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They sent 'er from the registry office to a lady at Clapton. "'I 'ope you are good at getting up early in the morning? says the lady, 'I like a gal as rises cheerfully to 'er work. "'Well, ma'am, says Emma, 'I can't say as I've got a passion for it. But it's one of those things that 'as to be done, and I guess I've learnt the trick.
It should, however, be remembered that there were many others engaged in the same pursuit, and consequently many other victims besides those who are here enumerated. William Waller, als. Slaughter, als. Walker, executed at Tyburne. Cuthbert Clapton, condemned, reprieved and pardoned. Bartholomew Row, executed at Tyburne. Thomas Reynolds, executed at Tyburne. Edward Morgan, executed at Tyburne.
It possesses a spacious church, which has a fine Norm. recessed S. door. The chancel arch is also of Norm. origin, but has undergone alteration. There is a good E. window and a sanctuary bell-cot. At the junction of the roads to Portishead and Clapton are the remains of a priory, which are now used as a school. It is said to have belonged to an Augustinian Abbey at Bristol.
Next there was a young fellow of nineteen or twenty, who was beginning life as an assistant-teacher in a commercial school at Lower Clapton. This way is a stony and a thorny path to tread; no one walks upon it willingly; those who are compelled to enter upon it speedily either run away and enlist, or they go and find a secluded spot in which to hang themselves.
People are apt to gather here rather thick, for they like the romance of the wood; and naturalists haunt it, too; for it is a wild spot even here, what there is of it; for it does not go far to the south: it goes from here northward and west right over Paddington and a little way down Notting Hill: thence it runs north-east to Primrose Hill, and so on; rather a narrow strip of it gets through Kingsland to Stoke-Newington and Clapton, where it spreads out along the heights above the Lea marshes; on the other side of which, as you know, is Epping Forest holding out a hand to it.
Silvered with her beams, I am about to jog to Clapton upon my own stumps; musing, as I homeward plod my way. Ah! need I name the subject of my contemplations? "Thursday. "I had a sweet walk home last night, and found the Claptonians, with their fair guest, a Miss Mourgue, very well. My sisters send their amities, and will write in a few days. "This morning I returned to town.
If the regular City man, who leaves Lloyd’s at five o’clock, and drives home to Hackney, Clapton, Stamford-hill, or elsewhere, can be said to have any daily recreation beyond his dinner, it is his garden.
He was never married, but in his youth he paid his addresses to the beautiful Susan Winstanley old Winstanley's daughter of Clapton who dying in the early days of their courtship, confirmed in him the resolution of perpetual bachelorship.
At last the county member, at the request of her father, obtained for me a clerkship in the Stamps and Taxes Department. These were the days before competitive examinations. She was now able to say that her son was in H. M. Civil Service. I had eighty pounds a year, and lodged at Clapton with an aunt, my father's sister.
This bold, decided man who performs such deeds of derring-do in the noisome slum, knocks down the burly wife-beater, rescues an unmistakable Miss Clapton from the knife of a Lascar, and is all the while cultivating a virtuous consumption that stretches him on an edifying, pathetic, and altogether beautiful deathbed in the last chapter My dear Authorling, cry my friends, we hear the squeak of that little voice of yours in every word he utters.
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