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At the age of three-and-twenty Charles Templeton, my old tutor atOxford, set himself to write a history of the Third French Republic.When I made his acquaintance some thirty years later he hadsatisfactorily concluded his introductory chapter on the origin ofKingship. At his death, three months ago, I understand that his notes onthe precursors of Charlemagne were almost as complete as he desired. "Itis so difficult to know where to start, Mr. Oakleigh," he used to say,as I picked my steps through the litter of notebooks that cumbered histables, chairs and floor.

If, therefore, this book ever find favour in the eyes for which it waswritten, it will be because I have set narrow limits to my task andconfined myself resolutely to those limits. For thirty years I havelived among what the world has agreed loosely to call "the GoverningClasses." The title may already be obsolescent; sentence of proscriptionmay, as I write, have been passed on those who bear it. At the lowestcomputation those classes will soon have changed beyond recognition inpersonnel, function, power and philosophy. This book may then perhapshave something of historical value in portraying a group of men andwomen who were at the same time my personal friends and representativeof those Governing Classes in politics, journalism, commerce andsociety. I have drawn them as I saw them, without attempting to selector label predominant types. And if there be blank spaces on my canvas,it is to be remembered that I only set out to paint that social groupwith which I happened to be brought in contact.

Charles Templeton's difficulty in determining his initial date is insmaller degree my difficulty. I could give long introductory accounts ofDavid O'Rane's wanderings before he reached England, or of Jim Loring'sboyhood in Scotland, or the early phases of the Dainton fortunes. To doso, however, would involve a sacrifice of the unities of time and place;and when the work was done I should be left with the feeling that itwould have been better done at first hand by O'Rane himself, or LadyLoring, or Sir Roger Dainton. It is equally difficult to know where thefinal line is to be drawn. Nearly a year has already passed since theevents recorded in the last chapter, yet that same chapter brings nosort of finality to the career of O'Rane, and, should another hand careto use[Pg 13] them, the materials for another volume are rapidly accumulating.

In the guide-books the house is described as a "stately Elizabethanmansion," but at the time of which I am writing it was still a labyrinthof drainage cuttings and a maze of scaffolding and ladders. Suddenlyenriched by the early purchase of tied-houses, the Daintons had thatyear moved five miles away from Melton town, school and brewery. Even inthose early days I suppose Mrs. Dainton was not without socialaspirations, and when her husband was elected Unionist member for theMelton Division of Hampshire, she seized the opportunity of moving atone step into a house where her position was unassailable and away froma source of income that was ever her secret embarrassment.

Roger Dainton, affluent, careless and indolent, accepted the changedlife with placid resignation. The syndicate shoot was left behind withthe humdrum Melton Club and the infinitely small society that clusteredin the precincts of the cathedral. Mrs. Dainton, big, bustling andindefatigably capable, fought her way door by door into South Hampshiresociety, while her husband shot statedly with Lord Pebbleridge atBishop's Cross, yawned through the long mornings on the Bench, and, whenParliament was not sitting, lounged through his grounds in a shootingjacket with perennially torn pocket, his teeth gripping a black,gurgling briar that defied Mrs. Dainton's utmost efforts to smarten hisappearance.

The atmosphere of the rambling old house was well suited to schoolboyholidays, for we rose and retired when we pleased, ate continuously, andwere never required to dress for dinner. The so-called library,admirably adapted to stump cricket on wet days, contained nothing morearid than "The Sportsman,"[Pg 14] "Country Life," and bound volumes of "TheBadminton Magazine," while Mrs. Dainton's spasmodic efforts to discussthe contents of her last Mudie box met with prompt and effectivediscouragement. The society, in a word, was healthily barbarian, fromour host, aged forty-three, to his over-indulged only daughter, Sonia,aged eleven. Since the days when Tom Dainton and I were fellow-fags, ithad been part of my annual programme to say good-bye to my mother andsister a week before the opening of the Melton term, cross from Kingstonto Holyhead, call on Bertrand Oakleigh, my guardian, in London, andproceed to Crowley Court for the last week of the summer holidays. Itwas an unwritten law of our meetings that none but true Meltoniansshould be invited, and, though the party grew gradually in size, therule was never relaxed.

The Entrance Examination at Melton took place the day before term, andin the afternoon Mrs. Dainton suggested that some of us should driveover to the school, inquire how Sam had fared and bring him back toCrowley Court for dinner.[Pg 16] As the others were playing tennis, Sonia andI climbed into the high four-wheeled dogcart and were slowly driven byher father up the five-mile hill that separated us from the town.

Melton is one of those places that never change. In a hundred years'time I have no doubt it will present the same appearance of warm, grey,placid beauty as on that September afternoon, when we emerged from theForest to find the school standing out against the setting sun like agroup of temples on a modern Acropolis. Leaving the dogcart at the"Raven," we covered the last half mile on foot, and, while Daintoncalled on the Head, I took Sonia to Big Gateway and led her on a tour ofinspection round the school. After seventeen years and for all itsfamiliarity I can recall the beauty of the scene in its unwonted holidaydesolation. Standing in the Gateway with our faces to the north, we hadCollege to our right and the Head's house to our left; on the eastern,western and northern sides of the Great Court lay the nineboarding-houses, and through the middle of Matheson's, in line with BigGateway, ran the Norman tunnel leading to Cloisters, Chapel and GreatSchool.

It was Sonia's first opportunity of seeing over Melton, and she beggedme to miss nothing. We crossed the worn flags of Great Court to thewaterless fountain in the middle, lingered to admire the Virginiacreeper swathing the crumbling grey walls as a mantle of scarlet silk,and passed through the iron-studded oak door of Matheson's. Sheinspected our row of studies and looked out through the closely barredwindows to the practice ground of Little End, where the groundman andtwo assistants were erecting goal posts. For a while we wandered roundHall examining the carved tables and forms, the giant chimney-piece fromwhich new boys had to sing their melancholy songs on the first Saturdayof term, the great silver shields that the house had held in unbrokentenure for nine years, and the consciously muscular Cup Team groups thatadorned the walls in two lines above the lockers.

Leaving Matheson's we strolled through Cloisters, and I pointed out thebachelor masters' quarters on one side and on the other the famous"Fighting Green," in which no fights had[Pg 17] taken place within humanmemory. We put our heads inside Chapel, crossed into Great School andwalked its length to the dais where stood Ockley's Chair, Bishop Adam'sBirch Table and the carved seats of the Monitorial Council running in ahalf-circle like the places of the priests in the Theatre of Dionysus. Iwas still descanting on the dignity of that same Council, of which I hadlately become a member, when a bell rang faintly in the distance, and wehad to retrace our steps to meet the Entrance Examination candidates,who were pouring out of School Library and scattering in search of theiranxious parents or guardians.

"Golly!" he moaned, with a face of woe. "I said they were the jewels inthe breastplate of the High Priest. Never mind. Can't be helped. Thechap in front of me said they were Eli's two sons, but that's rot, 'costhey were Gog and Magog. I got that right. Did you come over alone?"

We were half-way across Great Court when one of the Head's librarywindows opened, and Burgess, with his quaint, mannered courtesy, askedpermission to have a word with me if I could spare him the time. Ientered what was then, and probably is still, the untidiest room inEngland. Since the death of his wife ten years before, Burgess hadruled, or been ruled, with the aid of a capable housekeeper whose tenureof office depended on her undertaking never to touch a book or paper inthe gloomy, low-ceilinged library. From that bargain she can never havedeparted. Overflowing the shelves and tables, piled up in the embrasuresof the windows, littered[Pg 18] carelessly in fireplace or wastepaper basket,lay ten years' accumulation of reports, complaints, presentation copies,text-books, magazines and daily papers.

"Some day it must all be swept and garnished, laddie," he would say whenthe last of twelve unsmokable pipes had disappeared behind the coal box."But I'm an old man, broken with the cares and sorrows of this world....Never take to smoking, laddie; it's a vile, unclean practice." Andpending the day when the Augean stable was to be cleansed, he would walkdown to Grantham's, the big Melton bookseller, cram the pockets of hiscassock with new books, pick his way slowly back to the school, readingas rapidly as his tobacco-stained forefinger could hack the pages, anddrop the newest acquisition in the handiest corner of the dusty, dimlibrary.

Burgess's meaning was seldom to be grasped in his first or secondsentence. I waited while he fumbled for a pipe in the pocket of the oldsilk cassock, without which none of us had ever seen him. By 1898, atthe age of five-and-fifty, his physical appearance had run through thegamut of its changes and become fixed. When last we met, seventeen yearslater, his body was no more thin or bent, his face no more cadaverous,his brown eyes no more melancholy, his voice no more tired and his longwhite hair no whit less thick than on that September afternoon. And thushe will remain till a puff of wind stronger than the generality blowsaway the ascetic, wasted frame, and the gentle, sing-song voice is heardno more.

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