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But her strength failed rapidly, and she was but a shadow of her former self when, two years and a half after her arrival at Honfleur, she felt that if she was herself to hand Gervaise over to the Order of St. John, she must no longer delay. Accordingly she took ship to London, and landing there made her way with him to the dwelling of the Order at Clerkenwell.
Though the educated classes had buried superstition, it lived, of course, among the people, who probably thumbed Baxter and Glanvill. Thus things went on, crowds gathering to amuse themselves with the ghost. On February 1, Mr. Aldrich, a clergyman of Clerkenwell, assembled in his house a number of gentlemen and ladies, having persuaded Parsons to let his child be carried thither and tested. Dr.
Drove hard towards Clerkenwell, thinking to have overtaken my Lady Newcastle, whom I saw before us in her coach, with 100 boys and girls running looking upon her; but I could, not: and so she got home before I could come up to her. But I will get a time to see her. 12th.
Kirkwood, were you ever acquainted with my son, by name Joseph Snowdon? 'No; I never knew him, was the reply. 'I have heard his name, and I know where he once lived not far from here. 'You're wondering what has brought me to you. I have heard of you from people a grandchild of mine is living with. I dare say it is the house you mean in Clerkenwell Close.
Keating," till the sight of Officer Keating walking solidly along the pavement with Spider Buffin shuffling along at his side, listening with rapt interest to his views on Life and his hints on Deportment, became a familiar spectacle in Clerkenwell. Mr. Buffin played his part well. In fact, too well.
I intended to have seen the Quakers, who, they say, do meet every Lord's day at the Mouth at Bishopsgate; but I could see none stirring, nor was it fit to aske for the place, so I walked over Moorefields, and thence to Clerkenwell church, and there, as I wished, sat next pew to the fair Butler, who indeed is a most perfect beauty still; and one I do very much admire myself for my choice of her for a beauty, she having the best lower part of her face that ever I saw all days of my life.
He gave concerts in Aylesbury Street, Clerkenwell, where this singular man had formed a dwelling-house, with a concert-room and a coal-store, out of what was originally a stable. On the ground-floor was the small-coal repository, and over that the concert-room very long and narrow, badly lighted, and with a ceiling so low that a tall man could scarcely stand upright in it.
Joseph Picken was the son of a tailor in Clerkenwell, who worked hard at his employment and took pleasure in nothing but providing for, and bringing up his family. This unhappy son, Joseph, was his darling, and nothing grieved him so much upon his death-bed, as the fears of what might befall the boy, being then an infant of five years old.
"You will never dare to enter it," he said. "I will go wherever you go," replied the porter, with a confidence mainly inspired by the hospitable farmer's strong ale. "We shall see," replied Leonard. "I shall keep you to your word." It Drought them to Clerkenwell, whence they proceeded to Finsbury Fields, and soon came in sight of the pest-house.
They are too far, though, and, then, that man Baruch must go with us. He'd be company for Marshall, and he sticks up in Clerkenwell and never goes nowhere. You remember as Marshall said as he must ask him the next time we had an outing. Clara had not forgotten it. 'Ah, continued Mrs Caffyn, 'I should just love to show you Mickleham. Mrs Caffyn's heart yearned after her Surrey land.
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