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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Well, all I can say is this that if I don't get on by shamming cleverness, I'll try what open honesty will do, and follow Bill Whalley's advice." "Bill Whalley! who is he?" asked Bristles with a sneer. "Son of the old Tom Noddy you make such a precious fool of." "Mr Whalley of the Boro' is our friend, Mr Sidsby a man of the profoundest judgment and most capacious understanding.
Mr Pitskiver was amazed at the expression of the look; for he little knew that his labours under the table, in attempting to check Mr Whalley's oratory by pressing his toes, had unfortunately been bestowed on the delicate foot of his hostess; and what less could she do than respond to the gentle courtesy by a glance of gratitude for what she considered a movement of sympathy and condolence under the atrocious reminiscences of the wood-merchant?
Dixwell's tomb-stone is far better than the others, and bears the fullest and most legible inscription. To make any thing of Whalley's memorial, I was obliged to stoop down to it, and examine it very closely.
And this thought somehow made him feel more alone than he had ever felt for all these years. What was it? six or seven? Seven. A long time. He sat on the veranda with a closed book on his knee, and, as it were, looked out upon his solitude, as if the fact of Captain Whalley's blindness had opened his eyes to his own.
The Lords and Commons then voted that the king should be brought nearer London, and new negotiations opened with him, which were prevented from being carried into effect by the seizure of the king at Holmby House, by Cornet Joyce, with a strong party of horse belonging to Whalley's regiment, probably at the instigation of Cromwell and Ireton.
And if she got lost in the end, so much the better. He hated her: he loathed the troubles that took his mind off the chances of fortune. He wished her at the bottom of the sea, and the insurance money in his pocket. And as, baffled, he left Captain Whalley's cabin, he enveloped in the same hatred the ship with the worn-out boilers and the man with the dimmed eyes.
'At the latter end of 1630 Ben Jonson went on foot into Scotland, on purpose to visit Drummond. His adventures in this journey he wrought into a poem; but that copy, with many other pieces, was accidentally burned. Whalley's Ben Jonson, Preface, p. xlvi. Perhaps the same woman showed the chapel who was there 29 years later, when Scott visited it.
At Newhaven, a concentrated Puritanism seems to have offered them a much safer asylum; and as a brother-in-law of Whalley's had lately held a kind of pastoral dignity in that place, it is not improbable that they received pledges of protection, should they choose it for their city of refuge.
And they were so dissimilar at bottom that as they came slowly to the end of the avenue before the Cathedral, it had never come into Whalley's head that he might have been in that man's place provided for to the end of his days.
"I believe you are chilled to the bone," he said. She laughed at that. "Oh no, indeed I am not! But it is a cold wind, isn't it? Have you finished your work for to-day?" Tudor foraged in a cupboard for an extra cup and saucer. "No. I've got to go out again later. I've just come back from Miss Whalley's. She's got a touch of jaundice." "Oh, poor thing!" said Avery.
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