down tissue awfully, and to mix it with society and LITTLE 

 still do big things for society is impossible. JOURNEYS 



At Bath, Herschel was never seen in the Pump Room, 

 nor on the North Parade. People who saw him, paid 

 for the privilege. "In England about this time look 

 out for a shower of genius," the almanackers might 

 have said. 



To Bath came two Irishmen, Edmund Burke and 

 Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Burke rented rooms of the 

 worthy Doctor Nugent, and married the doctor's 

 daughter, and never regretted it. 



Sheridan also married a Bath girl, but added the right 

 touch of romance by keeping the matter secret, with 

 the intent that if either party wished to back out of 

 the agreement it would be allowed. This was quite 

 Irish-like, since according to English Law a marriage 

 is a marriage until Limbus congeals and is used for a 

 skating rink. 



'With the true spirit of chivalry, Richard Brinsley 

 Sheridan left the questions of publicity or secrecy to 

 his wife she could have her freedom if she wished. 

 He was a fledgeling barrister, with his future in front 

 of him, the child of "strolling players"; she, the 

 beautiful Miss Linlay, was a singer of note. Her father 

 was leader of the Bath Orchestra, and had a School 

 of Oratory where young people agitated the atmos- 

 phere in orotund and tremolo and made the ether vi- 

 brate in glee. Dr. Linlay 's daughter was his finest 

 pupil, and with her all of his theories concerning the 

 Sixteen Perspective Laws of Art were elucidated. 



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