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Is this the real feeling of London society, or is it only a fashion, a sham, a grimace? 'I think it is a very natural feeling, Soame Rivers replied, with the greatest promptitude. 'And represents the true feeling of what are called the better classes of London? 'Why, certainly.
Elmo's writing, those lines which Henry Soame is said to have penned on the blank leaf of a copy of the "Pleasures of Memory": "Memory makes her influence known By sighs, and tears, and grief alone. I greet her as the fiend, to whom belong The vulture's ravening beak, the raven's funereal song!
You give the order, please, and let someone here see to it. 'I'll see to it, Mrs. Sarrasin promptly said. 'I will stand in the doorway. 'Shall I go with you? Helena asked pathetically of Ericson. 'No, no. It would be only danger, and no use. Poor Soame Rivers! No use to him certainly. If Helena could only have known!
The affairs of Gloria are hardly likely to be a grave international question for us, and in the meantime it is only showing a courtesy to a man who is at once an Englishman and a stranger. A slightly ironical 'Hear, Hear, came from Soame Rivers, who did not love enthusiasm. Sir Rupert followed suit good-humouredly. 'Where is he stopping? asked Sir Rupert. 'At Paulo's Hotel, papa.
'Because he has been kicked out don't you see? was the answer. But Soame Rivers did not give forth that witticism in the presence of Sir Rupert or of Sir Rupert's daughter. Meanwhile, the Dictator was undoubtedly becoming a more important man than ever with the London public.
'I must confess, the Dictator said, glad to be free of Siam, 'that I have been much interested in observing the changes that have been made in the life of England I mean in the life of London since I was living here. 'We have all got so Republican, Sir Rupert said sadly. 'And we all profess to be Socialists, Soame Rivers added.
JOHNSON. 'I have seen no beings who do as much good from benevolence, as she does, from whatever motive. If there are such under the earth, or in the clouds, I wish they would come up, or come down. What Soame Jenyns says upon this subject is not to be minded; he is a wit. No, Sir; to act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings.
She had been too much charged with gladness over the safety of her hero and the safety of her father. 'Like the brave comrade that he was, Sir Rupert said mournfully. That was Soame Rivers's epitaph. Mrs. Sarrasin and Dolores had thoughts of their own. They knew that there was something further to come, of which Sir Rupert and Helena had no knowledge or even suspicion.
Soame Rivers said of her parties that they resembled certain early Italian pictures, which gave you the mythological gods in one place, a battle in another, a scene of pastoral peace in a third. It was an astonishing amalgam. Ericson arrived at Lady Seagraves' house rather late; the rooms were very full he found it difficult to get up the great staircase.
He was not in a mood to talk to anybody else, or to be happy with anybody but Helena. To him now all was dross that was not Helena, as to Faust in Marlowe's play. Soame Rivers had charge of Mrs. Sarrasin. Professor Flick was permitted to escort Miss Paulo. Hamilton and Mr. Andrew J. Copping went in without companionship of woman. The dinner was but a small one, and without much of ceremonial.
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