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Updated: May 13, 2025
I always disliked the idea of going to Gunnersbury, and you must have seen that I did; but I was so much occupied with with other things; and, as I have told you, I didn't feel quite the same about my position as I do now. She expressed herself awkwardly, growing very nervous. At the first sign of distress in her, Harvey was able to change his tone.
He was at all the drawing-rooms, christenings, balls, funerals of the court. If ever a prince or princess was ailing, his coach was at their door: Leicester Fields, Carlton House, Gunnersbury, were all the same to him, and nothing must satisfy him now but going to the stout duke's funeral.
The following day he and Lady Montefiore went to spend a couple of days at Gunnersbury with their sister, Mrs N. M. de Rothschild. In the entry he makes of the Sabbath, Sir Moses writes: "We all assembled in the library, where Louise Rothschild read the Sabbath morning service aloud exceedingly well.
Praise even from Mary Abbott gratified Alma; it surprised her, and she doubted its sincerity, but there was satisfaction in knowing that her fame went abroad among the people at Gunnersbury.
Abbott decided to take a house at Gunnersbury, and teach children; she was a teacher before her marriage. 'No children of her own? 'No. One died. But unfortunately she has the care of two, whose mother a cousin of hers is dead, and whose father has run away. 'Run away? 'Literally. Left the children behind in a lodging-house garret to starve, or go to the workhouse, or anything else.
In return for their humble lessons, Alma taught them to admire themselves, to see in their place and functions a nobility they had never suspected. For a day or two after her arrival at Gunnersbury, Harvey thought that he had never seen her look so well; certainly she had never shown the possibilities of her character to such advantage.
The papers she left lying for anyone who chose to pick them up. A fortnight later she was back at Gunnersbury; where, indeed, she would have been content to stay all through the summer, had not Harvey and the doctor insisted on her leaving home. All sorts of holidays had been proposed, but nothing of the kind attracted her.
Thence he went to his club, to see the papers; and in returning to Gunnersbury he felt hardly more sense of vital connection with this suburb than with the murky and roaring street in which he sat at business. By force of habit he continued to read, but only books from the circulating library, thrown upon his table pell-mell novels, popular science, travels, biographies; each as it came to hand.
After a few days, she wearied of the shore and the moorland, and wished herself back at Gunnersbury. Nature had never made much appeal to her; when she spoke of its beauties with admiration, she echoed the approved phrases, little more; all her instincts drew towards the life of a great town.
My sergeant told me an hour ago that as soon as the man had given evidence he went out, and was seen hurrying towards Gunnersbury Station. They believe he's absconded." I exchanged significant glances with my companion, but neither of us uttered a word. Ambler gave vent to his habitual grunt of dissatisfaction, and then led the way upstairs.
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