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'J. C. SNAITH
(Continued front last week)
The knowledge- that he was now
free to ito hip worst, and that An
Shakespeare's opinion the w•onst he enveloped river, and in the hope of
could d9 was of such little account .composing her over -wrought mind,
as to be. a• subject of his open scorn, she begat} torepeat the linea of her
Med him with fury. ' Also he was part,
amazed at the utter indifference of
the fellow. He had the power, as he
iirnriy believed, to .tak.e,,,'away this
man'life, and yet this, half hackney-
-writer, half merry-andrew was too
prpud to sue for his life wi h civility,
let alone to pay for it with current
coin of the realm.
Grisewood • withdrew with a snarl
and a sneer. The morrow should see
them all lodged in "The Jud","-' With-
in, a month troth that day, he would
answer for it thatthenoose should
be mold' their necks -
He swaggered out of thy house on
to the Bankside.- Here his two serv-
ant joined him, ftyr at that hour of
She" night it was unsafe for any man
to be abroad unattended. Thinking
his ugly thoughts, he walked sloly
in the direction of 'the Falcon stairs.
-There he, hailed the waterman, who
was awaiting him with a wherry to
'bear him to his own lodging in a
more aristocratic quarter of the town.
fa_e-e,, she went out o1< doors' into the tests"
keen morning air, 'She walked up "Pray, my lord, on what, ground do
and down by the bank's of the mist- you hold ,yourself to be the superior
of this gentleman?" suddenly inter -
resod a harsheand impervious voice.
• .It was the voice of the Queen.. The
group of gallants .and fine ladies had
been too much occupied with the
sport that was afoot to notice who •it
was who had come into their midst.
My lord's confusion was great. And
it was not made less by the look of
sour disdiain whieh ,animated the fea-
tures Of his sovereign.
This old raddled woman in' farcical
clothes and an auburn wig was by no
,means a,.for`1. She hacl lived: too long
in the world and had mingled too
freely with tl•.e very best the age had
to give not be an uncommonly shrewd
judge of things and men. She had
the rough commonsense which is a '
far better. equipment than : subtely
wLen it comes to dealings. with hu-
man nature. •
"Well, my lord, on what grounds I
ask you?"
"On the ground of birth, your
grace," said the .fop, who by now had
time to collect himself a little..
The Queen's lip curled contemptu-
ously.
"A man who takes refugee in that,"
she said, "can have little merit of his''
own, my lord., And to my mind a.
roan is twice a fool- who, being bora
to opoprtunity, can turn it to. no bet-.
ter advantage. How say you, Mas -
.ter Shakespeare?" ,
"There are those, who hold, your
grace," • said the player in his deep
And musical Voice, "that it is better
to be a fool of pedigree than to be.
a sage without gules or qual'terings'."
The Queen laughed. But the ready
independence •of, the player's answer
pleased- her as 'much as it surprised
her courtiers. There was not cue
among them who would have ventur-
ed it. There was not one' among, them
Who was not unduly eager 'to ac-
quieseek, in any •opinion that might be
expressed by this august lady.
It was not .the Queen's habit to un-
bend easily. She held the etaggerat-
ed Tudor view of the status of the,
sovereign. Her court was expected to
approaeh her on bended knee ;mad
there were many supple backs in con-
sequence, But there was not a trace
of the sycophant about this naan •who
conversed with her as modestly, as
readily and'as easily as he would have
alone with a lounger in a•tairerne And
while the 'gallants and fine ladies were
not a little shocked by the unaffected-
ness of -the man's bearinand mar-
velled. not a little 'that one so august
should bestow so much notice upon a
common play -actor, the Queen; on. the
other harid, seemed' almost to forget
,for the moment the dizzy eminence to
which it bad pleased Providence to
cafe her.
The truth was she' dearly loved
what she tailed "a man." And this
was a,scarce-commodity in the exotic
atmosphere which surrounded Eliza-
beth Tudor. .Few there were who
dared to hold opinions of their own,
let alone to advance them with the
unstudied assurance -of this man of
lowly calling, who was yet not wholly
unmindful of the fact that he was
:absolute monarch of an empire,more
imperial than Gloriana's own,
To be sure, none of those present
realized that.fact. Nor was it realiz-
ed by the Queen herself. Her mind
was strong and shrewd, rather than
deep and .subtle. ' It was the player's
Independence • of judgment and the
r: ;ear yet perfectly modest and simple
manner by which he gave it eepres-
sion which, made such an appeal -to
lrer.
It was a sad sight for many an
.astonished and resentful eye to ob-
serve the Queen and the man. "Shake-
scene"—it is a foible of thegreat to
• affect a becoming uncertainty .in re-
gard to tire names of humblei mor-
tals—walking, quite apart from all the
rest, up one alley' and. down another,
talking and • 1•aughi.ng heartily upon
terms which , pe'riloti'sl'y' 'approached
equality. What the• Queen's majesty
had in• common with the' merry -an -
drew in the barred cloak passed the
comprehension of all; But the harsh
and strident laugh. of the royal lady,
not unworthy of a raven with a sore
Onset, could be heard continually.
Many a diligent courtier. who had
slrent the flower et'h'is'years in wait-
ing humbly upon the Queen's pleasure
without having anything very sub-
stautiai in the way of preferment to
show for it, was cut to the soul. ,,
And it was not here that the scan-
dal ended. A little later when"' the
Queen dined a place was set for the
man Sh•akescene at her own table.
And many a lisping, lily-white gen-
tleman
entleman narrowly observed the de-
meanor of this upstart vihose homely
style and' unaffected air offered so
wide a target "for 'their • criticism.
,CHAPTER XXXI
The morning oP the great day broke
'mistily, with, a 'promise of summer
glory. 'Poor unhappy Anne, lodged in
a cool . and• , clean chamber- 'overlook-
ing the river, was awake at the first
peep of dawn. Her few hours of
sleep had been: terribly disturbed.
She awoke with a start and sprang
dant 'of bed as sod'n as the light •touch-
ed her eyelids.. Only too well did
she ' know that further `sleep. would
not be for her.
Yes, the dread day was come: It
might be the last she would know of
liberty. Nay; it was most likely, And
it was the d -ay on which the fate of
•Gervase would be irrevocably sealed.
She dare not give her mind to the
gibe. matter, which, asleep or awake,
encompassed it. Dressing 'in' a fever
of haste, as if she.feared to be ov-
ertaken by the thoughts she dare not
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Physician and Surgeon
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Phone 90-W
Seaforth
' DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and. Throat
Graduate in Medicine, 'University of
'Toronto. but quietly looked the impertinent
Leto assistant new York Optha i roxcomt; up and down as if he v'ero
ft new slieeies of animal with whom.
- Suddenly she was aware that a fig-
ure was emerging dimly from the.
mists ahead. ft,was that of a man:
A moment afterwards she. had recog-
nized the author of "As You Like It."
The playwright . name toward her.
He too had slept, but little, And' in
.that softer and wonderful face was
a haggard weariness that made •the
soul of, the girl recoil. It was the
face of a man besieged and torment-
ed by a 'thousand devils; of a, man
who hall -never known a moment of
peace in this life, and who hardly
looked to knoW it in the life to cone.
, Not so • much as a word- of greet-
ing passed between them. But,as
the player saw the face of young nd
delicate fairness, seared already by
the anguish of the semi, he placed a
hand on. the girl's shoulder with a
gentleness of pity that meant very
much Moue than speech.
"Be of ,good courage, mistress,"
that gesture seemed to say.
Without speaking a word, the play-
er passed on like a wraith into the
mists -that hung as a pall upon the
river.
Gervas'e, also was early abroad. He
too had slept little. • 'Seated at the
window o his 'room', brooding with a
sick heart on the chances of his fate,
he had seen Anne go forth, so that
presently he followed her.
a
they walked, for Ion„ enough ed
to-
gether, and for the bast time'as they
believed. A few ' hours hence all
would be decided. And in their hearts
their hope of Pte. and perhaps their
desire of it was' very slender.
Their sufferings of the past few
weeks heli been bitter. This morning,
they were . overborne.' Whatever fate
held in store for them now they felt
they had reached the nadir of the•soul.
Soon atter nine o'clock that morns
ing tate LordChamberlain's servants
(mile -irked' in two -of the royal barges
that had 'been placed at their'd'irpos-
al,. The progress was slow but com-
fortable, and •by, •noon of a glorious
Jule day.they had come to the palace
at Richmond. AEI' the players, with
one exception, from the mostimport-
ant to the humblest 'member' •of.
the Company, hetrayed evideneesa of
anxiety .and nervousness. Williaus
Shakespeare alone was' so cool • and•
collected that the occasion might have
been of the most ordinary kind.
Those few among the players, who
'shared the dark secret which was to
make this days so memorable in the
life of the author of the new comedy,
were astonished by a c'.ltnness that
was to them unnatural, And they
could not help mar•velltng how a man
'whose very We depend•ed'nn the whim
of a harslr-tempered' and capricious
woman: should be . able to mask his
thoughts and to control• hie. feelings
in, a manner so remarkable, '
The terraces of the palace which
overlooked the beautiful park- in
which it stood were throngine already
with a mob of gallants and court lad-
ies.,Their wonderful nlothes gave a
versecond-rate air to the tawdry
-finery affected by most of the play-
ers, Even the cloak of Shakespeare
himself- erred •a little, • but that was
on the side of modesty.. •
One young fop was quick to turn
this. fact to account. Having a repu-
tation for wit, ands being su;•rounded
by those, in whose eyes he had an am-
bition •to shine, he gravely accosted
the actor, He removed hie ptutned
bat with a sweeping gesture ani made
a low bow; ' '
"I beg your pardon,'sir, he 'said,. in
a loud voice which attracted general
notice. "Pray excuse the liberty I
take .in addressing yon, but'' admire,
the style of your cloak' so much that
i would fain ask the • name of your
tailor."
In spite of the addible tittering of
fine iadies and the delighted guffaws
•nt' ,allrint.. geptiemen, the pinyweight
showed the perfect unconcern of one
who has his own private standard of
men rand things. He did not reply.
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he wa , not yet ac6ain'ted •
Thr fop was nettled by this non-
chalance.
"Well, sir?" ere said impudently.
"Give me your tailors name I pray
you, in order that I may have the
great felicity of taking the air in a
cloak exactly its fello.'
The w'playwright shook'his head with
an air of polite deprecation. •
"I have ton kindly a feeling toward
an honest craftsman," he said.
"God's aea;n, s'r! what do you
mean?"
"I mean, sir," said' the player, "that
I would not like so good a fellow to
rhn the double risk of a bads debt and
an even worse advertisement.
A roar of lausht.er followed from
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Of the„ Wen's '"gopt1' data." At tht>i.
Wee I♦ l abetli v s fast, sixty And
a telraser whieh Was' not particularly
zttjldt
even in the he34 'y of its youth
Jsa,d grown elevere.. -But even thio old
and, sour weniats 'e0ultl not remain in
e ensibie to the wit and poetry of this
new "interlude,' performed, With the
highest shill and gxaee to charmingly
appropriate survoniedizrgs, ., ,t
The Queei1 made ne pretensions to
literary taste as did. King James, her
successor. lout she ;knew what she
liked. Add her untutored but extreme-
ly shrewd faculty seldom led her
astray5,.c..-` here were those, -and Hem-
itg and Burbage had. been among
tn, who 'had •been,-inciined to de-
plore the Net that ,;the author. had not
prepared stronger food for Gloriena's
palate. A playeof delicacy and fan--
tasy, all lightness and grace, would
surely miss the mark. She who had'
held, her sides' at the broad humors of
Juliet's' nurse and of Hostess Quickly
would 'hardly appreciate the •melrih-
choly ,Jacques, Touchstone and above
all, the subtle charm of Rosalind.
"But this was not the ease. Those
finely 'accomplished actors, 'William
Kemp andRichard Burbage, had very
wisely been intrusted with the two
chief male characters. To be Sure,
it, was hardly Nature's design that
they should in'terpret thein, blit play-
ers of their genius dignify and enc
hellish every role for which they are
cast. The noble voice, the manly bear=
ing, the persuasive ease of style, that
cllpicest fruit of many a victory hard-
ly
ardly won, tells just as surely in a whim-
sical impersonation, a little away
from the main lines of human devel-
opment as in the delineation of some.
incomparably drawn world figure such
as Hamlet, Falstaff, Lear.
Unaided these great men 'would
been herself. Of a sudden the raddled
.And yet they did• but serve as a kind
of heavy relief, a somber frame for
the central figure. Rosalind has stood
for three centuries as the symbol of
wpmanhood in its youthful glory.
That embodiment of the divinity of
girlhood still remains without a peer.
And none could have given it more
powerful, more appealing expression
than Anne Feversham. ,
From the moment the slight figure
ouths of the forest
came of thedet h s
P
and spoke her first magic lines, in a
voice as clear as a bt+;ll, a hush seem-
ed .to fall upon all. The occupants of
the pavilion no less than the humbler
spectators who were privileged to sit
upon the .grays were spellbound, •The
tall figure. trim and slender, yet ex-
quisite in outline; looked a little
gaunt, a little.hne-drawn in ltg close -
fitting boy's' dress. The eyes shone
opt of the pareface with a luster
that fascinated those the''least sensi-
tive to beauty. And the voice thrill-
ing with a nameless ..music ravished
ears which knew it not for a cadence
borne upon the long night of the soul.
In that great and •girliant company.
however, were tinge who had eyes to
see and ears to hear. end when all
was 'said, the Queen was ,foremost
among them. Harsh, crabbed, diffi-
narrow, insensible to, many
very end of
ant prospn.t of a little player -baiting
by an accredited wag. Many there
were about the Court who were by
no means well-disposed toward play-
ers in general These actors were
claiming far too much attention from
those .in high places. 'Their continual-
ly•growing favor was beginning to be
a matter of concern to those whose
own exlatene i' depended so largely on
the indulgence of the great.
But the fop was completely•ta.ken
aback by the player's rejoinder. For
the moment he did not know how to
reply. He hada not expected to be
heli] up to ridicule in that place of all
others by an humble individual who
had not the least pretensions• to 'Walt.
Ion. But the laugh had gore against
hint heavily. And being in r'eaiity a
dull and commonplace fellow enough,
in the end he took refuge in round''
abuse of "those common jays who
would peacock it „among their bat -
cult,
things
as
she
was
to
the
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`firlren, `bearing date the Ninthday of July, 1947, ands to tUe directed. cornmuuding,me to levy' upoO
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earned, X hereby give notice thoi xtn'les& the arrears sled•• costs apt sooner paid, l shall Proceed,'
sell the said lands, or as onrush: thereof as shall be suf4eient to . Useh a rye such arrears of takes sect:
charges thereon, at my 'office in tastoCoart Irottse, .Goderich, by peislie :.auction;, on ^ayfoarday,
November 3, 1947, at the I>our, of two o'clock in,theaoon,
ftern,. iu .ee rp1i;a;pea •with tho Statutes
fn. that behalf. Notice is hereby further•.•given, that if any cif the said ,lairds rerr.:aiu unsoidr alta
ad'orirn ed sale will be. held on 'Pdon.d'ay, November 10, 1947, at tete sante :hour an, place; anct ;1 ;
which, Municipalities may reserve the right to . purchase any of the said l >l.
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TOWNSHIP OF ASHFIELD
Years in -
Description • 'Arrears
'Nam and
N. 13. Coleman and, John Ryan—Lot H.R. 10, Port Albert . 1944
Alex McRae—S, pt. Lot 2. -LR. , .... 1914-5
TOWNSHIP OF HOWICK-
W.:H. Preston—,Lots 30-34, Ferguson 'St., Wroxeter 1944-5-6
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TOWNSHIP OF STANLEY
Ben Spencer—Lots 1, A. and';B., Argyle St., Rayfield , ...., „......: 4944 -5-6•
Geo,
Dufrenette—Lot 3, Corriveau Survey , 1944
Chas. Ratllweil Estate—Lot200, Ann St., Bayfie 1944-5-6
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1r .. • TOWNSHIP. OF STEPHEN
5;
Taxes eats ..,•. Toni`
$12.13 $2.30 '$:14.0
5.22 2425 , 7,47l
10;60 2,.2.5 ^ 12:$5 ,•
6.32 . 2.25 , 8,57
1.932.26 2.26 4,1$
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10.'' 2.25 12.35
Catherine; Romprie- ''t. Lot 11, Con. 15 1944-5-6 "a'2:'50'"
Thos. Baynham—Pt. Lot 10, Com 17 1944-5 11.56
Eloise Noecker—Lots 316-7, Plan 24 1944-5-6 125.25
TOWNSHIP OF TURNBERRY
Fred Hallenbeck—Lots 4-5, D.S
F. D. Kyte—S. pt. Lots 1-2-3-4, Centre; Lots 5-8.9-60,
1944-5,6
Con. A... 1944-5-6
TOWNSHIP OF WEST WAWANQSH'
A. Nicholson -N. pt. E. y' Lot 13, Con: 1.0 1944-5-6 16.26 2.40 18.66
2.30
5,X2•
4.75 •
13.86-
130.37 .
16.95 - 2.42 - 19.3 ,7
230.94 7.76 238.70
VILLAGE OF BLYTH
Ed. Cartwright`"`lst„ti s 21-2-5, Kellys Survey 1944-5-6
Paul Watson --Lots 3324-5, Coombs Survey 19,44-5-6
Chas. Burling Estate—Lot 65, McDonald Survey 1944-5-6
All of the above lots are patented.
Published in The Ontario Gazette••• August 2,
that long life that was now so near •
its close, she retained her force of
judgment and her power of seeing
things in their true relation, Rosalind
spoke to•her: spoke to her not in her
capacity as the sovereign of a great
people, but of that even more sacred,
more universal thing, which every wo-
man verging upon .seventy has once
been hersel;ff Ora sudden the raddled
old cheeks were wet.
Men, too, were spellbound. Cecil,
•Raleigh, Pembroke, Southampton and
many others alnfest equally famous
were.gazing upon that scene. These
-were first-rate niinda,.and iii all ages.
in all eoentries, the eternal )verities
address them in the same way. Six
Fopling knew that the Queen wee'
weeping, and was amazed that she
should: not have more regard for the
havoc of bee cheeks: Cecil knew why
site was weeping and held Ater 'so
• much more a Queen.
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29.90 2.75 32.65
24.90 ° 2'.52 ,27.52
30.05 2.75 82.80
1947 (one insertion). •
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OCD•DISABLED OR DEAD
CATTLE • HORSES • HOGS • SHEEP • CALVES
Promptly and Efficiently Removed
Simply .Phone Collect
MITCHELL - 219
STRATFORD 215
INGERSOLL 21
WE DO THE REST!
a. CHAPTER XXXII
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By two o'clock that afternoon all
was in readriness for the performance
of the new comedy before Glorian'a
arid. her„Court. A -pavilion had been
raised in the middle of :one of the
great lawns, in order that the spec-
tators might be shielded from the sun-
shine which beat .fiercely from e.
cloudless July heaven. At the edge
of the lawn was a thicket of fine trees.
and heather, .a. veritable Forest of
Arden ih miniature, From the depths
of this. glade emerged the performers
in this • woodland pastoral.,
It was a great ordeal for Anne. On.
•an occasion of far less importance
she might have been overcome by
fear. ' lout now she was strung up al-
most to the breaking point. • So grave
was her pass and so much was at
stake that a supreme call was made
upon her will. And she ,responded
nobly. No human, being could have
exercised a, greater power of mind or
•brought' a finer resolution to bear up-
on her task.
The success of the play was never
in doubt. To begin with it was one
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