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Even if I believed the threat about the "desolate places," I would be there; if bare-footed she had to beg from door to door, rest assured, mother, that an Aylwin would hold the wallet would leave the whole Aylwin brood, their rank, their money, and their stupid, vulgar British pride, to walk beside the beggar. The look on my mother's face would have terrified most people.
'All this and more a thousand times more than could be rendered by the art of any painter. For the age that Carlyle spits at and the great and good John Ruskin scorns is gross, Mr. Aylwin; the age is grovelling and gross.
'Our discussion to-night arose from an attack if anyone so gentle can be said to attack made upon me by Canon Aylwin, on the subject of those "Tracts on the New Testament" tracts of mine, of which we have published three, while I have two or three more half done in my writing-table drawer.
Often as I had heard of this eccentric painter as the representative of the branch of the family which preceded mine in the succession to the coveted earldom, I had never seen him before. He stood and looked at me in a state of intense amusement, but did not speak. 'So you are Cyril Aylwin? I said. 'Still you must withdraw what you said to my sister about the soap.
But a more singular mistake with regard to the Aylwin characters than that of Morris being confounded with 'Wilderspin' was that of confounding, as certain newspaper paragraphs at the time did, 'Cyril Aylwin' with Mr. Whistler. I am especially able to speak of this character, who has been inquired about more than any other in the book.
Aylwin? he suddenly said, in a voice so magnetic from its very earnestness that I seemed for the moment to feel the faintness of hunger. 'No, no, I said, a tide of grief rushing upon me; 'but there is one who perhaps there is one I love more dearly than your mother loved her babes Sinfi rose, and came and placed her hand upon my shoulder and whispered,
'Do I believe in blessings and curses, Mr. Aylwin? said Wilderspin solemnly. 'You are asking me whether I am with or without what your sublime father calls the "most powerful of the primary instincts of man." He tells us in The Veiled Queen that "Even in this material age of ours there is not a single soul that does not in its inner depths acknowledge the power of the unseen world.
Certain remarks that have been made upon the character of D'Arcy in Aylwin have rendered it an imperative nay, a sacred duty for the author to seize an opportunity that may never occur again of saying here a few words upon the subject.
Aylwin, I stood for some time gazing at her, muttering thanks to my mother for what I had found. I then went up to her, and asked her for a box of matches. She held me out a box, mechanically, as it seemed, and, when I had taken it of her, she held out her hand just as though she had been a real earthly beggar-girl; but that was part of the beneficent illusion of Heaven.
Providence is kind. She meant kind to the House of Aylwin. I often wonder whether she guessed that I heard her. I often wonder whether she knew how I had loved her. This is how matters stood with me on that summer afternoon, when I sat on the edge of the cliff in a kind of dull, miserable dream.
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