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* Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 448. Winwood, vol. i. p. 140.
Preston, who lived seven months in the interior, could not ascend far. Mr. W. Winwood Reade reached in May, 1862, the rapids of the Nkomo River, but sore feet prevented his climbing the mountain, which he estimates at 2,000 feet, or of tracing the stream to its fountain. Mr.
With a lack of the same sense of proportion, equal in kind, though perhaps not so passionate in degree, did Miss Winwood receive the world-shaking tidings. She wept, and, thinking Paul a phoenix, called Frank Ayres an angel.
But there was the Captain of the Yard to convince. To him, daily, Cecil Winwood was reporting the progress of the break all fancied and fabricated in his own imagination. The Captain of the Yard demanded to be shown. Winwood showed him, and the full details of the showing I did not learn until a year afterward, so slowly do the secrets of prison intrigue leak out.
When he read the paper to her, she smiled at that passage, and observed to Bacon, that old love, she saw, could not easily be forgotten. * Cabala, p. 78. Cabala, p. 83. * Winwood, vol i. p. 254., Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii p. 462.
Now, it must be observed that it was not Miss Winwood's habit to waste time. But Miss Winwood was making holiday and allowed herself certain relaxations. Her brother's health having broken down, he had paired for the rest of the session and gone to Contrexeville for a cure.
Winwood Reade in his "Martyrdom of Man," discussing the moral value of the fears of hell-fire, states, "a metaphysical theory cannot restrain the fury of the passions; as well attempt to bind a lion with a cobweb. Prevention of crime, it is well known, depends not on the severity, but on the certainty of retribution.
A few weeks later Barneveld sent copies to Caron of the latest harangues of Winwood in the Assembly and the reply of My Lords on the Vorstian business; that is to say, the freshest dialogue on predestination between the King and the Advocate.
But, pardon me we're talking business where is the money for another election to come from?" "My poor father's death makes me a wealthy man," replied Paul. Miss Winwood started forward in her chair. "My dear, you never told us." "There were so many other things to talk about this morning," he said gently; "but of course I would have told you later.
"And, for the present," said Marchmont, "the case seems to have passed out of our hands." "I shall enter a caveat, all the same," said Mr. Winwood. "That doesn't seem very necessary," Marchmont objected. "The evidence that we have heard is amply sufficient to ensure a conviction and there will be plenty more when the police go into the case.
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