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"Address me at that club; I have no permanent quarters just now. We must see more of each other." And Piers went his way with shadowed countenance. Straying about Kensington Gardens in the pleasant sunshine, his mind occupied with Daniel's information, Piers Otway lost count of time, and at last had to hurry to keep his engagement.
There are few more exhilarating things, on a breezy spring morning, than a spurt across that wonderful rus in urbe Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park for a prospective dip in the Serpentine, where, at specified hours every morning and evening, water-loving London is privileged to disport itself in its congenial element.
Boyce had made inquiries, and was quite willing that her daughter should go, for a time, to a lady whose address she enclosed, and to whom she herself had written a lady who received girl-students working at the South Kensington art classes. So began an experience, as novel as it was strenuous. Marcella soon developed all the airs of independence and all the jargon of two professions.
As to the rest of thy generous offer, I have only to say that I am, four months hence, to be married to a very comely young woman of Kensington, in Pennsylvania, by name Martha Dobbs, and therefore I am not at all at liberty to consider my inclinations in any other direction."
"Betty's not my wife, you know; my wife wouldn't divorce me. The children are bastards, every jack one of them, and are they any the worse for that? Betty was one of the maids in the little red brick house in Kensington. Four or five years ago I was on my uppers, and I had seven children, and I went to my wife and asked her to help me.
I cared not a bit for Julian's sneers; for the smell of the flesh-pots of Kensington had laid hold of my soul, and I was resolved to make the most of the respite which my system gave me. "What salon is to have the honour today?" he asked, spreading himself on my sofa. "I'm going to the Gunton-Cresswells," I replied. Julian slowly sat up. "Ah?" he said conversationally.
That mysterious-looking vehicle, rather resembling one of the early locomotives exhibited in the South Kensington Museum, standing in the mud outside a farm-billet, its superheated interior stuffed with "C" Company's blankets, is performing an unmentionable but beneficent work.
Subsequent appearances were at Manchester, where he spoke on the Political Economy of Art and the relation of art to manufactures; at the South Kensington Museum, London, which had just been opened; and later at Oxford, where further on in his career he became Slade Professor of Art in his own University.
Oh Mrs. Brook," he continued, "with me too though I've also tremendous liberty! it would come out." "I think you'd let me know," she returned. "Yes, I'd let you know." Silence, upon this, fell between them a little; which she was the first to break. "She has gone with him this afternoon by solemn appointment to the South Kensington Museum." There was something in Mrs.
"Oh yes; when we lived at Kensington, and he had the patent glass works." "Now, turn round and say if there is any one here whom you know?" Rose, who had hitherto stood facing Mr. Grey, with her back to the rest of the room, obeyed, and at once exclaimed, "Aunt Alison," then suddenly recoiled, and grasped at the Colonel. "What is it, my dear?" "It is it is Mr.
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