#lord shaftesbury

[unhingedwhitehall]

Charles: Here we go, Jamie, here we go.

James: The war has begun.

*They walk into the Cabinet side by side, holding hands*

Both: Hi, Shaftesbury.

[grounded-african]

Prejudice is a mist, which... often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way- Lord Shaftesbury

Bloganuary writing promptIf you could un-invent something, what would it be? View all responses We are more than halfway through January, which means Bloganuary, too! 😱. Where does the time go? Well done, everyone, for getting this far! Thank you to all who have participated in my journey by reading, commenting and/or liking my posts. You are helping to make this an awesome…

[mantomhive]

If a man called something I wrote "the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell", my entire life would quite literally be made

[colleendoran]

I was curious how you manage to keep features consistent when you draw them? Do you use models? Is there a model for Crowley? He is very handsome.

I don't use models per se, but I sometimes keep files of photos or art that resembles the subject.

Crowley is based a bit on the French actor Alain Delon who was once considered the handsomest man in the world. He doesn't look exactly like Delon, but that is in my head when I draw him. I recall reading Neil and Mr. Pratchett once considered Peter Sellers for Crowley.

There is no reference for Aziraphale because he is entirely in my head and I can't really find anyone who looks exactly the way he does. I recall reading that Neil and Mr. Pratchett thought of Brian Dennehy at one point, but my head canon Aziraphale won. I think a Brian Dennehy Aziraphale would have been amazing, though. Anyway, he is actually kind of hard for me to draw because his facial structure is a bit outside my usual style. His face is a bit long and his eyes closer together than I normally do, and if I'm not careful, he slips away. He appears younger and more classically handsome as an angel than he does in his corporeal form, but I think he's quite fetching as a bookseller.

Michael Sheen is so perfect in this role it is really hard not to leak bits of his performance into the graphic novel edition, but I have to resist the impulse. I am not allowed to use any of the show actors as models.

I adore Michael Sheen. Who doesn't?

Adam is also a head canon character. He is a perfect young Greek God, so that's kind of drawing on a day with a Y in it for me.

The inspiration for Newt I'm keeping a secret. I submitted a number of sketches for Newt. The show Newt dug in deep and I had a hard time shaking him off.

The Them are based on kids I knew. They're in my head, I don't need any photos. They don't really look like the kinds in the show. The book version of Pepper, for example, is a freckled red-head.

Anathema is an amalgam of features that don't come from one person, which I think fits the description of the character. She's also unusual for me to draw but she's easier to draw than Aziraphale. I nail her every time.

Hastur is a caricature of the stereotypical English upper class you'd see in broadsheets 200 years ago. I have a file of pictures of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury for Hastur. I considered making Hastur more handsome in a Duke of Hell sort of way, but I think Hastur likes to be scary. I keep thinking of Peter O'Toole when I draw Hastur, too.

I feel kind of bad basing Hastur on Lord Ashley because he was a wonderful person and I'm sure he didn't go to Hell.

Ligur is a broad caricature of Danny Devito. I obviously can't use a DeVito portrait. That would be wrong. But I can tweak from there and come up with a general idea of the face I want to use.

Beelzebub and Metatron are head canon, and don't look a thing like they do in the show. I postulate some demons prefer to look like their angelic selves, and at other times prefer to be fearsome. Crowley can look fearsome when he wants, for example. In the book, Beelzebub appears as a young man in red flames.

Shadwell was drawn from reference at the direct suggestion of Neil.

Madame Tracy is based on a certain person, but no one you would have heard of. The original source might not be flattered, but I love Madam Tracy. She's really easy to draw because she's a bit over the top. I'm sketching around her scenes right now because I don't have final approval on some things yet. So she might need some changes later.

War is head canon, very easy to draw. She's a knockout. No reference required.

Famine looks a lot like Famine in the show, actually, but that's what Famine always looked like, pretty much. Except he has the grey eyes he has in the book.

Pollution is initially described as being a forgettable white guy, but later described as looking like a romantic poet, which strikes me as being memorable. Because he's only on one page in his forgettable white guy phase, I chose not to make major changes in his appearance between those panels and later when he appears as his true self, because that's a bit more confusing than it needs to be in the graphic novel edition. He's rather glamorous as the essence of Pollution, though. No reference needed.

Dog is a dog.

While I do give every detail a lot of thought, I am sure other people have other opinions. I understand that, and hope you enjoy what I do anyway.

Thanks for your question.

I'm still a bit under the weather, so may be stepping away from the net for awhile so I can concentrate on work. I have a lot of sick time to make up.

But don't think I don't appreciate your interest in the Good Omens graphic novel adaptation. Your wonderful support is acting on me like a tonic, let me tell you.

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 6th November 2024

Buckingham Palace

The Princess Royal, on behalf of The King, held an Investiture at Windsor Castle this morning.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, Learning and Work Institute, and President, Carers Trust, this afternoon attended the “Driving Change” Conference at City Lit College, 1-10 Keeley Street, London WC2, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa).

Her Royal Highness, President, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences, this evening attended a Reception at Brunswick Group, 16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, and was received by Ms. Roxane Zand (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

The Princess Royal, Patron, Shaftesbury, later held a One Hundred and Eightieth Anniversary Dinner at St James’s Palace.

[wonder-worker]

Ælfthryth re-emerged to prominence in 978 in the aftermath of her stepson’s assassination on 18 March of that year. As noted, blame for the murder would ultimately be laid at Ælfthryth’s feet by later generations of writers […]. However, the nearest to contemporary texts, those that predate the late eleventh-century Passio S. Eadwardi, do not explicitly blame the queen dowager and her young son. No redaction of the Chronicle records her participation in the deed, while Byrhtferth of Ramsey is very clear in his statements that the queen and her son were not involved. Nonetheless, there may be hints of complicity. Byrhtferth indicates that the murder occurred on an estate where Ælfthryth and Æthelred were resident, but that they remained inside while an anonymous conspiracy of lords murdered Edward. This smacks of a narrative construct designed to give the queen dowager and the heir apparent a veneer of plausible deniability. If Ælfthryth was indeed present, it would be difficult to accept that she had no knowledge of the planned assassination.

The Chronicle D- and E-texts, composed in the early eleventh century, place the event at the gap of Corfe. This location is codified in most subsequent accounts of the murder. Why Ælfthryth and Æthelred may have been resident in Corfe during Edward’s kingship is not entirely clear. In 956 the estate was granted by Eadwig to one of his thegns (S632), but the subsequent ownership history is opaque until Corfe is found in the hands of Shaftesbury Abbey in the Domesday survey (1086). Stafford presents a case for this being a part of Ælfthryth’s dower based on a statement made in John of Wallingford’s thirteenth-century chronicle, and this would be the neatest explanation.

Though speculative, there are several other explanations that present themselves. The lands may have already been in Shaftesbury Abbey’s possession by 975. Shaftesbury was a royal abbey reputedly founded by Alfred the Great and Edgar himself had shown some favour toward the house in 966, affirming its ownership of a separate Dorset estate (S744). If Corfe had returned to Edgar’s possession, either through the death of Eadwig’s thegn or its confiscation from that man, then the king may have gifted the estate to the abbey to augment its pre-existing landholdings in the Dorset region. Alternatively, the thegn himself could have directly bequeathed Corfe to the abbey in his will. In either case, Ælfthryth and her son may have sought the refuge of a royal female religious house during their exile from the court. Another possibility is that Edward took proactive measures against these central figures of the faction that had opposed his succession, sending Ælfthryth and Æthelred to the relative isolation of Corfe. If the estate had been passed into the care of Shaftesbury Abbey, or even had it been retained as part of the royal demesne, Edward may have seen Corfe as a place where the queen’s powers could be neutralised, her authority limited. It was, moreover, deep within Wessex and, thus, far away from regions such as Mercia and Northumbria which, as recently as the 950s, had demonstrated a willingness to pursue independence. Finally, however, it is also important to recall Geffrei’s suggestion that Ordgar, Ælfthryth’s father, owned extensive lands from Exeter to Frome, which could well have encompassed this region. Ordgar had died around 971, so Ælfthryth would not have been living at Corfe under her father’s protection. Yet it is quite possible that she would have chosen the relative safety of a familial estate as her refuge from royal politics during her stepson’s reign.

No matter why Ælfthryth and Æthelred chose Corfe as their residence in 975 × 978, no matter why the king decided to visit them there, and no matter who perpetrated the crime, the result was the same. Edward was dead, his half-brother Æthelred, still a child, was the only viable candidate for the throne. Ælfthryth, just as Eadgifu before her, returned to the centre of power as queen mother with her son. The young king could have been no older than 13, and this presented Ælfthryth with the opportunity to act as regent for him alongside her long-time allies, Bishop Æthelwold and Ealdorman Ælhere.

— Matthew Firth, Early English Queens, 850-1000: Potestas Reginae

[kwebtv]

The First Churchills - BBC Two - Septembr 27, 1969 - December 13, 1969

Period Drama (12 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Susan Hampshire as Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

John Neville as John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

James Villiers as King Charles II

John Westbrook as King James II

Sheila Gish as Queen Mary, wife to James II

Alan Rowe as King William III

Lisa Daniely as Queen Mary II

Margaret Tyzack as Queen Anne

Roger Mutton as Prince George of Denmark

Robert Robinson as King Louis XIV

John Standing as Sidney Godolphin

Frederick Peisley as Lord Shaftesbury

Job Stewart as Lord Shrewsbury

James Kerry as James, Duke of Monmouth

Richard Pearson as Robert Harley

Moira Redmond as Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland

Richard Warwick as Francis Godolphin

Polly Adams as Henrietta Churchill

Graham Armitage as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Colin Bean as Lord Russell

Consuela Chapman as Duchess of Portsmouth

Michael Culver as Charles Churchill

Andria Lawrence as Nell Gwyn

Michael Lynch as D'Artagnan:

Kay Patrick as Henrietta Wentworth

Arthur Pentelow as Marquess of Carmarthen

Bruce Purchase as Duke of Buckingham

John Ringham as Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester

Nicholas Smith as Titus Oates

Michael Attwell as Henry St John

Jill Balcon as Abigail Masham

Freddie Wilson as James Stuart, the Old Pretender

Yvonne Antrobus as Anne Churchill

Robert Mill as Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

William Job as Adam de Cardonnel

Bernard Taylor as William Cadogan

Francis Wallis as John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford

The First Churchills was the first series telecast by PBS under the title of Masterpiece Theatre from January 10, 1971 - March 28, 1971

[pichuan]

When Arabs Became Palestinians

by Jerold S. Auerbach

Without a history of their own, Palestinians plundered Jewish history to define themselves

May 19, 2022 at 8:45 am | Topics: palestinians, Nakba

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(JNS) With the recent eruption of Palestinian violence on the Temple Mount, followed by the murder of three Israelis from the town of Elad, it is worth reflecting on the history of a people, until recently non-existent, who seem determined to define themselves by killing Jews.

Modern conceptions of “Palestine” date from the mid-19th century when British artist David Roberts followed the trail of the ancient Israelites from Egypt to their “Holy Land.” His lithographs provided stunning vistas of Hebron, Jerusalem, Jericho, Nablus and other ancient Jewish sites. As yet, there were no “Palestinian” locations to include.

Not long afterward, Scottish writer Alexander Keith, identifying the Land of Israel as the “Holy Land,” described Jews as “a people without a country; even as their own land … is a country without a people.” British Lord Shaftesbury cited “the ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews!” Palestinians were not mentioned.

On the eve of World War I, Chaim Weizmann, who decades later would become the first president of Israel, said: “There is a country which is called Palestine, a country without a people, and, on the other hand, there exists the Jewish people, and it has no country.” What else was necessary, he wondered, “than to fit the gem into the ring, to unite this people with this country?”

Although Arabs in small numbers had lived in Palestine for centuries with prosperous elite families concentrated in Jerusalem, there were no signs of an Arab national identity before World War I. Ironically, budding signs of Jewish nationalism—identified as Zionism—were its primary stimulus. But it took time. Shortly before the State of Israel was born, Arab historian Philip Hitti stated: “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” Without Palestine, there could not be Palestinians.

Not until Israel defeated and humiliated Arab countries in the Six-Day War (June 1967), ending Jordanian control over West Bank Arabs, did a distinctive Palestinian identity begin to emerge. Why was it, wondered author Walid Shoebat of Bethlehem, “that on June 4, 1967, I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian.” Even PLO military commander Zuhair Muhsin acknowledged: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation.” The vision of a Palestinian state, he recognized, was merely “a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”

Without a history of their own, Palestinians plundered Jewish history to define themselves. The ancient Canaanites were identified as the original “Palestinians.” So, too, were Jebusites, the biblical inhabitants of Jerusalem. Based on these fanciful claims an imaginary “Palestinian” history of 5,000 years was implanted in the Land of Israel.

Palestinians’ identity theft has taken strange turns. They have absurdly equated the nakba(“disaster” or “catastrophe”) of 1948 when Arabs launched—and lost—a war of Jewish extermination with the Holocaust. Indeed, Holocaust denial was the core of the doctoral dissertation of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. He preposterously claimed that Zionist leaders were “fundamental partners” of the Nazis, jointly responsible for the slaughter of 6 million Jews.

Palestinians have relied upon the model of the Israeli Law of Return to claim that millions of “refugees”—fewer than 30,000 of whom are still alive—should be permitted to return to the land they abandoned in 1947-48 during the Arab war to annihilate Jews. Teenage Arab girls have been taught to equate their plight with that of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

So it is that a people without a national history until well into the 20th century have attempted to persuade a gullible world audience that Palestinians are the rightful inheritors of Jewish history and land. Ironically, even the holy Koran (which makes frequent mention of Jews but does not mention Palestinians) was interpreted by Muslims more than a millennium ago to affirm that the Land of Israel was given by God to “the children of Israel” as a perpetual covenant. Murdering Jews was not mentioned. But as scholar and novelist Dara Horn aptly titles her new book, People Love Dead Jews.

[ukcrickettour2023]

Today we started with an early morning breakfast at 7:30am. We had to start walking at 8:30 to arrive at Lords cricket ground by 9:30am for our tour. On our walk through Hyde park we wondered why there was such a big police presence. It wasn’t until sitting in the Lords stand that we realized Joe Biden was landing there in a chopper that we saw fly over the ground. The Lords tour was exceptional. Seeing the home and visitors change room, along with the members long room, and media centre a highlight. Ex student Esther Hampton joined us for the tour. After Lords, we had some lunch before starting the red bus tour of London. We will finish this tour tomorrow. As a team we then walked to Westend after dinner to watch Mrs Doubtfire at the Shaftesbury theatre. It was excellent. All boys seemed to really enjoy it. Tomorrow is our last day in London so we will finish the red bud tour and do some shopping.

[vox-anglosphere]

No traffic circle in the British Empire could be more significant.

A very different Piccadilly back then in 1920.

[dangerdust]

The first known recorded use of ponies underground in Great Britain was in the Durham coalfield in 1750.

Following the drowning deaths of 26 children when the Huskar Colliery in Silkstone flooded on 4 July 1838, "A report was published in The Times, and the wider British public learned for the first time that women and children worked in the mines.

There was a public outcry, led by politician and reformer Anthony Ashley Cooper, later Lord Shaftesbury," who then introduced the Mines and Collieries Act 1842 to Parliament which barred women, girls and boys under 10 (later amended to 13) from working underground, leading to the widespread use of horses and ponies in mining in England.

At the peak of this practice in 1913, there were 70,000 ponies underground in Britain.

Probably the last colliery horse to work underground in a British coal mine, "Robbie", was retired from Pant y Gasseg, near Pontypool, in May 1999.

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 11th December 2024

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, Shaftesbury, this morning visited Netteswell Rectory, Manston Road, Harlow, and was received by Mr Vincent Thompson (Deputy Lieutenant of Essex).

Her Royal Highness this afternoon visited Brightlingsea Museum, Dove House, Station Road, Brightlingsea, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Essex (Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst).

The Princess Royal, Colonel-in-Chief, Intelligence Corps, later visited 1 Military Intelligence Battalion at Merville Barracks, Colchester, Essex.

Her Royal Highness, President, Racing Welfare, this evening attended a Carol Concert at Tattersalls, Terrace House, 125 High Street, Newmarket, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk (Clare, Countess of Euston).

The Princess Royal, President, Racing Welfare, afterwards attended a Dinner at the Jockey Club Rooms, 101 High Street, Newmarket, and was received by the Hon Peter Stanley (Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk).

[vocesincaput]

ABOUT: Charles Braddock

BIRTH NAME Charles Christopher George Cornelly

CHOSEN NAME Charles Braddock.

TITLE Lord (Charles does not use his title).

NICKNAME(S) Charlie (to friends, etc)

AGE Late 30s.

PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford, England.

GENDER Male.

PRONOUNS He/Him.

SEXUAL IDENTITY Bisexual

AFFILIATION(S) British Royal Navy.

RANK Captain.

FACE CLAIM Dan Stevens

HEIGHT 1.83m / 6’.

HAIR Blonde, slight wavy/curly, kept short.

EYE COLOUR Blue.

FANDOM: Age Of Sail.

FATHER Duke Edmund Archibald Isaac Cornelly, Earl Of Shaftesbury.

MOTHER Duchess Charlotte Isabella Elizabeth Cornelly (née Braddock).

SIBLING(S) Earl Edmund Percival Francis Cornelly (older brother)

// NOTE : Charles & every member of his family are created solely by mun and have no relation to any real person or history of the title ‘Earl Of Shaftesbury’ //

Braddock is his mothers maiden name. He chose to use it to honour her.

Charles was always seen as lesser than his older brother by his father as he didn’t stand to inherit anything and therefore his father didn’t see him as being able to bring value to the family.

As soon as he was old enough, Charles left the family home without a word and joined the British Royal Navy. Using his mothers maiden name Braddock to cover his true identity.

VERSES

TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES

Instead of joining the British Royal Navy, Charles joined the army and is a part of the war against Washington & the Continental army. Whether or not he stays on that side would depend on each individual interaction. Or whether he were to be recognised by anyone.

[avo-kat]

since verso has a bunch of free books on palestine:

i finally sat down and started reading "Ten Myths About Israel" by Ilan Pappe. (because, i gotta be honest, i really didnt know much of anything about palestine before.) only a few pages in, but with each page im getting more and more furious.

i couldve basically screenshot every page. its only 168 pages long and id recommend everybody to read it themselves, but here are some screens:

1st chapter is about the myth of palestine being an empty land prior

Pappe starts off explaining that yes, indeed, palestine was a place where people lived, with records.

this is then compared to the official statement on the website of the Israeli foreign ministry about the history of Palestine since the 16th century.

straight up erasing facts and history.

palestine was an empty and barren desert. oh but there were farmers there apparently, of no particular origin, farming on lands that didnt belong to them. but there was also a thriving jewish population.

pappe writes, that palestine was a society like all the other arab societes around it during the ottoman period. it did not differ them the eastern mediterranean countries as a whole. the palestinian people were exposed to other cultures as part of the wider ottoman empire. and it started its nationalization process before the arrival of the zionist movement.

not to be confused: the modern concept of a "nation" developed in the 18th century (to summarize this topic super quickly, because the word "nationalism" which is coming up a few times has quite a different connotation nowadays than it did back then. remember: there used to be empires and monarchies. not nation states.)

and this was happening all over the world. pappe writes: "nationalist ideas were imported into the middle east in part by american missionaries, who arrived in the early 19th century both with the wish to proselytize but also with a desire to spread novel notions of self-determination."

2nd chapter is about the myth "the jews were a people without a land"

this one starts off saying that there was a christian interest for jews to return to the holy land.

Thomas Brightman was a 16th century clergyman:

"...was therefore a Christian project of colonization before it became a Jewish one."

16th century. 18th century. 19th century. and yes, as we can see, palestine was acknowledged as a political and geographical place. not as a barren, empty wasteland devoid of people.

this idea of Jews returning to palestine became official imperial policy in britain.

"...power to change the fate of Palestine."

foremost among them was Lord Shaftesbury (1801 - 1885), a british politician who campaigned for a jewish homeland in palestine

shaftesbury recruited his father in law, britains foreign minister and later prime minister, lord palmerston, to the cause. who then appointed william young as the first british vice-consul in jerusalem.

palmerstone wrote:

"...Mohamet Ali or his successor."

yeah.

TL;DR: europe and america, where antisemitism was everywhere, had 3 reasons for wanting jews to go to palestine: to leave europe/america for good, to spread christiniaty, and to be a check against those evil gross arabs. 3 in one!!! no wonder they were all for it.

no wonder western countries are still all for it!!!!!! it was their fucking idea for hundreds of fucking years.

not only is america now supplying weapons for a genocide, not only is europe totally ok with genocide, they created this situation in the first place.

cuz, you know, zionism wouldnt gain any points with their "homeland of the jews" rethoric if jews were able to lead peaceful lives anywhere in the world, you know?

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He should be very glad, he told me, if he could procure me accommodations in any one of the canon’s houses; which he imagined would be more agreeable to me than any other, on many accounts. And as he could depend upon my promise, Never to have any other man but himself, on the condition to which he had so cheerfully subscribed, he should be easy; since it was now his part, in earnest, to set about recommending himself to my favour, by the only way he knew it would be done. Adding, with a very serious air—I am but a young man, Madam; but I have run a long course: let not your purity of mind incline you to despise me for the acknowledgement. It is high time to be weary of it, and to reform; since, like Solomon, I can say, There is nothing new under the sun: but that it is my belief, that a life of virtue can afford such pleasures, on reflection, as will be for ever blooming, for ever new! I was agreeably surprised. I looked at him, I believe, as if I doubted my ears and my eyes. His aspect however became his words. I expressed my satisfaction in terms so agreeable to him, that he said, he found a delight in this early dawning of a better day to him, and in my approbation, which he had never received from the success of the most favoured of his pursuits. Surely, my dear, the man must be in earnest. He could not have said this; he could not have thought it, had he not. What followed made me still readier to believe him. In the midst of my wild vagaries, said he, I have ever preserved a reverence for religion, and for religious men. I always called another cause, when any of my libertine companions, in pursuance of Lord Shaftesbury’s test (which is a part of the rake’s creed, and what I may call the whetstone of infidelity,) endeavoured to turn the sacred subject into ridicule. On this very account I have been called by good men of the clergy, who nevertheless would have it that I was a practical rake, the decent rake: and indeed I had too much pride in my shame, to disown the name of rake. This, Madam, I am the readier to confess, as it may give you hope, that the generous task of my reformation, which I flatter myself you will have the goodness to undertake, will not be so difficult a one as you may have imagined; for it has afforded me some pleasure in my retired hours, when a temporary remorse has struck me for any thing I have done amiss, that I should one day delight in another course of life: for, unless we can, I dare say, no durable good is to be expected from the endeavour. Your example, Madam, must do all, must confirm all. (L116, clarissa harlowe to anna howe)

connecting these two because in both cases he's pulling her into situations that are going to hurt her, and really, really lying about crucial parts of what he's said about her or how he's presented himself.

I told him that I was not by any means satisfied with the tale he had told, nor with the necessity he wanted to lay me under of appearing what I was not: that every step he took was a wry one, a needless wry one: and since he thought it necessary to tell the people below anything about me, I insisted that he should unsay all that he had said, and tell them the truth. What he had told them, he said, was with so many circumstances that he could sooner die than contradict it. And still he insisted upon the propriety of appearing to be married, for the reasons he had given before—And, dearest creature, said he, why this high displeasure with me upon so well-intentioned an expedient? You know that I cannot wish to shun your brother, or his Singleton, but upon your account. The first step I would take, if left to myself, would be to find them out. I have always acted in this manner when anybody has presumed to give out threatenings against me. 'Tis true I should have consulted you first, and had your leave. But since you dislike what I have said, let me implore you, madam, to give the only proper sanction to it, by naming an early day. Would to heaven that were to be tomorrow!—For God's sake, let it be tomorrow! But if not (was it his business, my dear, before I spoke (yet he seemed to be afraid of me) to say, if not?), let me beseech you, madam, if my behaviour shall not be to your dislike, that you will not tomorrow at breakfast-time discredit what I have told them. The moment I give you cause to think that I take any advantage of your concession, that moment revoke it and expose me as I shall deserve—And once more let me remind you that I have no view either to serve or save myself by this expedient. It is only to prevent a probable mischief, for your own mind's sake: and for the sake of those who deserve not the least consideration from me. (L155, clarissa harlowe to anna howe)

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