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Lest it should seem unaccountable that this man, seemingly a stranger, walking casually one evening into his rooms, should be apparently so intimately possessed of the circumstances of Traill's relationship with Sally, it were as well to point out that men in their friendship are bound by no necessity of constant meeting.
Traill's price for the little dog that took his eye, the landlord replied curtly that Bobby was not for sale. The soldier was insolently amused. "That's vera surprisin'. I aye thoucht an Edinburgh shopkeeper wad sell ilka thing he had, an' tak' the siller to bed wi' 'im to keep 'im snug the nicht." Mr. Traill returned, with brief sarcasm, that "his lairdship" had been misinformed.
Of mere animalism, he had none. Here in this widest essential, his nature marked its contrast with Traill. To admit the beast in every man would have been beyond him; simply because the admission of a generalization such as that, would most directly have implied himself. In Traill's concession of it, such an admission may easily be read.
To lie in such a cramped position, hour after hour, day after day, was enough to break the spirit of any warm blooded creature that lives. It was an exquisite form of torture not long to be endured. And to get his single meal a day at Mr. Traill's place Bobby had to watch for the chance opening of the wicket to slip in and out like a thief.
Walker's Essentials in English History, Cheney's A Short History of England, McCarthy's History of Our Own Times, Cheney's Industrial and Social History of England, Traill's Social England, VI. The Cambridge History of English Literature. Walker's The Literature of the Victorian Era. Magnus's English Literature in the Nineteenth Century.
Think he's going to be a nuisance?" "No, it's not that." She still hid her face. "I don't think he'd ever come and see me again, now." "Then what?" "It was what he said." "What did he say?" "He wanted Oh!" Janet leant forward on the table. "To take Traill's place eh?" "Yes."
Having made his preparations for sailing, William was annoyed by many delays occasioned by the hesitation of his subordinates. Traill's account of the convention which William summoned for settlement of the crown, gives in a wholly modern way the particulars of the formal accession of William and Mary.
Traill's astonishing fluency always carried all walls of resistance before it with men of slower wit and speech. Only a superior man could brush time-honored rules aside so curtly and stand on his human rights so surely. James Brown pulled his bonnet off deferentially, scratched his shock head and shifted his pipe. Finally he admitted: "Weel, there was a bit tyke i' the kirkyaird twa days syne.
The moment she had said it, a rush of fear that she had betrayed Traill's confidence, overwhelmed her with a sense of nausea. "Please don't say I've said that," she begged. "Certainly not; but, how on earth can you say it? Captain and Mrs. Durlacher may not be lovers in the passionate sense of the word, but I know of few married people who get on as well as they do."
In connection with the progress of literature, students should obtain for themselves a general idea of contemporary historical events from any of the following named works: Gardiner's Students' History of England. Green's Short History of the English People. Walker's Essentials in English History. Cheney's A Short History of England. Lingard's History of England. Traill's Social England, Vol.
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