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Updated: May 29, 2025
You are getting out at Westhope, of course, if you are a Middleshire man; for Westhope is on the verge of Middleshire, and the train does not go any farther at least, it only goes into one of the insignificant counties which jostle each other to hold on to Middleshire, unknown Saharas, where passengers who oversleep themselves wake to find themselves cast away.
She was silly enough to think she knew Middleshire fairly well, but after she settled at Warpington she gradually discovered the existence of a large undercurrent of society of which she knew nothing at all, in which, whether she were willing or not, she was plunged by the fact that she was her brother's sister.
Yet the Drone is a local celebrity in Middleshire, and, like most local celebrities, is unknown elsewhere. Middleshire bristles with the "best shots in England" and the "best preachers in England" and the cleverest men in England. The apathetic mother-country knows, according to Middleshire, "but little of her greatest men."
When, after her aunt's death, she had, by the advice of her few remaining relatives, taken up her abode with her brother, as much on his account as her own, for he was poor and with an increasing family, she journeyed to Warpington accompanied by a pleasant feeling that, at any rate, she was not going among strangers. She had often visited in Middleshire, at Wilderleigh, in the elder Mr.
Later in the day, when he and Dick were riding up the little street, with a view to having a look at the moor for Middleshire actually has a grouse moor, although it is in the Midlands the grocer in his white apron rushed out and waylaid them. "Very sorry about the letter, my lord," he repeated volubly, touching his forelock.
I know nothing about him." "He's in some way related to you?" "Our great-grandfathers were half-brothers. What does that make us?" "Twentieth cousins, say. And where does your twentieth cousin live?" "At a place called Lackley in Middleshire." I thought it over. "Well, suppose we look up Lackley in Middleshire!" He got straight up. "Go and see it?" "Go and see it."
She held her chin up and her elbows out, and was considered by the section of Middleshire society in which she shone to be very distinguished. Mrs.
Gresley with pride, "and I should not wonder if 'Modern Dissent' caused quite a ferment in Middleshire. If it does, I am willing to bear a little spite and ill-will. All history shows that truth is met at first by opposition. Half the country clergy round here are asleep. Good men, but lax. They want waking up.
"Fancy you and Algy bidding against each other like that," said Ada Pratt, archly, to Lord Newhaven, for though Ada was haughty in general society she could be sportive, and even friskily ingratiating, towards those of her fellow-creatures whom she termed "swells." "Why, half Middleshire will be saying that you have quarrelled next."
But Hester's greatest friend in Middleshire was the Bishop of Southminster, with whom Rachel was staying, and whom she was expecting this afternoon. The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray, Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest Who hast made the clay!
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