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Masterman's attack seemed to her grossly unfair, almost willfully inaccurate, and, in addition, his sarcasm and pleasantries seemed to her odiously vulgar. He was answered by a most miserable representative of Christianity, who made a foolish, weak, blustering speech, and tried to pay the atheist back in his own coin. Erica felt wretched.
I claim the tontine; I claim it now. I believe Uncle Masterman's dead." "I must put a stop to this nonsense," said Michael, "and that for ever. You say too near the truth. In one sense your uncle is dead, and has been so long; but not in the sense of the tontine, which it is even on the cards he may yet live to win.
It's because Masterman's dead, and he's keeping it dark." "Golly!" cried the impressionable John. "But what's the use? Why does he do it, anyway?" "To defraud us of the tontine," said his brother. "He couldn't; you have to have a doctor's certificate," objected John. "Did you never hear of venal doctors?" inquired Morris.
"It's illegal, ain't it?" said John. "A man must have some moral courage," replied Morris with dignity. "And then suppose you're wrong? Suppose Uncle Masterman's alive and kicking?" "Well, even then," responded the plotter, "we are no worse off than we were before; in fact, we're better.
Tears started to her eyes, but the recollection that even home was no longer a place of refuge checked them. There would be Aunt Jean's wearing remonstrances and sarcastic remarks; there would be Mr. Masterman's patronizing contempt, and Tom's studious avoidance of the matters she had most at heart. Was it worse to be treated as a well-meaning idiot, or as an outcast and semi-heretic?
He desired me to sit down, and then he closed the door carefully, and having asked me many questions, to ascertain if I was really Masterman Ready, he said he was the person employed at Mr Masterman's death, and that he had found a paper which was of great consequence, as it proved that the insurance of the vessel which had belonged to my father and Mr Masterman, and which had been lost, had not been made on Mr Masterman's share only, but upon my father's as well, and that Mr Masterman had defrauded my mother.
Criticism: Brooke's Tennyson, his Art and his Relation to Modern Life; A. Lang's Alfred Tennyson; Van Dyke's The Poetry of Tennyson; Sneath's The Mind of Tennyson; Gwynn's A Critical Study of Tennyson's Works; Luce's Handbook to Tennyson's Works; Dixon's A Tennyson Primer; Masterman's Tennyson as a Religious Teacher; Collins's The Early Poems of Tennyson; Macallum's Tennyson's Idylls of the King and the Arthurian Story; Bradley's Commentary on In Memoriam; Bagehot's Literary Studies, vol. 2; Brightwell's Concordance; Shepherd's Bibliography.
"He's not dead, unless I choose," returned Morris. "And come to that," cried John, "if you're right, and Uncle Masterman's been dead ever so long, all we have to do is to tell the truth and expose Michael." "You seem to think Michael is a fool," sneered Morris. "Can't you understand he's been preparing this fraud for years?
'He's not dead, unless I choose, returned Morris. 'And come to that, cried John, 'if you're right, and Uncle Masterman's been dead ever so long, all we have to do is to tell the truth and expose Michael. 'You seem to think Michael is a fool, sneered Morris. 'Can't you understand he's been preparing this fraud for years?
But the younger men, my own friends, on whom I more particularly urged it, men whose names are in many cases familiar to the readers of this paper Mr. Masterman's for instance, and Mr. Conrad Noel they, I felt, being young and beautiful, would do even more justice to the Kruger beard, and when walking down the street with it could not fail to attract attention.
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