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Reconciliation was indeed difficult between men who could treat the matter lightly, in the manner of Soame Jenyns, and men who, with John Adams, thought themselves one company with that "mighty line of heroes and confessors and martyrs who since the beginning of history have done battle for the dignity and happiness of human nature against the leagued assailants of both."
Robert A. Rutland, ed., Papers of George Mason, 3 vols. One other Virginian did not rest until he had challenged the notion, much discussed in parliament by commons member Soame Jenyns, that the colonists, like all British citizens, were "virtually" represented in parliament.
Selwyn suggested, whereupon Soame Rivers tapped her playfully upon the wrist, carrying on the quotation with the words of Prince Hal, 'Peace, chewit, peace. Mr. Soame Rivers was a very free-and-easy young gentleman, occasionally, and as he was a son of Lord Riverstown, much might be forgiven to him. Hiram, always slightly bewildered by the quotations of Mrs.
'As a matter of fact, of course, said Soame Rivers, 'we shouldn't have dreamed of making any row if they had shot him or hanged him, for the matter of that. 'You can never tell, said the Duke. 'Somebody might have raised the Civis Romanus cry 'Yes, but he wasn't any longer Civis Romanus, Soame Rivers objected.
The one thing present to his mind was the thought that, if anything whatever should happen to the Dictator and the more the night grew later, the more the possibility seemed to enlarge upon him the ruin of all Soame Rivers's career seemed certain.
Soame Rivers saw that there was a difference in her bearing towards the Dictator and towards the courtiers of her little court, and he smiled cynically and pretended to be amused. Ericson's acquaintance with the Langleys ripened into that rapid intimacy which is sometimes possible in London. At the end of a week he had met them many times and had been twice to their house.
Rivers crept swiftly and stealthily on. Soame Rivers belonged to his age and his society. He was born of Cynicism and of Introspection. It would have interested him quite as much to find out himself as to find out any other person. While he was moving along in the darkness it occurred to him to remember that he did not know in the least whither, to what rescue, to what danger, he was steering.
Soame Rivers had been showing Sir Lionel over the house, and explaining all its arrangements to him for the King of Siam had thoughts of building a palace after the fashion of some first-class and up-to-date house in London. Sir Lionel was a stout man, rather above the middle height, but looking rather below it, because of his stoutness.
Selfish as he was, he would not have put off taking action on the warning he had received from the Foreign Office if he had at the time believed in the least that there was any possibility of a plot for political assassination being carried on in an English country-house. Soame Rivers reasoned, like a realistic novelist, from his own experiences only.
Now, however, as he thought of Sarrasin, he found that he could not deny Sarrasin's coolness and courage and judgment, and it comforted him to think that Sarrasin must always say he had a warning from him, Soame Rivers, before anything had occurred if anything was to occur.
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