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About a mile and a half from Greenhay stood some horse barracks, occupied usually by an entire regiment of cavalry. A large dog one of a multitude that haunted the barracks had for some days manifested an increasing sullenness, snapping occasionally at dogs and horses, but finally at men.
At present, however, he resided in Salford, nearly two miles from Greenhay; and to him we went over daily, for the benefit of his classical instructions. One sole cotton factory had then risen along the line of Oxford Street; and this was close to a bridge, which also was a new creation; for previously all passengers to Manchester went round by Garrat.
In the next four years, during which we continued to live at Greenhay, nothing memorable occurred, except, indeed, that troubled parenthesis in my life which connected me with my brother William, this certainly was memorable to myself, and, secondly, the visit of a most eccentric young woman, who, about nine years later, drew the eyes of all England upon herself by her unprincipled conduct in an affair affecting the life of two Oxonian undergraduates.
Between four and five o'clock we had crossed the bridge to the safe, or Greenhay side; then we paused, and waited for the enemy. Sooner or later a bell rang, and from the smoky hive issued the hornets that night and day stung incurably my peace of mind. The order and procession of the incidents after this were odiously monotonous.
This naturally drew forth from my mother an invitation to Greenhay; and to Greenhay she came. On the imperial of her carriage, and else-where, she described herself as the Hon. Antonina Dashwood Lee. But, in fact, being only the illegitimate daughter of Lord Le Despencer, she was not entitled to that designation.
She individually might be said to have built Greenhay; since to her views of domestic elegance and propriety my father had resigned almost everything.
Percival, the physician who attended at Greenhay. Dr. P. was a literary man, of elegant tastes and philosophic habits. Some of his papers may be found in the "Manchester Philosophic Transactions;" and these I have heard mentioned with respect, though, for myself, I have no personal knowledge of them.
Thomas de Quincey hierophant, rhapsodist, philosopher was born at Greenhay, then a suburb of Manchester, in Lancashire County, England, on the 15th of August, 1785.
At one time, when yet a boy, he was captured by pirates, and compelled to sail with them; and the end of his adventurous career was, that for many a year he has been lying at the bottom of the Atlantic. "Greenheys," with slight variation in the spelling, is the name given to that district of which Greenhay formed the original nucleus. "Factory." Such was the designation technically at that time.
The school was in the neighborhood of Greenhay, my father's house. There were at that time no coaches in that direction; now there are many every day. The young gentleman advertised for a person to share the expense of a post chaise. By accident, I had an invitation of some standing to the same town, where I happened to have some female relatives of mature age, besides some youthful cousins.
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