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"Why, I thought you were a mile off by this time!" For, to my surprise, the two walkers were back again. "I came back to remind you," Arthur said, "that the trains go every ten minutes " "Nonsense!" I said. "It isn't the Metropolitan Railway!" "It is the Metropolitan Railway," the Earl insisted. "'This is a part of Kensington." "Why do you talk with your eyes shut?" said Arthur. "Wake up!"
"Very melancholy," said Duff Salter. "Why don't you visit her?" "Really," said the hostess, "there is so much feeling against Agnes that, considering Papa Van de Lear's position in Kensington, I have been afraid. Agnes is quite too clever for me!" "I hope she will be," said Duff Salter, relapsing to his coffee. "He didn't hear what you said, Lot," exclaimed Calvin.
In the forenoon of the 29th of November "a tremendous crash was heard in one of the plantations near the Black Pond, between Kensington Palace and the Mount Gate, and on several persons running to the spot twenty-five limes were found tumbled to the earth by a single blast, their roots reaching high into the air, with a great quantity of earth and turf adhering, while deep chasms of several yards in diameter showed the force with which they had been torn up.... On the Palace Green, Kensington, near the forcing-garden, two large elms and a very fine sycamore were also laid prostrate."
But I doubt whether he was not happier in his garret in the Haymarket, than ever he was in his splendid palace at Kensington; and I believe the fortune that came to him in the shape of the countess his wife was no better than a shrew and a vixen. Gay as the town was, 'twas but a dreary place for Mr.
When a boiler has been thus cleared, the formation of new deposits may be prevented by applying a much less energetic current under the same conditions. Among the many designs which have been issued by the South Kensington Museum authorities is the alphabet which we have illustrated here to-day.
On that same afternoon Conway Dalrymple rolled up his sketch of Jael and Sisera, put it into his pocket, dressed himself with some considerable care, putting on a velvet coat which he was in the habit of wearing out of doors when he did not intend to wander beyond Kensington Gardens and the neighbourhood and which was supposed to become him well, yellow gloves, and a certain Spanish hat of which he was fond, and slowly sauntered across to the house of his friend Mrs Dobbs Broughton.
He was short, breathless and a little bald. The lady was young and very upset. "But, Henry, what does it matter?" "What does it matter? My dear Lucy, in London everything matters " She was excited. "In Kensington perhaps, but in London " "Allow me, my dear Lucy, to decide for you. When you are my age " Peter went to sleep again. The vast iron-girdled station was very dark and Mr.
"Who is it says a woman cannot keep a secret? She can, and will, and does! when it suits her to do so! Never mind, Miss Armitage! I shall find you out when, you least expect it never fear!" Meanwhile Miss Leigh's little house in Kensington was the scene of mingled confusion and triumph.
Playing with her ball, the child ran on to the southern limit of the Gardens, at that part of it which still remains nearest to the old Palace of Kensington. Observing close at hand one of those spacious covered seats, called in England "alcoves," Mr. Rayburn was reminded that he had the morning's newspaper in his pocket, and that he might do well to rest and read.
The woodcut on p. 53 represents a very good example of a "Coffre-fort" in the South Kensington Collection. The decoration is bitten in with acids so as to present the appearance of its being damascened, and the complicated lock, shewn on the inside of the lid, is characteristic of these safeguards for valuable documents at a time when the modern burglar-proof safe had not been thought of.
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