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I have a headache, but I'll sleep on the sofa here; it's less hot than the bedroom." "Won't you sleep with your poor old mother?" "No, I can't, really. Oh, how dreadfully hot this place is!" "You are spoilt by your fine life, Maggie; but I grant that these lodgings are hot. The house at Clapham, however, is very cool and fresh. Oh Maggie!
She went forth with the intention of deceiving her sisters, of walking to Clapham Common, and on her return inventing some sermon at a church the others never visited. But before she had gone many yards conscience overcame her. Was she not getting to be a very lax-minded girl? And it was shameful to impose upon the two after their loving-kindness to her.
Chaffery his mother-in-law, that these two and Ethel constituted his family, his clan, and that grimy graceless house up the Clapham hillside was to be his home. Home! His connexion with these things as a point of worldly departure was as inexorable now as though he had been born to it. And a year ago, except for a fading reminiscence of Ethel, none of these people had existed for him.
On November 13th, 1895, I was brought down here from London. From two o'clock till half-past two on that day I had to stand on the centre platform of Clapham Junction in convict dress, and handcuffed, for the world to look at. I had been taken out of the hospital ward without a moment's notice being given to me. Of all possible objects I was the most grotesque. When people saw me they laughed.
Others of their undertakings, in weaker hands than theirs, seem out of date among the ideas and beliefs which now are prevalent. At Clapham, as elsewhere, the old order is changing, and not always in a direction which to them would be acceptable or even tolerable.
Soon afterwards came news of private carriages being stopped on various commons in the South of London, and of several burglaries taking place among the houses round Clapham, Wandsworth, and Putney. Such events were by no means uncommon, but following each other in such quick succession they created a strong feeling of alarm among the inhabitants of the neighborhood.
'Subject for a historical picture, said Psmith. 'Wounded leaving the field after the Battle of Clapham Common. How are your injuries, Comrade Jackson? 'My back's hurting like blazes, said Mike. 'And my ear's all sore where that chap got me. Anything the matter with you? 'Physically, said Psmith, 'no. Spiritually much. Do you realize, Comrade Jackson, the thing that has happened?
'But he sleeps here many nights, and he is here most of the day, and he gets his letters here, and all sorts of people come to see him here. 'I suppose, dear, he has business to do, and it wouldn't be quite convenient for people to go out and see him in Clapham.
"I have loved you too much in the past ever to become indifferent to your fate. Where are you going?" "To London." "To your old apartments at Clapham?" "Oh, no, no!" "Have you money money enough to last you for some time?" "Yes; I have saved money." "If you should be in want of help, will you let me help you?" "Willingly, Mr. Austin. I am not too proud to accept your help in the hour of my need."
From 1814 my father was for nine years a member of the committee of the Church Missionary Society, after which time his occupations made attendance impossible. I have already indicated the family connection with the Clapham sect, and my father's connection was now to be drawn still closer. On December 22, 1814, he married Jane Catherine Venn, second daughter of the Rev. John Venn, of Clapham.
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