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Senora Windham's hand groped for her husband's. There were tears in her eyes, but he bent down and kissed them away. "Anita, mia, do not grieve. He is a good lad." "It is not that." She hid her face against his shoulder. "It is not that " "I understand," he whispered. After a little time Benito spoke. "Mother, I learned something from the warring of the rancheros aganist Alcalde Bartlett."
"We are not taking bids from convicts," he said, loudly and distinctly. McTurpin's look of blind astonishment at Windham's words was succeeded by a whitehot fury. Two eyes gleamed with snake-like venom and two spots of red glowed in his cheeks, as though each had felt the impact of a sudden blow. For a moment he neither moved nor spoke.
"No, dear lady; it was not resentment.... But it hurt." Alice turned from him to her husband. "Tell me what they've done today, Benito." Windham's eyes shone. "You should see Will Coleman. Ah, he's a leader incomparable. We've got nearly 6,000 men. Infantry, artillery, cavalry. A police force, too, for patrolling the streets day and night." "And what is the other side doing?" Alice asked.
It was through Windham's eloquence and perseverance that the monstrous idea of a crusade, and all Burke's other violent and excited precepts, gained an effective place and hearing in the cabinet, in the royal closet, and in the House of Commons, long after Burke himself had left the scene. We have already seen how important an element Irish affairs became in the war with America.
Windham's letters, through jealousy of Fitzgibbon, who was now the Irish Chancellor, and still more from a desire to propitiate the Roman Catholics, for whom he demanded complete and immediate Emancipation; while Pitt, who was, probably, already resolved on accomplishing a legislative Union, thought, as far as we can judge, that Emancipation should follow, not precede, the Union, lest, if it should precede it, it might prove rather a stumbling-block in the way than a stepping-stone to the still more important measure.
And as soon as the girl was down and Windham turned toward Miss Maine, Pritchard took a turn of the rope around the railing, with a hasty knot, went over, and slid down it, out of sight. But before he reached the ground, the rope broke loose, and slipped out of Windham's grasp as he tried to catch it. A cry came up from below.
On April 19, he wrote: 'I can apply better to books than I could in some more vigorous parts of my life at least than I did; and I have one more reason for reading that time has, by taking away my companions, left me less opportunity of conversation. Croker's Boswell, p. 727. He told Mr. Windham that he had never read the Odyssey through in the original. Windham's Diary, p. 17.
It is impossible not to feel the attraction of Windham's character, his amiability, his reverence for great and virtuous men, his passion for knowledge, the versatility of his interests.
All this made Mistress Windham's memory the more sad. A good reliable rose red was always wanting. Madder could be purchased, for it was raised in the Southern colonies, but the madder was a brown red. Finally some enterprising merchantman introduced cochineal, and the vacuum was filled. With a judicious addition of logwood, rose red, wine red and deep claret were achieved.
"Consorting with rowdies, gamblers, ballot-box stuffers not to mention thieves, 'twould seem," said Broderick with a forced laugh. Alice Windham's eyes looked hurt. "He has accused himself," she said with haste. "You're always your own worst critic, Dave," Benito said. "I want to tell you something: The Vigilance Committee forms this afternoon." The other's eyes flashed.
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