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She threw her arms round his neck, and laid her flaxen curls on his shoulder. Her blue eyes looked shyly at Merton out of her fleece of gold. The four shoes of the clients dangled at some distance above the carpet. 'You are the author of this article, I think, Mr. Graham? said Mr. Apsley, showing his hand, which was warm, and holding out a little crumpled ball of paper, not precisely fresh.
Now, by a flash of invention, she called to her cabman, 'Drive on fast! Major Apsley saw his lost children with their arms round the neck of a wonderfully pretty girl; the pretty girl waved her parasol to him with a smile, beckoning forwards; the children waved their arms, calling out 'A race! a race! What could a puzzled parent do but bid his cabman follow like the wind?
My father left her the place. She's married. That was done of her when she was twenty." "Apsley Manor?" "Yes," he twisted round. "How did you know the name of the place?" "I saw it in Who's Who?" "Oh " He laughed laughed hard. "Of course, you told me. Yes, Apsley Manor. It's a fine old place." "I'm sure it is. I've often tried to picture it." "I'll take you there one day to see it." It was out!
Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England. An American lady, when dining at Apsley House, observed that the Duke of Wellington was cutting up a cluster of grapes into small bunches, and she wondered that this illustrious man should give himself such unnecessary trouble.
Sir Allen Apsley, hearing of the treatment accorded to his brother-in-law, used his influence to bring about a change in his condition, but the alteration came too late, and he died on September 11, 1664.
Well, Archer, House up?" "Haven't been there. I have been," said Archer, with an air of mystery, "where I was wanted. Get me some supper, John something substantial. I hate your grandees who give you nothing to eat. If it had been at Apsley House, it would have been quite different.
Biographer, dau. of Sir Allan Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, m. in 1638 John, afterwards Colonel, Hutchinson, one of those who signed the death-warrant of Charles I., but who afterwards protested against the assumption of supreme power by Cromwell.
In 1897 the Second International Library Conference met in London, attended several concerts, was entertained by the Marchioness of Bute and Lady Lubbock; visited Lambeth Palace and Stafford and Apsley Houses; witnessed a special performance of Irving's Merchant of Venice; were elected honorary members of the City Liberal, Junior Athaeneum, National Liberal, and Savage Clubs; and, generally speaking, enjoyed themselves after the methods current during that period.
I've made that feeble joke before to somebody else. No neither." "We had some rather good days with the pheasants this year down at Apsley." "Did you?" "Yes, Harold got sixty-seven birds one day." "Lucky dog! Have you finished? Well, look here, we'll come along to my rooms I'm on the first floor now; I hate talking in these places.
During these sittings the following letters were read also: One from Richard How, of Apsley, offering his services to the commitee. Another from the reverend Christopher Wyvill, of Burton Hall in Yorkshire, to the same effect.
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