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“That we should,” one of them replied; “there is nothing to do here but to drill all day, and stare across the water when we are off duty, and wish we were at Portsmouth, where there is something to do and something to amuse one. This is the dullest hole I ever was quartered in. Cosham on one side and Fairham on the other are the only places that one can walk to.
Papa made great friends with Lord Cosham, while Mr. Rivers went to sleep after dinner, and I had such a delightful wandering with Meta, listening to the nightingales, and hearing all about it. I never knew Meta so well before." "And there was no more question of her going back?" said Norman. "No, indeed!
Cosham, or any other of your aunts or uncles should be shown in and find us alone together. You know what they're saying about us already." Cassandra was equally stricken by the sight of William's agitation, and appalled by the prospect of his desertion. "We might hide," she exclaimed wildly, glancing at the curtain which separated the room with the relics.
But he will get his knighthood and a pension, I believe," she said, turning to Ralph, "only it is not England." "No," Mrs. Cosham confirmed her, "it is not England. In those days we thought an Indian Judgeship about equal to a county-court judgeship at home. His Honor a pretty title, but still, not at the top of the tree.
Milton would go to Fareham, Widgery and Phipps should alight one each at the intermediate stations of Cosham and Porchester, and come on by the next train if they had no news. If they did not come on, a wire to the Fareham post office was to explain why.
Her expectations were realised by the archdeacon's speech, which went round in a circle, as if he could not find his way out of it. Lord Cosham was fluent, but a great many words went to very small substance; and no wonder, thought Ethel, when all they had to propose and second was the obvious fact that missions were very good things. Dr.
"Do you know the place where there is a road leading to Havant, and another to Cosham? It's about a mile down...." "I know the spot well, miss." "Well, straight in front of you when you get to the sign-post there is a little lane...." "I know it, miss," said Webster, with a faint smile. Twice had he escorted Miss Trimblett, Billie's maid, thither. "A delightfully romantic spot.
He rose with a lion added to the burthens of his conscience, and held out his hand to assist her. They walked down into Cosham again, resumed their machines, and went on at a leisurely pace along the northern shore of the big harbour. But Mr. Hoopdriver was no longer happy. This horrible, this fulsome lie, stuck in his memory. Why HAD he done it?
Thereupon he was ready to tackle the business problems which would absorb his attention until five o'clock. On arriving at Cosham Park he was taken to the study, where Kate Smith was awaiting him. "You have heard from Charley?" she said anxiously, after shaking hands. "Yes. Have you?" "He wired 'All well. He is very economical.
"Ah, no; it must have been pulled down by this time, with all the other old houses. There were such pretty lanes in those days. That was how your uncle met your Aunt Emily, you know," she addressed Katharine. "They walked home through the lanes." "A sprig of May in her bonnet," Mrs. Cosham ejaculated, reminiscently. "And next Sunday he had violets in his buttonhole. And that was how we guessed."
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