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The last thing that I remember was shrieking loudly and feeling a moisture rise to my dry lips and pass down my chin. I awoke with a dull sense of impending trouble to find myself abed in the Bramhall sick-room, into which long shafts of noonday sunlight were streaming from behind drawn blinds. Looking down upon me was Dr. Chapman, with his usual white waistcoat and moist cigar. "Ah ha!" he said.
Hunt, such a good offer, especially to one in your circumstances, from such a worthy, talented, pious young clergyman, whose preference Julia Bramhall or Cornelia Bugbee, with their thousands, would be glad to win, who is going to be settled in a good old parish, like Walbury, and receive at once a salary almost as large, I dare say, as Mr.
Many times that morning I passed Radley in the school buildings, and, pretending not to have seen him, went by with a hum or a whistle. In the afternoon he came and coached our game at cricket; and after tea he bowled at the Bramhall Nets where I was practising. When he instructed me he spoke as though there were nothing between us.
Blood up, I muttered: "Brute! Beast! Swine! Devil!" Moles White, who was now the house-captain, was occupied two afternoons later in discussing with the bloods of Bramhall the composition of the House Swimming Four for the Inter-house relay races. "Erasmus House have a splendid Four," he said. "We've only got three so far: there's myself and Cully and Johnson."
But I am certain that it was not till our stories marched into the shadow of the Great War that I became at all demonstrative. Enough of that, then the postman's feet are on the steps of Bramhall House. May I just ask you to think of my mother as a very gracious lady, gracious in form and feature and character?
"I say," he stuttered, "you you might just mention to Radley that I dictated all the lines. It would sort of I mean Oh, but you needn't, if you don't want to." That night there happened in Bramhall House one of those strange events that are best chronicled in a few cold sentences. That night, I say, while honest men and boys slept, Mr. Fillet sat up in bed and listened.
Right at the farthest corner of the field was the Bramhall gate, which But the Bramhall gate needn't interest us: we leave by the railings. The noise of a footstep disturbing the gravel caused me to look down. A boy, hatless, ran across to the wall and walked guiltily beneath it till he reached the railings. The fairness of his hair arrested my attention.
Hobbes to make a rejoinder, and to publish all the pieces together in a book of 348 pages printed in London in the year 1656, in 4to., entitled, Questions concerning Freedom, Necessity and Chance, elucidated and discussed between Doctor Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, and Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.
We were of very varying heights, from White, whose huge proportions exaggerated the difference, to little thick-set Cully, who was the shortest of all. And only these two wore the polo-cap. So both fours stood before the multitude, inviting comparison: Erasmus, a team; Bramhall, a scratch lot.
A new Act of Uniformity was passed, and armed with this, the bishops with Bramhall, the Primate, at their head, insisted upon an acceptance of the Prayer-book being enforced upon all who were permitted to hold any benefice, or to teach or preach in any church or public place. The result was that the Presbyterians were driven away in crowds from Ireland.
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