22/42 What was levity in the time of the Tudors grew to regicide and revolution in the age of the Stuarts." Who was that boarder that just whispered something about the Macaulay-flowers of literature ?--There was a dead silence .-- I said calmly, I shall henceforth consider any interruption by a pun as a hint to change my boarding-house. If _I_ have used any such, it has been only as a Spartan father would show up a drunken helot. We have done with them. You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. |