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"Well," he said to Mr Fosset, bringing himself up short in front of the rail on our approach, "how are matters getting on below badly, I'm afraid?" The first mate explained. Spokeshave, who was at the other end of the bridge, coming up to listen, as usual, to the conversation. "That's good news, indeed!" said the skipper on hearing how Stoddart had set to work to repair the damage.
Thank you, Stoddart. Miss Champion is ready. Hullo, Flower! Look up, Jane. Flower, and Dicky, and Blossom, are hanging over the topmost banisters, dropping you showers of kisses. Yes, the river you mentioned does produce a veritable 'garden of the Lord. God send you the same, dear. And now, sit well back, and lower your veil. Ah, I remember, you don't wear them. Wise girl!
I have heard you read prayers, and I have heard you preach." "And I have heard you play; so you are no stranger to me either." "Well, before we say another word," said Mr Stoddart, "I must just say one word about this report of my unsociable disposition. I encourage it; but am very glad to see you, notwithstanding. Do sit down." I obeyed, and waited for the rest of his word.
I might in time do something with Judy, but the old lady was still so dreadfully repulsive to me that it troubled my conscience to feel how I disliked her. Mr Stoddart seemed nothing more than a dilettante in religion, as well as in the arts and sciences music always excepted; while for Miss Oldcastle, I simply did not understand her yet. And she was so beautiful!
"You would have the best of the argument entirely," I replied, "if your expectation was sure to turn out correct." As I spoke, we had come within a few yards of the Tomkins's cottage, which lay low down from the village towards the river, and I saw that the water was at the threshold. I turned to Mr Stoddart, who, to do him justice, had not yet grumbled in the least.
My dear Father, I have been engaged to take two pupils for nine months of the next year. They are brothers, whose father, a Mr. Stoddart, resides at Cambridge. I am to give them an hour a day, each; and am to receive a hundred guineas. It gives me great pleasure to be able even in this degree to relieve you from the burden of my expenses here. I begin my tutorial labours to-morrow.
"We will," said Uncle Tom, with unexpected mental agility, and with the obvious relief of a man who has got safely round a difficult corner. "We will. Now, how about Colonel Stoddart?" My heart beat suddenly. I was beginning to see life at last. "There is nothing to say about him," said Aunt Emmy. "A good chap, and a gentlemanly chap," said Uncle Tom urbanely, leaning back in his chair.
None of them probably knew much of Gautier, De Nerval, Borel, le lycanthrope, and the other boys in that boyish movement of 1830. It was only Stoddart, unconsciously in sympathy with Paris, and censured by his literary friends, who produced the one British Romantic work of 1830.
And men have oft grown old among their books To die case hardened in their ignorance. Paracelsus, Browning. Anna M. Stoddart: Life of Paracelsus, London, 1911, pp. 95-96. This first great revolt against the slavish authority of the schools had little immediate effect, largely on account of the personal vagaries of the reformer but it made men think.
The late Mr Hay, Shethin; Mr Lumsden, Aquhorthies; and his brother, Mr Lumsden, Eggie; Mr Milne, Fornet; Mr Mitchell, Fiddesbeg; Mr Stoddart, Cultercullen; Deacon Milne, and Deacon Spark, took the lead; and to these gentlemen the credit is due for being the first to introduce a proper and profitable system of feeding cattle in Aberdeenshire.
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