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I stood up, steadying myself upon my uncle's shoulder, but though I could see for a mile, or perhaps a quarter more, there was not a sign of the four-in-hand. "If he has sprung his cattle up all these hills they'll be spent ere they see Croydon," said he. "They have four to two," said I. "J'en suis bien sur. Sir John's black strain makes a good, honest creature, but not fliers like these.
Anyhow, the little hamlets of the warm grey stone have a geniality which is not achieved by all the artistic scarlet of the suburbs; as if it were better to warm one's hands at the ashes of Glastonbury than at the painted flames of Croydon. Here again there are two words to be said; and it is essential to distinguish.
In two or three weeks you will receive a book from me; if you care to know what it is about, read the paragraph in Introduction about new terms and then the last chapter, and you will know whole contents of book. Pen-y-bryn, St. Peter's Road, Croydon. November 8, 1880. My dear Darwin, Many thanks for your kind remarks and notes on my book.
"Returning," says Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, a poor authority, but piquant gossip-monger, "by way of frolic, very late at night, on horseback, to Wimbledon, from Addiscombe, the seat of Mr. Jenkinson, near Croydon, where the party had dined, Lord Thurlow, the Chancellor, Pitt, and Dundas, found the turnpike gate, situate between Tooting and Streatham, thrown open.
Ruskin's sister, who had married a Captain Cox, sailing from Yarmouth for the herring fishery. He had died in 1789, or thereabouts, from the results of an accident while riding homewards to his family after one of his voyages, and his widow maintained herself in comfort by keeping the old King's Head Inn at Croydon Market-place. Of her two daughters the younger married another Mr.
The long drive and change did him good, and he was well enough to take me to the Cathedral, and show me the town, where we lingered two days, and then took another carriage for Croydon. At that stage my husband told me that we were not far from Beckenham, and proposed that we should call upon Mr. and Mrs. Craik on the following day.
'Is there ever so small a hope that I might win some love from you again? 'If you wish me to come and live with you when you go to Croydon I will do so. 'But that is not answering me, Amy. 'It's all I can say. 'Then you mean that you would sacrifice yourself out of what? Out of pity for me, let us say. 'Do you wish to see Willie? asked Amy, instead of replying. 'No.
No toys of any kind were at first allowed, and the pity of my Croydon aunt for my monastic poverty in this respect was boundless.
You might as well ask a bicycle to define the young damsel who so whimsically and so god-like pedals her way along the highroad. A young lady skeltering off on her bicycle to meet her young man why, what could the bicycle make of such a mystery, if you explained it till doomsday. Yet the bicycle wouldn't be spinning from Streatham to Croydon by itself.
He was gifted with great learning, and took an active part in the controversy with Atterbury on the subject of the rights of convocation. He was a learned divine and writer. Like his predecessor he was buried in the parish church at Croydon. At the instance of Butler, afterwards the famous Bishop of Durham, he joined the Church of England and abandoned the study of medicine, and took holy orders.
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