Beauchamp's Career

This is what we have in exchange for Beauchamp! It was not uttered, but it was visible in the blank stare at one another of the two men who loved Beauchamp, after they had examined the insignificant bit of mudbank life remaining in this world in the place of him.

Career plot ends as unspoken exchange rate — Radical life traded for saved urchin — so plot scores 90.

Beauchamp walked down to the pier, where he took a boat for H.M.S. Isis, to see Jack Wilmore, whom he had not met since his return from his last cruise, and first he tried the efficacy of a dive in salt water, as a specific for irritation.

Dive-before-Cecilia chapter — naval body managing political irritation — cast as temperament — so cast scores 91.

Before we give ear to the recital of Dr. Shrapnel's letter to his pupil in politics by the mouth of Captain Baskelett, it is necessary to defend this gentleman, as he would handsomely have defended himself, from the charge that he entertained ultimate designs in regard to the really abominable scrawl.

Letter delayed by Baskelett defence — political middle as scrawl-and-bait stall — so pace scores 86.

When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman's jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign.

Jacket-off into sword-flash comic history — Meredith political irony in one costume change — so prose scores 92.

An extraordinary telegraphic message, followed by a still more extraordinary letter the next morning, from Rosamund Culling, all but interdicted the immediate occupation of his house in town to Everard, now Earl of Romfrey.

Earldom house blocked by telegram funeral — aristocratic London as delayed occupancy — so world scores 88.

When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman's jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us.

Career hooked as national insult comedy before Radical politics named — so hook scores 89.

after they had examined the insignificant bit of mudbank life remaining in this world in the place of him.

Political heroism scored as mudbank remainder — Radical novel's anti-heroic arithmetic — so innov scores 93.

This is what we have in exchange for Beauchamp! It was not uttered, but it was visible in the blank stare at one another of the two men who loved Beauchamp.

Unspoken exchange between Romfrey and Shrapnel — ending as shared blank, not eulogy — so ending scores 95.