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"Had I so promised, should I not then have been bound to think first of your happiness?" "You would have accomplished it, at any rate." "Though I cannot be your wife I do not owe it you the less to think of it, seeing all that you are willing to do for me, and I will think of it. I am grateful to you." "Do you love me?" "Let me speak, Lord Hampstead.
He did send Madame Riennes some money, partly out of pity ten pounds in a postal order without any covering letter, a folly that did not tend to a cessation of her epistolatory efforts. On reaching town Godfrey went straight to Hampstead. There to his surprise he found all prepared for his reception. "I was expecting you, my dear," said Mrs.
The Count declared that he was in no hurry, therefore we went up through Hampstead to Highgate Station, and then on the Great North Road, through East End, Whetstone, Barnet, and Hatfield, to Hitchin thirty-five miles of road which was as well known to me as the Strand.
Now I need not say in what perturbation of mind Mr. Warrington went home in the evening to his lodgings, after the discussion with the ladies of the above news. No, or at least a very few, more walks; no more rides to dear, dear Hampstead or beloved Islington; no more fetching and carrying of letters for Gumbo and Molly! The former blubbered so, that Mr.
A bank even of loose earth, six feet high, will sometimes overhang its base a foot or two, as you may see any day in the gravelly banks of the lanes of Hampstead: but make the bank of gravel, equally loose, six hundred feet high, and see if you can get it to overhang a hundred or two! much more if there be weight above it increased in the same proportion.
In the year there dwelt on Hampstead Heath a small thin gentleman of fifty-eight, gentle disposition, and independent means, whose wits had become somewhat addled from reading the writings and speeches of public men.
Why should he be ashamed to take an Italian title any more than his friend Lord Hampstead is to take an English one? It is not as though it would prevent his living here. Many foreign noblemen live in England." "I suppose he could live here," said Mrs. Vincent as though she were making a great admission. "I don't think that there would be any law to turn him out of the country."
This morning I put on my considering cap an' was a-thinking and a-thinking when who should pop her face in but my cousin Betty Higgins as lives at Hampstead. 'La, Betty, I says, 'where have you dropped from? 'Ah, says she, 'you may well say that. I've been a-comin' for goodness knows how long knowin' as my clothes line was a-gettin' as rotten as rotten could be.
This happened on a Saturday, Saturday, the 20th of December, on which day Hampstead was to return to his own house. Punctually at one Crocker left his desk, and with a comic bow of mock courtesy to Mr. Jerningham, stuck his hat on the side of his head, and left the office. His mind, as he took himself home to his lodgings, was full of Roden's demeanour towards him.
Will it not be better than that I should go alone?" "I hope you will not go at all." "I shall go, certainly. I consider myself bound by all laws of honesty to tell her what she has done to me. She can then judge what may be best for herself." "Do not go at any rate to-day, Lord Hampstead. Let me beg at least as much as that of you. Consider the importance of the step you will be taking."
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