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She felt the walls of the room rush toward her, like inward falling ruins; and she heard Parvis, a long way off, as if through the ruins, crying to her, and struggling to get at her. But she was numb to his touch, she did not know what he was saying. Through the tumult she heard but one clear note, the voice of Alida Stair, speaking on the lawn at Pangbourne.

If you could get away early in the morning we might manage to catch the nine o'clock express that takes us down in a little over the hour. I'd have the hamper packed, and we would have our lunch up in Pangbourne Woods. It would be so jolly. I wish you would come." "I should like it immensely; I don't know if I could manage it." "Do you say you will come, do."

How pretty it is! the cows, the corn growing, the birds and all the light clouds; we are going to have a lovely day. Shall we see much of the country at Reading? Tell me, where are you going to take me? Shall we go for a walk in the woods? Are there any woods? I hope there are." "The most beautiful woods in England Pangbourne Woods. We shall arrive in Reading about a quarter to ten.

Oh, what hanging-woods, and churches; and such great houses, and pretty cottages and gardens all in this narrow crack of a valley! Ay. Old Father Thames is a good landscape gardener, as I said. There is Basildon and Hurley and Pangbourne, with its roaring lasher.

Though she went to Pangbourne in the autumn, she did not, until the month of April, find the pleasure of sitting in the bow-window. "It was then that she first noticed two little girls passing and returning every day at certain hours to and from the village. "They were so near of a size that she thought they must be twins. They were very fair, and very pretty, and very neat.

Somehow, Ellen seemed to see this, and she took no advantage of my slip; her piercing look changed into one of mere frank kindness, and she said: "Well, anyhow I am glad that I am travelling these waters with you, since you know our river so well, and I know little of it past Pangbourne, for you can tell me all I want to know about it."

He had dined and danced with maid and young matron in London, ridden with them in the Row and Richmond Park, punted them down backwaters by Goring, Pangbourne and the Cleveden Woods, and flirted harmlessly with them in country houses after days with the Quorn and the Pytchley, and yet come back to India true to his one love, his regiment.

Howard had a great-nephew, a surgeon, of the name of Johnson, who lived in a fair village, called Pangbourne, in Berkshire; and when he heard of the death of Betty, and how low his aunt was, he came to her, and persuaded her to leave the country, and go and reside near to him.

We were a little past Goring then, and we decided to paddle on to Pangbourne, and put up there for the night. "Another jolly evening!" murmured George. We sat and mused on the prospect. We should be in at Pangbourne by five. We should finish dinner at, say, half-past six.

But to punt two persons when one of them looked so ravishing on those Chinese cushions was merely to suffer from a sense of lost opportunity; so they went but a short way towards Pangbourne, drifting slowly back, with every now and then an autumn leaf dropping on Annette or on her mother's black amplitude.