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Those English sow contempt of us all over Europe. We cannot but be despised. One comes abroad foredoomed to share the sentiment. This is your middle-class! What society can they move in, that sanctions a vulgarity so perplexing? They have the air of ornaments on a cottager's parlour mantelpiece. Tuckham laughed. 'Something of that, he said.
I warrant I would extinguish him if he came before me. He's an incendiary, at any rate. 'Do you think, said Cecilia, 'that Captain Beauchamp is now satisfied with his experience of politics? 'Dear me, no, said Mr. Tuckham. 'It's the opening of a campaign. He's off to the North, after he has been to Sussex and Bucks. He's to be at it all his life. One thing he shows common sense in.
Beauchamp, on the Upper Thames, and they agreed that he shone to great advantage in her society. Mrs. Beauchamp said she had seen her great- nephew Nevil, but without a comment on his conduct or his person; grave silence. Reflecting on it, Cecilia grew indignant at the thought that Mr. Tuckham might have been acting a sinister part. Mrs.
He would naturally hasten to recover to partake of the viands, ma'am. Rosamund murmured of her gladness that he should be able to enjoy them. 'Oddly enough, he is not an eater of meat, said Beauchamp. 'A vegetarian! 'I beg you not to mention the fact to my lord. You see, you yourself can scarcely pardon it. He does not exclude flesh from his table. Blackburn Tuckham dined there once.
None despises the English in reality. Don't be misled, Miss Halkett. We're solid: that is the main point. The world feels our power, and has confidence in our good faith. I ask for no more. 'With Germans we are supercilious Celts; with Frenchmen we are sneering Teutons: Can we be loved, Mr. Tuckham? 'That's a quotation from my friend Lydiard. Loved? No nation ever was loved while it lived.
'I'm afraid we can't do that. 'But where do you draw the line? quoth Tuckham, very susceptible to a sneer at the colonel, and entirely ignorant of the circumstances attending Beauchamp's position before him. 'You defend the Chinaman; and it's questionable if his case is as good as the Spaniard's. 'The Chinaman has a case against our traders. Gibraltar concerns our imperial policy.
The gales of August mattered frightfully to poor Blackburn Tuckham, who was to be dropped at a town in South Wales, and descended greenish to his cabin as soon as they had crashed on the first wall-waves of the chalk-race, a throw beyond the peaked cliffs edged with cormorants, and were really tasting sea. Cecilia reclined on deck, wrapped in shawl and waterproof.
For that purpose we must have power; for power wealth; for wealth industry; for industry internal peace: therefore no agitation, no artificial divisions. All's plain in history and fact, so long as we do not obtrude sentimentalism. Nothing mixes well with that stuff except poetical ideas! Contrary to her anticipation, Cecilia was thrown more into companionship with Mr. Tuckham than with Mr.
He induced the old lady to send him; so I suppose he intends to let her share the money between them. I thought better of him; I thought him a wiser man. Gratitude to Mr. Tuckham on Beauchamp's behalf caused Cecilia to praise him, in the tone of compliments. The difficulty of seriously admiring two gentlemen at once is a feminine dilemma, with the maidenly among women.
He said carelessly of Commander Beauchamp, that he might think himself one. Either the Radical candidate for Bevisham stood self-deceived, or the other supposition. Mr. Tuckham would venture to state that no English gentleman, exempt from an examination by order of the Commissioners of Lunacy, could be sincerely a Radical.
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