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But, honestly, I don't think much of the idea. Whittington mayn't be in London at all." "That's true. Anyway, I think clue No. 2 is more promising." "Let's hear it." "It's nothing much. Only a Christian name Rita. Whittington mentioned it that day." "Are you proposing a third advertisement: Wanted, female crook, answering to the name of Rita?" "I am not. I propose to reason in a logical manner.
Why it may be his House one of these days, in part. Who knows? Sir Richard Whittington married his master's daughter. "Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and when you are old you will never depart from it," interposed the Captain. 'Wal'r! Overhaul the book, my lad. 'And although Mr Dombey hasn't a daughter, Sol began.
There was only one acquaintance who had met and spoken with him, and that by the best of good fortune was Harry Whittington, the idler who took his banishment and his King's misfortunes with an equally light heart, and gave never a thought at all to anything weightier than a gamecock. Wogan's spirits revived. He had not yet come to the end of his luck.
In 1655 Captain John Moon left a legacy for a free school in Isle of Wight County; and in 1659 Captain William Whittington left two thousand pounds of tobacco for a free school in Northampton County. Hist. Hist. The founding of Maryland was due chiefly to the personal force of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, son of Leonard Calvert.
"I saw this in a book-shop, and couldn't resist it." We looked over the pictures together. They were enchanting. All the bells of old London rang out for a wistful Whittington in a ragged jacket; Bo-Peep in panniers and pink ribbons wailed for her historic sheep; Mother Hubbard, quaint in a mammoth cap, pursued her fruitless search for bones.
He, too, heard a song of sirens, but it was such a song as Richard Whittington heard when bare-footed in Pauntley the notes of the Bow bells stole out to him: "Sang of a city that was blazoned like a missal-book, Black with oaken gables, carven and inscrolled; Every street a colored page, every sign a hieroglyph, Dusky with enchantments, a city paved with gold."
Some boys is born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Victoria's boys is born with a gold spoon, set with di'monds; but gold and silver was scarce when I was born, and mine was pewter." "Perhaps the gold and silver will come by and by, Dick. Did you ever hear of Dick Whittington?" "Never did. Was he a Ragged Dick?" "I shouldn't wonder if he was.
"I'll take care of her, Wally! Pretty dear! Famished, of course. You go and get ready. Lord bless me! Sir Richard Whittington, thrice Mayor of London!" While Walter was preparing to leave, Florence, overcome by fatigue, had sunk into a doze before the fire and when the boy returned, she was sleeping peacefully. "That's capital!" he whispered, "Don't wake her, uncle Sol!"
He is held one of the best officers among the red-coats; a special friend and favourite of the Elector himself, and of that dreadful hero, the Duke of Cumberland, who has been summoned from his triumphs at Fontenoy, to come over and devour us poor Highlanders alive. Has he been telling you how the bells of St. James's ring? Not "turn again, Whittington," like those of Bow, in the days of yore?
Colouring to the ears, he explained that he had never walked otherwise; whereupon her pity redoubled, and she by turns advised him to consult Master Doctor Caius, and to obtain a recipe from Mistress she meant Dame Alice Whittington, the kindest soul living, and, Lady Mayoress as she was, with no more pride than the meanest scullion.
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