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Reding had not as yet fully arranged her plans, but was still, with her daughters, passing from friend to friend, he had listened to Sheffield's proposal to take a tutor for the Vacation, and to find a site for their studies in the neighbourhood of Oxford.
He knocked twice, half hoping there would be no reply. Sheffield's whining high-pitched voice said: "Who is it?" "Andrews." "Come right in.... You're just the man I wanted to see." Andrews stood with his hand on the knob. "Do sit down and make yourself right at home." Spencer Sheffield was sitting at a little desk in a room with walls of unplaned boards and one small window.
He quoted a passage from Lord Sheffield's pamphlet; and insisted that the separation of families in the West Indies, there complained of by himself, ought to have compelled him to take the contrary side of the question. Mr. Wilberforce made a short reply to some arguments in the course of the debate; after which, at half past three in the morning, the House divided. There appeared for Mr.
Lord Sheffield's mansion at Fletching was the last great house he knew that was entirely warmed with charcoal, nothing else being burnt. Charcoal was still used in houses for heating plates. But the principal demand seemed to be for hop-drying purposes the charcoal burned in the kiln where I had been resting was made on the spot.
But in no instance have I been disappointed, the difficulties too trifling to deserve the name, the expense nothing compared with the profits derived, and I have seen enough of men and manners, of things animate and inanimate, to make me quite at home in some of the great scenes which have just been performed.... Lord Sheffield's forebodings Talleyrand and the Senate Vagabond Royalty Mr.
Give me some tea, and let's have a good jolly chat." Charles liked Sheffield, he liked Oxford, he was pleased to get back; yet he had some remains of home-sickness on him, and was not quite in cue for Sheffield's good-natured boisterousness. Willis's matter, too, was still on his mind. "Have you heard the news?" said Sheffield; "I have been long enough in college to pick it up.
After retreat Andrews knocked at the door at the back of the Y. M. C. A., but as there was no reply, he strode off with a long, determined stride to Sheffield's room. In the moment that elapsed between his knock and an answer, he could feel his heart thumping. A little sweat broke out on his temples. "Why, what's the matter, boy?
You look all wrought up," said Sheffield, holding the door half open, and blocking, with his lean form, entrance to the room. "May I come in? I want to talk to you," said Andrews. "Oh, I suppose it'll be all right.... You see I have an officer with me..." then there was a flutter in Sheffield's voice. "Oh, do come in"; he went on, with sudden enthusiasm.
These statements, drawn from Adams's association with many men, reflect so exactly the line of argument in the best known of the many controversial pamphlets published about that time, Lord Sheffield's "Observations on the Commerce of the American States," as to prove that it represented correctly a preponderant popular feeling, not only adverse to the restoration of the colonial privileges contemplated by Pitt, but distinctly inimical to the new nation; a feeling born of past defeat and of present apprehension.
The walk to Oxley had not been the first or the second occasion on which Charles had, in one shape or other, encountered Sheffield's views about realities and shams; and his preachments had begun to make an impression on him; that is, he felt that there was truth in them at bottom, and a truth new to him.
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