...587. And I may refer to all of the Articles, and catechisms, from the Augsburgh to the Westminster. Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Irving: Preliminary D... ...or the parallel succession of the trumpets which affect the eastern as the seals do the western half of the fourth empire, and also to make room for ... ...by the true Cyrus, our Lord; that the bringing of David from the shepherds crook to the royal sceptre, through numerous perils and weary warfare, wa... ...le school exercises, and other forms of man’s wayward mind, substituted in place of the royal ordinance of preaching, and the plentiful demonstratio... ...m, that God may be all in all;” that is, the earth shall no longer be under mediatorial regiment, but under the same direct regiment of God in which... ...erested in prophetic studies, that they should assemble at his house of Albury Park, in Surrey, on the first day of Advent, that we might deliberate... ...hall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: t hey shall bow down to thee wit... ...wo spouses, or two different churches; —but because these two sisters, both independent queens, so far as pertaineth to earthly government, must comp...

...al in London he had written off to his father’s solicitors, signifying his royal pleasure that an inter- view should take place between them on the mo... ...splendour of a lord. 11 Thackeray CHAPTER XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment WHEN JOS’S FINE CARRIAGE drove up to the inn door at Chatham, the ... ...bow of which he was capable; to which Amelia, seeing the number of the the regiment em- broidered on the Ensign’s cap, replied with a blushing smile, ... ...-three years of age; and the honest fellow obeying, carried her off to the West Indies, to preside over the ladies of the —th regi- ment, into which h... ... Paris in two months, I tell you; when I’ll take you to dine in the Palais Royal, by Jove! There are three hundred thousand Rooshians, I tell you, now... ...e could have said it was a crack cavalry corps. “Come home lately from the West Indies, I believe. Not seen much service in the late war. Quartered he... ...ip, who promised to show him the Tower of London and take him out with the Surrey hounds.” At last, he said, “There was an old gentleman, with thick e...

...y Thieves” which Miss Budge performed with unbounded applause both at the “Surrey” and “The Wells.” Mrs. Crump sat in a little bar, profusely orna- me... ...ossip in which the other mentioned journal abounds. The fact is, that the “Royal Bootjack,” though a humble, was a very genteel house; and a very litt... ... had himself once drawn off with that very boot- jack the top-boots of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the first gentleman in Europe. While... ...op in Bond Street, stand, as is very well known, the Windsor Chambers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British an... ...senting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western Branch on the base- ment)—lives a gentleman by the n... ...Music with a V engeance.—The march to the sound of which the 49th and 75th regiments rushed up the breach of Badajoz was the celebrated air from ‘Brit... ...igade, how the battle of Wa- terloo would have been lost but for the Irish regiments, and enu- merates other acts for which we are indebted to Milesia...

... to guess how he knew she had a brother on the medical staff of one of the regiments in India: she asked 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and ... ...formation, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at which ... ...ve stood their ground, had they not taken his handful to be the advance of regiments. These are the deeds that win empires! the argument in his favour... ...ht do worse than try a slip of one of those juicy weeds; ill-fated, sickly Royalties would be set-up striding through another half-cen- tury with such... ...lection before nightfall. The landscape given off any of the airy hills of Surrey would suffice to do it. A lady stood among her boxes below, as he de... ...ave a mission,’ she said. ‘There’s a fenc- ing match down at a hall in the West, near the barracks; private and select: Soldier and Civilian; I forget... ...p sentences, hard on the mat- ter, without garnish of scorn. Kent, Sussex, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the south- wes... ...n. In those days the world had oscillated, under higher lead- ing than its royal laxity, to rigidity. Tiny peccadilloes were no longer matter of jest,...

...ent prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable Ea... ...stood that besides the crew, there were the usual company of marines and a platoon of a Highland Regiment (some of whom were accompanied by their wi... ...arrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was t... ...ir, was born to the happy couple who named the little girl ‘Helen’ in honour of their doctor. The Regiment’s Presbyterian minister baptised the baby... ...ointed out that the sky in the east was already dark purple with a faint, pink glow still in the west. The smell of jasmine and frangipani scented t... ...s from among the native population. She could even see the attraction of these Eastern women to a Western male - they were so submissive and learned... ...England after India was granted Independence from British Rule in 1947. Audrey now lives in leafy Surrey near Epsom Downs, the home of the famous De...

...tury India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies ...

...the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and ... ... vigor with the hope returned, With flying foot the heath he spurned, Held westward with unwearied race, And left behind the panting chase. VI. ‘T wer... ...peed the while, Nor think again of the lonely isle. ‘High place to thee in royal court, High place in battled line, Good hawk and hound for sylvan ... ...tly dance than blithe strathspey, Nor half so pleased mine ear incline T o royal minstrel’s lay as shine. And then for suitors proud and high, T o ben... ...ich it was often used where a modern writer would choose another word. Cf. Surrey, Virgil’s AEneid: “With wailing great and women’s shrill yelling;” a... ...tiquities, vol. i. p. 164) informs us that in 1747 the privates of the 42d regiment, then in Flanders, were for the most part permitted to carry targe...

...me, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised... ...h some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at the latest telegrams from all the world, scru... ...sel of the day argued and shouted over a miser- able little matter of more royalties or less and whether the Dass-Tata company might not bar the Holst... ...unning over a dog and com- plains of the ruinous price of ‘spatchcocks’ in Surrey. ‘Spatchcocks,’ it seems, was a slang term for crushed hens. He pass... ...es. The country was on the eve of war. He was to go back through London to Surrey. His first feeling, he records, was one of extreme relief that his d... ...Channel T unnel there were enthusiastic spectators, and the feeling in the regiment, if a little stiff- ened and darkened by grim anticipations, was n... ...t piece in the game, to replace under amended reports one Central European regiment by a score, to draw back or thrust out or distribute this or that ... ...ense,’ said the king, as Firmin prepared to speak. ‘I am going to fling my royalty and empire on the table—and declare at once I don’t mean to haggle.... ...re fighting duels over the praises of women and holding tournaments before Queens of Beauty.’ ‘I saw a beautiful girl in Lahore,’ said Kahn, ‘she sat ...

...ve not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for ... ...ndon,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was making itself felt more and more. But this was only the beginning... ...and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my father’s, and I do not thi... ... and she tried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queec... ...t to either.) Through a slight mistake about the county boundary I adopted Surrey for my loyalty, though as a mat- ter of fact we were by some five hu... ...its and trenches I had created to cheek a victorious invader coming out of Surrey. For him West Kensington was chiefly important as the scene of a des... ...roops (who had seized the Navy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to t... ...E keeps ‘is side-arms awful: ‘e leaves ‘em all about An’ then comes up the regiment an’ pokes the ‘eathen out. All along o’ dirtiness, all along o... ...at prototype, was Herbert Spencer (who couldn’t read Kant); such are whole regiments of prominent and entirely self-satisfied contemporaries. They go ...

...ling into con- versation upon the brave Lord Larrian’s deeds, and an Irish regiment he favoured—had no taste for the enemy without the backing of his ... ...stane’s guest for some months.’ ‘Then you will. Sir Lukin has an estate in Surrey. He talks of quitting the Service.’ ‘I can’t believe it!’ His thrill... ...iscourse humorously. The residence of Sir Lukin Dunstane, in the county of Surrey, inherited by him during his recent term of Indian services, was on ... ...he hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a day of our breezy South-west, washed from the showery night, gives distantly a tower to view, and a... ...melt icicles in Greenland. He walked unthinkingly, right ahead, to the red West, as he discovered when pausing to consult his watch. Time was left to ... ...he regretted his age and infirmities. A 116 Diana of the Crossways goodly regiment for a bodyguard might have been selected to protect her steps in t... ... work by Antonia was progressing. The Summer in South T yrol passed like a royal procession before young eyes for Diana, and at the close of it, desce... ...ocial influence, and critics are her dedi- cated courtiers, gaping for the royal mouth to be opened, 195 George Meredith and reserving the kicks of t...

... memoir, was son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed mor... ...om the Castle to be driven in an open carriage to Salt Hill and bestow her Royal contribution. In the throng little Patteson was pressed up so close t... ...contribution. In the throng little Patteson was pressed up so close to the Royal carriage that he became entangled in the wheel, and was on the point ... ...relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Rectory, in Cornwall, was the home of her eldest brother, Dr... ...r sports. On October 31, the Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, then Arch- deacon of Surrey, and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the mor... ...part of the Melanesian school to a little island not far from the coast of Queensland, in a much warmer climate than Kohimarama, where it was thought ... ...y have a branch school on the S.W . of Curtis Island, on the east coast of Queensland, healthy, watered, wooded, with anchorage, about 25° S. lati- tu... ...re detail, but one of principle. The system is not that of the ship or the regiment, of the farm or the manufactory of the old country, but essentiall...

...:) DUKE of BUCKINGHAM : (BUCKINGHAM:) DUKE of NORFOLK : (NORFOLK:) EARL of SURREY : His son. (SURREY:) EARL RIVERS : Brother to Elizabeth. (RIVERS... ... is bad indeed. O, he hath kept an evil diet long, And overmuch consumed his royal person: ’Tis very grievous to be thought upon. What, is he in his b... ...y king! Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster! Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood! Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentat... ...’ll salute your grace of York as mother, And reverend looker on, of two fair queens. [To LADY ANNE .] Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster, T... ...r on, of two fair queens. [To LADY ANNE .] Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster, There to be crowned Richard’s royal queen. QUEEN ELIZABETH :... ... murder: for my daughters, Richard, They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens; And therefore level not to hit their lives. KING RICHARD III : Y... ...BY following .] How now! what news? RATCLIFF: My gracious sovereign, on the western coast Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore Throng many doubtful h... ...n, And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me. The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment: Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him And by the second... ... have mista’en his colors much, Which well I am assured I have not done, His regiment lies half a mile at least South from the mighty power of the kin...

...me: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after whi... ... a mortal. This was no other than Captain William Dobbin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which ... ...bin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment... ... in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the ... ...rs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge. The party was landed at the Royal Gardens in due time. As the majestic Jos stepped out of the creaking ... ... liked it just as well—wanted a pipe for the Commander- in-Chief. He’s his Royal Highness’s right-hand man.” “It is devilish fine wine,” said the Eyeb... ...ars to her name in the East India stockholders’ list. She had a mansion in Surrey, and a house in Portland Place. The name of the rich West India heir...

...er, haply turning this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragm... ... of the cup I drink! But I bow submissive. God must have done right. I do not want to feel less, but to acquiesce more simply. There were some Jewish ... ...en very successful abroad, and was now returning to fulfil his sacred vow; he brought all his property with him in gold uninsured. We heard from him w... ...pound, at the very same time when the rich parish of Saint George’s, Hanover-square, is rated at about sevenpence in the pound, Paddington at about fo... ... suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth about it, must look to ... ...ppearance and manners of gentlemen—a popular phenomenon which never existed on earth out of fiction and a police report. Again: I wonder why people ar... ... more or less in the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? Are we not nightly persuaded, as they daily are, that we associate prepos... ...y in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had been an offi... ... by the forehead, sometimes by the girdle and the shoulders, not a pleasant sight to see. Scattered through this country are mighty works of Vauban, w...

... any of its accents outward or inward, than others natives of Middlesex or Surrey, where the scene of his chief education lay. The climate of Bute is ... ...uary, 1805. Two months later, some eleven months after their marriage, the regiment was broken; and Captain Sterling, declining to serve elsewhere on ... ...s pleasantly, with its white cottages, and orchard and other trees, on the western slope of a green hill looking far and wide over green meadows and l... ...ordination and co-ordination,—is so unspeakably impor- tant. Professions, “regimented human pursuits,” how many of honorable and manful might be possi... ... you about these; but perhaps you may like to hear of my expedition to the West. “I wrote to Polvellan (Mr. Buller’s) to announce the day on which I i... ...at there lay in a certain neighboring creek of the Irish coast, a worn-out royal gun-brig condemned to sale, to be had dog-cheap: this he proposed tha... ... pictures of Architecture, and by Heads of Saints, better than many at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and which one paid noth- ing for looking at. The ...

...the Jubilee, Victoria’s Jubilee, because I remember the seats and flags in Westminster, and the row with the cabman at Chelsea.” “The Diamond Jubilee,... ...a to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of course, but the whole sit... ...d.” 24 When the Sleeper Wakes They did not answer him. “The Queen and the Royal Family, her Ministers, of Church and State. High and low, rich and po... ...ight be. His first enquiry simply resulted in a direction to go on towards Westminster. His second led to the discovery of a short cut in which he was... ...cessant duty. Far away, spiked, jagged and indented by the wind vanes, the Surrey Hills rose blue and faint; to the north and nearer, the sharp contou... ...eeming 109 H G Wells aeropile circled high in the blue distance above the Surrey Hills, an unimpressive soaring speck. A thing Graham had already lea... ...n has been shown. It is their own negroes—French speaking negroes. Senegal regiments, and Niger and Timbuctoo.” “Regiments?” said Graham, “I thought t...

...s Mary Griffith, belonged to a naval family. Her father had been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, and her uncle, Admiral Sir John Griffith, was... ...he other day in my mother’s desk, folded over the case of the medal of the Royal Humane Soci- ety, which Griff affected to despise, but which, when he... ...air property, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectati... ...ty, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectations would ... ...uch of a season that year, owing to the illness and death of George IV . A regiment containing two old schoolmates of his was at Bristol, and he spent... ...talking for some days past of riding over to see his friend in the cavalry regiment there stationed, and we all agreed that it was most likely that he... ...able, and learnt that his brother was supposed to be staying at a villa in Surrey, where there were to be private theatricals. He had forwarded the le...

...r in the pursuit. The stock exchange, the pulpit, the counting house, the royal drawing room, the senate,—what but for tune hunters are they filled ... ...out of drums and masquerades and parties at quadrille, were passing at the west end of the town, heavy stagecoaches and scarce heavier waggons were lu... ...ce. In the fields, the lanes, the roads, in all quarters of the town—east, west, north, and south— that man was seen gliding on like a shadow. He was ... ...d, he would have liked them still less. ‘Is he recruiting for a—for a fine regiment?’ said Joe, glancing at a little round mirror that hung in the bar... .... ‘I believe he is,’ replied the host. ‘It’s much the same thing, whatever regiment he’s recruiting for. I’m told there an’t a deal of difference betw... ...e known from their make and pattern to be the uniform of a serjeant in the Royal East London V olunteers. As the locksmith put his mug down, empty, on... ...a vast throng of persons were crossing the river from the Middlesex to the Surrey shore, in unusual haste and evi dent excitement. They were, for the...

...ome sentence, they pass on. Sometimes the flats and churches and hotels of Westminster are like the outlines of Constantinople in a mist; sometimes th... ...cab, by trotting steadily along the same road, soon withdrew them from the West End, and plunged them into London. It appeared that this was a great m... ...eing incurably corrupt. Yet how blame, etc.”; while Clarissa inspected the royal stables, and took several snap- shots showing men now exiled and wind... ...he other hand, are allowed one footman to stand up behind; dukes have two, royal dukes—so I was told—have three; the king, I suppose, can have as many... ...though the people of England must be shaped in the body like the kings and queens, knights and pawns of the chessboard, so strange were their differen... ...ely that this process might continue for an hour or more, until the entire regiment had shifted 98 The Voyage Out its quarters, had not the door open... ...rwoman in Lancaster Gate, and another with a garden and carriage-horses in Surrey. Susan’s engagement relieved her of the one great anxiety of her lif...

...UGGSES AT RAMSGATE ONCE UPON A TIME there dwelt, in a narrow street on the Surrey side of the water, within three minutes’ walk of old London Bridge, ... ...ted on one of the wooden benches which are stationed near the verge of the western cliff. The moon had climbed higher into the heavens, by two hours’ ... ...ss Teresa had as much chance of a husband as Captain Ross had of the north-west passage. Years have elapsed since the occurrence of this dreadful morn... ...n the captain, who was reported to have once passed through Spain with his regiment, and who must be well acquainted with the national music. He was i... ..., I wish I could say the same. I am as regularly over head and ears as the Royal George, and stand about as much chance of being bailed out. Ha! ha! h...

.................................................. 60 THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST ......................................................................... ...or they’re hangin’ Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment’s in ‘ollow square — they’re hangin’ him to-day; They’ve taken... ...n’ — you must look ‘im in the face; Nine ‘undred of ‘is county an’ the regiment’s disgrace, V erses 1889 to 1896 11 While they’re hangin’ Dan... ...AD OF EAS AD OF EAS AD OF EAST AND WES T AND WES T AND WES T AND WES T AND WEST T T T T Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain s... ...other thrall. “For I ruled the King as ne’er did Queen, — To-night the Queens rule me! Guard them safely, but let me go, Or ever they pay the debt... ... Cut loose and ride alone!” Then Scindia ‘twixt his blistered lips: — “My Queens’ Queen shall she be! “Of all who ate my bread last night ’twas she a... ... t The Song of the Cities he Cities he Cities he Cities he Cities BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer ha... ...rush. — The Athenæum. Buy my English posies! Kent and Surrey may — Violets of the Undercliff Wet with Channe... ... Buy my English posies! Here’s to match your need — Buy a tuft of royal heath, Buy a bunch of weed White as sand of Muysenberg ...

...ther was in the battle of T rafalgar; and Alan has been three years in the West Indies, and then he was in the Mediterranean, and now on the coast of ... ... it may make Drakes of him? Ha! Ethel— “Oh, give us for our Kings such Queens, And for our Ducks such Drakes.” There had not been such a merr... ...omething more in hopes of making it genteel.” “I caught one of your ragged regiment with her frock gap- ing behind, and pinned it up. Such rags as the... ...t him free. —Shenstone. THE SETTING sun shone into the great west window of the school at Stoneborough, on its bare walls, the masters’ ... ...ere nothing to them. Next, I shall find out what character he bears in his regiment, and watch him well myself; and, if nothing appear seriously amiss... ... recess was not spent at the Grange, but at Lady Leonora’s pretty house in Surrey. She had invited the party in so pressing a manner that Flora did no... ...miscalculated the chances of interruption. Meta was lingering to track the royal highway of some giant ants to their fir-leaf hillock, when they were ...

...is informed by the serjeant that it is essential to his pros pects in the regiment that he should take out a single Gloucester cheese, weighing from ... ...ugh going way of passing along to their duty at night, carrying huge sou’ wester clothing in reserve, that is fraught with all good pre possession. ... ...es, we could have put away the knapsacks and hung up the hats of the whole regiment of Guides. Aforetime, M. Loyal was a tradesman in the town. You c... ...effect, I beheld advancing towards me (I was then on Cornhill, near to the Royal Exchange), a solemn procession of three advertising vans, of first cl... ...retreat. As I looked upward, I felt, I should imagine, like the Astronomer Royal. I was enchanted by the contrast between the freezing nature of our e... ...tch, Shoreditch, and the City Road; one (the King said) would stick to the Surrey side; another would make a beat of the West end. His Majesty remarke... ...ing said) would stick to the Surrey side; another would make a beat of the West end. His Majesty remarked, with some approach to severity, on the negl... ...ays. On the evening of the third day, coming over Waterloo Bridge from the Surrey side of the river, quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed,...

...hrough Kentish hopgardens, Sussex corn-fields, or by the pleasant hills of Surrey, after a gymnastic leap over the riband of salt water, haunted many ... ... require. It turned out that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of y... ...ude the non-commissioned officers, the privates, and the cooks, of all the regiments?’ He could scarcely think that, but thought it provoking the Fren... ...EY came of a race of fight- ing earls, toughest of men, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changei... ...have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered, bit by bi... ...h face con- cerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to wh... ... the faint red Doge’s palace was like the fading of an- other sunset north-westward of the glory along the hills. Venice dropped lower and lower, brea... ...thing to hear was, that Lady Romfrey had paid Mrs. Devereux a visit at her Surrey house unexpectedly one Sunday in the London season, for the purpose,...

...me: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after whi... ... a mortal. This was no other than Captain William Dobbin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which ... ...bin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment... ... in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the ... ...rs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge. The party was landed at the Royal Gardens in due time. As the majestic Jos stepped out of the creaking ... ... liked it just as well—wanted a pipe for the Commander- in-Chief. He’s his Royal Highness’s right-hand man.” “It is devilish fine wine,” said the Eyeb... ...ars to her name in the East India stockholders’ list. She had a mansion in Surrey, and a house in Portland Place. The name of the rich West India heir... ...ip, who promised to show him the Tower of London and take him out with the Surrey hounds.” At last, he said, “There was an old gentleman, with thick e...

...entative statue of City Corporations and London’s maj- esty, the figure of Royalty, worshipful in its marbled redun- dancy, fronting the bridge, on th... ...an: ‘ Anything doing in the City?’ For Mr. Fenellan’s proper station faced Westward. The reply was deferred until they had reached the pave- ment, whe... ...qual, demands perpetually upon stomach and head. CHAPTER V THE LONDON WALK WESTWARD IN THAT NATIONALLY interesting Poem, or Dramatic Satire, once famo... ...he 34 One of Our Conquerors winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- s... ... is a very old friend?’ ‘Our fathers were friends; they served in the same regiment for years. I was in India when Victor Radnor took the fatal!’ ‘Fol... ...ile doing penance for his presumptuousness, he believed that he could lead regiments of men. He was not the army’s General, he was the General’s Lieut... ...; which succulent calling had carried him down to near upon the borders of Surrey and Sussex, some miles beyond the new big house of a Mister whose na...

...s not only on different ships, but on the same ship according as her head is to the east or west. In my own experience, the principal difference betwe... ...e first natural instinct was to take him for a desperado; but although the features, to our Western eyes, had a barbaric and unhomely cast, the eye bo... ...om America,’ he argued; ‘but who pays for it? All the money in the world’s in England.’ The Royal Navy was the best of possible services, according to... ...ad been an officer; of the East Indies, where in former years he had lived lavishly; of the Royal Engineers, where he had served for a period; and of ... ... here, after Waterloo, rather than yield its en- sign to the new power, one of his faithful regiments burned that memorial of so much toil and glory o... ...tly. Bold rocks near hand are more inspiriting than distant Alps, and the thick fern upon a Surrey heath makes a fine forest for the imagina- tion, an...

.... She discovered a desire to enter as a student in the Imperial College at Westminster, where Russell taught, and go on with her work at the foun- tai... ...now scruti- nized Ann Veronica. He dressed rather after the fashion of the West End than the City, and affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disco... ...ourse. “It rests with them by the nature of things. Why should you who are queens come down from your thrones? If you can afford it, WE can’t. We can’... ...dolen’s eye. Annabel shines like a star in the darkness, Rosamund queens it a rose, deep rose; But the lady I love is like sunshine in Apr... ...old-world garden, our gar- den—there are splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite within my means. You 44 Ann V... ...I suppose he’s frightfully clever,” said Miss Klegg. “He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he can’t be much over thirty,” said Miss Klegg. “He writ... ...o the westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudg... ...istances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. And when we see them we shall at once w...

... and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose repose he had disturbed. The following conversatio... ...e that a great deal of walking would ultimately bring me to St. Paul’ s or Westminster Abbey; to anything else I was indifferent. Toward sunset my fra... ...wd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal salvo!’ said my father, and asked me earnestly whether I had forgotte... ...earth in perfect trust. We spoke of our old Sunday walks to St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey as of a day that had its charm. Our pew among a fashionab... ...t write word to that effect, and attend punctually to business duties, for Surrey House was not an almshouse, either for the sons of gentlemen of high... ...n to meet again. I shall go to a military school. Mind you enter a cavalry regiment when you’re man enough. Look in the Army List, you’ll find me ther... ...accident took away from Mr. Salter the responsibility of delivering him at Surrey House, but that he, Heriot, was bound, for Mr. Salter’s sake, to con... ...? Oh, don’t go away from me, Walter. Do you love me so?’ ‘I’d go through a regiment of sabres to get at you.’ ‘But smell the night air; how sweet! oh,... ...n colours at the top; down each side, encricled in laurels, were kings and queens of England with their sceptres, and in the middle I read the initial...

...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ...a bottle of wine and a good dinner , and having once been seen at the Cafe Royal with a lady who was very prob- ably a near relation, was thenceforwar... ... Chinaman, with a yel- low face and an expansive smile, who was study- ing Western conditions at the University. He spoke so quickly , with a queer ac... ...r an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West. Cacilie was flaunting and cynical. At last even the Frau Professor co... ...he vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very pretty, one ... ... sented herself as the wife of a soldier who had gone to India to join his regiment, and Philip was introduced to the mistress of the establishment as... ... green like the heart of a yellow rose. The wharfs and store-houses of the Surrey Side were massed in disorderly loveliness. The scene was so exquisit...

... Home THE DAY HAD BRIGHTENED very much, and still brightened as we went westward. We went our way through the sunshine and the fresh air, wondering... ...were going to establish in a picturesque build ing (engraving of proposed west elevation attached) the Sis terhood of Mediaeval Marys, they were goi... ...o baronet with a head seven hundred years thick, may. A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and pres... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ommission was obtained and Richard re ceived directions with it to join a regiment in Ireland. He arrived post haste with the intelligence one evenin... ...et of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far fame...

... Home THE DAY HAD BRIGHTENED very much, and still brightened as we went westward. We went our way through the sunshine and the fresh air, wondering... ...were going to establish in a picturesque build ing (engraving of proposed west elevation attached) the Sis terhood of Mediaeval Marys, they were goi... ...o baronet with a head seven hundred years thick, may. A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and pres... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ommission was obtained and Richard re ceived directions with it to join a regiment in Ireland. He arrived post haste with the intelligence one evenin... ...et of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far fame...

...e, and that the young gentle The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 21 men of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quanti ties of apples to conceal a... ...r heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour... ...ge with men in glazed hats and round jackets pretty well every day. On the Surrey side of the river was a small rat infested dreary yard called ‘Quilp... ... Majesty’s attornies of the Courts of the King’s Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, un... ...alled collection’—’Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry’—’The Royal Family are the pa trons of Jarley. ’ When she had exhibited these le... ...others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a pri vate in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit,...

...ure of the Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold as they ap- peared in the Royal Box at Drury Lane Theatre, and oth- ers of the same class, have been ... ...ned the scale, and a feather did turn it. A missionary re- turned from the West Indies; he was to be presented to the Dissenters’ Missionary Society o... ... leading thor- 61 Charles Dickens oughfares: peep through the window of a west- end cigar shop in the evening, if you can manage to get a glimpse bet... ...had the pleasure of knowing it ever since it has been a shop. It is on the Surrey side of the water—a little distance beyond the Marsh-gate. It was or... ... such a splashing and struggling as never was seen before, except when the Royal George went down. ‘Back wa’ater, sir, ’ shouts Dando, ‘Back wa’ater, ... ... or it may, perhaps, form the chief nuisance of some shabby street, on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. The lady performers pay nothing for their c... ...n the captain, who was reported to have once passed through Spain with his regiment, and who must be well acquainted with the national music. He was i...

..., in Kent; there was a battle fought near Charles Dickens 13 Chertsey, in Surrey; there was a battle fought near a marshy little town in a wood, the ... ...nd settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled in the West, and called their kingdom Wessex; the Northfolk, or Norfolk people, es... ...d been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to ... ... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ... This was called ‘touching for the King’s Evil,’ which afterwards became a royal custom. You know, however, Who really touched the sick, and healed th... ... the Church of Our Lady at Boulogne, where there were four Kings and three Queens present (quite a pack of Court Cards, for I dare say the Knaves were... ...ng, and three hundred and twenty broad—were opened for the tournament; the Queens of France and England looking on with great array of lords and ladie... ...ued letters to borrow money at high interest. The Parliament raised twenty regiments of foot and seventy five troops of horse; and the people willingl... ...eir wedding rings. Every member of Parliament who could raise a troop or a regiment in his own part of the country, dressed it according to his taste ...

... O he hath kept an euill Diet long, 148 And ouer- much consum’d his Royall Person: 149 ’Tis very greeuous to be thought vpon. 150 Whe... ... Ashes of the House of Lancaster; 181 Thou bloodlesse Remnant of that Royall Blood, 182 Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghost, 183 To... ...looker on of two faire Queenes. 2510 Come Madame, you must straight to Westminster, 2511 There to be crowned Richards Royall Queene. 2512 ... ...224 Enter Ratcliffe. 3225 Rat. Most mightie Soueraigne, on the Westerne Coast 3226 Rideth a puissant Nauie: to our Shores 3227 Thr... ...ing Richard in Armes with Norfolke, Ratcliffe, 3432 and the Earle of Surrey. 3433 Rich. Here pitch our Tent, euen here in Bosworth field... ...ich. Here pitch our Tent, euen here in Bosworth field, 3434 My Lord of Surrey, why looke you so sad? 3435 Sur. My heart is ten times light... ...r Walter Herbert stay with me: 3465 The Earle of Pembroke keepes his Regiment; 3466 Good Captaine Blunt, beare my goodnight to him, 3467 ... ...ours much, 3472 (Which well I am assur’d I haue not done) 3473 His Regiment lies halfe a Mile at least 3474 South, from the mighty Power o...

...itons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, and some into its west point. The Britons used to cal... ...told you of had all fallen into the hands of one king. Egbert, King of the West Saxons, who reigned at Winches- ter, is counted as the first king of a... ... the Norman conquest. But there have been no more since; and the kings and queens have gone on in one long line ever since, from William of Normandy d... ...r of Malcolm Greathead, King of Scotland, and of a lady of the old English royal line. They loved her greatly, and called her good Queen Maude. Robert... ...rmany, till he heard his master’s voice take up and reply to his song. The Queens, Eleanor and Berengaria, raised a ransom— that is, a sum of money to... ...isers, they cut off his head. Richard had to sleep in the house called the Royal Wardrobe that night, but he went out again on horseback among the mob... ...way. But there were plenty of stout Englishmen left, and under the Earl of Surrey, they beat the Scots entirely at the battle of Flodden field; and Ki... ...Cromwell’s army was broken up, and the men sent to their homes, except one regiment which came from Coldstream in Scotland. These would not disband, a... ...l the men learnt something of how to be soldiers, and made themselves into regiments of volunteers; and careful watch was kept against the quantities ...

... the occasion of her meeting the Old Buccaneer. She met him at Richmond in Surrey we know for certain. It was on Richmond Hill, where the old King met... ...he same. But he had turned right about, and appeared transfixed and like a royal beast angry, with his wound. If ever there was love at first sight, a... ...he night in midwinter, often, looking for the mountains down in her native West country, covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a ta... ... secretly to Vienna and enlisted and served for a year as a private in the regiment of Hussars, called, my papers tell me, Liechtenstein, and what wit... ...Could I cook?’ she asked him humbly. ‘No, you couldn’t; not for a starving regiment! Your ac- complishments are of a different sort. No, it’s better t... ...un. The half-moon fell rayless and paler than the fan of fleeces pushed up Westward, high overhead, them- selves dispersing on the blue in downy feath... ...ey had been collectors of beetles and butterflies, and the flying by of a ‘royal-mantle,’ the purple butterfly grandly fringed, could still remind Car... ...y. But if we are the fools to share it, we lose our chance; instead of the queens, we are the slaves, and instead of a life of pleasure, we pass from ... ...day at a ball at Mrs. Cowper Quillett’s place, Canleys, lying south of the Surrey hills: a house famed for its gatherings of beautiful women; whither ...

...rought down by the rivers of which the Itchen and the T est remain. On the western side of the Itchen, exactly at the border where the chalk gives way... ...thern country would have joined the chalk downs, mak- ing part of what the West Saxons called the Jotunwald, or Giant’s Wood, and the river Ytene, and... ... Mr. Marsh, the historian of Hursley, proves at some length that Merton in Surrey was more likely to have been the scene of the tragedy. Church proper... ...e 1531, a man who, though he had consented to the king’s assumption of the royal supremacy, grieved over the fact as an error all his life. He appeare... ...ity. The period of alteration is fixed by a great square board bearing the royal arms, with the initials W. and M. and the date 1687. No notice was ta... ...n, of the old family of Y onges of Puslinch. He then retired from the 52nd regiment, in which he had taken part in the Pyrenean battles, and in those ...

...f enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-western England put much to his credit the declaration of his wife’s pronou... ...e laid hand on, and the old mappemonde, and the severely-shin- ing orderly regiment of books breathing of her whether she had opened them or not, as h... ...m, uncle? He is out riding, they tell me.’ ‘The youngster is used to south-western showers in that climate of his,’ Mr. Adister replied. ‘I dare say w... ...nced her approaching union; and as she couldn’t have a scion of one of the Royal House of Europe, she put her foot on Prince Nikolas. And he ‘s not to... ...ent. Hear it any morning in your London parks, at the head of a march- ing regiment of your giant foot-Guards. Three bangs of the drum, like the famou... ...hing I confess; I never have yet brought myself to venerate thoroughly our Royal Stan- dard. I dare say it is because I do not understand it.’ A stron... ... the two he was more interested by the elder lady, whose farm and dairy in Surrey he heard her tell of with a shining glance, observing that he liked ... ...nd I’ll introduce you. I shall find her in London, or at our lodgings at a Surrey farm we’ve taken to nurse my cousin Captain Philip O’Donnell invalid...

.......................... 162 CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN’S P A Y IN QUIN’S REGIMENT. .................................................................... ...r the sacrifices made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was o... ...Esmond, on his part, was conspicuous for his attachment and loyalty to the Royal cause and person: and the King being at Oxford in 1642, Sir George, w... ...e to call his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, wh... ...all his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, when he ... ...the elm. The London road stretched away towards the rising sun, and to the west were swelling hills and peaks, behind which many a time Harry Esmond s... ..., with a handsome garden behind it, and a pleasant look-out both to- wards Surrey and Kensington, where stands the noble ancient palace of the Lord Wa... ...ssed it, and called him her preserver and her dear. She wasn’t thinking of Queens and crowns. The Bishop’s news was reassuring: at least all was not l...

...TER II I COME TO THE END OF MY CAPTIVITY, BUT NOT OF MY TROUBLE..................................... 162 CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN?S PAY IN QUIN?S REGIMENT. ...................................................................... 171...

...h its private freight; the brisk curricle of the letter- carrier, robed in royal scarlet: these and a thousand others were laboring and pressing onwar... ...plume and apron of variegated feathers, decorated the lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave... ...who was in fact Mr. Alexander Pope. “What a marvel- lous gift is this, and royal privilege of Art! To make the Ideal more credible than the Actual: to... ...ner had escaped, and a gigantic warrior in the uniform of a colonel of the regiment of Artois glaring over me with pointed sword. 28 Thackeray “Rends... ...and Cross of St. Louis, the title of Count, the command of a crack cavalry regiment, the l4me Chevaux Marins, were the bribes that were actually offer... ...FRANCE was walking on the terrace of V ersailles; the fairest, not only of Queens, but of women, hung fondly on the Royal arm; while the children of F... ...SIDERABLE SENSATION has been excited in the upper and lower circles in the West End, by a startling piece of good fortune which has befallen James Plu... ...o live in England, at Portland Place, and 347 Burlesques Tuggeridgeville, Surrey, and enjoy himself. Soon after, my wife took her daughter in her han... ... her eyes out.” And so I do believe my dearest Jemmy would! A DAY WITH THE SURREY HOUNDS. OUR BALL HAD FAILED so completely that Jemmy, who was bent s...