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Johnson, while canvassing for Mr. Thrale. Jenkin had been introduced to the Austins by a letter from Mrs. Gaskell, and was charmed with the atmosphere of their choice home, where intellectual conversation was happily united with kind and courteous manners, without any pretence or affectation. 'Each of the Austins, says Mr.
This was a family certain to interest a thoughtful young man. Alfred, the youngest and least known of the Austins, had been a beautiful golden-haired child, petted and kept out of the way of both sport and study by a partial mother.
From what I've dug out of Rosa, he's acting for a third party somebody with pull and a lot of coin but who it is I don't know. Anyhow, he's cooking trouble for the Austins, and I want to stand from under." Now that the speaker had dropped all pretense, he answered Dave's questions without evasion and told what he knew.
Still their present visit was so prolonged that on leaving they found it time to return to the yacht. They met the Austins again at the Peristyle, and took them on board in the first boat load. The guests were numerous, including all the cousins from Pleasant Plains, and the three young gentlemen friends Chester and Frank Dinsmore and Will Croly.
Granger goes to call upon the Austins as much as three times a week, and seldom stops less than an hour." A deadly coldness had crept over Sophia Granger a cold, blank feeling, which had never come upon her until that moment. He had a wife, then, that dashing young painter with the brilliant brown eyes the only man who had ever aroused the faintest interest in her well-regulated soul.
'Well, good-bye, dear, said Kitty, 'I shall walk as far as the burgh. The Miss Austins turned into the trees that encircled Leywood, Kitty and John faced the hill, and ascending, they soon stood, tiny specks upon the evening hours. Speaking of the Devil's Dyke, Kitty said 'What! you mean to say you never heard the legend? You, a Sussex man!
This abbie was called saint Austins after his name, one Peter being the first abbat thereof. The church there was not consecrated by Augustine, but by his successor Laurence, after he was dead. Also king Ethelbert builded the church of saint Andrews in Rochester. Higd.
He had just begun his long life-labor when Longfellow and Tennyson, Hugo and Wagner came upon the scene, and together they wrought wisely and well in that mighty seed-field which is the world! What a galaxy of intellectual gods! now all gone, returned home to High Olympus the weird land left to the Alfred Austins, the William Dean Howells and the Ian McLarens!
They are all outside," he chuckled "Magpies and Dusty-hoods, Parvuses, Minors and Minims, Benets, and Austins, every cowl in Verona! Come along, my handsome girl, you must move briskish this day!" She heard the hoarse muttering of the men, and, a worse poison for good ears, the shrill venom of the women. Out of the gates she blindly went, and all the pack opened their music upon her.
The lofty, lonely landscape, with its lengthy hills defined upon the flushes of July, came in happy contrast with the noisy hours of tennis and girls; and standing on the gently ascending slopes, rising almost from the wicket gate of the rectory, he would wave farewells to Kitty and the Austins.
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