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Not I. Master Thames Ditton, I'll do your biddin'; and you, Misther Quilt Arnold, may do your worst, I defy you." "Dog!" exclaimed Quilt, turning fiercely upon him, "do you threaten?" But the watchman eluded his grasp, and, mingling with the crowd, disappeared. Saint Giles's Round-house. Saint Giles's Round-house was an old detached fabric, standing in an angle of Kendrick Yard.
Not if I know it." With which he attempted jovially to put his arm through that of his companion in misfortune and lead Ditton away. But the latter flung off from him with a petulant, half-smothered oath; and, his back very straight, his walk very deliberate, pushed through the cheerfully discoursing throng into the ball-room.
The southern end of the Broad Walk is semi-circular with an outlook over the river, upwards, to where Molesey Lock and Weir are cut from view by the hideous Hampton Court Bridge, and downwards, towards Thames Ditton and Kingston. It is one of the most charming views on the river near London, the many trees on islands and banks shutting off the neighbouring town.
Perhaps the following list of slaughter may call attention to the matter: Three killed by Harlingham Weir in three years. On the 22nd of January, at East Molesey, opposite the Gallery at Hampton Court, in a field, a fine otter was shot, weighing twenty-six pounds, and measuring fifty-two inches. On the 26th of January 1884, a small otter was killed at Thames Ditton.
Once the tumultuous upheaval of its dispersion was over, the black smoke clung so closely to the ground, even before its precipitation, that fifty feet up in the air, on the roofs and upper stories of high houses and on great trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison altogether, as was proved even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton.
Little wonder if Damaris, sitting up in her maidenly bedchamber, in the unsullied brightness of the early morning hour, failed to find any satisfactory answer to it. Her thoughts ranged out to the other members of her little local court to Peregrine Ditton and Harry Ellice, to Marshall Wace. Had they personal experience of this disquieting matter?
The military-looking official took the letter and read it through. It ran thus: 'On the Roaring Deep, 'Thames Ditton. 'Dear Lil, 'Billy has struck ile. He's at work on an amazing comedy with which he intends to fire the Thames next first of April. He and I are both going to appear in it at Barndale in the Christmas week. Meantime we rehearse a terrific combat nightly.
So she kissed Thecla vivaciously, and went to mamma, and persuaded that estimable lady to a visit to Thames Ditton in search of James. Mamma, having regard to the missing Barndale, and being in some matronly alarm for him, consented, and the two set out together. Barndale in the meantime had gone to his own chambers, and had there smoked many deliberative and lonely pipes.
In the hollow at Long Ditton I had the delight, a day or two since, to see a kingfisher. There is a quiet lane, and at the bottom, in a valley, two ponds, one in enclosed grounds, the other in a meadow opposite.
Won't it be a pretty set of girls?" "Couldn't be prettier." "And now, who is to be your best man?" "Well, I thought I'd have Tom Ditton," a trifle confusedly. "Tom Ditton! I thought you did not approve of him," she cried. "You certainly did not when he came to see me so frequently." "Oh, he isn't such a bad sort, after all. I'd just as soon have him as any one. Besides, he's an expert at it.
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