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Giles's, than in all the West Indian islands belonging to Great Britain. He would now speak of the African and West Indian trades. The imports and exports of these amounted to upwards of ten millions annually; and they gave employment to three hundred thousand tons of shipping, and to about twenty-five thousand seamen. These trades had been sanctioned by our ancestors in parliament.
'Fretting herself ill over it, was Mrs. Giles's comment; 'she'll be better when she gets back to London. Nesta Fairfax came down to see her little favourite, and Betty shed many tears on her knee. 'It's no good; I shall never, never be happy again! No one cares for me like Prince; and now he's dead I've no friend left! 'You have a good many friends, Betty.
Giles's, or the Surrey Side: he was sorry to see his transatlantic brother so familiar with the piquant jargon of those atmospheres it were well not to be too familiar with. "'May it please the Umpire, I ask the protection of this tribunal from any such imputation as the gentleman's insinuation would leave me under, said the General, almost bursting of anger.
In St. Giles's Churchyard were buried Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Shirley, Roger L'Estrange, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Pendrell, who assisted in Charles II.'s escape; his altar-tomb is easily seen near the east end of the church. By 1718 the graveyard had risen 8 feet, so that the church stood in a pit or well. The further burial-ground at St.
Giles's Kirk, Edinburgh, aged fifty-nine, to the great disgust of Queen Mary from family pride, and I would fain hope of many others for more humane considerations. "In this," as Randolph says, "I wish he had done otherwise."
Giles's, that she had gone away; but she rejoined us between four and five o'clock at our hotel, where the next thing we did was to dine. Again after dinner we walked out, looking at the shop-windows of jewellers, where ornaments made of cairngorm pebbles are the most peculiar attraction.
But, lovers and hunters of the picturesque, let us not keep too studiously out of view the miserable depravity, degradation, and wretchedness, with which this gay Neapolitan life is inseparably associated! It is not well to find Saint Giles's so repulsive, and the Porta Capuana so attractive.
So far, there has been no case in the City, and it is only in the West that it has any hold, the deaths being altogether in the parishes of St. Giles's, St. Andrew's, St. Bride's, and St. James's, Clerkenwell.
This took her in the direction of the works, and Gillian proposed to go with her as far as the Giles's, there to sit a little while with Lilian, for whom she had a new book. 'My dear, surely you must be tired out! exclaimed the stay-at-home aunt. 'Oh no, Aunt Ada! Quite freshened by that blow on the common.
"Tho' it is Sunday, the air in my Jerusalem chamber is as bad as in any crimps den in St. Giles's. 'Slife, and I live to be forty, I shall have as many underground avenues as his Majesty Louis the Eleventh." "He must have a place," put in my Lord Carlisle. "We must do something for him," said Fox, "albeit he is an American and a Whig, and all the rest of the execrations.
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