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Updated: June 13, 2025
I know your tricks, Fairfax; you are one of the doubtful doctors; you love to catch credulity upon your hook. I hear fat laughter gurgling in your throat, and out bolts your threadbare simile 'Before the battle's won the Brentford hero sings Te Deum. But don't be wasteful of the little wit you have. Do I not tell you it is decreed? When was I posted for a vapouring Hector?
Leger had returned to his uncle, so that it would be unfair to them, as well as a considerable delay, to demand of them any fulfilment of their vow. And, as Amyas sagely remarked, "Too many cooks spoil the broth, and half-a-dozen gentlemen aboard one ship are as bad as two kings of Brentford." With which maxim he departed next morning for London, leaving Yeo with Cary.
They were very soon near to the bridge, and as they approached it, they had to pass a huge barge, that was lazily making its way down to Brentford. 'There's lots of tune for the big arch, said Charley. 'Pull away then, said Harry. They both pulled hard, and shot alongside and past the barge.
He dived under Kew Bridge, shot by Kew Gardens and ancient Brentford, and turned around off Isleworth. He rowed leisurely back, dropping the oars now and again to light his pipe. "There's nothing like this to brace a fellow up," he said to himself, as he drew near Maynard's. "I should miss the river if I took a studio in town.
Lady Laura Kennedy heard two accounts of her friend's speech, and both from men who had been present. Her husband was in his place, in accordance with his constant practice, and Lord Brentford had been seated, perhaps unfortunately, in the peers' gallery. "And you think it was a failure?" Lady Laura said to her husband. "It certainly was not a success. There was nothing particular about it.
As for him, he sits in as much stern state as the Old Red Lion of Brentford. Yes, he is my Lord Chief Justice Nevergrin! He cannot qualify, he! He is prime tinker to Madam Virtue, and carries no softening epithets in his budget. A duke or a scavenger with him are exactly the same Saving and excepting the aforesaid exceptions, of wisdom, virtue, and the good of the whole!
Late one night, after a new influx of the wounded, she was greatly startled while passing down her ward by hearing a voice exclaim, "Grace Grace Brentford!" It was her mother's name. The call was repeated; and she tremblingly approached a cot on which was lying a gray-haired man. "Great God!" he exclaimed, "am I dreaming? am I delirious?
I read as follows: "Whereas, on Friday night last, between the hours of nine and ten, a tin box, containing deeds and papers, was handed into a wherry from the grounds of a villa between Brentford and Kew, and the parties who owned it were prevented from accompanying the same.
She was absolutely certain that she was taken through Brentford again, this time without a halt; but after this the country became unknown to her, and the road much worse. It was in fact for the most part a mere ditch or cart track, so rough that the four horses came to a walk.
Then my hon. friend the Member for Brentford quoted an expression of mine used in a speech in the country about the impatient idealists, and he reproved me for saying that some of the worst tragedies of history had been wrought by the impatient idealists.
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