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Updated: June 21, 2025
As the Old South clock was striking five, whips were cracked, and the coaches started at the rate of ten miles an hour, stopping for breakfast at Timothy Gay's tavern in Dedham, where many of the passengers visited the bar to imbibe Holland gin and sugar-house molasses a popular morning beverage. Breakfast over, away the stages went over the good turnpike road at a rapid pace.
The strain of the trying interview at Twickenham; the anxious ordeal of singing before such supreme judges as she deemed them; the jubilation of success and the praise they had bestowed upon her, and Gay's promises as to her future had turned her brain for the time being. Then the episode of the highwayman that in itself was sufficiently disturbing.
Rigby, who had gone down to Windsor to ask his Majesty the date of some obscure historical incident, which Rigby, of course, very well knew, found that audiences were impossible, that Majesty was agitated, and learned, from an humble but secure authority, that in spite of all his slashing articles, and Lucian Gay's parodies of the Irish melodies, Canning was to be Prime Minister.
Inside the Goodwins and in this comparatively sheltered anchorage of deep water, the outward bound shipping bring up, waiting sometimes for weeks for fair wind; hence Gay's lines are strictly accurate, All in the Downs the fleet was moored. The anchorage of the Downs is sheltered from west winds by the mainland and from east winds by the dreaded Goodwins.
Gay's interest, and have constructed a road that will soon become one of the leading lines, connecting as it does, by a line of steamboats, the waters of Albermarle Sound and the Atlantic ocean, and bringing eastern North Carolina in direct communication with the city of Baltimore. Under the able management of Mr.
Thus I read Goldsmith's Traveller, or one of Gay's Fables, and I feel that I 'comprehend' it; I do not believe, that is, that there was anything stirring in the poet's mind or intention, which I have not in the reading reproduced in my own.
Now, after another pause, Pope said, "I must be going now. Will you not wish me luck?" "Why, Alexander why, hang it!" was Mr. Gay's observation, "I believe that you are human after all, and not just a book in breeches." He thereby voiced a commentary patently uncalled-for, as Mr. Pope afterward reflected. Mr. Pope was then treading toward the home of old Frederick Drew.
To this day I remember the taste of those water-cresses; and for those who love to trace the characters of men in the sports of children, I may mention that my character for sobriety, if not for water-drinking, has continued through life. * In Gay's Fables.
Gaylord Vondeplosshe, and with Gay's name and her brain well, to give Trudy's own sentiments, they would soon be able to carry the whole show in their grip and use the baggage cars to bring back the profits! Gaylord's sudden marriage and departure for New York caused no small comment. In the Faithful family Mary and Luke stood against Mrs.
Gay's one-cylinder brain did not follow the intricacies of the statement. He merely thought of Steve in more than usually profane terms and concluded that Beatrice was paying the bill. It was April before Steve found himself visiting with Mary Faithful again and admiring as heartily as Luke had admired the new apartment Mary had chosen for her family.
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