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If your appetite is keen, by all means visit Bobo, who invented roast pig: if gay, and disposed to saunter through the pleasant lanes of Hertfordshire, go to Mackery End, where the Gladmans and Brutons will bid you welcome: if grave, let your eyes repose on the face of dear old Bridget Elia, "in a season of distress the truest comforter."
Tired of living in town, Sir Richard obtained permission to go to Bengy, in Hertfordshire, where he and his wife were attacked with an ague, which confined her to her bed for many months, and did not finally leave her for nearly two years, when a visit to Bath perfectly restored them both.
It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of , in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman's punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room upstairs.
With Harold, too, were many of the thegns from his earlier earldom of East Anglia, comprising the county of Essex, great part of Hertfordshire, and so reaching into Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk, and Ely.
I was to have been a Hertfordshire squire, on a small scale, had not circumstances necessitated the letting of my father's house when he died." "But it will be yours again some day?" "No," said John, quietly; "it had to be sold afterwards."
It did not take long to settle matters, and I soon left London for my guardian's lovely place in Hertfordshire, feeling both shy and curious at the strange future before me. But during my stay in London there had been another and perhaps a greater change in my life than this.
Concerts and plays swept past them, money had been spent and renewed, reputations won and lost, and the city herself, emblematic of their lives, rose and fell in a continual flux, while her shallows washed more widely against the hills of Surrey and over the fields of Hertfordshire. This famous building had arisen, that was doomed.
Thompson, in conjunction with a pal that occasionally worked with him, gammoned a countryman out of a good round sum of money, under pretence of getting him a situation the regular old dodge and was afterwards in the "Hue and Cry" for a horse a horse that he stole down in Hertfordshire.
Society for the Relief of Distrest Sailors, says Lamb's Key. "Through the green plains of pleasant Hertfordshire." The fruitful fields of pleasant Hertfordshire which one can easily understand would have lingered in Lamb's mind very graciously. In the London Magazine the essay ended with the words, "Till then, Farewell." London Magazine, July, 1821.
To begin with, he mentioned his own eccentricities during the last five months, when, as he reminded them, he had retired from public life and gone down to Hertfordshire to found an academy where, with a few convivials, he might study Latin and Greek and forget the high old time he had had in London formerly. This, he said, had been a pretty slow business, and quite given him the jumps.
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