Coaching days and coaching ways . nished such inspiritingsights for ever. Wild Darrell is remembered but as aname now, and as a name for all that is wicked. And yet not quite so if we are to judge from a recentpublication ; in point of fact not at all so by anymeans no more, as the South Sea Islanders say whenthey have eaten a Wesley an missionary. For we livein an age of the rehabilitation of condemned reputations,and a generation which has learnt from a German pro-fessor that Tiberius was an amiable potentate, and nota fourteen-bottle man, and from an English historianthat Henry the Eighth w
Coaching days and coaching ways . nished such inspiritingsights for ever. Wild Darrell is remembered but as aname now, and as a name for all that is wicked. And yet not quite so if we are to judge from a recentpublication ; in point of fact not at all so by anymeans no more, as the South Sea Islanders say whenthey have eaten a Wesley an missionary. For we livein an age of the rehabilitation of condemned reputations,and a generation which has learnt from a German pro-fessor that Tiberius was an amiable potentate, and nota fourteen-bottle man, and from an English historianthat Henry the Eighth was a confirmed theological 44 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS student for whom womens society offered no charm,will not raise their eyebrows even when Mr. HubertHall tells them in his delightful Society in the ElizabethanAge (Sonnenschein & Co.), that Wild Darrell, far frombeing the monster that rumour and I have made out,was in point of fact a plain, courteous, much abusedlord of wide acres, which rapacious neighbours passed. ? Haunted Room, Littiecote. their lives in trying to take from him, and who wascompelled as a painful consequence to ruin himself inChancery law-suits. The William Darrell that Mr. Halldraws for us is indeed almost too good to be true. Hebears an ominous resemblance to the good young manwho died, and far from roasting live children at mid-night and breaking his neck by furious riding, spends THE BATH ROAD 45 his whole days in totting up his accounts, drawing upamateur legal documents to the utter confusion of hislegal advisers, giving away estates in order that thesedocuments may be heard in court, reading philosophy,cultivating strawberries and trout with the aid of aDutch gardener (the strawberries not the trout), smokingtobacco, and finally dying in his bed, comfortable andorthodox. Mr. Hall does indeed take pity on his heroand permits him, with many graceful excuses, the senti-mental license of running away with his neighbourswife (the injured husband
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