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Updated: June 2, 2025
Howe was declared duly elected for Gloucestershire, though the majority of the electors had voted for the other candidate.
The student in the language of the Cotswolds should study a very ancient song entitled "George Ridler's Oven." Strange to say, there is little or nothing in it about the oven, but a good deal of the old Gloucestershire talk may be gleaned from it. It begins like this: This is sung like the prelude to a grand orchestral performance.
Faucitt, when he was a small boy, used to live in a little village in Gloucestershire, near a place called Cirencester at least, it isn't: it's called Cissister, which I bet you didn't know and after forgetting about it for fifty years, he has suddenly been bitten by the desire to end his days there, surrounded by pigs and chickens. He took me down to see the place the other day.
Here they found Dame Editha, and for three days she abode among them, living in a small hut in the center of the forest. Then she left, to take up her abode until the troubles were past with some kin who lived in the south of Gloucestershire.
Beginning life as a restless Oxford student, he moved thence to Cambridge, thence to Gloucestershire, to be tutor in a knight's family, and there hearing of Luther's doings, and expressing himself with too warm approval to suit his patron's conservatism, he fell into disgrace.
But a fortnight before his leaving England there came to Osmonde's ear rumours of a story from Gloucestershire 'twas of a nature more fantastic than any other, and far more unexpected. The story was imperfectly told and without detail, and detail no man or woman seemed able to acquire, and baffled curiosity ran wild, no story having so whetted it as this last.
The village is celebrated as a bathing place, and for its extensive fishery for oysters, with which it supplies Bristol, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, &c.
There is a way to tame a woman and I know it. Begin with a light soft hand and a melting eye all's fair in love; and the spoils are to the victor. When I come back from Gloucestershire with my lock of raven hair" he lifted a goblet of wine and tossed it off at a draught "I shall leave her as such beauties should be left on her knees." And his laugh rang forth like a chime of silver.
Naylor, fidus Achates, was a Gloucestershire parson's son, a huge heavy-looking man, with a thick curling lip, and a sleepy eye; but he had brains enough to become a first-rate classic; and in that same sleepy eye and heavy lip lay an infinity of quiet humour; racy old country stories, quaint scraps of out-of-the-way learning, jovial old ballads, which he sang with the mellowest of voices, and a slang vocabulary, which made him the dread of all bargees from Newnham pool to Upware.
The painter himself was an elderly man with a blotched face, a bibulous eye, and half unclothed, he having wrapped a dirty blanket about his body to conceal decently his lack of nether garments. "We come to look at your portrait of the Gloucestershire beauty," said Tom. "All want to look at it, my Lord," said the man, with a leer, half servile, half cunning.
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