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Among my longer journeys from the fishing-inn, the most frequent were those to Holywell, near Flint, to the Well of St. Winifred the reader need not be told why.
"I would meet you in three days' time wherever you would appoint me," he added, as Lord Claud remained silent and thoughtful; and there was a note of pleading in his voice which showed how much bent he was upon this visit of farewell. "You have said you do not look to be less than three days at Holywell. I pray you spare me for this last farewell."
He had a black coat, waistcoat, and trousers, a silk necktie, and a noble, though very uncomfortable, high hat; while his heavy shoes seemed changed by a covering of brilliant polish. Surveying his figure, thus altered, in a looking-glass, John was greatly satisfied with himself, and with a proud step marched off towards Holywell Park.
"Well, my child," he was very fatherly and bland, was the Reverend Raymond Rashleigh "and what may you want with me?" "My Mistress sent me, sir. I am Mrs. Holywell's maid." "Indeed!" said Mr. Rashleigh, vividly interested at once; "and how is Mrs. Holywell?" "Very poorly, sir. She thinks she's dying herself. She wants to make her will to-night; that's why she sent for you." Mr.
The Dee is a most picturesque river, from its source in Merionethshire to Chester; but its navigation at the mouth is somewhat difficult, owing to the large deposits of sand, which have to a great extent blocked up the channel. Between Chester and the mouth are two nourishing towns, Holywell and Flint.
John's Gardens, had found their way to the house in Holywell, and taken tea with the Hoopers. Nora's mind, as she and her sister sat waiting for the fly in which Mrs. Hooper had gone to meet her husband's niece at the station, ran persistently on her own childish recollections of this visit. She sat in the window-sill, with her hand behind her, chattering to her sister.
That is something like a sentence; not a word scarcely but's in Latin, and the longest and handsomest out of the whole dictionary. That is proper economy as you see a buck from Holywell Street put every pinchbeck pin, ring, and chain which he possesses about his shirt, hands, and waistcoat, and then go and cut a dash in the Park, or swagger with his order to the theatre.
A Whig cabinet was formed, but the Duke never regained his old political influence, and he gradually retired to private life, residing with the Duchess almost wholly at Holywell. His peaceful retirement, for which he had longed, came at last.
A fierce gust of wind rattled the double windows, and frantically beat the rain against them by way of answer. "I came in a carriage, sir. It is at the door now." "That is well. I will not detain you an instant. Ah! poor Mrs. Holywell!" The parson's hat and overcoat hung in the room.
The least reflection told him to whom they had been sent. He paused a minute under the portico of the post-office, looking at the two or three omnibuses stopping and starting in front of him. Then he rushed along the Strand, through Holywell Street, and on to Old Boswell Court.
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