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Updated: April 30, 2025

In went Geraldine, imploring to wait for Wilmet, but all in vain; off went the chair, owner and escort alike in haste, and she was swept along, with Lance and Will with a hand holding either side of the chair, imparting breathless scraps of information, and exchanging remarks: 'There goes the Archdeacon. 'The Thorpe choir is not come, and Miles is mad about it. 'That's the Town Hall. 'There's where Jack licked a cad for bullying. 'There's a cannon-ball of Oliver Cromwell's sticking out of that wall. 'That's the only shop fit to get gingerbeer at! 'That old horse in that cab was in the Crimea. 'We come last in the procession, and if you see a fellow like a sheep in spectacles, that's Shapcote. 'Hurrah! what a stunning lot! where is it from? 'Bembury?

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Pillars of the House, V1