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Nobody could be better coached, he thought. Ericson must certainly know all about it and he was pretty well able to give the despatches a good form himself and then Soame Rivers was a wonderful man for a happy allusion or quotation or illustration.
Ericson glanced around over the great room crammed to overflowing with a crowd of men and women who could hardly move, men and women most of whose faces were famous or beautiful, men and women all of whom, as Soame Rivers said, had their names in the play-bill; there was a smile on his face as he turned his eyes from the brilliant mass to Lady Seagraves' face.
Webb met us at our uncle's, accosting us very politely, and giving us an invitation to visit him at his regiment. Let my poor brother go and listen to his darling music of fife and drum! He bade me tell the ladies that they should hear from him. I kiss their hands, and go to dress for dinner, at the Star and Garter, in Pall Mall. We are to have Mr. Soame Jenyns, Mr. Cambridge, Mr.
The wounds of Soame Rivers happened to be almost altogether in his chest and ribs his chest was well-nigh torn away and when the doctors and the nurses made him up seemly in his death-bed he might be looked upon without horror. He was looked upon by Helena Langley without horror.
Browning, about another dictator; but more true of my Dictator than of hers, Helena answered. 'Well, Hiram went on, 'the opposition soon began to grumble 'Some people are always grumbling, said Soame Rivers. 'What should we do without them? Where should we get our independent opposition? 'Where, indeed, said Sir Rupert, with a sigh of humorous pathos.
I presume you have seen the little poem of the "Country Lass," by Soame Jenyns, for it was in the "Chronicle"; as was also an answer to it, from the "Monitor." They are neither of them bad performances; the first is the neatest, and the plan of the second has the most invention.
'Stein, suggested Soame Rivers. 'Very likely. Every man to take service for a certain time. Well, that made pretty well all Gloria soldiers; it also made him a heap of enemies, and showed them how to make themselves unpleasant. I thought it wasn't a good plan for him or them at the time. 'Did you tell him so? asked Sir Rupert.
Upon all this, Patrick Henry looked with grief and alarm. In his opinion, a far deeper, a far wiser and nobler handling of all the immense questions involved in the problem of the truth of Christianity was furnished by such English writers as Sherlock and Bishop Butler, and, for popular use, even Soame Jenyns.
It was the morning after the day when the Dictator had proposed to Helena for poor Hamilton. Soame Rivers met Helena on the staircase. 'Of course, he said, with an emphasis, 'you will be at luncheon to-day? 'Why, of course? she asked, carelessly. 'Well your hero is coming didn't you know? 'I didn't know; and who is my hero? 'Oh, come now! the Dictator, of course.
'Poor Soame Rivers! she sobbed. 'I wish I could have liked him more than I did. And she sobbed again, and Ericson understood her and sympathised with her. 'Poor Soame Rivers! he said after her. 'I wish I too had liked him, and known him better! 'What was he killed for? Helena passionately asked. 'He was killed for me! the Dictator answered calmly.
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