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'Intact, said Agnes, calmly, as that French bric-a-brac man in the Brompton Road used to say of his pots. But he is very nice. 'Oh, charming! But when my destiny arrives'-and Rose, returning to her tea, swept her little hand with a teaspoon in it eloquently round-'he won't have his hair cut close. I must have luxuriant locks, and I will take no excuse!
And Ripon could not but think it hard that he, Geoffrey Ripon, by all right and law Earl of Brompton, Viscount Mapledurham in the peerage of Ireland, etc., etc., should that afternoon have been fined ten shillings and costs for poaching on what had been his own domain.
Labour, take back your son." An hour afterwards, and his clerk, returning home, found Ardworth employed as calmly as usual on his Law Reports. That day, when he called at Brompton, Percival reported to Madame Dalibard his interview with the eccentric Mr. Tomkins.
She appeared before the king with all the advantages which the richest attire and the most engaging airs could bestow upon her, and she excited at once in his bosom the highest love towards herself, and the most furious desire of revenge against her husband. Hoveden, p. 426. Brompton, p. 865, 866. Flor. Wigorn. p. 606.
Passing through Vauxhall, I crossed the Thames again at Battersea-bridge, rode through Chelsea, and presently gained the Brompton road. My first visit was to the keeper. The fellow has a strange look! A villainous physiognomy! I enquired after his prisoner and found he was safe.
If you like to accompany me to the river I will show you a spot I have often looked upon as a likely one for a bridge; where the banks are steep and the river narrow. To ascertain his inclination, however, I will write him; and if I think any good can be done, I will myself ride over to Brompton and see him."
"Other important transactions in the shipping interest will shortly be undertaken; more precise details will speedily follow." Then he directed the cabman to drive to Thistle Grove, Brompton. "Is Mrs. Wilders visible yet?" he asked the servant, on reaching her house.
The widower's one grief was that he was forced to separate himself from his life's companion for a period of, at least, a week. A pretty enough scheme, wasn't it, Polycarp? We shall shortly bury the wax effigy in Brompton Cemetery, with the assistance of Hugo's undertakers, and a parson or so, and grave-diggers, and registrars of deaths, and so on and so on.
They arrived at a little villa at Brompton: there was a little garden round it, and a little bower in one corner, all kept excessively neat; and the outside of the house had just been painted white from top to bottom; and there was a veranda to the house; and the windows were plate-glass, with mahogany sashes only, here and there, a Gothic casement was stuck in by way of looking "tasty;" and through one window on the ground-floor, the lights shining within, showed crimson silk and gilded chairs, and all sorts of finery Louis Quatorze in a nutshell!
The young Russian suddenly stopped and stood pointing at the advertisement, with shaking derisive finger, his eyes aflame, the whole man quivering with what looked like antagonism and hate. Then he broke into a fierce flood of French. Langham listened till they had passed Piccadilly, passed the Park, and till the young savant turned southwards towards his Brompton lodgings.
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