Tully

“ Tully had been a woman of some social pretensions, in the small Eastern village where she was born. To all that to her guests made the unique charm of her present home she had grown callous, if she had ever felt it at all, while dwelling with an incurable regret upon the neatly painted houses and fenced door-yards, the gatherings of women in their best clothes in primly furnished parlors on summer afternoons, the church-going, the passing in the street, and, more than all, the housekeeping conveniences she had been used to, accumulated through many years' occupancy of the same house. ”

“ That evening in the company of Faraday and his first whisky was the turning-point in the career of William Tully. Any man stronger than himself could at that juncture in his life have turned him to right or left ”

“ I had read somewhere of lady attendants; why not a gentleman attendant? If the invalid was really at all inclined to be violent, then Mr. Tully was just the man, for he was big and very strong looking. And that brought me back to the invalid.
Was he merely an invalid or was he an insane patient? I believed the latter, because his voice had been just as strong as Mr. Tully's, and surely an invalid's voice is always weak. ”

“ A cowed, unhappy band they toiled and sweated, dug, carried loads and levelled the broken soil; some stupidly submissive, some openly sullen to their captors, some pitiably eager to please: all serfs for the time being and all of them ignorant of what the next hour might bring forth of further terror or misfortune.
To this captive little company William Tully was joined, handed over by Heinz to its taskmaster—to become of them all the most pitiable, because for the first time in all his days set to bend his back and use his muscles in downright labour of the body. ”

“ He looks upon Tully as nothing to the other, and the other again pronounces him more learned than Plato. And sometimes too they pick out their antagonist and think to raise themselves a fame by writing one against the other; while the giddy multitude are so long divided to whether of the two they shall determine the victory, till each goes off conqueror, and, as if he had done some great action, fancies himself a triumph. ”

“ JOHN. Oh, Tully, Tully, she’s given the Rajah my address!
MAMIE (bursting into tears) . What else could I do? Boo—boo—— It’s not my fault, and why should I be blamed for it. Boo, boo, boo! (Sitting in arm-chair R.)
JOHN (down to MAMIE) . There, don’t cry, don’t cry.
(TULLY bursts into tears.)
What’s the matter with you?
TULLY. I can’t bear to see a woman cry.
(MAMIE shrieks and yells and kicks up her feet.)
JOHN. Hold her feet down! (Sits on MAMIE’S feet.) (To TULLY.) Don’t leave that door!
(TULLY peeps out of door L. and crosses to JOHN.)
TULLY. John! The doctor’s arrived! ”

“ So that Tully is right in this as well as other sayings of his, when he says, "Signs of future events are shown by the gods; if any one mistakes them he errs, not because of the nature of the gods, but because of the conjectures of men." ”

“ To pass over his next idle quotation, and an old batter’d English proverb; the next person he falls upon, is the Roman orator; and with his usual discretion, he gives me to understand that he means Tully by him. ’Tis well he tells us whom he means; for of all the men in the world, I thought an attorney had as little to do with an orator, as a bawd with an eunuch. But why should a fellow that never meant any thing in his life, pretend to meaning? Or how came Tully and such a blockhead to be acquainted? ”

“ VI. Tully is found to have preserved this arrangement with no less judgment than genius. After, in every condition of the Commonwealth, whether of leisure or business, he has given the palm to justice, he has placed the sacred abodes of the immortal souls, and the secrets of the heavenly regions, on the very summit of his completed work, indicating whither they must come, or rather return, who have managed the republic with prudence, justice, fortitude, and moderation. ”

“ And I blush to say that that somebody is generally some old rogue of a parson; but I hope, sir, you agree with Tully when he says——"
"Yes, sir," says I hastily, "I quite agree with Tully, I have ever been of Tully's opinion. And, sir, let me say that we are overcome with your generosity. But there is yet another matter that irks us; we have no ring by which we can be wed into matrimony."
"An even more trivial thing," says the parson, "the good Blodgett, honest widow that she is, shall lend you hers." ”

“ And Tully himself confirms us in this opinion, when a little after he addresses himself to Varro in these words:—"And you yourself have composed a most elegant and complete poem; you have begun philosophy in many places; sufficient to incite us, though too little to instruct us." ”

“ Listen, Shawn Early! Listen, Mrs. Tully, to the news! Jack Smith and Bartley Fallon had a falling out, and Jack knocked Mrs. Fallon’s basket into the road, and Bartley made an attack on him with a hayfork, and away with Jack, and Bartley after him. Look at the sugar here yet on the road!
Shawn Early: Do you tell me so? Well, that’s a queer thing, and Bartley Fallon so quiet a man!
Mrs. Tully: I wouldn’t wonder at all. I would never think well of a man that would have that sort of a mouldering look. ”

“ The best specimen which has come down to us is perhaps the oration for Marcellus, such an imitation of Tully's eloquence as Tully would himself have read with wonder and delight. The worst specimen is perhaps a collection of letters purporting to have been written by that Phalaris who governed Agrigentum more than 500 years before the Christian era. ”

“ Tully.”
Jocelyn looked up and smiled her sweetest, and Mr. Tully bowed and murmured something polite and looked around for a chair. And presently we were all talking away quite nicely. I'd never seen Mr. Tully look so handsome, or so young, or so frivolous, and I stared and stared at him, until he happened to look up and catch me at it. Then he blushed and I knew that he was the same Mr. Tully. I asked after his patient and he said he was doing nicely, and hoped I wasn't going to give up my visits.
Presently we were all talking
“He enjoys his chats with you so much, Miss Pryde. ”

“ Far ahead he heard Kent crashing on like a young moose in November, and he knew he was making for the shore. The others knew too. Already the gray gleam of the sea cut a straight line along the forest edge; already the soft clash of the surf on the rocks broke faintly through the forest silence.
"He's got a canoe there!" bawled Tully. "He'll be into it!"
And he was into it, kneeling in the bow, driving his paddle to the handle. The rising sun gleamed like red lightning on the flashing blade ”

“ Well, I think it is largely because Tully is weak enough to entertain a sneaking liking for me; and partly because I offered him a good deal of money and he hasn't very much of that. You see, works on political economy are never listed among the Six Best Sellers, Miss Pryde. That's why he's doing this pot boiler he's on now; it will make money for him probably. He has a good deal of time for writing here. He leaves me every night at half-past nine or ten, and then sits up and writes until two in the morning. Poor old Tully, he deserves better than he's getting! ”

“ TULLY (offended) . Oh! John!
JOHN. Without the fat, of course. If you get into these clothes and pad yourself all round, no one will know the difference.
TULLY. No, I couldn’t do that. It’s illegal!
JOHN. I’m doing this to get you out of the pickle. I’m not doing it for my own sake, please bear that in mind.
TULLY. But what good will it do?
JOHN. If the doctor or Trippett calls here, I shall say that I am Tully, that is Tully’s brother, that I have had an interview with the lady in the ’bus accident and she is strongly of opinion that the ’Bus Company is liable. ”

“ Eloquently is it spoken, and discreetly meant of Tully, the eloquent orator: "To live," saith he, "a good man in other places, is no great matter: but in Asia, to keep a sober and temperate life, that is a matter indeed praiseworthy!" ”

“ Tully revealed the cause of her daughter's sensitiveness, according to her theory of it. “She's put out because Joe Enselman chose to wait till spring before marryin', and went off to Montany instead of comin' home as he said he would.”
“Sho, sho!” said Mr. Tully. “That don't seem like Ruth Mary. She ain't in any such a hurry as all that comes to. I've had it on my mind lately that she took it a little too easy.”
“You'll see,” said the mother. “She ain't in any hurry, but she likes him to be. She feels's if he thought more of money-makin' than he does of her. She's like all girls. ”

“ You mustn't worry your mind about anything. It isn't good for you.”
“Oh Lord! Don't talk that way, please! It sounds just like Tully. He's forever saying: 'Don't think; relax your brain; rest.' Rest! If there's one thing I can do to the King's taste, it's rest. Good-afternoon, Miss Pryde. And a thousand thanks.”
His voice trailed off into silence. ”

“ PAMELA. It’s our only chance. (Crosses to arm-chair, kneels on front of it, looking up at TULLY, who is behind it, and pleading.) He may be back here at any moment. You’ll have to do this for me really, Mr. Tully.
TULLY. I’ll never do it unless you use force—and a woman can’t force a man to get into pyjamas. It isn’t legal! (Dashes up to window R. PAMELA follows him.) If you come any nearer I’ll shriek from the window!
(Bell heard off L.)
PAMELA (up to window L. quickly—looks out—then back again) . There is the doctor! I knew it! Now what on earth are we going to do
TULLY. The doctor?? ”

“ Tully's way and find out more about him—about the invalid, I mean. He had certainly talked quite sensibly at times, and he had a splendid voice, deep and musical, although it sounds kind of strange to speak of a man's voice as being musical. And he had seemed so cheerful all the time, not a bit grumpy and fretful as most invalids are. I didn't tell Aunt Myra about it, for I didn't think she would approve, and as it was already done and couldn't be helped, what was the use of worrying her? ”

“ Tully, thanke me, but for your companie I would not tarry so long; come, Tully, since we shall bee married all at one time, weele goe to bed so, and he shall be maister of the Cock-pit that bids his Gossips [292] first.
[Exeunt.
[ACT THE FOURTH. Scene 1.]
Enter Accutus and Graccus.
Acut. Nay quicke, Graccus, least our houre forestall us, ile in and deale for your disguise; tarry thou & give mine host a share of our intent; marry, charge him to keep it as secret as his Garbage. He undoes our drift [else] and cloathes the foole in sackcloath during his life. ”

“ So far, therefore, from resisting this vice, they even thought that it ought to be excited and kindled up, supposing that that would be beneficial to the republic. But not even in his books on philosophy does Tully dissimulate this poisonous opinion, for he there avows it more clearly than day. ”

“ He was in a hurry to get to his desk, upon which he could see through the open door a pile of letters and orders, and a moment later he was deep in a perusal of them, oblivious to the fact that ever and anon the girl turned upon him her brooding, Madonna-like glance.
That night Bryce and his father, as was their custom after dinner, repaired to the library, where the bustling and motherly Mrs. Tully served their coffee. This good soul, after the democratic fashion in vogue in many Western communities, had never been regarded as a servant; neither did she so regard herself. ”

“ I grow pallid with conning upon the written word. What be your armies and your invasions and your marchings to and fro? that lives should be lived, and brains spent and lost therein. I tell you, one verse of Catullus shall outweigh the clatter of a battalion, and Tully is the only sergeant I salute." And so, having hurled his defiance, he sank back amongst the bed clothes and drew down his nightcap an inch lower upon his brow.
"You know me very well, good doctor," quoth I, and advanced to his bedside, which was fortified with an huge vallum of the Consolations. "I am Denis Cleeve." ”

“ The censure he passes upon this great man runs thus: "The itch of being very abusive, is almost inseparable from vainglory. Tully has these two faults in so high a degree, that nothing but his being the best writer in the world can make amends for them." The scurrilous wretch goes on to say I am as bad as Tully. His words are these: "And yet the Tatler, in his paper of September 26, has outdone him in both. He speaks of himself with more arrogance, and with more insolence of others." I am afraid by his discourse, this gentleman has no more read Plutarch than he has Tully. ”

“ And this is a heavy boat to move with oars.”
He was quite right, for, as Tully had said was likely, the wind was not only falling, but was going round to the eastward. The sooner we got out of Apamama Lagoon the better.
“We'll loose the mainsail then,” I said to Niâbon, “and we'll get away. But we won't hoist it yet. We'll up anchor and drift until the rain comes—it will be on us in a quarter of an hour, and Tully won't be able to see anything of us till we are abreast of the passage; and we may get out to sea without any one seeing us at all.” ”

“ Tepi and Tematau joined her in her assertion that Tully meant mischief and would seize the boat for the king, who would have no compunction in resorting to violence or murder to achieve his object, especially with a man like Tully to cany out his wishes. ”

“ My subject, indeed, seemed naturally to lend itself to this (may I venture to call it?) emulation; consisting, as it did, almost entirely in a vehement style of address, even to a degree sufficient to have awakened me (if only I am capable of being awakened) out of that indolence in which I have long reposed. I have not however altogether neglected the flowers of rhetoric of my favourite Marc-Tully, wherever I could with propriety step out of my direct road, to enjoy a more flowery path: for it was energy, not austerity, at which I aimed. ”