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Her heart is beating time to the tramp of an onward-marching people; her soul's eyes are straining for the glory of a coming dawn." But they all agreed she was a charming woman. I never met it myself, but I knew Whibley very well indeed, so that I came to hear a goodish deal about it. It appeared to be devoted to Whibley, and Whibley was extremely fond of it.
So, with the promise to be "a suitor for her at the Throne of Mercy," Miss Blandy intimated that the correspondence must close; and on the 28th Miss Jeffries duly paid the penalty of her crime. Charles Whibley has, well observed: "A stern test of artistry is the gallows.
It is with no hesitation that we call him subject to the correction of time, wherefrom no critic is exempt the best writer of English prose since Dryden. Some one said once that were Shakespeare living now he would be writing articles for the leader-page of the Daily Mail. As Shakespeare is not living now, his place, of course, is filled by Mr. Charles Whibley.
One July I met Whibley, mooning disconsolately along Princes Street, Edinburgh. "Hullo!" I exclaimed, "what are you doing here? I thought you were busy over that School Board case." "Yes," he answered, "I ought really to be in London, but the truth is I'm rather expecting something to happen down here." "Oh!" I said, "and what's that?"
It cost him in round figures about eight thousand pounds, but his family said it was worth it. A Spanish Count hired a furnished house a few doors from Whibley's, and one evening he was introduced to Whibley, and came home and had a chat with him. Whibley told him about "Maria," and the Count quite fell in love with her.
Its idea of an evening's conversation was to plump down a hundred or so vowels and consonants in front of you and leave you to make whatever sense out of them you could. Whibley had a niece named Hester, and we decided the warning had reference to her. We asked the table if it meant the first suggestion, and it said "No." We asked what it did mean, and it said "Yes."
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY. By LAWRENCE STERNE. With an Introduction by CHARLES WHIBLEY, and a Portrait. 2vols. 7s. 60 copies on Japanese paper. 42s. net. 'Very dainty volumes are these; the paper, type and light green binding are all very agreeable to the eye. "Simplex munditiis" is the phrase that might be applied to them.
The only thing I have to say against it is that it had no sense. It came with a carved cabinet that Whibley had purchased in Wardour Street for old oak, but which, as a matter of fact, was chestnut wood, manufactured in Germany, and at first was harmless enough, saying nothing but "Yes!" or "No!" and that only when spoken to.
"Haste! you are here, Miss Sfear!" was what he made of it. Whibley asked him sarcastically if he'd kindly explain what that meant. I think Jobstock was getting irritable. We had been sitting cramped up round a wretched little one-legged table all the evening, and this was almost the first bit of gossip we had got out of it.
He and Nicholson together go far to explain the man. Unfortunately there is no biography at all. Charles Whibley was to have written the authorized life, but the world still waits. Cope Cornford attempted a sketch, but scarcely the shadow of Henley emerges from its pages.
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