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"Aye, lord, by reason of this fellow in the blue camlet " "What fellow?" "The tall and buxom fellow in the Reeve's garden." "Ha!" quoth Beltane, frowning. "In the garden, say you what manner of man is this?" "O brother a shapely man, a comely man a man of words and cunning phrases a man shall sing you sweet and melodious as any bird why, I myself can sing no sweeter!"
Greville, who introduced him to the 'Times, died in 1865; his mother died in 1864; in 1863, his early patron and assured friend, the Marquis of Lansdowne, died on January 31st, at the ripe age of 82; his uncle, John Taylor, the head of the Taylor family, a man of singular ability as a mining engineer, died on April 5th; and Sir George Lewis, whose retirement from the editorship of the 'Edinburgh Review' had paved the way for Reeve's succession, died on April 13th.
Reeve's connexions were scarcely less numerous than in England. Guizot, Thiers, Cousin, Tocqueville, Villemain, Circourt in fact, nearly all the leading figures in French literature and politics during the reign of Louis Philippe were among his friends or correspondents.
By a curious coincidence, the French elections were nearly synchronous with ours, and the results were keenly watched by one, at least, of Reeve's correspondents. But of all this excitement and agitation the Journal has no trace. The only entries of any interest are: Foxholes: very hot: no rain for two months. August 22nd. Excursion to Studland with the Denisons, Lord Canterbury, and Prothero.
The "Miller" "tells his churlish tale in his manner," of which manner the less said the better; while in the "Reeve's Tale," Chaucer even, after the manner of a comic dramatist, gives his Northern undergraduate a vulgar ungrammatical phraseology, probably designedly, since the poet was himself a "Southern man."
So far as he was concerned, Reeve had long wished to dispel this darkness, and the fact of his being Chairman of the Lusitanian Mining Company gave him the desired opportunity. Reeve's. October 9th Started for Portugal on board the 'Douro' from Southampton. Fine passage. Landed at Lisbon on October 13th. Hotel Braganca. Kindly received by Pinto Basto. Excursion to Cintra on the 14th. 15th.
He gladly set down Reeve's refusal of the Gold Conspiracy to respectability and editorial law, but when he sent the manuscript on to the Quarterly, the editor of the Quarterly also refused it. The literary standard of the two Quarterlies was not so high as to suggest that the article was illiterate beyond the power of an active and willing editor to redeem it.
His own health was becoming very uncertain, and gout, feverish colds, and violent bleeding of the nose laid him up for weeks at a time. Through all, however, Reeve's head remained clear, and his work was seldom disturbed. There is no sickness or feebleness in the following: To Mr. T. Norton Longman Foxholes, October 3rd.
I had learned that they would not be moved again. Ealdwulf knew that I had done it, and when I came back to him, where he talked yet with Erling in the reeve's chamber, he asked me if I knew what the little case held. I did not, and that is known to none save to her who gave it me. "I think that you two will value this more than other men," he said then.
For many years from this time The Club was such an important factor in Reeve's social life, and enters so largely into both his Journal and his correspondence, that a list of its members, as it stood in 1867, has a strong personal interest. The Club March, 1867 Date of Election 1 Lord Brougham March 9th, 1830. 2 Earl Stanhope May 14th, 1833. 3 The Dean of St. Paul's February 23rd, 1836.
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