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And, with a somewhat contemptuous smile, she walked back to her chair. "They ought to be ashamed of themselves," she added, as she sat down. "It's just because I'm not a fright." "Aren't you a fright?" asked Rhadamanthus. "Where are my spectacles?" He put them on and looked at Dolly. "I must go in, you know," said Dolly, smiling at Rhadamanthus. "My husband has gone in!"
The coldest welcome that a threadbare curate ever got at the door of a bishop's palace, the most icy reception that a country-cousin ever received at the city-mansion of a mushroom millionnaire, is agreeably tepid, compared to that which the Rhadamanthus who dooms you to the more or less elevated circle of his inverted Inferno vouchsafes, as you step up to enter your name on his dog's-eared register.
Hither favored heroes pass without dying and live happy under the rule of Rhadamanthus. The Elysium of Hesiod and Pindar is in the Isles of the Blessed, or Fortunate Islands, in the Western Ocean. From these sprang the legend of the happy island Atlantis.
Again it is judged, it is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it, before it can be reprinted after twenty years, and reprinted after a century! it is as if Minos and Rhadamanthus had indorsed the writing. 'Tis therefore an economy of time to read old and famed books.
"I'm afraid I must trouble you to take a seat for a few moments, Mr. Carter," said Rhadamanthus, "while I run over your little account." "Any formalities which are usual," I murmured politely, as I sat down. Rhadamanthus turned over the leaves of a large book. "Carter Samuel Travers, isn't it?" he asked. "Yes. For goodness sake don't confuse me with Vincent Carter.
You, I consider, he will sweep pretty rapidly into some Norfolk Island, into some special Convict Colony or remote domestic Moorland, into some stone-walled Silent-System, under hard drill-sergeants, just as Rhadamanthus, and inflexible as he, and there leave you to reap what you have sown; he meanwhile turning his endeavors to the thousand-fold immeasurable interests of men and gods, dismissing the one extremely contemptible interest of scoundrels; sweeping that into the cesspool, tumbling that over London Bridge, in a very brief manner, if needful!
"C'est le dernier pas qui coute." A crowd of anxious persons in retreat is hanging about the windy door, and the breezy stairway, and the airy hall. A stentorian voice, hard as that of Rhadamanthus, exclaims, "Lady Vere de Vere's carriage stops the way!" If my Lady Vere de Vere is not on hand, and that pretty quickly, off goes her carriage, and the stern voice bawls again, "Mrs.
Hither favored heroes pass without dying and live happy under the rule of Rhadamanthus. The Elysium of Hesiod and Pindar is in the Isles of the Blessed, or Fortunate Islands, in the Western Ocean. From these sprang the legend of the happy island Atlantis.
She bowed to Rhadamanthus, smiled, and took a chair immediately opposite the table. "Mickleham Dorothea Countess of " she said. "Formerly, I think, Dolly Foster?" asked Rhadamanthus. "I don't see what that's got to do with it," said Dolly. "The account runs on," he explained, and began to consult his big book. Dolly leant back in her chair, slowly peeling off her gloves.
Smith's carriage stops the way!" Mrs. Smith's particular Smith may be worth his millions and live in his marble palace; but if Mrs. Smith thinks her coachman is going to stand with his horses at that door until she appears, she is mistaken, for she is a minute late, and now the coach moves on, and Rhadamanthus calls aloud, "Mrs. Brown's carriage stops the way!"
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