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There were several carriers used the inn, and the stage-coaches for Barnet, for Totteridge, and other towns that way stood always in the street in the evening, when they prepared to set out, so that I was ready for anything that offered, for either one or other.
We drew rein therefore, nowhere; but rode straight on, through village and country alike now ambling for a little, once or twice cantering, and then walking again when the way had holes in it. So we passed through Totteridge and Barnet and Enfield Chase and Wood Green, and came at last to Broxbourne where the roads forked, and we turned down to the right.
Omnibus guide, added he, turning over the leaves, and reading, 'Acton five, from the end of Oxford Street and the Edger Road see Ealing; Edmonton seven, from Shoreditch Church "Green Man and Still" Oxford Street Shepherd's Bush and Starch Green, Bank, and Whitechapel Tooting Totteridge Wandsworth; in short, every place near town.
As he came through the village, behold another coach labouring up to the high road from Totteridge lane. This had but four horses, no array of outriders, no gilt splendours. It was a sober, old-fashioned thing, and it rumbled on at a sober gait. "Some city ma'am," Harry sneered at it, "much the same shape as her horses." But half an hour after he saw it again.
"My wife," he said "my poor wife! God knows what they're doing to her up there, Mrs. Pendyce!" and he hid his face in his hands. She, who had been a Totteridge, stood motionless; then, very gently putting her gloved hand on his thick arm, where the muscles stood out from the clenching of his hands, she said: "Dear Mr. Barter, Dr. Wilson is so clever! Come into the drawing-room!"
Then, by a sort of inspiration, she thought of Gregory. 'How can I write to him, she mused, 'when my son But she did write, for, deep down, the Totteridge instinct felt that others should do things for her; and she craved, too, to allude, however distantly, to what was on her mind. And, under the Pendyce eagle and the motto: 'Strenuus aureaque penna', thus her letter ran: "DEAR GRIG,
They've taken him to Laurence's house in Totteridge. What? Yes, perfectly satisfied. One of their agents, a man named Harrison Smith, has been here a minute ago. He seems to be suspicious about something. Thinks you all seem too contented. He'll be hanging about outside your flat this morning. Yes, that's all. Oh, Lord Almont, wish you'd explain the situation to me can't understand it at all.
Swanscombe, 23. Switzerland, 91, 92. Swords, Ireland, 78. Tawney, Stapleford, 22, 47, 48. Teddington, 18. Thames, Upper, 29. Theydon Bois, 46. Tipper ale, 3. Tombs, age of, 51. Totteridge, 46. Tramps in Kent, 35. Tramps, typical, 35, 43. Turks' graveyards, 62. Twickenham, 29, 71. Usaille, Bishop, 104. Very old gravestones, 97. Victory over Death, 1, 20, 21. Villages and cities, 28.
It was due to her that these old trees escaped year after year the pruning and improvements which the genius of the Squire would otherwise have applied. She had been brought up in an old Totteridge tradition that fruit-trees should be left to themselves, while her husband, possessed of a grasp of the subject not more than usually behind the times, was all for newer methods.
Things which to others came only by money, to a Totteridge came without, and even if they came not, could well be dispensed with for to this quality of soul, this gentle self-sufficiency, had the ages worked to bring her.