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Maudslay arrived from Berlin two days after my return to London. He, too, had enjoyed his holiday. During his stay in Berlin he had made the friendship of the distinguished Humboldt. Shenkel, the architect, had been very kind to him, and presented him with a set of drawings and engravings of his great architectural works, which Mr. Maudslay exhibited to me with much delight.
Narrative of the U. S. Exploring Expedition by Charles Wilkes, London, 1815, Vol.
It's a real old-fashioned village, Miss Audrey I would like you to see it it's not so very far from London." "Will you go there in the same railway we came in?" asked Tom. "Oh no," said Pierson, "it's quite the other way from Elderling." Elderling was our old home. "It's only two hours and a half from town, by express.
'I am fortunate enough to see you well again without having known of your illness, he said. 'You didn't know that I was ill? Paula looked at him dubiously. He explained, and, in doing so, quite dispelled the girl's illusion that he was come on her account. When she remained silent, he said: 'You must pity the people in London. 'Certainly I do. I'm learning to keep my temper and to talk wisely.
'The man that knew who stole the girl; the man that knew where you'd taken her; the man who had her out of this house three hours after we fetched her in. He came he must have come in a car, and by the London Road. And he must have left the car near by, she cried, cursing Melchardo.
"Told you that fat cur was a first-class trumpeter," said Orme languidly, while the Sergeant ejaculated in tones of deep disgust: "Good Lord! what a set. Why, Doctor, they ain't fit to savage a referee in a London football ground.
Augusta Amherst Austen, another organist, has written songs and hymn tunes, while Elizabeth Mounsey, also a performer, has published songs and piano pieces as well as organ works. Bartholomew, a sister of Elizabeth, is mentioned by Spohr as a child prodigy. She was a friend of Mendelssohn, who wrote his "Hymn of Praise" for her sacred concerts in London.
The old gentlemen sittin' on the Board in London suddenly find that the Yankees have been snaffling a lot of valuable trinkets and things from the ruins while they took forty winks, and then they up and says no one's to look for anything more at all; not even a boney fidey Rhodesian, sweating in the police camp outside the walls."
One saw here a third-rate town of half-a-million people without history, education, unity, or art, and with little capital without even an element of natural interest except the river which it studiously ignored but doing what London, Paris, or New York would have shrunk from attempting.
She avoided as far as possible the small area which had once made up the whole of London for her, but even so she was not always successful in escaping from old acquaintances.
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