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Then with a start he returned to his previous preoccupation about the flying stages. "Yes," he said. "That is good, that is good." He weighed a message. "Tell them; well done South West." He turned his eyes to Helen Wotton again. His face expressed his struggle between conflicting ideas. "We must capture the flying stages," he explained. "Unless we can do that they will land negroes.
You can't teach me anything, you old snobs. I've got your son, and you'd better mind your p's and q's." Wotton opened the door and put on as much of a wedding face as he could. Jim saw that the old man was informed, and he said: "This is Wotton, my dear. He's the real head of the house." Kedzie might better have shaken hands with him than have given him the curt nod she begrudged him.
And, sure, a poet is as much privileged to lie as an ambassador for the honour and interest of his country at least, as Sir Henry Wotton has defined. This naturally leads me to the defence of the famous anachronism in making AEneas and Dido contemporaries, for it is certain that the hero lived almost two hundred years before the building of Carthage.
"It's very interesting," murmured the old lady; "but what has it got to do with me?" Mr. Wotton gasped, and cast a helpless glance at his friend. "You ain't heard his name yet," he said, impressively. "Wot would you say if I said it was Ben Davis?" "I should say it wasn't true," said the old lady, promptly. "Not true?" said Mr. Wotton, catching his breath painfully. "Wish I may die "
"It was 'er dooty. She'd got money, and I ought to have 'ad my 'arf of it. Nothing can make up for that wasted twenty years nothing." "P'r'aps she'll take you back," said Mr. Wotton. "Take me back?" repeated Mr. Davis. "O' course she'll take me back. She'll have to. There's a law in the land, ain't there?
Wotton, apparently nerveless beneath his absolute immobility, let them out and slammed the door behind them with such promptitude as to give cause for the suspicion that he was a fraud, a sham, beneath his icy exterior desperately afraid lest the house be stormed by the adventurers.
"Sir Henry Wotton told me," replied James, "that the States at his arrival were assembled to deliberate on this matter, and he had no doubt that they would take a resolution in conformity with my intention. Now I see very well that you don't mean to give up the places.
Sir Henry Wotton has been allowed by all critics to be a man of real and great genius, an upright statesman, a polite courtier, compassionate and benevolent to those in distress, charitable to the poor, and in a word, an honest man and a pious christian. As a poet he seems to have no considerable genius.
Sir Henry Wotton, fresh from his embassies in Venice, had declared that such was the 'natural imbecility' of pointed arches, and such 'their very uncomeliness, that they ought to be 'banished from judicious eyes, among the reliques of a barbarous age. Evelyn, lamenting the demolition by Goths and Vandals of the stately monuments of Greek and Roman architecture, spoke of the mediæval buildings which had risen in their stead, as if they had no merits to redeem them from contempt 'congestions of heavy, dark, melancholy and monkish piles, without any proportion, use, or beauty, deplorable instances of pains and cost lavishly expended, and resulting only in distraction and confusion.
The courtly Provost, then the benignant Goodall, a man who, though his experience of life was confined to the colleges in which he had passed his days, was naturally gifted with the rarest of all endowments, the talent of reception; and whose happy bearing and gracious manner, a smile ever in his eye and a lively word ever on his lip, must be recalled by all with pleasant recollections, welcomed Lord Monmouth and his friends to an assemblage of the noble, the beautiful, and the celebrated gathered together in rooms not unworthy of them, as you looked upon their interesting walls, breathing with the portraits of the heroes whom Eton boasts, from Wotton to Wellesley.
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