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...aboard the Beagle. The fox-hunting son of a prosperous Shrewsbury doctor, the young man proved a dud at school and at Cambridge. At 22, he seemed destined for what Victorians frankly called "a living" in the church. Only a chance friendship with the Rev. Professor J. S. Henslow of Cambridge, a botanist, led to Darwin's recommendation as the Beagle's naturalist. Chance, plus a certain amount of charm, determined that he hit it off immediately with the Beagle's hot-tempered Captain FitzRoy, a Tory traditionalist with a fundamentalist belief in the literal truth...
...back on the French in their demands for indemnity from Germany. In the opening scene, we have presented to us the romance between Pierre and Mildred, which had its inception in France before the action of the play. Mildred is trying to obtain a divorce from her husband, Casper Henslow...
...Henslow's lies, the clever satire on the average American love of scandal versus the noble ideals of the French, the breath of sentiment introduced from the pages of Dante Gabriel Rossetti all go to make the play something more than a comedy...
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