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His pictures are to be found freely, as I have written, in old English mansions, such as Arundel and Alnwick Castles, Knowsley, Knole, Petworth, etc. A head said to be by Van Dyck is in the National Gallery. Van Dyck had few pupils: one, an Englishman named Dobson, earned an honourable reputation as a painter.
The road trends north-west by Egdean and Byworth to Petworth. Petworth town consists of a number of old-world streets extremely crooked, narrow, and picturesque. Seen from any near point the grouping of roofs is as artistically good as any in Sussex. Petworth Church has been practically rebuilt.
He can't see the thing as I do; it is almost the only subject on which he is 'huffy. You are the other, about which more anon. He says the Petworth property meant everything to the Armstrongs, to his branch of the Armstrongs. But for that, they might have been any other kind of Armstrong it always kept him straight at school and in the army, he says, to remember he was an Armstrong of Petworth.
Wood declares, that he died little better than distracted; Calamy, that he was perfectly recovered to a sound mind, before the restoration, at which time he retired to Preston, a small village in Sussex, being turned out of his living at Petworth.
It is perhaps rather impertinent continuing this analysis of her charm, seeing that she lives and flourishes more than ever, twenty years after the opening of my story; not very different in outward appearance at 48, as Lady Armstrong for of course, as you guess already, she married Major afterwards Sir Petworth Armstrong than she was at twenty-eight, the partner, friend and helper of Vivien Warren.
The Lilacs in Victoria Road had been disposed of through Honoria as soon as possible, after the sentence of Three years' imprisonment had been pronounced on Vivie; and the faithful Suffragette maid had passed into Honoria's employ at Petworth, a fact that was not fully understood by Colonel Armstrong until he had become General Armstrong and perfectly indifferent to the Suffrage agitation which had by that time attained its end.
Bartholomew's Hospital, and at Burleigh; he executed staircases at old Devonshire House, in Piccadilly, at Buckingham House, and at Petworth; assisted in the paintings at Marlborough House, St. James's Park; decorated the saloon at Blenheim; and in many of the apartments at Burleigh on the Hill 'the walls are covered with his Cæsars.
Forty-seven eldest sons, heirs to English peerages had fallen within a year of the outbreak of war among them the heirs to such famous houses as Longleat, Petworth, and Castle Ashby and the names of Grenfell, Hood, Stuart, Bruce, Lister, Douglas Pennant, Worsley, Hay, St.
Why, I know of a little place in Oxfordshire, which, were it mine by inheritance as it is my brother's I would not stake against a Canons or a Petworth! 'And Stavordale would stake it against a bootjack rather than not play at all! Sir George answered complacently. 'The more fool he! snapped the doctor. 'So I think. 'Eh? 'So I think, Sir George answered coolly.
While he was thus being wined, and dined, and praised by those who were interested in his scientific achievements, he harked back for a few hours to memories of his student days in London, for his old friend and room-mate, Charles R. Leslie, now a prosperous and successful painter, gave him a cordial invitation to visit him at Petworth, near London.
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