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At Bristol, then the second town in the kingdom, the good people had to wait ten years ; at Kingswood, twelve years ; at Bath, twenty years ; at Malmesbury, twenty-five years ; at Devonport, twenty-six years ; and the other societies had to wait so long that finally they lost their patience, and died of exhaustion and neglect. He began in Dublin, and took the city by storm.
It was trying at the time, but we saw a phase of England that we otherwise would have missed and have no regrets for the strenuous day in the Devonshire byways. Plymouth, with the adjoining towns of Devonport and Stonehouse, is one of the most important seaports in the Kingdom, the combined population being about two hundred thousand.
The cruiser on which he served was visiting Kingstown, and at the Horse Show he had run across the Halbertons whom he had met when he was stationed in their own county at Devonport. Beyond them he didn't know a soul in the country, and the soft western brogue of Gabrielle fascinated him.
The coasts of Plymouth Sound are rocky and abrupt, and strong fortresses frown at every entrance. It is the naval dockyard that gives Plymouth its chief importance: this is at Devonport, which is strongly fortified by breastworks, ditches, embankments, and heavy batteries. The great dockyard encloses an area of ninety-six acres and has thirty-five hundred feet of water-frontage.
Otis, were merely such as form the ordinary conversation of cultured Americans of the better class, such as the immense superiority of Miss Fanny Devonport over Sarah Bernhardt as an actress; the difficulty of obtaining green corn, buckwheat cakes, and hominy, even in the best English houses; the importance of Boston in the development of the world-soul; the advantages of the baggage-check system in railway travelling; and the sweetness of the New York accent as compared to the London drawl.
"Yes, I like him," said Crossjay, with his customary rapidity in touching the subject; "I like him; he's kind and all that, and tips and plays with you, and all that; but I never can make out why he wouldn't see my father when my father came here to see him ten miles, and had to walk back ten miles in the rain, to go by rail a long way, down home, as far as Devonport, because Sir Willoughby wouldn't see him, though he was at home, my father saw.
I gathered information on the way from a leading stoker, two seaman- gunners, and an odd hand in a torpedo factory. They courteously set my feet on the right path, and that led me through the alleys of Devonport to a public-house not fifty yards from the water.
"No, your ludship, he said he was going to Devonport." "What time did you get up the next morning?" "Half-past six." "That is not your usual time?" "No, I always get up at six." "How do you account for the extra sleepiness?" "Misfortunes will happen." "It wasn't the dull, foggy weather?" "No, my lud, else I should never get up early." "You drink something before going to bed?"
A Frenchman would have put his hand on his heart and exclaimed: 'I die for France and humanity. This reserved English child said: 'I may not get an opportunity of posting it. My God, they're wonderful!" Monty stared across the stream at the thousand lights of Devonport and Plymouth.
Here begins the broad estuary known as the Laira, at the mouth of which stands Plymouth, the town covering the land between the Laira and the Hamoaze, the estuary of the Tamar, with its adjoining suburbs of Stonehouse and Devonport.
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