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CHAPTER XXII A LAST WANDER AROUND
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There are still many monuments and memorials in the Abbey which do not come in under the broad headings we have made, and to some few of these I must take you in this our last wander round the aisles1 and chapels5.
As we come in by the great north entrance and pass between the row of statesmen, we must stop for a moment by the Canning group and notice the monument to the "loyall Duke of Newcastle," who lost a large fortune and became an exile from England on account of his devoted7 faithfulness to Charles I. The Duchess, who came of a family in which "all the brothers were valiant8 and all the sisters virtuous," was, in the Duke's eyes at least, a very "wise, witty9, and learned lady," though every one did not deem her so. Pepys, when he made her acquaintance, wrote: "She is a good, comely10 woman, but her dress is so antick, and her deportment so ordinary, that I did not like her at all. Nor did I hear her say anything that was worth hearing." It was curiosity, I suppose, that caused Pepys to stay at home one day "to read the history of my Lord of Newcastle, written by his wife." Certainly his criticisms were not favourable11. "It shows her to be a mad, conceited12, ridiculous woman," he said. "And he is an ass6 to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him."
Perhaps the "loyall Duke" found his learned lady not always quite easy to restrain, for he is reported once to have declared to a friend, "Sir, a very wise woman may be a very foolish thing."
But she had better claims than her wit or wisdom to his love, as the
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半身雕塑像( bust的名词复数 ); 妇女的胸部; 胸围; 突击搜捕 | |
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adorned
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n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力 | |
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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virtues
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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