| Show 0 FOR t atoll 1 I I 1 A 11 aali thol 1 3 ill the great Elial ll K n klait au thinks I 1 I 1 era body joi 1 11 rone R pr D r C 0 t US 0 Y E T eibl yli I i july 2 22 twe ly nine nide icara ea ako A duang a colle geboy OD y L to ED ea afe chand od r I 1 nad ha had a most interesting interest inq later view with thomas carlyle carl ie fl iscon proved very Imd izing ilay ide mg ft a great desire to see once moro more the iho VC teran who has placed thirty volumes volu inca of his bid productions in li I 1 not him 26 friendly messi lec 11 ie IP in macd me lav to his little plain hous to ID cheyne row Ch chelca elea taking sin an intimate 1 m at 0 f frand ri t a d biot loco 0 t the h e b hansom an s 0 m with alth m me e w wo 0 a sallied a ll 11 ie d off ff 0 on n a L bunt ur it f for r t the b e lio lion we drove through fashionable west went I 1 end ad on the banks of 0 the thames there we found ml an antique how oa 00 whole corner beresid we read I 1 tho he 1 this la great ubbine itow in one of the oldest of the brick houses in la this ihu row dwells and for forty yeara hm has dwelt the llie most extraordinary of living engli buien of lotters not on an article seemed to have been clanged changed in 10 the house since bince my previous fisit in in the rhe good faithful wife who dwelt there then has since passed away to the silent land all else I 1 cooled ed cd I 1 sent up ourn our names atom and we acro shown into a plainly furnished room on whose walls wl bung a rugged portrait of 0 brave olner cromwell Preset presently itly an old man apparently over three score giorc and af ten walked very slowly into the room ile he was waa attired in a long woolen gown retching reaching down to his eject lect its ilia gray eray hair WM was in in an uncombed mop on oil ilia HIS clear blue eye was and piercing A bright tinge of red was on lis hu thin check bud his bis liand band trembled as lie ho took our own this most singular p personage erso nage who re mind minded mo me 0 of an n old 1 was rag too be author 02 hero or bud aa the trench revolution lie ile commenced at once 1 after a few inquiries about longfellow baynot and other american frends a most moat characteristic discourse on the fearful degeneracy of this wretched ago of delusions and im postures with great vehemence Tohomeo cc of manner ho he said that To kugland gland had bad clean down into SD an abominable ceas oklies of lies and ab oddies and shams I 1 tho the first of these which he specified were the joint stock company and new POW schemes h lor turning everything into gold abominable contrivances lor for turning commerce and trade into a vu gainous rouge ct noir noi r ile ho described the present turmoil on the labor question as simply a lazy trick of both toaster and man to get as much pay ay and do as aa little work as they pomia y can call jio ile then broke out into a terrible denunciation ot dram drain and villu lLcY which did my soul good to hear bear gouli gough never surpassed tho the red hot i ehe menco of the old man s against the iho horrible and detectable damnation of ivery kind 0 oB trong drink adriol lie ila in tavor lavor of the prohibitory movement but lias ids no faith in par farha a I 1 bents aill and none at ab all in any an y alv living ing man now controlling civil affair aff aird lie gave us an interi i a bely ludicrous picture of a night lie he once spent in parliament listening to an all of windy talk and endless grinding of hur dy gurdies grinding out ties lies and anani anani lie ties cut but at I 1 lat la t the old luko duke of wellington arose ond and then said car lyle 10 lo lie stammered away for fifteen minutes but ho he was waa tho the only ruin luan in ia tho the house who gave favo mo any creditable portraiture of the facts I 1 asked lim his portraiture is opinion of the man maa whom we vre in america honor as the most moat eloquent and brave of living british statesmen erly J r tc c a at e m f t aou s r reply c pl w wai a q only j aly a u bho I 1 p k keeper e el e r a elocre lae r e bagdad by ag w a n a 2 roan mancho who treats anglani as only a big bi shop hop p he ought noyce to go into abo be otis of commons without witti Out a white whilo apron tied under his anar armel 0 for another oliver cromwell exclaimed the old man 1 VI have hato gone down to tho the very bottom of oliver a 9 and lot let me tell you that nothing noth in demosthenes mos thenes or any other man can corne PAT pare him in the pier piercing cin into the veritable crAL ble and credible coro core 1 ol 01 I bo be face but in these jaya jas parl parliamentary itar clo 10 q quence bence is CAI only y a detestable and V jamo M n ble of imposture and he lies a and rid this red lot hot lava of denu denunciation nein tion W was poured out in one un casing stream for nearly half on an lour hour until ho he wound up by b y consigning pretty moth HULL ever everybody body and eveta to the bo bottomless pool pool of everlasting damnation in whatever beaving acad mg you may give to that word I 1 his won wonderful haron puo woi wag delivered in broad scotch br brogue ottle and with the cost moat ludicrous luli crous twi stings of countenance akunes atunes at t times the old man stopped and laughed heartily at his hid own in fact I 1 Iwas constantly puzzled to whether shaher ho be was to in downright earrie earnest bt or was ans only au an samson Sam peon pulling down everything right so d felt C f t tc to i make baoit for his wondering but there nassome was something tb ln g indescribably sad in 10 tho the spectacle ot this powerful row erful old Scot lhman ebman krusling contempt at almo almost st under the sun and citing an utter of anything in in the providence of or tho the lure lale in do 3 an paal t has bu uttered some of the giran modest 1 I cat truths whilla ahu h our times have board beard but his hia cynicism his has frown to w 0 bid and as 43 the old man coan fat 11 c d away to 10 his hia blue gown I 1 looked after him in ID mingled amazement imd and ten kenderest derest pity lie ile is th tho atho logical marrel of the age such ming acuteness and yet such auch in ing absurdity absurd ily such faith in ia the ever facts and aad yet such skepticism such euch hatred of wrongs and yet such de fences of certain wrong acro ere never before combined in any man of genius in ID our generation goo cration it ib is 11 oe that hat loviov sop scotland tiona should te be represented in 10 the ramo nino era cra by thomas chalmers arid thomas carlyle |
