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Then the chase, however fruitless, led, like other chases, into beautiful scenery, and formed an excuse for my visiting or revisiting many of the prettiest places in the county. Two of the most remarkable spots in the neighbourhood are, as it happens, famous for their collections of dahlias Strathfield-saye, the seat of the Duke of Wellington, and the ruins of Reading Abbey.
They were not Libyans from the neighbourhood of Carthage, who had long composed the third army, but nomads from the tableland of Barca, bandits from Cape Phiscus and the promontory of Dernah, from Phazzana and Marmarica.
It is a big, square, prosaic-looking building, but comfortable, with a nice big garden, so we are fortunate to have found such a place in the neighbourhood. We told each other gushingly how fortunate we had been, every time that we discovered anything that we hated more than usual, and were obtrusively gay all that first horrid evening.
"I kiwked at her over the hedge this morning when she was going to Caer Madoc; she's as pretty as an angel. Have you ever seen her, Ser?" "Valmai," said Cardo, prevaricating, "surely that is a new name in this neighbourhood?" "Yes, she is Essec Powell's niece come home from over the sea.
One of my pleasantest experiences, indeed, of French rural life, is that of an afternoon visit paid to a farmer in the neighbourhood of Aurillac. No well-bred gentleman, no lady accustomed to society, could have received an entire stranger with more urbanity, kindliness and grace, than did this peasant of the Cantal and his wife.
No doubt they're as far off by this time as they could get. It might be difficult to prove anything, but I'd like to try." "I wouldn't," I said. "But let's look for that rosary. Have you any matches?" "Plenty." He took out a match-case, and held a wax vesta for me to peer about in the neighbourhood of the broken stairway. "Here's something glittering!"
Hilton, now, that attended all the neighbourhood round when I was a girl; he kept you low enough while the fever was on you, but as soon as it was gone, why then reinvigorate the system, that was what he used to say." "Just like old Clarke, of Rocksand!" sighed Fred.
Ditch and hedge the one with waving sedges and "Forget-me-nots" the other with the May blossom loading the evening air with its balmy breath were as prevalent, at the time I speak about, in Everton, as you will now find in any country district. It was a pleasant place in summer and autumn time. The neighbourhood of the Beacon was our favourite resort.
As for the wire fence, it had been much used as a means of ingress and egress by the children of the neighbourhood, who preferred it to any of the gateways, which they considered hopelessly unimaginative and commonplace, offering no resistance to the budding man of valour or woman of ambition.
The feast was progressing, when I saw Pat Brady come up to Peter Crean, pulling, for him, a wonderfully long face. "Faith Peter!" I heard him say, "I do not at all like his looks. There's a hang-dog expression about him, and to my mind he's a bailiff in disguise!" "A what?" exclaimed Peter. "Has one of them vipers ventured into the neighbourhood of Ballyswiggan?
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