The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-15
SHREWSBURY"
by STANLEY j. wEYMAN.
CHAPTER xxIu.-coxrrNuEp.
copyrighted 1892 BY Stanley j. wsvmar,

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cnso and along a silent corridor and through
one or two swing doors, tho Duke seeming to DO
conversant with the house. II was impossible
not to admire the sombre richness OF the carved
furniture, which stood here and there in the
corridor, or the grotesque designs and Eastern
coloring OF the chinawaro and Mogul idols that
peered from tho corners or roso boldly on
brackets. Such a mode OF furnishing was new
to me. but neither its novelty nor the evidences
OF wealth and tnste which abundantly mot tho
eye impressed me so deeply as the stiffness
which everywhere prevailed. and which seemed
SO much n part OF tho place that when his Grace
opened tho second swing door and the shrill,
piping voice OF n child growing and laughing In
an ecstasy Of infantilc pleasure, camo forth
and met us, I started as II n gun had exploded.
I know now that the sound. by giving my
patron assurance that he whom he sought was
not there, but in his closet, led to my admission,
and that without:that assurance: my lord would
have left me to walt at the door. A5 It was he
said nothing to me. but went on; and I, follow
ing him in my innocence through the doorway.
came at the same moment he did on a scene as
rare as II is by me we'll remembered.
We stood on the threshold OF n wide and
splendid gallery, set here and there with great
china vases, and hung with pictures which even
then | disccrned to DO Of great beauty, and
afterward learned were of no less rarity. Let
ting my eyes travel down this vista, they
paused naturally at n spot under one OF tho win
lows where. with his back to us and ribbons in
his hands,a slight gentleman beyond middle age,
and:drcssod in black, ambled and paced In front
of a child four .r fvo years old. The wintry
sunlight, which fell in cold bars on the floor,
proved his progress to be, more snowy than real;
nevertheless, tho child shriekcd in its joy, and.
dancing, jcrked the ribbons and waved IA little
whip, In response to which the gentleman, whose
long curled pcriwig ,bobbed oddly on his shout
Ia-a- hA and bta hnaR IN - NM nv
%stoutly, though on logs a little thin and bent.
long moment l stared at this picture, little
gentleman seated at "a sidc; table not far from
the pair rose hurriedly from his chair and with
remarked this third occupant of the gallery.
When l did SO II was to discern that he was
angry, and that n oY my lord HcoM waS taken az ma so AK and md
patron made a hasty movement to withdraw.
Before he could, do 80. however or l, WHO be-
hind him barred the way, could take tie hint,
ence BY the others exclamation, turned to us,
end still standing and holding the ribbons in
mf He e'I had 'S a long - ssIlow face. which seemed
round 1t; a large hooked nose and full peevish
lips. with eyes, both, bright and morose. I
i H% todd s sndt t he Ss @hiie sRe Sect and talo nsve CT
King, Charles's court passed round hin, he
t GSu ts,ls s1" bS a ss siisnt nod. or r 9n G eoart Wits S's aSe
dubbed my Lord Nottingham Don Dismello
could find MOI no worse u, sum title for him i,d 1st that that
rarely drawn upon, no one could doubt who
saw him approaeh us; a a, flicker r. Of dry amuse-
up lips and the g%rifmnesss OF his visaee.,
Y Grace l. always welcome" he said,
tural. And %yet-you might have come moro
the ground. II thought that you were in your
S Before / intPuded." u a.
But you have newsi"
"Ha! And this person. he looked fix
'1."aThen, my Lord BUCK and he turned and
addressed the child who was still Juggling at
You must 60. Go, petit rau-ien,' IhaSe bust.
The child looked at him boldly. "Fuut.ar'
"%t1es, o n,ansi Say ."' t ( so and Answered sS;s e And
then to us with a solemn nod, ';Jai Gu sa ma
'"e&s"qi%D cSsraI' corrected the gentle.
STOOD a5p IN fhe BY ss Tsas ! Of hf RsSsi nSt only yoa 'hs' .
bought ought from ronidd lord Mo SStt 1bssl tbo and asnt made his is
was no other her. than the King sno himself; ask
Of France had dubbed in bitter derision
revolutions had successfully created stadt,
holder Of Holland and sovereign OF these isles,
was at GnlS Time 40 years OlQ, already preIDa-
affiicied his later ffee.. Reserved in manner
and sombre. not to say, melancholy, in aspect,
stoicism. as chilling to his friends as it was
battling to his enemies. he was such as a
and a manhood in the prosecution of weighty
and secret designs made him; Descended on
other from the Great Henry OF France, he was
thought to exhibit in more moderate degree
lannon's DrtnCe8. and to represent. not In blood
only, but In his fortunes, the two soldiers, Of
s ssfer siS snS stii Hiep 1T defeat gh0s s,ii ff0p pssssd in PoS dis a
proverb; who. frequently beaten IN tho field.
paign, and rose, AntRus-like, the stronger from
That, in all stations. as a private person. a
w WI. proved. / think; net only Sy the exastness
QutfHas in, Undfs". and "iandem. 1T snrc,iiWs
Sssi'i BY T The Tae Iss sor anS tie gsi ia sssni By a asye
rice Of N~assaq-but by two other particulars
M tbat 1na 4 crave n,a,a 1eaye b TO t mention, natur LIE mrs nrst t was
the first the lead as the champion Of the Protes-
tant religion DC In, in Europe; the second, that though
common thing for some Of his subjects to put
aye, and though he had to bear such afironts in
%silence,. he had the true spirit and pride Of a
Insomuch, that many, attributed to this the
gloom, and reserve Of his manners, maintaining
That these were assumed less as q shield against
the malice of his enemies than 40 a cloak to
abate tho familiarity of his friends. "
And certainly, some, In speaking Of him OF
late. years. belittle his birth no less than his OK.
ploits when they call him Dutch William and
the like, speaking in terms unworthy Of a SOW
ereign. and as II he had drawn his blood from
that merchant race, instead of-as the fact was
s-from the princely houses of Stuart, bourbon
Nassau, and Medici. and from such ancestor,
as tho noble Coligny and King Charles the Mar
tyr. But of his birth enough.
For thn rnlf hnNin a AtarNy q - aAI .-A -.
history to write. ! refrain from recalling how
great he was as a statesman, hoy resourcefu
der. how valiant when occasion required In thu
pitched field. Nor 10 1t necessary, seeing tina
before the rise OF my Lord Marlborough (wht
still survives. but alas. Qudntum mut0tus at
lilo y he had no rival In any of these capacities
nor in the first will ever be excelled.
Nor, as q fact, looking ON him in tho flesh al
j thcn did for the first time. can ] say that | saw
anything, to bctoken greatness, or the least ont
-.no evidence OF tho fiery spirit that twico II
two great wars stayed all the power OF Loul
and OF France; that saved Holland; that united
all Europe in three great leagues; finally that
leaning the DOunda M the Drobahlp unn a kInn