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Her visitor's American references, with their bewildering immensities, their confounding moneyed New York, their excitements of high pressure, their opportunities of wild freedom, their record of used-up relatives, parents, clever, eager, fair, slim brothers these the most loved all engaged, as well as successive superseded guardians, in a high extravagance of speculation and dissipation that had left this exquisite being her black dress, her white face and her vivid hair as the mere last broken link: such a picture quite threw into the shade the brief biography, however sketchily amplified, of a mere middle-class nobody in Bayswater.
And in Valentine Hawkehurst's heart there was an aching pain a dull dead load of care, which had never been lightened from the hour when he first perceived the change in his dear one's face. There was one other person, an inhabitant of the Bayswater villa, who watched Charlotte Halliday at this time with a care as unresting as the care of mother or stepfather, bosom friend or plighted lover.
A row of very fine elm trees was separated only by the carriage-road from the houses, whose front windows looked through their branches upon a large, quiet, green meadow, and beyond that to an extensive nursery garden of enchanting memory, where our weekly allowances were expended in pots of violets and flower-seeds and roots of future fragrance, for our small gardens: this pleasant foreground divided us from the Bayswater Road and Kensington Gardens.
Leaving the omnibus at the Royal Oak, the trio diverged to one of the streets between that well-known establishment and the Bayswater Road a street which had still a few trees and small semi-detached villas, with front gardens left at one end, the relics of a past when Penrhyn Place was "quite the country"; while at the other, bricks, mortar, scaffolding, and a deeply rutted roadway indicated the commencement of mansions which would soon swallow up their humbler predecessors.
What do you think of the Duke of Argyll's criticisms, and the more pretentious one in the last number of the North British Review? I have written a little article answering them both, but I do not yet know where to get it published. 76-1/2 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, W. October 1, 1867. Dear Darwin, I am sorry I was not in town when your note came.
"Well, let me see to-day is Thursday; can you come on Monday?" "Yes, I will come on Monday." She arrived at Bayswater before ten, but being forbidden to talk of M. Lenoble, could give but a scanty account of her evening. "And was your papa kind, dear?" asked Charlotte, "and did he seem pleased to see you?"
An omnibus conveyed him to Bayswater at a snail's pace, and with more stoppages than ever mortal omnibus was subjected to before, as it seemed to that one eager passenger. At last the fading foliage of the Park appeared between the hats and bonnets of Valentine's opposite neighbours. Even those orange tawny trees reminded him of Charlotte. Beneath such umbrage had he parted from her.
Mr John Eames of the Income-tax Office, had in these days risen so high in the world that people in the west-end of town, and very respectable people too, people living in South Kensington, in neighbourhoods not far from Belgravia, and in very handsome houses round Bayswater, were glad to ask him out to dinner. Money had been left to him by an earl, and rumour had of course magnified that money.
"One of them is married. She is the Countess of Pimlico." "And the other?" "The other is unmarried; she is plain Lady Julia." Bessie Alden looked at him a moment. "Is she very plain?" Beaumont began to laugh again. "You would not find her so handsome as her brother," he said; and it was after this that he attempted to dissuade the heir of the Duke of Bayswater from accepting Mrs.
When bull-baiting was prohibited by law the sportsmen of the period turned their attention to dog-fighting, and for this pastime the Bulldogs were specially trained. The chief centres in London where these exhibitions took place were the Westminster Pit, the Bear Garden at Bankside, and the Old Conduit Fields in Bayswater.
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