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"I managed," said Teddy, who was a dry little boy. "Didn't want to eat you on the way?" "They was all right," said Teddy, "and on the way near Leatherhead we saw a man riding on a bicycle." "My word!" said Tom, "there ain't many of those about nowadays. Where was he going?" "Said 'e was going to Dorking if the High Road was good enough. But I doubt if he got there.
A wild prodigal a disgrace to his order a son of old Highgate's leading such a life, and making such a scandal! Lord Dorking believes Mr. Belsize to be an abandoned monster and fiend in human shape; gathers and relates all the stories that ever have been told to the young man's disadvantage, and of these be sure there are enough, and speaks of him with transports of indignation.
Besides, this good thing was not my own affair. I had to protect the interest of another person my employer, in point of fact; and it was by his suggestion, and in compliance with his request, that I invented that harmless fiction about Dorking. I don't think there was any dishonourable dealing in the matter.
I feel no regret that the fame, as such, brings no pleasure; but it is a grief to me that I do not constantly feel strong in thankfulness that my past life has vindicated its uses. Romola seems to have been composed in constant gloom. 'I remember my wife telling me, at Witley, says Mr. Cross, 'how cruelly she had suffered at Dorking from working under a leaden weight at this time.
I shall not hatch all the eggs in the nest, but roll this one away and sit on it." "Perhaps," said one of her friends, "somebody else may have laid it after all, and not noticed. You know it is not the only one in the nest." "Pooh!" said the Dorking Hen. "I guess I know! I am sure it was not there when I went to the nest and it was there when I left. I must have laid it."
When Dorking is at Chanticlere, Ballard, who married his sister, lends him the plate and sends three men with it. Four cooks inside, and four maids and six footmen on the roof, with a butler driving, come down from London in a trap, and wait the month. And as the last carriage of the company drives away, the servants' coach is packed, and they all bowl back to town again.
They hurried out together, and dashed into the waiting hansom. "Think of it, Winter," groaned the barrister. "Whilst we were seduced by a dorking and a French sausage an unholy alliance the very man we wanted was waiting in Northumberland Avenue. You are avenged! All my jibes and sneers at Scotland Yard recoil on my own head.
"No, sir; he's just left to go into the country. He hasn't been gone ten minutes. You might a'most have met him." "Do you know where he has gone?" "I heard say it was Dorking, sir." "Humph! I should like to have seen him before he went. Did he take much luggage?" "One portmanter, sir." "I suppose you didn't notice where he told the man to drive?" "Yes, sir; it was Euston-square." "Ah!
Cynthia did love me when she left Dorking for her parents' house in London; not, perhaps, with the absorbing passion she had inspired in me; yet well enough, as I was assured, to face social disaster and a break with her family, in order that she might entrust her life to me. 'Cynthia, I said, at the end of that last walk, 'London is not to rob me of you? Promise me!
The monarch and patriarch of cocks, a magnificent old Dorking, not idly endowed with five claws for the scratch, had discovered something great, and was calling all his wives, and even his sons, as many as yet crowed not against him, to share this special luck of fortune, or kind mood of Providence.
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