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Master Simon holds the memory of this squire in great veneration, and has a number of extraordinary stories to tell concerning him, which he repeats at all hunting dinners; and I am told that they wax more and more marvellous the older they grow. He has also a pair of Rippon spurs which belonged to this mighty hunter of yore, and which he only wears on particular occasions.
"You have heard something of my parentage from Dr Rippon, I believe. My father was Spanish, and my mother was English. I think I was born without that sense of responsibility to a traditional or conventional standard which is called Conscience, and that sense of obligation to consider others as important as myself, which, I believe, they call Altruism.
In the meantime, the captain threw out a signal of distress, to which no regard was paid,* till captain Leslie of the Bristol, coming from sea, and observing his situation, ran in between the Rippon and the battery, and engaged with such impetuosity, as made an immediate diversion in favour of captain Jekyll, whose ship remained aground, notwithstanding all the assistance that could be given, till midnight, when she floated, and escaped from the very jaws of destruction.
On the 3d February we anchored about 4 leagues from a town, which we saluted with two guns, on which the chief came to the shore, to whom I sent Thomas Rippon who knew him. After some conference, the chief came off to me; as it was become late, he did not enter into bargain for any price, but exchanged pledges and, returned on shore.
They caught sight of him and Leonora Lefevre standing one on either side of a window, with their eyes fixed upon each other. "The young lady," said the old doctor, "seems much taken up with him." "Yes," said Lefevre; "and she's my sister." "Ah," said the old doctor; "I fear my remark was rather unreserved." "It is true," said Lefevre. He left Dr Rippon, to seek his mother.
I did not think it wise to postpone the experience till it might become an absolute necessity." Old Dr Rippon watched him empty the glass with a musing eye. "'I sought in mine heart," said he, gravely quoting, "'to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom." "True," said Julius, considering him closely.
Noting by the way that Julius and his sister seemed much taken up with each other, and that Julius, while as fascinating as ever, and as ready and apt and intelligent of speech, seemed somewhat more chastened in manner and less effervescent in health, like a fire of coal that has spent its gas and settled into a steady glow of heat, he turned to Dr Rippon, a tall, thin old gentleman of over seventy, but who yet had a keen tongue, and a shrewd, critical eye.
"And you thought ?" continued Julius. "You shall hear. Dr Rippon you remember the old doctor? had a sight of a man in the Strand the night before, who, he believes, was his old friend Courtney that he thought dead, and who, I believe, was the man I saw." Lefevre stopped. There was a pause, in which Julius put his head out of the window, as if he had a mind to be gone that way.
Some have called it 'od' an 'imponderable fluid' as you know; you and others wish to call it 'electricity. I prefer to call it 'the spirit of life, a name simple, dignified, and expressive!" "It has the disadvantage of being poetic," said Dr Rippon, with grave irony; "and doctors don't like poetry mixed up with their science."
Wil. Malm. For in the third yeere of his reigne, Edred in the reuenge of such disloiall dealings in the Northumbers, destroied the countrie with fire & swoord, sleaing the most part of the inhabitants. He burnt the abbeie of Rippon, which was kept against him. Higd. Simon Dun.
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