New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
Anglo-ArneriCan Memories
COPYRIGHT 1910. h. George W. smnney)

stood how. for Brechin Castle can put
up. in normal way, fourteen people,
ana we slept that night .fifty-six. But
Lady Dalhousie besides being q reigning
beauty. had practical talents. and man
aged il all a. if an inundation Of I'M
expected guests We're ar everyday af-
fair
There is one thing to be added Past
Cortachy Castle flows a shallow stream
with stony bed. II was early i'll Sep
torlbc-. The water was very low. and
what there was rippied and broke over
the stones with noise which. at night
and amid uncertain slumbers. might
easily be mistaken Tor the beating Of a
drum by man whose mind was full of
The drummer boy story. After l had
heard about Lord Hardwicke at luncheon
! had walked along the banks of this
burn. and the faint likeness Of the
waters beating on the stones to the beat
ing IF = drum occurred 10 me. Perhaps
q mere fancy on my part. 7 don't press
IT, L anybody prefers 70 believe in the
legend ! don't ask him TO believe IN my
conjecture BY all means let him nour-
ish his own faith in his own way.
He may like TO know. moreover, that
Lord Hardwicke. now dead. was one
Of the last persons in the world
10 conceive or cherish an illusion.
a we'll known man Of the world;
in his way celebrity, if only Tor his
hats, which were the glossiest ever seen
outside Of the Stock Exchange. He had
gone the pace. climbed outside Of every
stick of property he possessed said one
Of his friends. and had acquired vast
and 7-aried stock of experience IN the
process. on the lace Of il, not AT all the
kind Of man 10 believe too much. nor TO
believe il anything, as was said Of Mr.,
Lowe. he could not bite.
He came into the dining room that
night At Brechin. and STAYED on the next
day. Among Lady Dalhousie's guests
vas Mr. Huxley. Certainly a man Of the
world was Mr. Huxley bur Of . different
world from Lord Hardwicke's. They had
never met You might have said they
had not q subject in common. But they
talked TO each other. and TO the surprise
Of the company it presently became evil
dent that they got on together. I said
as much to NJ. Huxley afterward He
answered in his decisive way:
Don't make any mistake. Lord Hard
wicke has powers Of mind for which,
even his own set, 81 far as know, has
never given him credit We did not talk
about the weather. He was man who
would put his mind TO yours no matter
what YOU talked about. and it would
take you all your time 10 keep UP with
him"
Years afterward reminded M. Hulk
lev Of this and asked him had he ever
met Lord Hardwicke again.
NO. never, and I regret II. But we
did not move quite ii the same orbits
have hardly seen anybody since who
made such ar impression on me-. It's
not d question Of orbits its q question
OF men"
1 asked Lord Hardvicke about the
same time whether he remembered
meeting lIr, Huxley.
Remember? How many HuXleys are
there in the world that YOU should sup
pose could forget this one"
Il i one Of the distinctions of English
life in general. and Of London. to which
New York will perhaps some day attain,
that sooner or later it brings together
men and women, each Of the first rank
N MS or her own department, and each
unlike the other. They have long under
stood here that a society which Is not
various ends in monorony; and OF all
forms Of dulness that is the duliest.
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