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The over-elaboration of the late Tudor time corresponded with the deterioration shown in France in the time of Henry IV. The Hall of Gray's Inn, the Halls of Oxford, the Charterhouse and the Hall of the Middle Temple are all fine examples of the Tudor period.
Whether seen from the outside on the west, where the warm red brick, the varied roofs, the clustered decorative chimneys suggestive of the Tudor time make a rich and harmonious whole; or from the south east, where the many-windowed long straight lines of the Orange additions show the red brick diversified with white stone, it is a noble and impressive pile.
But, albeit he was braced for endurance, the long hours of waiting were very hard to bear. His sole comfort lay in the fact that Avery was making gradual progress in the right direction. It was a slow and difficult recovery, as Maxwell Wyndham had foretold, but it was continuous. Tudor assured him of this every day with a curt kindliness that had grown on him of late.
There was a Tudor archway, with rooms above it and rooms on either side; a lamp hung from the roof illuminated the dry stone pavement within, and huge barred gates at the further end, shut off all other view. It looked like the entrance to some vast feudal castle, and he thought again that if an eccentric old lady lived here, she must be very eccentric indeed.
He watched it from the window of his bedroom in the new-built wing of Banghurst's Tudor house.
You should have heard them cheer, and shout, "Long live the Prince of Wales!" The soldiers presented arms with their halberds, opened the gates, and presented again as the little Prince of Poverty passed in, in his fluttering rags, to join hands with the Prince of Limitless Plenty. Edward Tudor said "Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill. Come with me."
If you refuse to answer this summons it will be my duty to compel you to do so!" "Try it if you like," cried Tudor Brown, and gave orders to resume his journey. During this colloquy his vessel had insensibly tacked, and now stood at right angles with the "Alaska." Suddenly the wheel commenced to revolve and beat the water which boiled and foamed around it.
"It was impossible not to hear what the beast said. He mentioned names also, your name and the name of the man whom he alleged you had killed. Lady Evesham heard it. We both heard it." He paused. Piers had not moved. His face was like a mask in its composure, but it was a dreadful mask. Tudor had a feeling that it hid unutterable things. "What was the man's name?" Piers asked, after a moment.
Neverbend, even in his grimaces and civility, managed to show that he regarded himself as decidedly No. 1 upon the occasion. 'Well, Mr. Tudor, said he, 'I think of starting on Tuesday. Tuesday will not, I suppose, be inconvenient to you? 'Sir Gregory has already told me that we are expected to be at Tavistock on Tuesday evening. 'Ah!
Away went Christie to the address sent by Miss Tudor, and as she waited at the door she thought: "What a happy family the Carrols must be!" for the house was one of an imposing block in a West End square, which had its own little park where a fountain sparkled in the autumn sunshine, and pretty children played among the fallen leaves. Mrs.
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