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Stedman's face, as the answer came in to his first message of greeting, was one of strangely marked disapproval. "What does he say?" demanded Gordon, anxiously. "He hasn't done anything but swear yet," answered Stedman, grimly. "What is he swearing about?" "He wants to know why I left the cable yesterday.
Originally three thousand, in Stedman's time, fifteen thousand, they were estimated at seventy thousand by Captain Alexander, who saw Guiana in 1831, and a recent American scientific expedition, having visited them in their homes, reported them as still enjoying their wild freedom, and multiplying, while the Indians on the same soil decay.
Further investigation would have shown that every one of the wonderful things that made glad and glorious the big square room on the ground floor of the building, from the brass sconces on the walls to the hanging church lamps, with everything that their lights fell upon, had been gathered up that same morning from the several homes and studios of the members by old black Jerry, the official carman of the Academy, and had been dumped in an indiscriminate heap on the floor of the banquet hall, where they had been disentangled and arranged by half a dozen painters of the club; that the table and table cloth had been borrowed from Solari's; that the very rare and fragrant old Chianti, the club's private stock, was from Solari's own cellars via Duncan's, the grocer; and that the dinner itself was cooked and served by that distinguished boniface himself, assisted by half a dozen of his own waiters, each one wearing an original Malay costume selected from Stedman's collection and used by him in his great picture of the Sepoy mutiny.
The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise more terrible than that of thunder." One can easily see that the imaginative and excitable Frenchman is under the spell of the great cataract. But let us return to the island and follow the path that winds among the trees until Stedman's Bluff is gained.
Glimpses of the Sixties At the "Sign of the Buck-horn" Madison Square in Civil War Times A Contemporary Chronicler Mushroom Fortunes Foreign Adventurers Filling the Ballroom Brown of Grace Church Sunshine and Shadow The Avenue and the Five Points The Old Bowery Blackmail The Haunts of Chance Two Famous Poems, William Allen Butler's "Nothing to Wear," and Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The Diamond Wedding."
I went forth to her house. The drawing-room and summer-house were empty. I summoned Philip the footman: his mistress was gone to Mr. Stedman's. "How? To Stedman's? In whose company?" "Miss Stedman and her brother called for her in the carriage, and persuaded her to go with them." Now my heart sunk, indeed! Miss Stedman's brother! A youth, forward, gallant, and gay!
Hoping they would speak of her in their letters, he kept up a somewhat one-sided correspondence with friends of Mrs. Stedman's in Boston, where she now lived. But for a year in none of their letters did her name appear. When a mutual friend did write of her Lee understood the silence. From the first, the mutual friend wrote, the life of Mrs. Stedman and her husband was thoroughly miserable.
He should also read A. C. Bradley's chapter on "Poetry for its Own Sake" in the Oxford Lectures on Poetry, Neilson's Essentials of Poetry, Stedman's Nature and Elements of Poetry, as well as the classic "Defences" of Poetry by Philip Sidney, Shelley, Leigh Hunt and George E. Woodberry.
See also Stedman's chapter on "Imagination" in his Nature and Elements of Poetry.
It was three o'clock before the "chap at Octavia" answered Stedman's signalling. Then Stedman delivered Gordon's message, and immediately shut off all connection, before the Octavia operator could question him. Gordon dictated his message in this way: "Begin with the date line, 'Opeki, June 22.
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