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Updated: June 23, 2025
She blushed, looking dreamily across the dark-gray river to the level shores beyond the low meadows gentle hills in the back-ground the wooded slopes of Weybridge and Chertsey. If this speaker, whose voice dropped to so tender a tone, had been like the Brian of her imaginings if he had looked at her with the dark eyes of Sir Tristram's picture, how differently his speech would have affected her!
He was not only a baron but a parson as well, and on his death the estate went to relatives by the name of Mill, or, as we might imagine, "Hoby" Mill. It did not long remain with them. They died out in 1780 and the Van Sittarts bought it of the widow. Consider Chertsey, from which Bisham sprang.
Why, when mother died at home we were in Chertsey then, Frank and Doris and I and I tried to manage things, you know, it was really too absurd. I used to make the most ridiculous mistakes and Frank said that the village people did just what they liked with me, and I remember old Mrs. Blenkinsop charging me for eggs after the first month at quite an outrageous rate because " "Yes, mother, I know.
The third of the great early foundations is Abingdon, and in a way it is the greatest, for, without direct connection with the Crown, by the mere vitality of its tradition, it became something more even than Chertsey was, wielding an immense revenue, more than half that of Westminster itself, and situated, as it was, in a small up-valley town, ruling with almost monarchical power.
Not a year had passed, the June of 1538 was not over, when the new community at Bisham was scattered as the old one at Chertsey had been. Of the abbey itself nothing is left but a broken piece of gateway, and the few stones of a wall. But a relic of it remains in Black Cherry Fair, a market granted to the abbey in the fifteenth century and formerly held upon St. Anne's Hill and upon St.
Before that time I lived at Chertsey, under the care of one of the lay sisters of the monastery there Sister Anastasia." "And your parents where are they?" asked the cardinal curiously. "Alas! your grace, I have none," replied Mabel with a sigh. "Tristram Lyndwood is my only living relative.
My attention was diverted from this death flurry by a furious yelling, like that of the thing called a siren in our manufacturing towns. A man, knee-deep near the towing path, shouted inaudibly to me and pointed. Looking back, I saw the other Martians advancing with gigantic strides down the riverbank from the direction of Chertsey. The Shepperton guns spoke this time unavailingly.
Thus, when the poet Cowley retired to Chertsey, in 1665, he wrote to his friend Sprat to visit him, and, by way of encouragement, told him that he might sleep the first night at Hampton town; thus occupying; two days in the performance of a journey of twenty-two miles in the immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis.
They crossed the bridge, and kept on towards the lights which he had seen before. They were at no great distance off; and, as they walked pretty briskly, they soon arrived at Chertsey. 'Slap through the town, whispered Sikes; 'there'll be nobody in the way, to-night, to see us.
If one of them had dared I wonder whether the blood would have liquefied. Do you remember, in the 'Nibelungenlied, that Hagen is forced to prove his innocence by touching Siegfried's corpse and fails? That is the point he fails. Our own Shakespeare knew the dodge. When Henry VI was being borne to Chertsey in an open coffin, the Lady Anne made Gloster squirm by her cry: "O gentlemen, see, see!
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