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During this period he married the daughter of a baronet, and she lived for six years, but not long enough to witness his triumphs in the "Distressed Mother" and the classic "Cato." As Chetwood well said, "Pyrrhus in the 'Distressed Mother' placed him in the seat of Tragedy, and Cato fixed him there."
"It's just some joke of Billy's," began Jess, when the very short boy broke in with: "If that's a joke, may I never see another! It is a phantom! It's a nightmare! It's something that comes to you in a bad dream." "What?" demanded Chet, suddenly shaking Short and Long by the collar. "Don't, Chetwood," begged Billy. "I'm not strong. I'm sea-sick. That thing yonder has queered me "
Guy was the very image of the Kelmscott of Tilgate Park who bled for King Charles at Marston Moor; Cyril had the exact mien of Sir Rupert Kelmscott, Knight of Chetwood, the ablest of their race, whose portrait, by Kneller, hung in the great hall between his father; the Admiral, and his uncle, Sir Frederick. They had all the qualities the Colonel himself associated with the Kelmscott name.
Savage, who had attempted with the most submissive tenderness to soften her rage, hearing her utter so detestable an accusation, thought it prudent to retire." Thus the Queen refused to interfere until the Countess of Hertford pleaded the cause of the imprisoned poet. It is cheerful to know that Mr. Gregory also escaped hanging. The verses are quoted by Chetwood.
Thus wrote Chetwood, whose good fortune it was to see Oldfield, and Porter, and a host of other famous players, not forgetting, in later days, the wonderful Garrick himself. Unlike several of her ilk, Mistress Porter could play the heroine off the stage as well as on.
When he reached the mature age of seventeen, and had orders to begin his university training, what does the youth do but run away from home, and, taking the theatrical bull by the horns, appear on the Dublin boards. "He first apply'd to Mr. Betterton, then to Mr. Smith, two celebrated actors," says Chetwood, "but they decently refused him for fear of the resentment of his family.
"I don't know any historical world which would equal the modern, and as for the prehistoric well, Professor Doon can tell us " "As a sphere of amenable existence," said Doon with a smile, "give me Chetwood Park and Piccadilly." "That is mere hedonism," said Count Lavretsky.
Somewhere down Cyril's way, too; he's painting near Chetwood; wonder whether he could possibly, by any chance, have been in it?" He drew the paper carelessly from his pocket as he spoke, and handed it with a graceful air of inborn courtesy to his younger companion. Everything that Montague Nevitt did, indeed, was naturally graceful and courteous.
She gave a sharp little start. "Warnworth!" she cried, flushing up, with some slight embarrassment in her voice; "why, that's ever so far back. We're long past Warnworth. We ran by it three or four stations behind; in fact, it's the next place to Chetwood, where I got in at." Cyril Waring looked up with a half-guilty smile as embarrassed as her own. "Oh yes," he said quietly.
She did not give her toilet any particular care. There was no thought of conquest, no thought of dazzling the man in khaki. It was the indolence and carelessness of the East, where clothes become only necessities and are no longer the essentials of adornment. Elsa Chetwood was twenty-five, lithely built, outwardly reposeful, but dynamic within.
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