Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. SUPPLEMENTARY. So ended Henry Dilworth's life-story. The strong swimmer, who had breasted the fiercer currents of life with courage and success, died worn out at last in those shallow waters of social existence where his best qualities seemed to avail him nothing. His own generosity betrayed him, and his own tenderness defeated him. The unselfishness of his nature combined with the prejudices of others to his undoing. For all his love and patience he had only that reward which the world and its children offer freely and fully to their best benefactors--permission and opportunity to make his self-sacrifice complete. He was buried beside his wife in the graveyard at Elmdale, and a marble tablet was put up to his honour in the little church there. It was Miss Leake who suggested the tablet, and who found money for a memorial window in the chancel. Kate was absorbed in the thought of another sort of monument to his memory. The tablet related his discoveries in geography and natural history; it spoke of him as one who had forwarded the cause of science and civilization throughout a long and devoted life, and who was an honour to his age and his country. Kate made only one objection to the inscription on the tablet as first proposed. She admitted that the letters which signified his fellowship in various learned societies ought to follow his name, but she would not consent that they should be preceded by the title of Esquire. "He owed nothing to his position, everything to himself. Do not let us try to remember him except just as he was," Kate pleaded; and Jack--the perfidious Jack, to whom Miss Leake appealed for support--upheld the younger woman's opinion on this as on every subject. A friendly truce had followed the lovers' quarrel. It was not r...
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