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I saw next to nothing of the proper club-life of London, but it seemed to me that the Athenaeum must be a very desirable place of resort to the educated Londoner, and no doubt each of the many institutions of this kind with which London abounds has its special attractions. My obligations to my brethren of the medical profession are too numerous to be mentioned in detail.
Night after night we wandered the crooked streets inquiring our way of strangers, some of whom were worse lost than we; one night we took a Londoner in charge and piloted him to Leicester Square; and then got lost ourselves finding Piccadilly and Regent Street! So that whenever we went out after dinner we were never without dramatic excitement, even if it was not adequately supplied by the show.
The mottled trunks of the planes, their blackened twigs and branches, their thin, beautiful leaves, the forms of the houses beyond, rose in a charming medley of line against the blue and peaceful sky. No near sound was to be heard, only the distant murmur that no Londoner escapes; and some of the British Museum pigeons were sunning themselves on the garden-wall below.
You are a delicate Londoner; you are a maccaroni; you can't ride. JOHNSON. 'Sir, I shall ride better than you. I was only afraid I should not find a horse able to carry me. I hoped then there would be no fear of getting through our wild tour. We came to Aberdeen at half an hour past eleven. The New Inn, we were told, was full. This was comfortless.
"What! in spite of that wonderful speech of his on coming of age?" "Pooh! that is now understood to have been but a bad joke on the new ideas, and their organs, including 'The Londoner. But if Kenelm does come into the House, it will not be on your side of the question; and unless I greatly overrate his abilities which very likely I do he will not be a rival to despise.
One way of expressing the fact of being a Londoner used to be to say 'born within sound of Bow bells. The old church was burnt down with all the others in the Fire, and the church that now stands was built by Sir Christopher Wren. In the old church it was a rule that the bell should be rung every night, and when the shopmen heard the bell they shut up their shops.
Fred Carter stood on the spacious common, inhaling with all the joy of the holiday-making Londoner the salt smell of the sea below, and regarding with some interest the movements of a couple of men who had come to a stop a short distance away. As he looked they came on again, eying him closely as they approached a strongly built, shambling man of fifty, and a younger man, evidently his son.
But Park Lane is the best situation in London, and Lady Anne's means were greatly improved by the annual produce of the house in Park Lane, which, as we all know, was occupied by a foreign minister for several subsequent seasons. Strange mutations of fortune: old places; new faces; what Londoner does not see and speculate upon them every day?
Appleyard bade Gaffney wait a while, went into his office, ran through his correspondence, gave the morning's orders out to the warehouseman, and called the chauffeur inside. "Gaffney," he said as he carefully closed the door on them, "you're a Londoner, aren't you?" Gaffney smiled widely. "Ought to be, Mr. Appleyard," he answered. "I was born within sound of Bow Bells, anyhow.
"Is that what you call it?" Hinde smiled at John. "So you've learned to call it the river, have you? Mrs. Hinde, in this town we always talk as if there were only one river in the world. A Londoner always says he's going up the river or down the river or on the river. He always speaks of it as the river. He never speaks of it as the Thames.
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