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Updated: June 29, 2025
The devil was in that waltz. He had hold of the violins and was weaving the air with scents and visions visions of Ascot and Henley; green lawns, gay sunshades, midsummer heat, cool rivers flowing, muslins rippled by light breezes; running horses and silken jackets; white tables heaped with roses and set with silver and crystal, jewelled fingers moving in the soft candle-light, bare necks bending, diamonds, odours, bubbles in the wine; blue water and white foam beneath the leaning shadow of sails; hot air flickering over stretches of moorland; blue again Mediterranean blue long facades, the din of bands and King Carnival parading beneath showers of blossom: and all this noise and warmth and scent and dazzle flung out into the frozen street for a beggar's portion.
The Duke thinks the King was in pain three or four seconds; but it was a minute and a half before he was relieved. He then did not speak; but made a motion with his hand for the Duke to go. He had just before been talking of going to Ascot and then to Aix-la- Chapelle. The King was perfectly satisfied with the proposed arrangement for the stamp.
He too was now improving his talents by a public education, and longed impatiently for the time when he should be set free from all restraint, and allowed to display the superiority of his genius at Ascot and Newmarket. These two young gentlemen had conceived the most violent dislike to Harry, and lost no occasion of saying or doing everything they had in their power to mortify him.
The Princess opens the Victoria Park at Bath Becoming used to Public Curiosity Secret of her Destiny revealed to her Royal Ball on her Thirteenth Birthday At the Ascot Races Picture by N. P. Willis Anecdotes Painful Scene at the King's last Birthday Dinner. When she was eleven years old, the Princess opened the Victoria Park at Bath.
Shayne arose from his desk, rearranged his diamond scarf-pin in his gray satin Ascot tie, flicked two imaginary particles of dust from his tight-fitting cutaway coat, whisked his silk handkerchief out of his breast pocket and in again, so that the lavender border was visible, cleared his throat, and stood in an attitude of agreeable expectancy.
Imagine the effect on people with tired, harassed nerves who saw it three times on the way to Brighton and three times on the way back. Imagine seeing it dominate the landscape at Ascot, and trying to keep your eye off it on the Sandwich golf links. What have your countrymen done to deserve such a thing? "'They have refused us the vote, said Lena bitterly.
On the extensive lawn, which was like a green-velvet carpet, the ladies strolled about in their pretty, fresh dresses, sometimes sitting at the little tables which were shaded by large Japanese umbrellas placed between the terrace and the walk. It was a garden of living flowers. The Prince of Wales, in his peculiarly abrupt manner, said to me, "What have you been doing since Ascot?"
Then there's the neck-apple. Ernie fits his into a high white wing collar and sets it off with a black ascot tie and a pearl stickpin. Also he sports the only black cutaway that's worn reg'lar into the General Offices. Oh, yes, Ernie could go on at a minute's notice as best man or pall-bearer. I don't mean he's often called on to be either.
Making the passage again and this was his fourth voyage within fifteen days he gained the Ascot Derby. It is not unlikely that if this remarkable horse had remained permanently in the one country or the other he would have carried off the principal prizes of the turf.
The Derby and Ascot had been won, in glorious weather. There had been splendid cricket at Lord's, fine polo at Hurlingham, and Henley Week had just passed. London Society was preparing for the country, the Continental Spas, and the sea, leaving the metropolis to the American cousins who were each week invading London's big hotels.
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