Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Sir Harry, before he had left Humblethwaite for London in October, had heard enough of his cousin's sins to make him sure that the match must be opposed with all his authority. Indeed he had so felt from the first moment in which George had begun to tell him of what had occurred at Airey Force.

Authority vs daughter's desert-not vow framed at midpoint — plot is duty collision, not mystery — so plot scores 90.

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland, and one who well understood of what nature were the duties, and of what sort the magnificence, which his position as a great English commoner required of him. He had twenty thousand a year derived from land.

Cast opened as duty-and-magnificence person before Emily or George speak — estate character as engine — so cast scores 89.

Sir Harry was sitting alone in the library when the tidings were brought to him that George Hotspur had reached Humblethwaite with a pair of post-horses from Penrith. The old butler, Cloudesdale, brought him the news, and Cloudesdale whispered it into his ears with solemn sorrow.

Library solitude broken by whispered arrival — late crisis accelerates after London delay — so pace scores 88.

Just so. And it is because you are thinking of all this, that I feel it right to tell you. Papa, I shall never be married.

Five words close a life plan — tragic understatement after pages of argument — so prose scores 90.

But the life that he led was led at Humblethwaite, and there he was a great man, with a great domain around him,--with many tenants, with a world of dependants among whom he spent his wealth freely.

Domain, tenants, dependants named as Sir Harry's world — land as social cosmos — so world scores 87.

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland, and one who well understood of what nature were the duties, and of what sort the magnificence, which his position as a great English commoner required of him.

Title character and duty thesis in first sentence — hook without delay — so hook scores 91.

Among playgoing folk, in the following April there was a great deal of talk about the marriage of that very favourite actress, Mrs. Morton. She appeared in the playbills as Mrs. George Hotspur, late Mrs. Morton.

Estate tragedy ends as theatre gossip — innovates by publicizing private ruin as playbill — so innov scores 89.

A grand old family has been disgraced, and a good actress destroyed. That's my idea of this marriage.

Club verdict closes both house and stage — double destruction without soft marriage residual — so ending scores 92.