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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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A
clear
and
matter-of-fact
thinker,
Jenkin
was
an
equally
clear
and
graphic
writer.
He
read
the
best
literature,
preferring,
among
other
things,
the
story
of
David,
the
ODYSSEY,
the
ARCADIA,
the
saga
of
Burnt
Njal,
and
the
GRAND
CYRUS.
Aeschylus,
Sophocles,
Shakespeare,
Ariosto,
Boccaccio,
Scott,
Dumas,
Dickens,
Thackeray,
and
George
Eliot,
were
some
of
his
favourite
authors.
He
once
began
a
review
of
George
Eliot's
biography,
but
left
it
unfinished.
Latterly
he
had
ceased
to
admire
her
work
as
much
as
before.
He
was
a
rapid,
fluent
talker,
with
excited
utterance
at
times.
Some
of
his
sayings
were
shrewd
and
sharp;
but
he
was
sometimes
aggressive.
'People
admire
what
is
pretty
in
an
ugly
thing,'
he
used
to
say
'not
the
ugly
thing.'
A
lady
once
said
to
him
she
would
never
be
happy
again.
'What
does
that
signify?'
cried
Jenkin;
'we
are
not
here
to
be
happy,
but
to
be
good.'
On
a
friend
remarking
that
Salvini's
acting
in
OTHELLO
made
him
want
to
pray,
Jenkin
answered,
'That
is
prayer.'
Though
admired
and
liked
by
his
intimates,
Jenkin
was
never
popular
with
associates.
His
manner
was
hard,
rasping,
and
unsympathetic.
'Whatever
virtues
he
possessed,'
says
Mr.
Stevenson,
'he
could
never
count
on
being
civil.'
He
showed
so
much
courtesy
to
his
wife,
however,
that
a
Styrian
peasant
who
observed
it
spread
a
report
in
the
village
that
Mrs.
Jenkin,
a
great
lady,
had
married
beneath
her.
At
the
Saville
Club,
in
London,
he
was
known
as
the
'man
who
dines
here
and
goes
up
to
Scotland.'
Jenkin
was
conscious
of
this
churlishness,
and
latterly
improved.
'All
my
life,'
he
wrote,'I
have
talked
a
good
deal,
with
the
almost
unfailing
result
of
making
people
sick
of
the
sound
of
my
tongue.
It
appeared
to
me
that
I
had
various
things
to
say,
and
I
had
no
malevolent
feelings;
but,
nevertheless,
the
result
was
that
expressed
above.
Well,
lately
some
change
has
happened.
If
I
talk
to
a
person
one
day
they
must
have
me
the
next.
Faces
light
up
when
they
see
me.
"Ah!
I
say,
come
here."
"Come
and
dine
with
me."
It's
the
most
preposterous
thing
I
ever
experienced.
It
is
curiously
pleasant.'
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