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He thrust his hands deep in his pockets and sank into that attitude of dejection common to drunkards. Suddenly he pulled himself up. "'Shblood! Here's Richard t' draw from. Lemme have fifty pounds, Richard." "Not a farthing," I said, unmoved. "You say wha' shall be done with my father's money!" he cried. "I call tha' damned cool Gad's life! I do. Eh, Courtenay?"
His son Frederick Alfred Krupp, his successor, married the beautiful Baroness Margarette von Ende. Colonel Harris and George visited other great works in Europe, and finally started to rejoin their friends in Paris. The distance is two hours from London to Dover. Half-way is Gad's Hill, famous as the residence of the late Charles Dickens.
To these toasts Colonel Blood and Pierre Radisson and I sat with inverted glasses. While the inn was ringing to the shouts of the revellers, the freebooter leaned across to Pierre Radisson. "Gad's name if they like you," he mumbled drunkenly. "Who?" asked Radisson. "Fur Company," explained Blood. "They hate you! So they do me!
But at about half-past eight we had dined at seven Grayson began to be restless and fidgetty and at last said apologetically: "'Don't think me inhospitable, Challoner, but if you aren't going to stay the night you had better be going. And don't go by Gad's Hill. Take the road down to Higham and catch the train there. "'Why, what is the matter with Gad's Hill? I asked.
Giles; the ancient town of Guildford in Surrey; Gad's Hill, Dickens' home, near Rochester; the vicarage where Thackeray's grandfather lived and the old church where he preached at Monken Hadley; and Whitchurch, with Handel's original organ, is also near the last-named village. These are only a few of the places that no one should miss.
But your cousin, Philip Carvel, is here, Richard. Father will be very angry. And they are making a drinking-tavern of the house." I gave Firefly a slap that sent her trotting stable-ward, and walked rapidly to the house. I found the three of them drinking in the hall, the punch spilled over the table, and staining the cards. "Gad's life!" cries Tom, "here comes Puritan Richard, in his broad rim.
I thought the three first acts of his Hamlet very much better than I had ever thought them before, and I always thought very highly of them. We gave him a foaming stirrup cup at Gad's Hill. There is a curious interest steadily working up to No. 5, which requires a great deal of art and self-denial.
Besides that, on nights when the storm was so great that the door-bell went to bed and slept soundly, Charles Dickens stepped in from Gad's Hill; and Henry W. Longfellow, without knocking, entered the sitting-room, his hair white as if he had walked through the snow with his hat off; and William H. Prescott, with his eyesight restored, happened in from Mexico, a cactus in his buttonhole; and Audubon set a cage of birds on the table Baltimore oriole, chaffinch, starling and bobolink doing their prettiest; and Christopher North thumped his gun down on the hall floor, and hung his 'sporting jacket' on the hat-rack, and shook the carpet brown with Highland heather.
"Signed by the Gad's Hill Gasper, otherwise Charles Dickens. "Witness to the signatures, ." When he returned to Boston from Baltimore, he proposed that I should accompany him over the walking-ground "at the rate of not less than four miles an hour, for one hour and a half." I shall not soon forget the tremendous pace at which he travelled that day.
The Swearers I have spoken of in a former paper; but the Half-Swearers, who split and mince, and fritter their oaths into "gad's but," "ad's fish," and "demme," the Gothic Humbuggers, and those who nickname God's creatures, and call a man a cabbage, a crab, a queer cub, an odd fish, and an unaccountable skin, should never come into company without an interpreter.
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