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The play was Pizarro, and Fanny Millinger acted Cora, Godolphin and Radclyffe went behind the scenes. "Ah!" said Fanny, as she stood in her white Peruvian dress, waiting her turn to re-enter the stage, "ah, Godolphin! this reminds me of old times. How many years have passed since you used to take such pleasure in this mimic life!
"I still like it passably," answered Godolphin; "but the gloss is gone from the delusion. I am grown mournfully fastidious. I must have excellent acting an excellent play. A slight fault a slight deviation from nature robs me of my content at the whole." "The same fault in your character pervading all things," said Radclyffe, half smiling.
Radclyffe was Constance's guest; but Godolphin soon grew attached to the young politician, though he shrugged his shoulders at his opinions. In youth, Godolphin had been a Tory now, if anything, he was a Tory still. Such a political creed was perhaps the natural result of his philosophical belief.
The play was Pizarro, and Fanny Millinger acted Cora, Godolphin and Radclyffe went behind the scenes. "Ah!" said Fanny, as she stood in her white Peruvian dress, waiting her turn to re-enter the stage, "ah, Godolphin! this reminds me of old times. How many years have passed since you used to take such pleasure in this mimic life!
Indeed, the Great War is one of the most thrilling, momentous and colourful chapters in the history of canes. "The officers picked up their canes," says the newspaper, and so forth, and so forth. Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore, in a spirited drawing of the Battle of the Somme, shows an officer leading a charge waving a light cane.
What are the prophecies of St. Simon but a species of sorcery? Why believe the external more than the inner miracle? There were but a few persons present at Lady Erpingham's, and when Radclyffe entered, Madame Liehbur was the theme of the general conversation.
I have not even the tenderness of a child to look to the future is all blank!" Time, which, sooner or later, repays perseverance, although in a deceitful coin, had brought to Radclyffe a solid earnest of future honors. His name had risen high in the science of his country; it was equally honoured by the many and the few; he had become a marked man, one of whom all predicted a bright hereafter.
I would occasionally take some big-game friend from abroad, Selous or St. George Littledale or Captain Radclyffe or Paul Niedicke, on these walks.
The world would have insinuated scandal; but there was that about Constance's beauty which there is said by one of the poets to belong to an angel's it struck the heart, but awed the senses. "I don't know," said Godolphin to Radclyffe, as they were one day riding together among the green lanes that border the metropolis "I don't know what to do with myself this evening.
And is not ambition full of anxiety, care, mortification at defeat, disappointment in success? Does not the very word ambition that is, a desire to be something you are not prove you discontented with what you are?" "You speak of a vulgar ambition," said Radclyffe. "Most august sage! and what species of ambition is yours?" "Not that which you describe.
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