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'With a polite intimation, I presume, that if he again returned to the territory of Gloria he would be shot without form of trial, added Soame Rivers. 'But he will return, Helena said. 'He will, I am sure of it, and perhaps they may not find it so easy to shoot him then as they think now. A man like that is not so easily got rid of.
But these were often handled in an unsatisfactory way. The greater part of Soame Jenyns' little work was good, as far as it went; but it went only a very short way. It took a step or two, in the most difficult, doubtful, and uninviting part of the road, but it left the vast paradise of internal evidences unexplored, and even unapproached.
Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion ; JOHNSON. 'I think it a pretty book; not very theological indeed; and there seems to be an affectation of ease and carelessness, as if it were not suitable to his character to be very serious about the matter. BOSWELL. 'He may have intended this to introduce his book the better among genteel people, who might be unwilling to read too grave a treatise.
There happened to be about that time a story going the round of London society concerning a vain and pretentious young fellow who had been kicked out of a country house for thrusting too much of his fatuous attentions on the daughter of the host and hostess. Soame Rivers at once nicknamed him 'The Dictator' 'Why "The Dictator"? people asked.
Lady Seagraves was a wonderful woman 'the fine flower of our modern civilisation, Soame Rivers called her. Everybody came to her house; she delighted in contrasts; life was to her one prolonged antithesis.
Soame Jenyns was dead, indeed, in the flesh, but his influence stalked at nights under the lamps and where disputants were gathered together in country rectories. Dr. Parr affected the Olympian nod, and crowned or checkmated reputations. "A flattering message from Dr.
I could not leave his body there disfigured and maimed, to lie in the open passage! Good heavens! 'What brought him there, anyhow? the Duchess asked sharply. 'He must have heard some noise, and was running to the rescue, Helena softly said. She was remorseful in her heart because she had not thought more deeply about poor Soame Rivers.
Therefore, she made out that Soame Rivers was very poor; and, of course, if he was very poor, he could not lend much practical aid to those who, in the East End or otherwise, were still poorer than he. So she assumed that he put on the mask of cynicism to hide the flushings of sensibility.
'I do hope, Professor, that you will come to me some afternoon, and talk folk-lore to me. I could understand it so much better than astronomy, or chemistry, or these things; and I don't care about history, and I do hate recitations. Just then Soame Rivers entered the room, and saw that Ericson was talking with Helena. His eyebrows contracted.
Selwyn, 'and the Herzog of Hesse-Steinberg, and ever so many more illustrious personages. Why do they all go to Paulo's? 'I can tell you, said Soame Rivers. 'Because Paulo's is one of the best hotels in London, and Paulo is a wonderful man.
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