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You will anyhow have the advantage at Penshurst of a much clearer atmosphere than in the north; but here, nearer the coast, I think we are still better off. "Mr. Maclaren holds out the prospect of our meeting you at Pachley at no distant period, and I hope you will find your way ere long to Collingwood.
Pitt reminded them that there is every reason to believe that under those very trees Spenser wrote his "Shepherd's Calendar." Reluctantly they left the castle and walked back to the carriage, which awaited them in the village. "If all English castles are as beautiful as Penshurst Place," declared Betty earnestly, "I can't go back to America until I have seen every one!"
But what does he do here among the stones and mortar when he has the beeches of Penshurst to walk beneath. He is not so wise as I thought him.... But I must say I grow weary of his nymphs and his airs of Olympus. And for myself, I do not see that Flora and Phoebus and Maia and the rest are a great gain, instead of Our Lady and Saint Christopher and the court of heaven.
Something similar to Knole House is Penshurst Place, about ten miles away, but with an atmosphere and traditions quite different from the Sackville-West mansion. This great palace, just adjacent to the village of Penshurst, was built in the Thirteenth Century, passing shortly after into the hands of the Sidney family, with whom it has remained ever since.
All who ran might read, but the heartbeat was for your ear ... Dione! Didst never guess?" She answered in a still voice without moving: "It may be that my soul guessed.... If it did so, it was frightened and hid its guess." "I have told you," said the man. "But, ah, what am I more to you now than on that morn at Penshurst a stranger!
The lordly banqueting-hall, in which the politics of three centuries ago were discussed at Penshurst, is still standing.
About 9.35, five minutes before the train was to start, John happened to see a train official sauntering by, and asked him if it was correct that the Penshurst train left from that platform. The man stared. "Really, you are quite mistaken," he drawled; "that train leaves from Platform 2. You had better hurry, you know; you haven't much time."
Dearest Blanche wrote instantly in reply to dearest Laura's No. 1, to say with what extreme delight she should welcome her sister: how charming it would be to practice their old duets together, to wander o'er the grassy sward, and amidst the yellowing woods of Penshurst and Southborough! Blanche counted the hours till she should embrace her dearest friend.
'To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets. . . . 'Good heavens! I cried, 'is this Shakespeare's Mr. 'Cyril Graham used to say so, muttered Erskine. 'But it is not a bit like Lord Pembroke, I answered. 'I know the Penshurst portraits very well. I was staying near there a few weeks ago. 'Do you really believe then that the sonnets are addressed to Lord Pembroke? he asked.
The fief of Penshurst is a sign of our royal approval of your bravery at Harfleur, the two manors are the debt we owe you for your service at Agincourt. We have ordered our chancellor to make out the deeds, and tomorrow you will receive them from him and take the oaths." Guy knelt and kissed the hand that the king held out to him, and acknowledged the royal gift in fitting words.
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