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It is, indeed, incredible that so little is known, outside the State of Atlantic, of the experiment I mean the achievement of the last eight years. Were Selina Whiston living, I should leave the task to her pen; she never recovered from the shock and mortification of her experiences in the State Legislature, in '64 but I will not anticipate the history.
If such men as Milton, Whiston, Boyle, Locke, and Newton, all agreeing in the profession of Christianity, did not all think precisely alike concerning it, who art thou, with thy inferior capacity, who settest up the standard of thine own judgment as infallible?
Whiston had always urged upon our minds the necessity of not only being dressed according to the popular fashion, but also as elegantly and becomingly as possible. "If we adopt the Bloomers," she said, "we shall never get our rights, while the world stands.
The ten o'clock Edinburgh express from King's Cross next morning took me up to Doncaster, and hiring a musty old fly at the station, I drove three miles out of the town on the Rotherham Road, finding Whiston Grange to be a fine old Elizabethan mansion in the center of a great park, with tall old twisted chimneys, and beautifully-kept gardens.
The battle went on for hours; it exhausted her; it undid all the good effects of sun and sea, and left her flaccid, pale. 'I'm afraid the journey yesterday was too much for you, remarked Mr. Whiston, after observing her as she sat mute the next evening. 'I shall soon recover, Rose answered coldly. The father meditated with some uneasiness.
An extract of the sentence was sent to the queen; but she did not signify her pleasure on this subject, and the affair remained in suspense. Whiston published a work in four volumes, justifying his doctrine, and maintaining that the apostolical constitutions were not only canonical, but also preferable in point of authority to the epistles and the gospels.
Whiston shrank from society, ceaselessly afraid of receiving less than his due; privately, meanwhile, he deplored the narrowness of the social opportunities granted to his daughter, and was for ever forming schemes for her advantage schemes which never passed beyond the stage of nervous speculation.
Whiston, and I could see, and the crowd could see, that she was not greatly elated. Mr. Wrangle made a very significant bow to Mr. Tumbrill, and then sat down. There were cries of "Tumbrill!" and that gentleman none of us, of course, believing him sincere, for we knew his private views came forward and made exactly the same pledge.
He needn't have apologised at all. 'Precisely. That is just what I mean, said Mr. Whiston with self-satisfaction. 'My dear Rose, if I had been alone, I might perhaps have talked a little, but with you it was impossible. One cannot be too careful. A man like that will take all sorts of liberties. One has to keep such people at a distance. A moment's pause, then Rose spoke with unusual decision
Whiston, with all her experience, was a little puzzled by this change of mood. Alas! she was far from guessing the correct explanation. It was a great comfort to me that Mrs. Whiston was also elected to the Legislature. There were but four of us Assemblywomen, and although the men treated us with great courtesy, I was that nervous that I seemed to detect either commiseration or satire everywhere.
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