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The family continued to reside at Windsor for two hundred years, during which time it held an honorable place in that community and contributed several representatives, who took an important part in the affairs of the State government, or in the defense of the colony against the Indians, and in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars. Dr. Newberry's grandfather, Hon.
London Bridge, so famous in nursery songs; the far-famed Monument; Gog and Magog, and the Lions in the Tower, all brought back many a recollection of infantile delight, and of good old beings, now no more, who had gossiped about them to my wondering ear. Nor was it without a recurrence of childish interest, that I first peeped into Mr. Newberry's shop, in St.
When they were again opposite Mrs. Newberry's garden, Latimer dismounted, and the man on the dark horse did the same. Lizzy and Stockdale, intently listening and observing the proceedings, naturally put their heads as close as possible to the slit formed by the slightly opened casement; and thus it occurred that at last their cheeks came positively into contact.
Newberry's serious side, Stockdale gathered that she was one of the trimmers who went to church and chapel both. 'I'll go there, said Stockdale, feeling that, in the absence of purely sectarian lodgings, he could do no better. 'She's a little particular, and won't hae gover'ment folks, or curates, or the pa'son's friends, or such like, said the lad dubiously.
At night, after supper, my Lord called for the Rear-Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting in my study heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's and Newberry's being put out of commission. And by the way I did observe that my Lord did speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at night than I can find that he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his great confidant.
Then presently, as they went on still further, Philippa leaned forwards and talked to Tom over his shoulder and reminded him that this was the very road to Castel Casteggio, and asked him if he remembered coming up it with her to join the Newberry's ever so long ago.
In short, she saw as she looked such a Peter Spillikins as truly never existed, or could exist or at least such a Peter Spillikins as no one else in the world had ever suspected before. All in a moment she was ever so glad that she accepted Mrs. Newberry's invitation to Castel Casteggio and hadn't been afraid to come.
He discusses the merits of various authors, and more than once expresses his extreme distaste for didactic writing. Now, he says, it is too directly instructive. Then he complains that the knowledge, insignificant and vapid as it is, must come in the shape of knowledge. He could not obtain at Newberry's shop any of the old "classics of the Nursery," he says; whilst "Mrs. Barbauld's and Mrs.
'Lizzy Newberry, I used to be Lizzy Simpkins. 'O, I beg your pardon, Mrs. Newberry. And before he had occasion to say more she left the room. Stockdale remained in some doubt till Martha Sarah came to clear the table. 'Whose house is this, my little woman, said he. 'Mrs. Lizzy Newberry's, sir. 'Then Mrs. Newberry is not the old lady I saw this afternoon? 'No. That's Mrs. Newberry's mother.
When the rector received and read the note and saw the figures of the cheque, there arose such a thankfulness in his spirit as he hadn't felt for months, and he may well have murmured, for the repose of Mr. Newberry's soul, a prayer not found in the rubric of King James.
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