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Updated: June 28, 2025
They live in a world of amusing oneself and of amusing oneself in vulgar fashions as a born clown would do if he came suddenly into a large fortune. The women are just as bad as the men, only in a different way not always even that; for most of them think only of the Four-in-hand Club and the pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham things to sicken one.
Can anything be more delightful than Hurlingham on a fine Saturday afternoon? that one week-day when the daughters of Venus throng the pleasant grounds, and the birds sacred to the goddess are held sacred for fear that the shooters should scatter the coaches it would be too grievous that the destruction of pigeons, through frightening the horses, should result in the upsetting of a drag bearing a bevy of London's fairest daughters.
It was a Saturday afternoon, and even in that great world which has no occupation in life except to amuse itself, whose days are all holidays, there is a sort of exceptional flavour, a kind of extra excitement on Saturday afternoons, distinguished by polo matches at Hurlingham, just as Saturday evenings are by the production of new plays at fashionable theatres.
"You know, Sir John," she said in confidence to him one day at Hurlingham, "I have always dressed Millicent." "You need not tell me that," he interrupted gracefully. "On ne peut s'y tromper." "And," she went on almost apologetically, "whatever my own feelings on the subject may be, I cannot abandon her now. The world expects much from Millicent Chyne. I have taught it to do so.
She has seen Jim several times since his fall at Hurlingham, and knows very well that he got over the effects of that shaking in two or three days; but she has affected to regard him as a convalescent ever since, and insists upon it that quiet society is what he requires, meaning that, whenever he comes to town, the little house in Hans Place is the haven of rest best suited to him.
And Faulkner adds an extract from Brayley's "London" to the above in the form of a note: "Hurlingham Field is now the property of the Earl of Ranelagh, and the site of his house. It was here that great numbers of people were buried during the plague."
It is not worth while to pause for the purpose of writing on the ground or elsewhere for their edification. Only one such alleviation did she repent of in after life. The day after the Academy soiree the Mazerods took her to Hurlingham. And Hurlingham became one of the pages of her life which she would have wished to tear completely out.
Hurlingham and Ranelagh, Maidenhead and Henley, Eton and Oxford, Sandhurst and Aldershot, Piccadilly in the season, Simla in the heats, the results for Kempton Park and Newmarket Races of all these they talked, with rhino and elephant shooting and the big battues of pheasants now taking place in the Home Midlands and up North.
The world is surprised at Esmé because he does not know how to make a pun, and because he dares to show the French what can be done with their drama. The world is surprised at me because I never go to Hurlingham, and because I have never read Mrs. Humphrey Ward's treatises! The world is even surprised when Mr.
If he could refuse the slight request that she had made him, he could care very little about her. "As if any man, honestly in love, would hesitate to break a mere promise made to another woman!" And to the best of my belief, the majority of her sex would be quite of Blanche's opinion. "He does not get up," thought Mrs. Wriothesley, as she drove home from Hurlingham.
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