hesket-newmarket

Updated: May 31, 2025

It was so very pleasant to see these things in such a lonesome by-place so very agreeable to find these evidences of a taste, however homely, that went beyond the beautiful cleanliness and trimness of the house so fanciful to imagine what a wonder a room must be to the little children born in the gloomy village what grand impressions of it those of them who became wanderers over the earth would carry away; and how, at distant ends of the world, some old voyagers would die, cherishing the belief that the finest apartment known to men was once in the Hesket-Newmarket Inn, in rare old Cumberland it was such a charmingly lazy pursuit to entertain these rambling thoughts over the choice oatcake and the genial whiskey, that Mr.

Wilkie Collins - Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices