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As her eyes accustomed themselves to the brightness, Doris made out a small closed motor-car, with a masked chauffeur seated at the wheel. "Good little Fricker!" said Brandon, slapping the chauffeur's shoulder as he passed. "So you've got your steam up! Straight ahead then, and as fast as you like. Don't get run in, that's all." He handed Doris into the car, followed her, and slammed the door.
Thus Bessie's first week of exile got over, and except for a sense of being hungry now and then, she did not find herself so very miserable after all. One morning Bessie Fairfax rose to a new sensation. "To-day the classes open, and there is an end of treats," cried Janey Fricker with a despairing resignation. "You will soon see the day-scholars, and by degrees the boarders will arrive.
S.'s entertaining "Letters" from those countries are the result; bearing testimony to his rapid accumulation of facts, and the accuracy of his observations on persons and things. The very morning on which Mr. Southey was married to Miss Edith Fricker, he left his wife in the family of kind friends, and set off with his Uncle, to pass through Spain to Lisbon.
Coleridge, he says, assured him that his marriage was "not his own deliberate act, but was in a manner forced upon his sense of honour by the scrupulous Southey, who insisted that he had gone too far in his attentions to Miss Fricker for any honourable retreat."
She had met this young man often at Mrs. Lockyard's house, where he was invariably referred to as "the little Fricker boy." She threw a furtive glance at Caryl, but he had plainly noticed nothing. With an uneasy sense of shame she slipped the note into her glove. She perused it on the earliest opportunity.
We shan't be quite alone, though, for Fricker is going to drive us. But he's a negligible quantity, eh? His only virtue is that he isn't afraid of driving in the dark." "You will take me to Mrs. Lockyard?" said Doris quickly. "Of course. She is at her flat, she and Mrs. Fricker. We shall be there soon after midnight, all being well. Confound this stream! It swirls like a mill-race."
George Fricker, his brother-in-law; it is believed in 1807. Mr. F. died 1828; pious and respected. "Saturday afternoon. My dear young friend, I am sorry that you should have felt any delicacy in disclosing to me your religious feelings, as rendering it inconsistent with your tranquillity of mind to spend the Sunday evening with me.
Sir H. Davy's rebuke of an Infidel Mr. Coleridge's character of Holcroft, the Atheist Rev. J. Foster's letter respecting his Essay on Doddridge Mr. Coleridge's letter to Mr. G. Fricker Mr. De Quincey presents Mr. Coleridge with L300 Mr. Coleridge's letter on Narrative Poems Reasons why Mr. Coleridge's opium habits should not be concealed Mr. Coleridge ill in Bath Mr.
His college, however, which was then distinguished for loose living and intellectual dulness, was not congenial to him; and developing extreme opinions in politics and religion, he decided that he could not take orders, and left without even taking a degree. Coleridge and Mrs. Lovell. And when the ever-charitable Hill invited him to Portugal he married Miss Fricker the very day before he started.
Its immediate result was that Coleridge left the University without taking a degree, and, though not at once, married Sarah Fricker on October 1795. Thenceforward he lived on literature and his friends, especially the latter. He tried Unitarian preaching and newspaper work, of which at one time or another he did a good deal.
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