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"These heart throbs are all for you, my idol; oh, that he will be in time. How stupidly tame he is, but you will be the elixir of life to me; I shall be a Haughton of Haughton, and you shall be there, and I shall keep you out of matrimony, and my life will be all bliss." "Luncheon is served, ma'am."
Drink, weary pilgrim, drink and pray For the kind soul of Sybil Grey, Who built this cross and well. "In the corner of a field on the Billington Hall Farm, just outside the parish of Haughton, there lies the base, with a portion of the shaft, of a fourteenth-century wayside cross. It stands within ten feet of an old disused lane leading from Billington to Bradley.
And now, on the 15th, there rode wearily into cantonments two wounded men, who believed themselves the only British survivors of the Charikar force. Pottinger was wounded in the leg, Haughton, the adjutant of the Goorkha corps, had lost his right hand, and his head hung forward on his breast, half severed from his body by a great tulwar slash.
The gallants who had seats on the stage crowded round the "young gentlewoman" and showered compliments. A few privileged people from the front of the house who found their way behind were equally enthusiastic. Even Mrs. Haughton the Monimia of the play deigned to smile approvingly. "What did I tell thee, Polly?" she heard a pleasant if somewhat husky voice whisper in her ear.
Haughton was a study and the groups about her reflected the various emotions depicted there. For Blanche had said, the white mouse, wearing her innocent air "Oh, step-moma darling!" "Never used a term of endearment before; going to say something nasty," thought Mrs. Haughton.
He is described as small of stature, in figure graceful, in countenance dignified: in manner he was most modest, in eloquence most sweet, in chastity without stain." On the 4th of May, 1535, Haughton was executed with all the horrors attending the punishment of death for high treason in those barbarous times.
Charlie, you know, was jovial fond of private theatricals, too; in short, they became great allies. Some years after, as ill-luck would have it, Charles Haughton, while selling off his Middlesex property, was in immediate want of L1,200. He could get it on a bill, but not without security.
It's a fancy dress ball with real characters. 'Dashed bad characters, if we only knew, says Despard, yawning. 'What do you say, Haughton? looking at Starlight, who was playing with his glass and not listening much by the look of him. 'I say, let's go into the little parlour and have a game of picquet, unless you'll take some more wine. No? Then we'll move. Bad characters, you were saying?
"There will be sport in Hall as field, when the hounds meet, if I'm not mistaken," said the newsy little baronet. "Why, how so? Sir Tilton," exclaimed Vaura. "Well, you see, Miss Vernon, there was a lively discussion at luncheon one day as to the next meet; when Mrs. Haughton announced her intention of following the hounds, the Colonel objected on the ground of non-experience."
Had Haughton not been blind and have married my friend what a paradise the Hall would have been to me? Until Vaura married I must always remember that contingency. 'Tis absurd of dear Lady Esmondet wishing me to range myself, she knows my resolve not to wed is as earnest as though I was in the garb of a monk.
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