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When the girls came he immediately resolved that he would never go up to London, and kept his resolve. Not above once in three or four years was it supposed to be necessary that he showed his head to a London hairdresser. He was quite content to have a practitioner out from Alresford, and to pay him one shilling, including the journey.
"Here's a Romsey man for you!" cried a young bowman with a sprig of evergreen set in his helmet. "And a lad from Alresford!" shouted another. "And from Milton!" "And from Burley!" "And from Lymington!" "And a little one from Brockenhurst!" shouted a huge-limbed fellow who sprawled beneath a tree.
The Miss Halls were altogether of the same opinion, and were not slow to express it. All Alresford would know it, and would sympathise with John Gordon. And as it came to be known that he himself had given up the girl whom he loved, he could read the ridicule which would be conveyed by the smiles of his neighbours.
"And you are quite sure that Busbridge Towers has nothing to do with it?" he said suddenly, looking round upon her. Busbridge Towers was the fine ancestral seat which belonged to Lady Selina's father, that very respectable and ancient peer, Lord Alresford, whom an ungrateful party had unaccountably omitted for the first time from the latest Conservative administration.
I think I know, but I am not quite sure of it. On such a subject I should not like to make a surmise unless I were confident." "It's about Miss Lawrie." "I suppose so." "What makes you suppose that?" said Whittlestaff, sharply. "You told me that you were sure I should know." "So I am, quite sure. You came all the way down to Alresford to see her.
The town of Galt in Canada is named after him. Historian, b. at Alresford, Hants, was ed. at Winchester and Oxf. In 1855 he m. About the time of his leaving Oxf. he had planned his great work, The History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Restoration, and the accomplishment of this task he made the great object of his life for more than 40 years.
The third is the nicest, as her hair may be a shade darker than the others. I really must be off now, as I wouldn't for worlds that the train should come in before I'm on the platform." With that he went into the yard, and at once trotted off on his cob. Gordon paid his bill, and started on his walk to Little Alresford Park.
On the day arranged, early on the morning after the dinner at Little Alresford Park, John Gordon went up to London. He had not been much moved by the intimation made to him by Mr Whittlestaff that some letter should be written to him at his London address. He had made his appeal to Mr Whittlestaff, and had received no answer whatever. And he had, after a fashion, made his appeal also to the girl.
Hamerton, of Hellifield Peel, and her married daughter; to Alresford, to stay a couple of days with Sir Seymour Haden and his wife; and then to Southampton, to call upon Mr. R. Leslie.
Of him I can only say, that his regard for me has been more tender even than that of a father. Yours always most lovingly, The day came at last on which Mary's visit to Little Alresford was to commence. Two days later John Gordon was to arrive at the Parsonage, and Mary's period of being "spooned" was to be commenced, according to Mr Blake's phraseology.
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