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I must further, in justice to myself, explain that I immediately after the introduction, sought an elucidation of the mystery from Sir Harry; and he then told me that, in a freak of youthful passion, he had married Miss Dalston in the name of Grainger, fearing his uncle's displeasure should it reach his ears; that his wife had died in her first confinement, after giving birth to a still-born child, and he now wished the matter to remain in oblivion.
The saints' days you speak of have long since fled to heaven with Astræa, and the cold piety of the age lacks fervor to recall them; only Peter left his key, the iron one of the two that "shuts amain," and that is the reason I am locked up. Meanwhile, of afternoons we pick up primroses at Dalston, and Mary corrects me when I call 'em cowslips.
It ran thus: "TO WILLIAM JAMES RAMSEY, of 28 Stonecutter Street, in the City of London, and 20 Brownlow Street, Dalston, in the county of Middlesex; GEORGE WILLIAM FOOTE, of 9 South Crescent, Bedford Square, in the county of Middlesex; EDWARD WILLIAM WHITTLE, of 170 Saint John Street, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex; and CHARLES BRADLAUGH, of 20 Circus Road, Saint John's Wood, in the county of Middlesex, and 28 Stonecutter Street, in the City of London.
I didn't get word with 'im till five o'clock next morning, when he came up on deck with his 'air all rough and 'is eyes red for want of sleep. "Haven't 'ad a wink all night," he ses, stepping on to the wharf. I gave a little cough. "Didn't she 'ave a pleasant time at Dalston?" I ses. He walked a little further off from the ship. "She didn't go there," he ses, in a whisper.
A very dear friend. "On Devon's leafy shores." From Wordsworth's Excursion, III. Daily jaunts. Though Lamb was then living at 20 Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, he rented rooms at 14 Kingsland Row, Dalston, in which to take holidays and do his literary work undisturbed. At that time Dalston, which adjoins Shackleton, was the country and Kingsland Green an open space opposite Lamb's lodging.
"Did you go all the way to Dalston for her?" I ses to 'im. Mrs. Smithers made a gasping sort o' noise, but the skipper didn't answer a word. She shoved him in in front of 'er and stood ever 'im while he climbed aboard. When he held out 'is hand to help 'er she struck it away.
"Yes, Miss Dalston with Sir Jasper's eldest hope." "You don't mean it?" "They do at all events, and that is much more to the purpose. A fine young fellow enough, and sufficiently rich too" "All which rambling talk and anecdote," cried I, interrupting him, "means, if I have any skill in reading Mr.
I didn't get word with 'im till five o'clock next morning, when he came up on deck with his 'air all rough and 'is eyes red for want of sleep. "Haven't 'ad a wink all night," he ses, stepping on to the wharf. I gave a little cough. "Didn't she 'ave a pleasant time at Dalston?" I ses. He walked a little further off from the ship. "She didn't go there," he ses, in a whisper.
My Dear Wordsworth, A letter from you is very grateful; I have not seen a Kendal postmark so long. We are pretty well, save colds and rheumatics, and a certain deadness to everything, which I think I may date from poor John's loss, and another accident or two at the same time, that has made me almost bury myself at Dalston, where yet I see more faces than I could wish.
If, however, they were both alive, and in sound health of mind and body, they could, I fancy, help us but little, as Bilston tells me neither the Dalstons nor Grainger had ever entered the church till the morning of the wedding; and they soon afterwards removed to Cumberland, so that it is scarcely possible either parson or clerk could prove that Violet Dalston was married to Sir Harry Compton.
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