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Before the end of a week smiles and cheerful remarks ruled in the family; sorrows were forgotten, and everybody looked forward to the great day of settlement. It did not come quickly. In two months' time Mr. Rymer still waited upon the pleasure of the executors. But he was not inactive. Towards the end of the third month the family was suffering from hope deferred. Mr.
She had married beneath her, as the phrase is, and she was a little too conscious of it. A woman with a sharp eye to her own interests; selfishly discontented with her position in life, and not very scrupulous in her choice of means when she had an end in view: that is how I describe Mrs. Rymer.
John Selden entered the Inner Temple in the second year of James I., where in due course he numbered, amongst his literary contemporaries, William Browne, Croke, Oulde, Thomas Gardiner, Dynne, Edward Heywood, John Morgan, Augustus Cæsar, Thomas Heygate, Thomas May, dramatist and translator of Lucan's 'Pharsalia, William Rough and Rymer were members of Gray's Inn.
Rymer, that I have to live as carefully as I can. This house is really all I have to depend upon, and and Again she was spared the unpleasant utterance. With an irresistible smile, and laying her soft hand on the visitor's ill-fitting glove, Mrs. Rymer began to reveal the happy thought which had occurred to her.
That moral debt must still go on, and be acknowledged by the unfailing gratitude of a lifetime. 'Of a lifetime, repeated Mrs. Rymer, sweetly murmuring, and casting towards her friend an eloquent glance. 'Here, however, resumed her husband, 'is the pecuniary account. Will you do me the kindness, Miss Shepperson, to glance it over and see if you find it correct?
Of Chaucer he then knew no better than to say, what might have been said in France, that It cost Addison some trouble to break loose from the critical cobweb of an age of periwigs and patches, that accounted itself 'understanding, and the grand epoch of our Elizabethan literature, 'barbarous. Rymer, one of his critics, had said, that
Rymer had not been very well, and once or twice Miss Shepperson fancied that her eyes showed traces of tears; it was but natural that the guest, often preoccupied with the thought of the promised settlement, should feel a little uneasy. On June 23 Mrs. Rymer chose a suitable moment, and with her most confidential air, invited Miss Shepperson to an intimate chat.
* We may judge of the great grievance of purveyance by this circumstance, that the purveyors often gave but sixpence for a dozen of pigeons, and twopence for a fowl. Journ. 25th May, 1626. Rymer, tom. xvii. p. 441, et seq. v This volume was written above twenty years before the edition of 1778. In that short period, prices have perhaps risen more than during the preceding hundred and fifty.
Did Miss Shepperson know of a cook, a sensible, trustworthy woman? For the present Mrs. Rymer she confessed it with a pleasant little laugh had to give an eye to the dinner herself. 'I only hope you won't make yourself ill, dear, said Mr. Rymer, bending towards his wife with a look of well-bred solicitude. 'Miss Shepperson, I beg you to insist that she lies down a little every afternoon.
Harry, in his joy, let his tongue run on, scarcely knowing what he was saying. Captain Rymer now stepped forward and explained the state of affairs. This required some little time to do.
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