Chapter 12 everything is accidental ambition and achievement

everything is accidental ambition and achievement (1) (She thinks for a moment.) Hannah Nightingale.right.A thousand-character essay of his in the Observer would not have made me polite to him when we met.You must know him. Bernard Like I said, I'm all up to you. Hannah indeed.Just say "please". Bernard please. Hannah sits down and does it. Thank you Bernard. (He sits down in a chair. She remains standing. She may smoke, and if she does, she may now. A short mouthpiece would do, or a cigarillo with brown paper.) Hannah how do you know I'm here? Bernard Oh, I don't know.I spoke to the son of the family on the phone, but he didn't mention your name... then he forgot to mention me.

Hannah Valentine.He went to school at Oxford, supposedly. Bernard is right, I met him.Children of the family.Hannah is my fiancé. (She stops his gaze.) Bernard (a moment's silence) I'm going to take a risk.you are lying. HANNA (a moment's silence) Well done, Bernard. Hi Bernard. Hannah he calls me his fiancée. Bernard why? Hannah joked. Bernard You turned him down? Don't be stupid, Hannah, I look like the next countess-- Bernard Don't, don't- don't take it for granted.It was a comforting joke.My turtle "Lightning" and my fiancée Hannah. Hannah Oh, yes.You have a way of talking, Bernard, and I don't know if I like it or not.

Bernard Valentine, what does he do? Hannah is a graduate student, Biology. Bernard No, he's a mathematician. Hannah Well, he studies grouse. Bernard Grouse? Hannah is not a real grouse.Computer grouse. What's the name of the one in Bernard who doesn't speak? Hannah Gus. Bernard what's the matter with him? Hannah I didn't ask. Interesting to hear about Bernard's father. Hannah Oh, yes. Mother Bernard was a gardener.What's going on here? Hannah what do you mean? Bernard, I almost knocked her head off - she was standing in that ditch. Hannah is in archaeology.Until 1740, the mansion had a well-proportioned Italianate garden.Mrs Croom is interested in the history of the grounds.I sent her a copy of my book, which has a very good description of Caroline's grounds at Brockett Hall, as you can see, but by the way, I also Not taking it for granted that you've seen it.I am here to assist Hermiani.

① Hannah called the Countess of Kroom by her first name, and seemed to have a close relationship with her - Annotation. ②Natural philosophy was the name of science at that time-annotation.Bernard (surprised) Hermiani. Hannah's file is so complete that no one has ever studied it. Bernard I'm starting to adore you. Was everything Hannah said just bullshit? Bernard totally is.Your picture is comparable to yourself, I'm not sure if the book is comparable. (She stares at him. He waits confidently.) Hannah Septimus is the governess. Bernard (quietly) Good. Hannah, his pupil, was the daughter of Lord Crum, who also had a son at Eton.Septimus lived in the mansion: an allowance for wine and candles was listed in the paybook.Therefore, he is not exactly a guest, but rather a housekeeper.His cover letter is on file, and I'll find it for you.As far as I can remember, he studied mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge, and was therefore, so to speak, a scientist.

Bernard admired.Thank you.What about Charter? Hannah is completely off the record. Oh Bernard.absolutely not? Hannah probably was. What about Bernard's library? The Hannah Catalog was compiled in 1880s.I've seen it all. Bernard Book or Catalog?Hannah Directory. Pity Bernard. Hannah sorry. What about the Bernard letters?None mentioned? everything is accidental ambition and achievement (2) Hannah probably didn't.I have seen in great detail the period of your interest, which, of course, was my period of interest. Bernard is it?In fact, I'm not quite sure which side you are...

Hannah Sidley The Hermit. Oh Bernard.who is it? Hannah is the starting point for my study of the spiritual collapse of the Romantic imagination.I am studying gardens and literature from 1750 to 1834. What happened to Bernard in 1834? Hannah The hermit I studied died. Bernard was right. Hannah, what do you mean by right? Bernard is fine. Hannah No, there is. Bernard No, no... But Coleridge died that year too. ①Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, author of "Kubla Khan", "Old Sailor Ballad", etc. - Annotation.Hannah, too.What an accident of fate. (softening) Thank you, Bernard. (She goes to the reading table and opens Knox's sketchbook) Look--it's him.

(Bernard looks over.) Bernard Hmm. Hannah seemed to be painting the Sidley Hermit, and that was all that was known. Bernard is very biblical. Hannah was of course drawn by someone else later.When Knox painted, there were no hermitages. Bernard Knox... Painter? Hannah Gardener.He drew these notebooks for his clients, as a sort of rendering. (she shows) Look, before and after.This is what it was like up to, say, 1810--proportioned, undulating, sinuous--open water, groves, old-fashioned boathouses-- Bernard is charming, true England. Hannah You can stop being silly now, Bernard.The English garden was invented by horticulturists who imitated foreign painters who in turn recalled classical authors.The whole set was put into luggage and brought back home after traveling around the world.Here, you see -- "Potential" Brown imitates Claude, who in turn imitates Virgil.Arcadia!Here, raw nature added in the style of Salvador Rosa by Richard Knox.It's a Gothic novel expressed in gardens, with everything but no vampires.The hermit I studied is described in a letter from your eminent family.

Bernard Florence? Hannah what? Nothing Bernard, you go on. ① "Potential" Brown refers to the British horticulturist Lancelot Brown (1715-1783), "potential" is his nickname; Claude Rolland (1600-1682), French landscape painter; Virgil (BC 70-19), an ancient Roman poet, author of the epic poem "Aeneid" - Annotation. ②Bernard forgot his pseudonym (Peacock), thinking that Hannah was talking about Florence Nightingale-Annotation. ③Thomas Lowe Peacock (1785-1866), British writer-annotation.Hannah Thomas Love Peacock. Bernard Oh, yes. Hannah, I read it in an article about hermits, published in a Cornhill Magazine from 1860... (she looked for the magazine in the book on the table and found it) ... in 1862 ... Peacock called him (quoted from memory) "not your village fool who can frighten a lady, but a great scholar among idiots, a mad wise man".

When Bernard said that, it was an oxymoron. Hannah (busy) Yes.What? Bernard is fine. Hannah (finding the place) is here. "We have seen a letter written nearly thirty years ago by the author of "Getting It Off" describing a visit to the Earl of Croom's Sidley estate"--Bernard's letter to Sarah Clay's? ①William Thackeray (1811-1863), British writer, author of "Vanity Fair" etc. - Annotation.Hannah (going no further) I don't know.does it matter? Bernard did not.Sorry. (But the gaps he leaves in his speech aren't really waiting for her to say—nor does she catch them fast enough. That's the case.)

Only Thackeray edited the Cornhill Magazine until 1863, the year he died, as you know.His father worked for the East India Company, and of course Peacock was an inspector there, so there's a good chance that that article, if it was written by Thackeray, that letter...sorry, go on .Of course, the East India Company library at Blake Fryer holds most of the letters written by Peacock, so it's easy to... Excuse me, can I have a look? (She hands him the Cornhill Magazine without a word, bound like a book.) Yes, it's all in there, of course.Might be worth...go on.I'm listening to... (Looking at the article, suddenly chuckling) Oh yes, it must have been written by Thackeray... (He closes the book with a snap) Can't take it... (He snaps the book again Give it back to her) What did you say?

Hannah are you always like this? How is Bernard? Hannah The problem is that there is a hermit who has lived under the noses of Lord and Mrs. Kroom for twenty years, of course, but hardly ever thinks that the hermit is worth mentioning.I'll find out right away.Unfortunately, Peacock's letter is still the main source of information.When I read it, (the book she held in her hand) oh, that's the kind of time that tells you what the next book is called.The Hermit at Sidley Manor is mine... Bernard focused. Hannah had an epiphany. Bernard had an epiphany, yes. The Hannah hermit was placed in the garden, just as one would place a pottery gnome.There he spent the rest of his life like an ornament in a garden. Bernard, does he have something to do? everything is accidental ambition and achievement (3) Hannah Oh, he's busy.After he died, that hut was filled with paper, thousands of sheets.Peacock said he was once suspected of being a genius.Of course it turned out later that he was crazy.He filled every sheet with mystic proofs that the world was heading toward destruction.perfect, no?I mean perfect symbol. Bernard Oh, yes.About what? Hannah's total romantic fake, Bernard!It happened in the Enlightenment too, didn't it?Closed after a century of intellectual rigidity.In the midst of cheap excitement and false emotion, a confused mind is suspected of being a genius.The garden's history says it all beautifully.There is an engraving of Sidley Park in 1730 that will bring tears to your eyes.Paradise in the Age of Reason.But by 1760, it was all gone—the manicured shrubs, the ponds and terraces, the fountains, the limestone avenues—all that wonderful geometry had been plowed away by Potential Brown.The weeds stretched from the door to the horizon, and the prettiest boxwood hedge in all Derbyshire was dug to make a ditch, so that the fools could pretend they were in God's country.Richard Knox came to make God catch up with the times.When he finished he looked like this (the sketchbook), and lo and behold, the fall from thinking to feeling. Bernard (providing comments) Well said. (Hannah looks at him for sarcasm, but his expression is calm.) No, your statement stands up to debate. Hannah thanks. Bernard Personally, I like trenches.Do you like hedges? Hannah I don't like sentimentality. Bernard Yes, I understand.Are you sure?You are very sentimental about geometry.But the hermit was very, very good.It is the spirit of the earth here. Hannah (happily) That's the title of my book! Bernard of course. Hannah (not so happy) of course? Bernard of course.Who is he when he is not a symbol? Hannah I don't know. Oh Bernard. Hannah I mean don't know yet. Bernard was right.What had they done with the hermit's papers?Did Peacock write it? Hannah lit a fire. Bernard, alas. Hannah: I must go through the Countess of Croom's gardening book. Bernard Ledger or Log? Hannah is kind of both.Not coherent, but covers the period. Bernard really?Have you ever seen Byron's name?I am interested. The Hannah Collection has a first edition of Childe Harold's Travels and I think The English Poet and Scottish Critic. Bernard has an inscription? Hannah didn't. He wasn't mentioned at all in Bernard's letters? Why does Hannah want it?Lord and Mrs Kroom are also not mentioned in his letters. ①Refers to the location of Byron's family estate, near Nottingham--annotation.Bernard (casually) Indeed, of course.But Newstead was not very far away.Do you mind if I look through it?Just the files you've already looked at, of course. (Hannah notices something.) Hannah, are you working on Byron or Charter? (Chloe enters through the side door, in socks and no shoes, and hugs roughly the same leather ledger. She makes a detour to put on her shoes.) Sorry Chloe - I was just passing by - there's tea in the pantry if you don't mind big mugs. Bernard you are so kind. Chloe Hannah will show you how to get there. Bernard, let me help you. Chloe No, it's okay--(Bernard opens the opposite door for her.) Thanks - I'm putting up Val's game register.thanks. ① That is Valentine's nickname - translation notes. (Exit Chloe. Bernard closed the door. ) What a lovely girl Bernard. Hannah Hmm. bernard oh really Hannah Oh really what? (Chloe pushes open the door again and pokes her head in.) Chloe I want to say, if my dad says something about your car, don't worry, Mr Nightingale, he's... What happened to the surprise?not yet?Oh, then - sorry - um, let's have some tea - I'm very sorry if I... (She leaves again embarrassed, closing the door behind her. There was a brief silence. ) everything is accidental ambition and achievement (4) Hannah you are such a scumbag. (she walks away to leave) The problem with Bernard is that it has something to do with Byron too. (Hannah stops and faces him.) Hannah I don't care. Bernard you should care.Guys from the Byron Gang get caught in their pants chains. Hannah (a moment's silence) Oh, really? Bernard if we cooperate. Where is Hannah? Bernard sit down and I tell you. Hannah I'm standing here. Bernard's The Bed of Eros belongs to Lord Byron. Hannah it belongs to Septimus Hodge.Bernard turned out to be, yes.But it was in Byron's collection of books, which were sold to pay his debts after he left England for good in 1816.A catalog of sales is held at the British Library. The Bed of Eros was Seventy-Fourth A, bought by John Nightingale, bookseller and publisher of Theater Lane, Palmer Street...his name still bears Nightingale and Matt In the name of Locke & Co., Nightingale in it now is my cousin. (He pauses for a moment. Hannah hesitates, then sits down at the table.) I just tell you a summary.In 1939, Chushu moved to Nightingale's country house in Kent.In 1945, Chushu returned to the bookstore.Meanwhile, a case of early 19th-century books was left out, sitting long in the basement of a country house until the house was sold to make way for the construction of the railway to the Channel Tunnel. The Bed of Eros was found, accompanied by a bill of sale from 1816--a copy is available. (He takes the copy out of his portfolio and shows it to Hannah.) Hannah okay.It used to be Byron's collection. Bernard has underlined some passages. (Hannah picks up the book and looks through it.) All those passages, and only those—don't, don't, look at me, don't read the book—all the underlined passages, not a single word, are used as Dealey Entertainment in a review of The Bed of Eros.The reviewer begins by calling the reader's attention to his previous review of The Turkish Maiden in the same newspaper. Hannah's book review is obviously written by Hodge. "My friend Septimus Hodge, who supported the author and warmly congratulates him." Here lies the Bernard problem.Published in Piccadilly Entertainment, teased both books. HANNA (a moment of silence) Do the two reviews read like Byron? BERNARD (takes two copies out of his case) These two essays look a little bit more fucking like Byron than he did on Wordsworth a year ago. ①William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British Romantic poet, author of "Lyrical Ballads", "The Lonely Reaper", etc. - Annotation. (Hannah glances at the two copies.) Hannah, I see.Well, congratulations.Maybe.Two little-known book reviews written by the young Byron.Is that so? Bernard no.Because of the tape, the three documents contained in the book have been completely preserved to this day. (He is carefully unwrapping something wrapped. It's out of a briefcase. He has the originals. He holds them carefully one by one.) "Sir—we have a business to settle. I'm waiting in the gun room You. Mr. E. Charter." "My husband has ordered pistols in town. For Charity's sake, deny anything you can't prove—I'll be waiting in your room today." No signature.