Sublime

perspicacious

benevolent

Lester Hunt, who later became the inspiration for one of the main characters in Allen Drury’s classic political novel Advise and Consent.

His guess is, the clergy own a third of England. One day soon, Henry will ask him how the Crown can own it instead. It’s like dealing with a child; one day you bring in a box, and the child asks, what is in there? Then it goes to sleep and forgets, but next day, it asks again. It doesn’t rest until the box is open and the treats given out.

the

Four years after it first appeared, Woolf reprinted “On Being Ill”

Wives had been hanged for adulteries that had never occurred because a Commander wanted a different, younger Wife.

chastened