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'I can only suppose that he thinks that I am not looking well. The letter was burnt, as all the others had been, no answer vouchsafed. Virginia's mind seemed to waver with regard to the proposed settlement at Clevedon. Occasionally she had urged Monica, with extreme persistence, to accept what was offered; at other times, as now, for instance, she said nothing.
This poor woman had yielded to one of the temptations that beset a life of idleness and solitude. His pity was mingled with disgust. 'I only wished to tell you, he said gravely, 'that we have taken a house at Clevedon 'You really have! She clasped her hands together. 'Whereabouts? 'Near Dial Hill. Virginia began a rhapsody which her brother-in-law had no inclination to hear.
Here the spokeswoman for the two strangers had the grace to blush, remembering the Devil's Chair. "And this this is my friend, Una Grosvenor, who has just been initiated into 'Camp Fire. We belong to the Woo-hi-ye Victory Group of Clevedon which, you know, is only a hundred miles, or so, from here; and we "
In the twenty-eighth, however, and in the "Sigh," and that composed at Clevedon, things that come from the heart direct, not by the medium of the fancy, I would not suggest an alteration. When my blank verse is finished, or any long fancy poem, "propino tibi alterandum, cut-up-andum, abridgeandum," just what you will with, it: but spare my ewe-lambs! That to "Mrs.
At the W. end of it is a thatched 15th cent. parsonage with some ecclesiastical windows, now a farm. Walton-in-Gordano, a village 1 m. N. of Clevedon, very prettily situated near the Channel. The present building is said to be modelled on the style of the old. Wanstrow, a village 6 m. S.W. of Frome, with a station on the G.W.R. branch to Wells. The church is ancient, but without interest.
And these too for a tract of coast that, from Clevedon to Minehead, scarcely permits the approach of a fishing-boat!
It unnerved me dreadfully. I do think, Edmund, those drivers ought to be more careful. I was saying to Mrs. Conisbee only the other day and that reminds me, I do so want to know all about your visit to Clevedon. Dear, dear Clevedon! And have you really taken a house there, Edmund? Oh, if we could all end our days at Clevedon!
The large house was to be abandoned, and as much of the furniture as seemed needful transported to a smaller dwelling in another part of Clevedon. For Alice resolved to stay here in spite of painful associations. She loved the place, and looked forward with quiet joy to the life that was prepared for her. Widdowson's books would go back to London; not to the Hampstead lodgings, however.
Blake, Robert, b. 1599, at Bridgwater; took part in the Great Civil War on the Parliamentary side, and defended Lyme and Taunton; made admiral of the fleet, and fought against Holland and Spain; d. 1657. Coleridge, Hartley, b. 1796, at Clevedon; poet and biographical writer; d. 1849.
See Weston-super-Mare. Wraxall, a parish 5 m. E. from Clevedon and 2 m. from Nailsea Station. Its church has a tower, the appearance of which is spoilt by the windows rising above the string-courses. In the interior observe the roof, some screen-work, partly ancient and partly modern, on the N. side of the chancel a tomb with two effigies, believed to be those of Sir E. and Lady Gorges.
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