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He would walk wherever he was walked through and through Genoa, and all about Genoa, when he lived there; knew every inch of the Kent country round Broadstairs and round Gad's Hill was, as I have said, always, always, always on his feet. But if he would pedestrianize everywhere, London remained the walking ground of his heart. As Dr.
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.
There was no end to the new divertisements our kind host was in the habit of proposing, so that constant cheerfulness reigned at Gad's Hill. He went into his work-room, as he called it, soon after breakfast, and wrote till twelve o'clock; then he came out, ready for a long walk.
We shall have in London on the 2d of March, for the second murder night, probably the greatest assemblage of notabilities of all sorts ever packed together. D continues steady in his allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, sends his kindest regard, and is immensely excited by the prospect of seeing you. Gad's Hill is all ablaze on the subject.
"Gad's life!" cries the lieutenant, dismounting. "Let's see?" And he examines the girths with a great show of concern. "A nasty tumble," says he, as if Hortense had been rolled on. "All sound, Mistress Hillary! Egad! You must not ride such a wild beast! I protest, such risks are too desperate!" And he casts up the whites of his eyes at Mistress Hortense, laying his hand on his heart.
On a pleasant Sunday morning in October, 1869, as I sat looking out on the beautiful landscape from my chamber window at Gad's Hill, a servant tapped at my door and gave me a summons from Dickens, written in his drollest manner on a sheet of paper, bidding me descend into his study on business of great importance.
And will you also give him the time and place for Gad's? I shall be here on Friday for a few hours; meantime at Gad's aforesaid. With love to the ladies, ever faithfully, During my stay in England in that summer of 1869, I made many excursions with Dickens both around the city and into the country.
I glanced at my cousin. "Gad's life!" says he, "it is cheap enough. I might have asked you double." "So you might, and have been refused," I cried hotly. For I believe that speech of his recalled me to my senses. It has ever been an instinct with me that no real prosperity comes out of double-dealing. And commerce with such a sneak sickened me.
"And I don't mind owning, sir, and I hope I may take the liberty of saying, sir, that a little more would make me very comfortable if it turned out as well as the last." "Why, how much have you netted by him, in Gad's name?" asked the Major. "I've done a good bit, sir, at it: that I own, sir.
"Ah, what cowards! Will you see the Duke murdered?" "The Duke!" laughed Guilford. "They will not kill him, unless be easy, dear madam, 'twill be explained. Gad's life!" he muttered to Molyneux, "'Twere time the varlet had his lashing! D'ye hear her?" "Barber or no barber," answered Molyneux, "I wish I had warned him. He fights as few gentlemen could. Ah ah! Look at that! 'Tis a shame!"
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