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But Gilbert stood where he was, and gazed down into the face of the man who had done him so much harm; and he remembered Faringdon and the swift stroke that had killed his father, and Stortford woods, where he himself had lain for dead.
Once, when he was late for his own hall, he had given him his dinner in his rooms; he had taken him out on a fishing expedition towards Faringdon; and had promised him tickets for some ladies, lionesses of his, who were coming up to the Commemoration.
They were now bound for Faringdon through Fairford; and the night the last night was to be spent, if possible, on the farm of Collins's brother, near Lechlade. At Fairford they had their lunch and explored the church, which is one of the most remarkable in England.
In the middle of the field rose a fragment of stone wall in the form of a gable, known as Faringdon Ruin; and when they had reached it John paused and politely asked her if she were not a little tired with walking so far. No particular reply was returned by the young lady, but they both stopped, and Anne seated herself on a stone, which had fallen from the ruin to the ground.
Faringdon, that, in his younger days, he was a Calvinist; but that some explanations given by Episcopius of the text in John iii. 16, induced him, as he himself said, to "bid John Calvin, Good Night." Dr.
"My legs aren't very strong." He sat down, but even then he was taller than any of the children. "Where is your caravan?" Janet asked. "Just over there," the giant said. "They're waiting for me. I came here to make my toilet. Where are you going?" "We're going to Faringdon," said Robert. "That's where we've come from," said the giant. "There's been a fair there. We're going to Cirencester."
The whipping-post still exists at the old Town Hall at Faringdon, the staples being affixed to the side of the ancient "lock-up," known as the Black Hole.
He judged that Sir Arnold must have returned from Faringdon; and if Gilbert met him now, riding over his own lands in the May morning, he would be unmailed and unsuspecting of attack. And should they not meet, Gilbert meant to ride up to the castle gate, and ask for the baron, and courteously propose to him that they should ride together into the wood.
'Tell me, Mark, where did they find him? 'At the Faringdon Station. I was sent for to identify him. 'Stay, said Mr. Dutton, as there was a wild horrified look in Nuttie's eyes. 'Do you mean little Alwyn? 'Little Alwyn! No, certainly not. What of him? 'Gregorio managed to lose him in the park yesterday, put in Mr. Dutton. 'That accounts for it, then, said Mark.
After receiving a thousand messages for Collins, both affectionate and jocular one from Mr. Pescod being on no account to forget to tell her to try anti-fat they said good-bye to these kind folk and marched into Faringdon the next morning, very sorry it was the last, but determined to make a brave show.
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