... I suggested that he write for Oldham's Press, which I was advising, a biography of Mountjoy: Elizabethan General. This was a congenial subject, which Cyril made the most of. ...
... Mountjoy's long liaison with Essex's beautiful sister, the wife of Lord Rich, was recognised by society, until Mountjoy married the lady, when social humbug made a scandal of it. All this appealed to Cyril, who had a soldierly gallantry for the fair sex.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "... I suggested that he write for Oldham's Press, which I was advising, a biography of Mountjoy: Elizabethan General. This was a congenial subject, which Cyril made the most of. ...
... Mountjoy's long liaison with Essex's beautiful sister, the wife of Lord Rich, was recognised by society, until Mountjoy married the lady, when social humbug made a scandal of it. All this appealed to Cyril, who had a soldierly gallantry for the fair sex." in the context of "(1995), Historians I Have Known, page: 187, publisher: Duckworth, ISBN: 978-0-7156-2649-8 1st two sentences last two sentences" to mean that wisdom is timeless.