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It pleased Allerdyke, too, to see that the young man was attentive to his own personal appearance his well-cut garments bore the undoubted stamp of the Savile Row tailor; the silk hat which covered his crop of sandy hair was the latest thing in Sackville Street headgear; from top to toe he was the smart man-about-town.
I wanted to comfort him, but he never gave me a chance. He never even mentioned Lucy's name. 'Did he seem unhappy? 'No. He was just the same as ever, impassive and collected. 'Really, he's inhuman, exclaimed Julia impatiently. 'He's an anomaly in this juvenile century, Dick agreed. 'He's an ancient Roman who buys his clothes in Savile Row.
the disguise of a female, was discovered and taken in the vicinity of Nottingham: but Lady Savile bribed his keeper: dressed in a clergyman's cassock he escaped to the capital; and remained there in safety with Dr. Barwick, being taken for an Irish minister driven from his cure by the Irish Catholics.
It is the same Sir Henry Savile who heard, on his death-bed in 1621, that James had with his own hands torn from the Journal of Parliament the pages which bore the protest in favor of free speech in Parliament. Hearing it, the faithful scholar prayed to die, saying: "I am ready to depart, the rather that having lived in good times I foresee worse."
There are many English translations of Tacitus: the first, by Sir Henry Savile and "one Greenway"; the former, says Gordon, "has performed like a schoolmaster, the latter like a school-boy." Anthony a Wood writes in another strain, in the "Athenae Oxonienis": "A rare Translation it is, and the Work of a very Great Master indeed, both in our Tongue and that Story.
He looked round, and a slight girlish shape appeared quite close to him, He could not see her face because it was in the direction of the moon. 'Mr. Barnet? the rambler said, in timid surprise. The voice was the voice of Lucy Savile. 'Yes, said Barnet. 'How can I repay you for this pleasure? 'I only came because the night was so clear. I am now on my way home. 'I am glad we have met.
They introduced him to their own friends with fear; sometimes recalled the step with mortification. It was not possible to look on with patience while a man so lovable thwarted love at every step. But the course of time and the ripening of his nature brought a cure. It was at the Savile that he first remarked a change; it soon spread beyond the walls of the club.
Does breeding only consist in having clothes made in Savile Row and eating strawberries out of season at a pound a basket?" "I get my clothes from the Stores now, as you can see," he said, in a desperate attempt to be humorous, for she was in a dangerous mood. Only once before had he seen her so, and he could feel the air charged with catastrophe.
It is here that one must wait quietly as dusk begins to fall, if one would see faint forms of those of whom Merton boasts as her noblest sons. To all of them is this old room familiar, and to none more so than to Henry Savile, lover of books and warden of the College just three hundred years ago.
If he carries a Horace, Pickering's little gem, in his waistcoat pocket, and sometimes pictures that genial Roman club-man in the Savile, he has none the less an appetite for Marcus Aurelius.
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