, and of cutting-out with their own hands his equity habiliments?
It is difficult to conceive a milder proposition, but it was defeated by twenty-two votes to ten Archdeacon Wrangham and the Rev. William Vernon, son of the Archbishop of York, voting in the minority. Sydney Smith's speech in support of his motion recapitulated the main arguments which, as Peter Plymley, he had adduced at an earlier stage of the same controversy. "I defy Dr.
"Ah! My son Cuthbert? Handsome young dog, and like his father, finds beauty the most powerful magnet. Where did you meet him?" "Once only, when he was introduced by our minister, who deputized him to deliver to me some custom-house regulations. "Did you meet Mrs. Laurance?" "Your wife, sir?" Annoyance instantaneously clouded his countenance, and Dr. Plymley gnawed his lower lip to hide a smile.
Plymley, who was examining an inscription, turned around and looked in the direction indicated. "Are you sure? I am quite near-sighted." "Very sure, for no other figure could be mistaken for hers. By all the gods ever worshipped here, she is the loveliest woman I ever saw, but as coy as a maid of fifteen.
Peter roars with laughter at the thought of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Abraham Plymley, "led away captive by an amorous Gaul."
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