The English Bodley family . power of resistance as of at-tack. When a heavier gun is invented, a heavier armor plate ismade for a ships side. Gunpowder, however, put an end finally tothese iron suits of clothes. They were only useful against ironspears and swords. They saw room after room decorated with guns and bayonets and swords and pistols, arranged withelaborate ingenuity in all manner offigures, but nothing could make thesebeautiful. They are all cruel and horrid, saidSarah, with a shudder, as they came toan end of the glittering steel. Yes, said Cousin Ned, and its aninsult to art to ar
The English Bodley family . power of resistance as of at-tack. When a heavier gun is invented, a heavier armor plate ismade for a ships side. Gunpowder, however, put an end finally tothese iron suits of clothes. They were only useful against ironspears and swords. They saw room after room decorated with guns and bayonets and swords and pistols, arranged withelaborate ingenuity in all manner offigures, but nothing could make thesebeautiful. They are all cruel and horrid, saidSarah, with a shudder, as they came toan end of the glittering steel. Yes, said Cousin Ned, and its aninsult to art to arrange them in archesand columns and paneled ceilings. Itis quite as juvenile as making housesout of tape and buttons, as the drygoods stores do in their their wanderings they came to a cell leading out fromone of the rooms in the White Tower. Here, said the beef-eater, Sir Walter Raleigh was confined. Ah, said Charles, we ve found a real American at last. The walls are fourteen feet thick said the Sir Walter Raleigh. AN OLD FRIEND. 21 Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage ;Minds innocent, and quiet, takeThat for an hermitage, said Cousin Ned; but, Mr. Warder, critics tell us now that SirWalter never lived in this little den. You must learn to generalizein your historical facts, and be content to say that Sir Walter Ra-leigh lived for fourteen years or more in the Tower, and his wifeand two sons lived with him. It was here that he wrote his His-tory of the World. Was it after he had come back from Virginia ? asked Charles. Raleigh never went to Virginia, said his cousin, but he sentout expeditions, which met with miserable failure. None the lesshe was one of the great Englishmen who dreamed of an English em-pire in America, and his dream had a good deal to do with bringingthat empire to pass. We dont know that we have stepped in his foot-print, then, saidSarah. No, but as we have walked pretty well about the Tower and itsgrounds, I thin
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