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But it was so pleasant to see my Lord Craven, the chaireman, before many persons of worth and grave, use this comparison in saying that certainly these that would contract for all the lotteries would not suffer us to set up the Virginia lottery for plate before them, "For," says he, "if I occupy a wench first, you may occupy her again your heart out you can never have her maidenhead after I have once had it," which he did more loosely, and yet as if he had fetched a most grave and worthy instance.
The later organisation of the Peace does not depend upon the county towns; it is an organisation of rural squires; and, most significant of all, no definite distinction can ever be drawn between the English village and the English town neither in spirit nor in legal definition. You have a town like Maidenhead, which has a full local Government, and yet which has no mayor for centuries.
During this visit which was in 1730-1, Metcalf ranged freely over the metropolis, visiting Maidenhead and Reading, and returning by Windsor and Hampton Court. The Harrogate season being at hand, he prepared to proceed thither, Colonel Liddell, who was also about setting out for Harrogate, offering him a seat behind his coach.
"Yes, but I got nothing. I didn't dare pump hard." "What can it be?" cried Jon. "I shall find out all right." A long silence followed till Fleur said: "This is Maidenhead; stand by, Jon!" The train stopped. The remaining passenger got out. Fleur drew down her blind. "Quick!" she cried. "Hang out! Look as much of a beast as you can."
It was very cold and there was no fire in the room, there was only one blanket on the bed, and I might have caught a bad cold, and I was too fond of my good health to expose myself to such a danger. I therefore satisfied myself by taking her on my knee, and after a few preliminaries she abandoned herself to my transports, endeavouring to persuade me that I had got her maidenhead.
They then agreed to admire the bridge and think well of Maidenhead. Sir Richmond communicated hopeful news about his car, which was to arrive the next morning before ten he'd just ring the fellow up presently to make sure and Dr. Martineau retired early and went rather thoughtfully to bed. The spate of Sir Richmond's confidences, it was evident, was over. Section 4
The most beautiful thing in England is the Thames perhaps in the world. Last year I spent nearly three months at Marlow and Maidenhead we positively lived in a boat. I have a beautiful boat. I should like to take you out you would enjoy it. Are you fond of boating?" "I love it. I haven't been in a boat since I left Wales." "So you are a Welsh girl. My boat is now at Reading.
Hurlingham and Ranelagh, Maidenhead and Henley, Eton and Oxford, Sandhurst and Aldershot, Piccadilly in the season, Simla in the heats, the results for Kempton Park and Newmarket Races of all these they talked, with rhino and elephant shooting and the big battues of pheasants now taking place in the Home Midlands and up North.
Both these were close to London from a sporting or natural history point of view. In February or March 1884, an otter was killed at Cliefden Springs, Maidenhead; it measured fifty-one inches.
Of course I wouldn't marry him till a year, or more, after poor Michael's death; but I should like to see him often, to be sure that he still cares for me as he used to care yes, I am sure he used in the dear old days at Maidenhead. Why doesn't he come to me? He knows that I love him.
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