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'Look here; I am not asking you to do anything so crude as to make platform speeches about the man's disgraceful conduct to his wife. Mr. Burl assumed the look of a Rhadamanthus. 'But' and again he relaxed into the tactician 'you might take a strong social line on morals generally, and the domestic hearth, and that sort of thing. He looked critically at Drake.
"To continue," resumed Rhadamanthus; "you have declared that it was folly in Scipio, when he wished to open the gates of Carthage, to use as a key the herb æthiopis, because the herb æthiopis has not the property of breaking locks." "I merely said that he would have done better to have used the herb lunaria." "That is a matter of opinion," murmured Rhadamanthus, touched in his turn.
It was in vain to be frightened, for the moment in one's own person, by a real owl, and then to show the owl. It was in vain to discover, by striking an accidental discord on the piano, that Turk always howled at particular notes and combinations. It was in vain to be a Rhadamanthus with the bells, and if an unfortunate bell rang without leave, to have it down inexorably and silence it.
Venus had disarmed Rhadamanthus, as she has Mars so often; and the sword of Justice must rust in its scabbard. Some distance behind them is Stangrave, talking in a low voice, earnestly, passionately, to whom but to Marie?
He only paid five shillings in the pound." "Your case presents some peculiar features, Mr. Carter," said Rhadamanthus. "I hope I am not censorious, but well, that fine at Bowstreet?" "I was a mere boy," said I, with some warmth, "and my solicitor grossly mismanaged the case.." "Well, well!" said he soothingly. "But haven't you spent a great deal of time at Monte Carlo?"
So Mary took her station beside the Rhadamanthus at the stockade gate in a proper opera-house, he would have been the stage door-keeper to pick out the sheep from the goat-like herd of the merely curious who, but for firm measures, would have stormed the place. Those who came down again, pushed out by the weight of new arrivals, lingered about the gate talking things over with Mary.
Ten minutes pass; he captures her knight; she takes his knight, and looks a very Rhadamanthus. More minutes tick away; she takes his pawn and has the advantage, showing her sense of it rather prominently. Five minutes more: he takes her bishop: she brings things even by taking his knight. Three minutes: she looks bold, and takes his queen: he looks placid, and takes hers.
Doing, says she, really I do not know what I have been doing: I desire I may have time given me to recollect. After about half an hour's pause, she told him that she had been playing at crimp: upon which Rhadamanthus beckoned to the keeper on his left hand, to take her into custody.
The name of this Rhadamanthus of the birch occurs twice in entries of Elizabeth's paymaster, as receiving money for plays acted before her; and a certain proficiency as actors possessed by students of St. John's College at Oxford is ascribed to training given by old Mulcaster at the Merchant Taylors' school.
From the city were heard groans, and the sound of the scourge, the creaking of iron, and the clanking of chains. AEneas, horror-struck, inquired of his guide what crimes were those whose punishments produced the sounds he hear? The Sibyl answered, "Here is the judgment-hall of Rhadamanthus, who brings to light crimes done in life, which the perpetrator vainly thought impenetrably hid.
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