Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . s angry then, and tried with all my strengthto wrench the warming-pan out of her hand, anddid so, when she ran down stairs, and in doing 96 Clumber Chase, 1670. so, she knocked her head against it, the top flewopen, and the live coals fell on her cap, as yousaw, Madam, and after that, you saw and heardwhat followed. • Well, she shall go, said Mrs. Neville.^ Take off your wet sacque, and then come andundress me, for we are going up stairs. When they reached Dorothys room, she againburst out laughing, and as soo
Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . s angry then, and tried with all my strengthto wrench the warming-pan out of her hand, anddid so, when she ran down stairs, and in doing 96 Clumber Chase, 1670. so, she knocked her head against it, the top flewopen, and the live coals fell on her cap, as yousaw, Madam, and after that, you saw and heardwhat followed. • Well, she shall go, said Mrs. Neville.^ Take off your wet sacque, and then come andundress me, for we are going up stairs. When they reached Dorothys room, she againburst out laughing, and as soon as she couldspeak, said— What a pity that either Dryden or Killigrew,or even Colonel Titus, was not here to transferthe scene to the Kings or the Duke^s House, bythe title of The Cook and the Crocodile, or Hot Possets and Hot Warming Pans, or Thefive-clawed Green Dragon and the two-clawedFiery Dragon. At all events, it would makepeople laugh instead of making them yawn, as? The Mulberry Garden does. 1670. Clumber Chase, 97 CHAPTER V. THE sows EAR MADE INTO A VELVET FELLOW feeling makes us won-drous kind. This is the secularand quid pro quo paraphrase, of thedivine command, Do unto othersas you would they should do unto you. And asMaster Hartsfoot always acted up to the latterinjunction, even where he had no sympathy or nofellow feeling—where he had, he seemed literallyto have the power of transforming himself intothose with and for whom he felt—of course, hewas always trying to serve poor Hollar—that wasa mere every-day matter ; but he bethought himwhat a treasure a good likeness of Gilbert Brode-rick would be to poor Dorothy after he had sailedfor Tangier. So he resolved upon getting a fulllength engraving of him from Hollar, and aminiature of him by Cooper, and giving them toMrs. Neville. He had made the request to Gil-bert to sit for these, under two pretexts : first,that it was a fancy of his to have portraits of allhis friends; next, that he wished, so
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