. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . arrested. His sister saved himfrom danger by taking the action upon herself,-which so impressedTemple that he fell in love with her. As their parents held oppositepolitical views, and as Dorothy had many other suitors, includingHenry Cromwell, there seemed little chance of their being married,but after seven years of strenuous courtship, Dorothy was smittenby small-pox, and Temple was at length allowed to marry her,(January 31, 1655). The following years he spent in Ireland, but in1663 he migrated to England and settled at Sheen. By
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . arrested. His sister saved himfrom danger by taking the action upon herself,-which so impressedTemple that he fell in love with her. As their parents held oppositepolitical views, and as Dorothy had many other suitors, includingHenry Cromwell, there seemed little chance of their being married,but after seven years of strenuous courtship, Dorothy was smittenby small-pox, and Temple was at length allowed to marry her,(January 31, 1655). The following years he spent in Ireland, but in1663 he migrated to England and settled at Sheen. By payingassiduous court to Arlington, he obtained a diplomatic mission to theBishop of Munster. The prelates craftiness and hard-drinkingcompletely overmatched Temples inexperience, but in spite of hisegregious failure, he was rewarded with a baronetcy and was sent asenvoy to Brussels (October 1665). Two years later, just after theconclusion of the war of 1667, he went to Holland. There he metJohn de Witt, and with him concerted the famous Triple Alliance to. SIR TEMPLEFrom the poiUnit by Sir Peter Lely in tlie National Portrait Gallery Face p. 266 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 267 check French aggression. In this business Temple displayed muchenergy and dexterity. He won over the English council to his views,and by pushing aside all hindrances, surprised the world by con-cluding and ratifying the treaty in the incredibly short space of fivedays (January 23, 1668). This feat caused great rejoicings in England,and won Temple a European reputation, but its actual importancehas been greatly exaggerated. The alliance was clearly intended byCharles II to be a temporary shift to obliterate the memory of therecent war. Indeed, on the very day after the signature, he wrote tohis sister, Henriette dOrleans, excusing himself to Louis XIV onthis ground, and thenceforth worked steadily against the new Temple found himself informally recalled in 1670, and seeinganother Dutch war
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