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The place turned out to be in the wrong part of Shropshire, and though he never ran down his own property to others, he was only waiting to get it off his hands, and then to let fly. Evie's marriage was its last appearance in public. As soon as a tenant was found, it became a house for which he never had had much use, and had less now, and, like Howards End, faded into Limbo.
'Let us do as Colonel Saxon proposes, and let us in the meantime march in that direction and send a trumpet to the governor. 'There is yet another plan, quoth Sir Stephen Timewell, 'which is to hasten to Gloucester, to cross the Severn there, and so march through Worcestershire into Shropshire and Cheshire. Your Majesty has many friends in those parts.
On a dark November morning, when a blustering wind drove the rain against the windows, Thomas Foster sat stripping the lock of a favorite gun in the room he called his study, at Hazlehurst, in Shropshire.
As a result, two elderly men, a younger one, in the person of the Marquis of Scarland, and two tearful women Lady St. Maur and Mrs. Leland met at Charing Cross about one o'clock in the morning to travel by special train and steamer. Another woman telegraphed from Shropshire saying that baby was better, and that she would follow by the first steamer on Sunday. Mrs. Devar did not await developments.
It's all very well for me to talk," he said; "I made a sufficient hash of it, when I was poor and miserable and overworked; and then I was transplanted out of a slum window-box into a sunny garden, just in time; yet I'm sure that most of my old troubles were in a way of my own making, because I hated being so insignificant; but I fear that was a little poison lurking in me from the Earls of Shropshire.
I've heard say his father had the best stud-farm in all Shropshire, and spared no money upon it; and the young ladies his sisters will have been taught the best of manners; it might be well for my pretty to hear how they go on." "You dear old Dixon, you don't know anything about my lecture, and I'm not going to tell you. Only I daresay Mr.
When we have read it, we seem to see him, tall and thin, with lean earnest face, out of which shine great eyes, the eyes that see visions. His head is shaven like a monk's; he wears a shabby long gown which flaps in the breeze as he strides along. Langland was born in the country, perhaps in Oxfordshire, perhaps in Shropshire, and he went to school at Great Malvern. He loved school, for he says:
He began by" humph "Ah," said his lordship, impatiently, "you will never find it out look here 'Mr. Lorrequer, whom we have mentioned as having made the highly exciting speech, to be found in our first page, is, we understand, the son of Sir Guy Lorrequer, of Elton, in Shropshire one of the wealthiest baronets in England.
Roderic divided his dominions Aberfraw, or North Wales, Dinasvawr, or South Wales, and Powys, or Shropshire between his three sons; but they became united again under his grandson, Howell Dha, the lawgiver of Wales.
"Good Lord, he nearly had him first ball." Fluff's brother bowled slows of a good length, with an awkward break from the off to the leg. "Teasers," said the Caterpillar, critically. "Hullo! No, my young friend, that may do well enough in Shropshire, not here." A ball breaking sharply from the off had struck the batsman's pad; he had stepped in front of his wicket to cut it.
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