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Title: Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
Publisher: New York : Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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eant to be, God knowsit is not strange if I am what they call singular. Isometimes think that the early wrench given to mymind by such treatment was the beginning of thesympathy I feel with such persons as Gloster andChevrial. They are wicked, but they are courageous;they have seen the selfishness of the world,—andthey go on! What they get they compel; the recog-nition they receive is for what they do for them-selves; they are always lonely; they look through themotives of all around them, and no wonder they arecynical and cruel. There are times when I feel sobarred out by the world, and so hated, that if Icould push down the pillars of the universe andsmash everything and everybody, Id gladly do it!That indicates only one of his many and chang-ing moods. As to the proceedings of those viciousbirds: any person who, reading these lines, maychance to remember the huge, villainous rooks thatformerly used to pervade the court-yard of theTower of London, and, perhaps, are there now, will
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RICHARD AND FELIX MANSFIELD(About 1862) AT DERBY SCHOOL 37 easily understand that the child had grave reason todread his feathered foes. In boyhood Mansfield received some tuition, atJena, Yverdon, Bourbourg, and Berlin, and finally atDerby, England, where he was treated with muchkindness by the head master, Rev. Walter Clarke.That kindness he never forgot. His affection for hisold teacher was constant and it was often mani-fested. Indeed, one of the most winning traits ofMansfields character was fidelity of remembrance ofkind treatment. Once, when I was about to sailfor England, he gave to me a letter of hearty com-mendation to that good friend of his at Derby, urgingme, at the same time, to visit the school and deliveran address on Acting: and, he added, Tell themsomething about me. I was not very happy in Eng-land, when I played there; but at the school theytreated me kindly, and I would like them to knowthat one of their old boys really is doing something,—even though he had not

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