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'Well, sir, said the latter personage, 'I have lived in hall and abbey, town and country, here and abroad for forty years and more, and should know a thing or two, and as I am a living man, I swear I think the girl loves you. 'You are a fool, Ned, said the younger.
If he fail in that, he is disgraced, in his own eyes, before Heaven and men. If he does it, there is a reward, which seems to me a better, more powerful motive for Lucy to set before him than 'My dear, I hope you will distinguish yourself, when the fact is, "'England has forty thousand men, We trust, as good as he. "'Victory or Westminster Abbey! is a tolerable war-cry," said Mr. Ogilvie.
He is no bigot or hypocrite; he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance; no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow. He travels, he labours, he defends the oppressed, comforts the afflicted, helps the needy, and keeps the close of the abbey.
'Come, Pauncefort, rest yourself on this bench, said Lady Annabel, seating herself in the porch; 'and Venetia, my child, come hither to me. 'Mamma, said Venetia, 'what is the name of the gentleman to whom this abbey belongs? 'Lord Cadurcis, love. 'I should like to know why Lord Cadurcis lives abroad? said Venetia, musingly.
"But then that means that there is something more than my offending you in not liking The Three Tuns. If it is because I did not like to let you kiss me in the Abbey well, you know, Giles, that it was not on account of my cold feelings, but because I did certainly, just then, think it was rather premature, in spite of my poor father. That was the true reason the sole one.
There's the Tower, and Exeter Change, the British Museum, Saint Paul's, and Westminster Abbey, and other places I have heard speak of. The Tower is not far from here we passed it as we came along; we will go and see that first." On their way, however, they began to feel very hungry, and were thankful to find an eating-house where they could satisfy their appetites.
So they gained at length the village of Charing, which Edward had lately bestowed on his Abbey of Westminster, and which was now filled with workmen, native and foreign, employed on that edifice and the contiguous palace.
This considerable place was under the lordship of the abbots of Westminster. It had been a royal manor when Edward the Confessor came to the throne; he gave it to his new great abbey. This half-hide gave him his approach to the platform of chalk on which he designed to build. He began his work quickly.
"Another cross-bow for Westhope Abbey?" said Hugh, trying to speak unconcernedly, as he followed his host to a back room on the ground floor. Lord Newhaven was collecting arms for the hall of his country-house. "No; much simpler than those elaborate machines," said the older man, turning on the electric light. Hugh went in, and Lord Newhaven closed the door.
As we came out from the cloisters, and walked along by the churchyard of the Abbey, a woman came begging behind us very earnestly. "A bit of bread," she said, "and I will give you a thousand blessings! Hunger is hard to bear. O kind gentleman and kind lady, a penny for a bit of bread!
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