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Jenkin, to people willing to pay half a crown for a private view and the privilege of hearing their own voices, while Jenkin, perfervid as usual, gave half-hourly lectures on the other in an adjoining room I, as his lieutenant, taking turns. The thing was in its way a little triumph.
'I soon found, he remarks, 'that thoroughness of honesty was as strongly engrained in the scientific as in the moral side of his character. Their talk was chiefly on the electric telegraph; but Jenkin was eager, too, on the subject of physics. After staying a week he returned to the factory; but he began experiments, and corresponded briskly with Sir William about cable work.
Neither of them mentioned his income or prospects, and Jenkin, overcome by their disinterestedness, exclaimed in one of his letters, 'Are these people the same as other people? Thus permitted, he addressed himself to Annie, and was nearly rejected for his pains.
And though the return of the children, none the worse for their little adventure, brought the colour back into his face, it could not restore him to his part. I remember finding him seated on the stairs in some rare moment of quiet during the subsequent performances. 'Hullo, Jenkin, said I, 'you look down in the mouth. 'My dear boy, said he, 'haven't you heard me?
"But hark ye, Jenkin," said Tunstall, "I think you are but half-bred English yourself. How came you to strike on the Scotsman's side after all?" "Why, you did so, too," answered Vincent. "Ay, because I saw you begin; and, besides, it is no Cumberland fashion to fall fifty upon one," replied Tunstall. "And no Christ Church fashion neither," said Jenkin. "Fair play and Old England for ever!
"You have spoken like an empress, most mighty Ursula," said Jenkin Vincent; "and your will shall be obeyed." "You know Alsatia well?" continued his tutoress.
Well, now, sound; and ye'll just find so or so many fathoms," as the case might be; and the obnoxious passenger was generally right. On one occasion, as the ship was going into Corfu, Sir Thomas came up the hatchway and cast his eyes towards the gallows. "Bangham" Charles Jenkin heard him say to his aide-de-camp, Lord Bangham "where the devil is that other chap?
Charles Jenkin was one of the finest creatures breathing; loyalty, devotion, simple natural piety, boyish cheerfulness, tender and manly sentiment in the old sailor fashion, were in him inherent and inextinguishable either by age, suffering, or injustice.
Artistic skill contributes to beauty, or it would not be skill; but beauty is the result of many elements, and the nobler the art the lower is the rank which skill takes among them. A clear and matter-of-fact thinker, Jenkin was an equally clear and graphic writer.
A fine-looking young man was in their hands; and Mrs. Jenkin saw him with his mouth open as if he sought to speak, saw him tossed from one to another like a ball, and then saw him no more. 'He was dead a few instants after, but the crowd hid that terror from us. My knees shook under me and my sight left me. With this street tragedy, the curtain rose upon their second revolution.
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