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The United States delegation was composed of William R. Day, who resigned the office of Secretary of State to head the mission; Cushman K. Davis, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; William P. Frye, President pro tem of the Senate; Senator George Gray of Delaware; and Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune; with John Bassett Moore, Assistant Secretary of State, as Secretary.
There's many curious changes may come in a person's life, no doubt, and folks never know what's going to happen to them; but whatever changes may come upon me, that isn't one of them. I may live to see the inside of the workhouse, perhaps, when I'm too old for service; but I shall never sleep under the roof of Wyncomb Farmhouse." Mr. Whitelaw gave a spiteful little laugh.
The life of Whitelaw Reid, who was born near Xenia in 1837, is a romance of success from the beginning, of the kind that seems peculiarly American. His people were Scotch Covenanters, with the stern convictions of that race.
Trust me for a year or two, and see the result. I depend upon your help in this whole affair. Don't refuse it me. I have done with Whitelaw, and I have done with Twybridge: now comes London. You can't regard me as a boy, you know. 'No but' 'But me no buts! he cried, laughing excitedly. 'The thing is settled. As soon as possible in the morning I post this letter. I feel it will be successful.
A deadly whiteness and despair had come over the bright soubrette beauty, and even William Carley's hard nature was moved a little by the altered expression of his daughter's countenance. "It must be as you wish, father," she said slowly; "there is no help for it; I cannot see you brought to disgrace. Stephen Whitelaw must have the price he asks for his money."
One was a strapping rosy-cheeked country girl, who did all the household work; the other an overgrown clumsy-looking girl, hired straight from the workhouse by Mr. Whitelaw, from economical motives; a stolid-looking girl, whose intellect was of the lowest order; a mere zoophyte girl, one would say something between the vegetable and animal creation.
And every time he happened to look at Mr. Whitelaw during that evening, he found the watchful eyes turned towards him in the same unpleasant manner. The sensation caused by this kind of surveillance on the part of the farmer was so obnoxious to him, that at parting he took occasion to speak of it in a friendly way. "I fancy you and I must have met before to-night, Mr.
'Scholarships? For free study? 'Yes; but that wouldn't mean free living, you know. Students don't live at the College. 'How do you go in for a scholarship? The old man replied, meditatively, 'If you were to pass the Cambridge Local Examination, and to get the first place in the Kingsmill district, you would have three years of free study at Whitelaw.
Consequently, when Whitelaw returned to Knox with Cecil's reply to the requests of the brethren, the performances of Knox and Whitelaw were no secrets, in outline at least, to the Regent's party. Such was the Regent's treacherous breach of treaty! Sadleir was ordered to Berwick on August 6.
'Shall we walk to my lodgings? 'I thought you might like to walk me over the show. But pr'aps you're in a 'urry? 'No, no. But there's nothing particular to see. I think the lecture-rooms are closed by now. 'Oo's the gent as stands there? the figger, I mean. 'Sir Job Whitelaw, founder of the College. 'Job, eh? And was you a-goin' 'ome to yer tea, Godwin? 'Yes.
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