Voyages of Hope by Peter Johnson

Author:Peter Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-926971-46-9
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Published: 2011-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

Whymper, the aristocrat, saw the affair in patriotic terms. For him, unused to hard labour, it was jolly good fun: the landed gentry, dirtied and bare-chested, fighting with the proletariat for England and the Empire. He burst into poetry:

It is more than doubtful whether any of us would have echoed the words of England’s sea-song writer, who says,

“Then Bill, let us thank Providence

That you and I are sailors!”

But we found it good exercise and worked with a will.16

The dapper and elegant Whymper knew that the game was really about sporting in front of the ladies, and his view of them had altered slightly due to the attention that they now paid to him:

Did we not know that the eyes of sixty maidens were looking on approvingly as we helped them on to the consummation of their dearest wishes? We did, and even our parson creditably proved his “muscular Christianity,” and soiled his irreproachable garments at one and the same time.17

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