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Gordon longed for them to get out. A catch was missed in the slips. "Surrey are the worst slip-fielding side in England," announced Gordon fiercely. The Oval crowd, always so ferociously partisan, moved round him uneasily. At last a roar went up, as Hitch knocked the leg stump flying out of the ground. Then Lovelace came in.

Similar results having been obtained from several similar experiments, made during the same autumn, I determined in the next spring to prosecute the subject with some degree of steadiness, and with that view went frequently to the house of one of my friends who lives in Surrey.

Shall I sing you 'Withers' Shepherd's Resolution, my father's rhyming 'Major-general, who lorded it so sturdily over the county of Surrey? For my own part, I like the spirit of the man, particularly as it comes forth in the third verse." And with subdued sportiveness she sung: "Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love? Or her well deservings knowne, Make me quite forget mine owne?

"If it be so, Surrey, we may yet be brothers as well as friends." "And that it is so I can avouch, Richmond," rejoined the earl, "for I am in my sister's secret as well as the Fair Geraldine. But now that this explanation has taken place, I must entreat your grace to conduct the Fair Geraldine back to her lodgings, while I regain, the best way I can, my chamber in the Round Tower."

It is true that I love my own home in Surrey, a house which I built, as it were, with my own hands. I love the scenery; I love it also as the place where my wife and I went as young people, and as the place where my children were born, but the thought of it does not touch me emotionally as does the thought of Sutton.

All might have gone well but for the sudden appearance of two figures of young women on the scene. They fronted the advance of the procession. They wanted to have a word with Lord Mackrell. Not a bit of it he won't listen, turns away; and one of the pair slips round him. It's regular imploring: 'my lord! my lord! O you naughty Surrey melodram villain of a Lord Mackrell!

At their original institution there were only 109 in parishes; others were gradually added; and, by the year 1681, the number was 132. Since that time, 14 more have been added, so that the whole amounts to 146, viz. 97 within the walls; 16 without the walls; 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey; and 10 in the City and Liberties of Westminster."

Fanny, you know, is staying at Oxton, in Surrey, with Lady Castleton, the poor lady is so fond of her, and no one has comforted her like Fanny." "I was not aware that Miss Trevanion was out of town."

Every Sunday morning a rare vision of stately dignity for all her tininess, assisted by Caleb, she descended from the Hunter equipage to enter the portals of the Morrison Baptist church. After the service she reappeared and, having complimented the minister upon the sagacity of his discourse, again assisted by Caleb, she mounted to the rear seat of the surrey and rolled back up the hill.

"What an abstainer," laughed her husband; "as for the lazy Duke, he should have stormed the castle and ran off with Viola." "After which, I should have wished him a good night's rest; as I do all and each of you," said Lady Esmondet, rising, and moving towards the door. "Not a bad idea," echoed the Colonel, "as we leave for Surrey in the morning, that is, if you can manage the early, Kate?"