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P " sends our Diarist into ecstasies so excessive that a reaction sets in, and the "predominant and final effect upon my mind has been depression rather than elevation." We think of The yarns Jack Hall invented, and the songs Jem Roper sung. And where are now Jem Roper and Jack Hall? Who cares now for Parr's praise or Soame Jenyns' censure?
I met him first just before he was elected President, and that's five years ago. 'Rather a curious thing making an Englishman President, wasn't it? Mr. Selwyn inquired. At Sir Rupert's Mr. Selwyn always displayed a profound interest in all political questions. 'Oh, he is a naturalised citizen of Gloria, of course, said Soame Rivers, deftly insinuating his knowledge before Hiram could reply.
'But, said Helena, who had been very silent, for her, during the interrogation of Hiram, 'I do not feel as if I quite know all I want to know yet. 'The noble thirst for knowledge does you credit, Miss Langley, said Soame Rivers pertly. Miss Langley laughed at him. 'Yes, I want to know all about him. He interests me. He has done something; he casts a shadow, as somebody has said somewhere.
Rasselas, one of the philosophical tales popular in the last century, gives the essence of much of the Rambler in a different form, and to these may be added the essay upon Soame Jenyns, which deals with the same absorbing question of human happiness.
I also read Leland's View of Deistical Writers, Leslie's Short and Easy Method with Deists, Faber's Difficulties of Infidelity, Fuller's Gospel its Own Witness, Butler's Analogy, Baxter's Unreasonableness of Infidelity, and his Evidences of Christianity, Simpson's Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings, Ryan on the Beneficial Effects of Christianity, Cave on the Early Christians, the Debate between R. Owen and A. Campbell, Scotch Lectures, G. Campbell on Miracles, Ray's Wisdom of God in Creation, Constable's History of Converts from Infidelity, Newton on the Prophecies, Locke on the Reasonableness of Christianity, Nelson on the Cause and Cure of Infidelity, Priestley's Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion, Jews' Letters to Voltaire, and works by Beattie, Soame Jenyns, West, Lyttleton, Ogilvie, Addison, Gilbert Wakefield and others.
Sir Rupert dictated to Soame Rivers the points of various despatches. Sir Rupert liked to have a distinct savour of literature and of culture in his despatches, and he put in a certain amount of that kind of thing himself, and was very much pleased when Soame Rivers could contribute a little more. He was becoming very proud of his despatches on this South American question.
Now, what I want to know is how far does society in London represent social London, and still more, social England? 'Not the least in the world, Sir Rupert promptly replied. 'I am not quite so sure of that, Soame Rivers interposed, 'I fancy most of the fellows try to take their tone from us. 'I hope not, the Dictator said.
But Soame Rivers noticed a difference in her bearing; he was not her father, and he was accustomed to watch every tone of her speech and every movement of her eyes, and he saw that she was not entirely herself in the company of the 'new man, as he called Ericson; and seeing it he felt a pang, or at least a prick, at the heart, and sneered at himself immediately in consequence.
It was a retreat to go to when the summer heats or the autumnal heats of London were unendurable at least to the ordinary Briton, who is under the fond impression that London is really hot sometimes, and who claps a puggaree on his chimney-pot hat the moment there comes in late May a faint glimpse of sunshine. The Dictator was one of the party. So was Hamilton. So was Soame Rivers.
'I should have to interpret the Oracle itself before I could be clear as to the meaning of its answer, Ericson said composedly. Soame Rivers knew pretty well by the words and by the tone that if he did not like the Dictator, neither did the Dictator very much like him. 'You must not mind Rivers and his cynicism, Sir Rupert said, intervening somewhat hurriedly; 'he doesn't mean half he says.
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