Tales of two people

Tales of two people

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent man; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual. So much for common opinion. Let no more be heard of its dull utilitarian judgments! There are plenty of eminent menat the moment, it is believed, no less than seventy Cabinet and ex-Cabinet Ministers (or thereabouts)to say nothing of Bishops, Judges, and the British Academyand all this in a nook of the world! (And the world too is a point!) Lynborough was something much more uncommon; it is not, however, quite easy to say what. Let the question be postponed; perhaps the story itself will answer it. He started lifeor was started in itin a series of surroundings of unimpeachable orthodoxyEton, Christ Church, the Grenadier Guards. He left each of these schools of mental culture and bodily discipline, not under a cloudthat metaphor would be ludicrously ineptbut in an explosion. That, having been thus shot out of the first, he managed to enter the secondthat, having been shot out of the second, he walked placidly into the thirdthat, having been shot out of the third, he suffered no apparent damage from his repeated propulsionsthese are matters explicable only by a secret knowledge of British institutions. His father was strong, his mother came of stock even stronger; he himselfAmbrose Caverly as he then waswas very popular, and extraordinarily handsome in his unusual outlandish style. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 49630
Author: Hope, Anthony
Release Date: Aug 6, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Buckland, Arthur H