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Prescott admitted that he had not done so, which was not surprising. There was little to distinguish the gap between the nut bushes from others that opened up all round; but Stanton seemed satisfied that he was right. "Somebody has driven out this way not long ago," he explained. "It doesn't follow that the man was Wandle." "Why, no.
"Who is that tall man just gone up to speak to him?" she asked of her companion. "That is Lord Wandle," said Lady Winterbourne, "and his plain second wife behind him. Edward always scolds me for not admiring him. He says women know nothing at all about men's looks, and that Lard Wandle was the most splendid man of his time. But I always think it an unpleasant face."
Edward says one ought never to believe them. Ah, here comes Aldous." Aldous, indeed, with some perplexity on his brow, was to be seen approaching, looking for his betrothed. Marcella dropped her fan and sat erect, her angry colour fading into whiteness. "My darling! I couldn't think what had become of you. May I bring Lord Wandle and introduce him to you?
The agent told him and Wandle lighted his pipe and affected to consider. He thought Jernyngham had not suspected its value. "Don't you think you could get another three dollars an acre?" he suggested. "It's possible, if you will leave the sale in my hands; but I may have to wait for a suitable opportunity.
The brown fly usually disappears before the end of April, likewise the grannam; but of the blue dun there is a succession of different tints, or species, or varieties, which appear in the middle of the day all the summer and autumn long. These are the principal flies on the Wandle the best and clearest stream near London.
At Toy's Hill, on a Kentish hillside, overlooking the Weald, some valuable land has been acquired, and part of Wandle Park, Wimbledon, containing the Merton Mill Pond and its banks, adjoining the Recreation Ground recently provided by the Wimbledon Corporation, is now in the possession of the Trust.
Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasional grunt, as he shoveled a spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth either as a sign that he relished the dish or comprehended the story he called unto his constable, and pulling out of his breeches proper a huge jack-knife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco box as a warrant.
Yet there could not be a better place for it than Wandsworth Plain, a three-cornered patch of bare ground, bounded on one side by the river Wandle, and on the other by a row of brown cottages and two little old inns, with steep tiled roofs and naked walls, "The Bell" and "The Crane."
Nelson was a good fly-fisher, and continued the pursuit even with his left hand; and, says the author, "I have known a person who fished with him at Merton, in the Wandle. Dr.
"I don't know; they have told us nothing for some time." "You find them kind of disappointing?" "I believe my father does." The man said nothing for a while, and then looked around again. "Well," he ventured, "it strikes me there's one man Curtis ought to keep his eye on." Gertrude started and Wandle studied her face.
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