The story of English literature for young readers . e onelaugh and sigh almost in the same moment. Hebought a house for his bride at Hampton-court, onlya stones throw from the Queens beautiful palace andfamous gardens, but poor Lady Steele (Dick had beenknighted) seems to have led a sad life there; herhusbands letters are a sort of a merry record of thescrapes he was always in, and are dated from Childsbank, or the Fleet prison or some place where he wasperhaps hiding from the sheriff; but he is usuallytender and loving ; there was just the same affection-ate warmth and generosity in his natur
The story of English literature for young readers . e onelaugh and sigh almost in the same moment. Hebought a house for his bride at Hampton-court, onlya stones throw from the Queens beautiful palace andfamous gardens, but poor Lady Steele (Dick had beenknighted) seems to have led a sad life there; herhusbands letters are a sort of a merry record of thescrapes he was always in, and are dated from Childsbank, or the Fleet prison or some place where he wasperhaps hiding from the sheriff; but he is usuallytender and loving ; there was just the same affection-ate warmth and generosity in his nature which hadmade all the Charterhouse boys and teachers love himin spite of his mischief and disorder. If you couldsee those letters you would seem to know poor Dick,but you would forget that he was the originator ofThe Tatter and 27ie Spectator-, in them he is only theextravagant, half-idle, reckless fellow, whose heart is For Young Readers. 259 kindly while his actions seem almost cruel in theirdisregard of honor and lack of consideration for his. Richard Steele. wifes feelings. Meanwhile Steele took a house inLondon, in Berry street, now called Bury street near 26o The Story of English Literature. which Swift, the Irish dean, then lived; later we findhim in a garden mansion in Bloomsbury Square,then a very fashionable locality, but here his troublesincreased. It is said that at one of his dinner partiesa guest commented on the singular appearance andawkwardness of the servants, upon which Steele whis-pered : * Hush, they are the bailiff and his men indisguise! ^ His wife, poor Prue, as he calls her, often wrotefrom Hampton-court for a guinea, or a pound oftea or something of the sort,which the reckless thoughkind-hearted husband wouldsend with many excuses andloving speeches, and then wemay fancy him gayly makinghis way to Buttons, thecoffee-house which was inAddisons latter years themost popular resort of Lon-don men. At Buttons wasa carved oak letter-box in theform of a lio
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