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We must start tomorrow morning. Brookes called Surnoo, and the rickshaw came round. Madeline looked at her watch. 'The telegraph office, she said; 'and as quickly as may be. As the runners panted over the Mall, up and down and on, Madeline said to herself, 'She shall have her chance. She shall choose. The four reeking Paharis pulled up at the telegraph office, and Madeline sped up the steps.
I have had this morning as much delight in a walk in the sun as ever I felt formerly in the crowded Mall, even when I imagined I had my share of the admiration of the place, which was generally soured before I slept by the informations of my female friends, who seldom failed to tell me, it was observed, I had showed an inch above my shoe-heels, or some other criticism of equal weight, which was construed affectation, and utterly destroyed all the satisfaction my vanity had given me.
Politics and literature were the topics most under discussion at the Smyrna coffee-house which had its location on the north side of Pall Mall. It makes its appearance in an early number of the Tatler, where reference is made to "that cluster of wise heads" that might be found "sitting every evening from the left hand side of the fire, at the Smyrna, to the door."
When the army went into winter quarters abroad, those of the officers who had interest or money easily got leave of absence, and found it much pleasanter to spend their time in Pall Mall and Hyde Park, than to pass the winter away behind the fortifications of the dreary old Flanders towns, where the English troops were gathered.
Captain This, who had been kicked out of a Charing-Cross coffee-house for pocketing a Punch-ladle while the drawer was not looking; Lieutenant That, who had been caned on the Mall for cheating at cards; and Ensign T'other, who had been my lord's valet, and married his Madam for enough cash to buy a pair of colours withal Military gentlemen of this feather used to serve in the West Indies in those days, and swagger about Kingston as proud as peacocks, when every one of them had done that at home they should be cashiered for.
It has now occurred to him that the criticisms may be formed into a series of letters to the 'Pall Mall Gazette, which will enable him to express a good many of his favourite doctrines. His politics and morals are not mine at all, though I believe in and admire his logic and his general notions of philosophy.
The scene mostly lies in the moors, and at the touch of the authoress a Scotch moor becomes a living thing, strong, tender, beautiful, and changeful. The book will take rank among the best of Mrs. Oliphant's good stories. Pall Mall Gazette. W.E. NORRIS. MATTHEW AUSTIN. By W.E. NORRIS, Author of 'Mademoiselle de Mersac, etc. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
The little church, which sits by the road with no homes near it, is the geographical as well as the religious center of the community it is the heart of Pall Mall. Passing the Rains store the roadway tumbles down to the York's big spring. A brook in volume the stream flows clear and cool from a low rock-ribbed cave in the base of the mountain.
If Lady Cecily were to hear that he had left London.... "To-night will do," said Gilbert. "Are you going to work?" Gilbert said to Henry, when the others had gone. "I think so," Henry replied. "I haven't written a word for days. You?" "I'll go and have a squint at the Pall Mall ... just to make sure that last night wasn't a dream. I'll come back to lunch.
in Egyptian affairs, alluded to Gordon once or twice as a geographical expert; but, in an enumeration of the leading authorities on the Sudan, left him out of account altogether. Yet it was from the "Pall Mall Gazette" that the impulsion which projected him into a blaze of publicity finally came. Mr.
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