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There was the Wagoner's child that was sickly, and continually cried for its mammy; and lastly there was a buxom servant-maid, with a little straw hat and cherry ribbons over a Luton lace mob, and a pretty flowered gown pulled through the placket-holes, and a quilted petticoat, and silver buckles in her shoes, and black mits, who was going home to see her Grandmother at Stoke Pogis, so she told me, and made me bitterly remember that I had now no Grandmother, and was as clean and bright and smiling as a new pin, or the milkmaids on May morning dancing round the brave Garlands that they have gotten from the silversmiths in Cranbourn Alley.
But she said the hotel was full of Cook's tourists, whom she recognized, in spite of her lifelong ignorance of them, by a prescience derived from the conversation of Mr. Pogis, and from the instinct of a society woman, already rife in her.
He had some elder brothers, most of them in the colonies, and he had himself been out to America looking at something his father had found for him in Buffalo. "You ought to come to Tuskingum," said Lottie. "Is that a large place?" Mr. Pogis asked. "As large as Buffalo?" "Well, no," Lottie admitted. "But it's a growing place. And we have the best kind of times." "What kind?"
A little later Charles I. had issued a warrant for a certain commission, when, in a conference with the Lords, Coke moved "That the Warrant may be damned and destroyed." After the prorogation of Parliament which soon followed, Coke retired into private life and lived at Stoke Pogis, where he is supposed to have encouraged his neighbour, Hampden, in his plots against the Court.
The infamous editors of the Kelso Champion, the Bungay Beacon, the Tipperary Argus, and the Stoke Pogis Sentinel, and other dastardly organs of the provincial press, have, although differing in politics, agreed upon this one point, and, with a scoundrelly unanimity, vented a flood of abuse upon the revelations made by me.
And great caution was necessary, for Lady Elizabeth and Frances were almost within a dozen miles of Stoke Pogis, their country home; so that they would have been in danger of being recognised, if they had appeared outside the house. But Lady Elizabeth was not idle in her voluntary imprisonment.
Most soothing in its effect upon me was a visit to Stoke Pogis churchyard and the grave of Thomas Gray. The "Elegy" has never since my boyhood lost its hold upon me, and my feelings of love for its author were deepened as I read the inscription placed by him upon his mother's monument: "The tender mother of many children, only one of whom had the misfortune to survive her."
However, he and we could both console ourselves with the reflection that the emotion was admirable, and wanted only the right place to make it the most appropriate in the world. The genuine country churchyard, however, was that at Stoke Pogis, which we should have seen had not the fates forbidden our going to Labouchere Park.
If ever there was a case of adding insult to injury, surely this piece of canting impertinence was one of the most outrageous. By H.W. Woolrych. London: J. & W.T. Clarke, 1826, pp. 145-48. Lipscomb's History and Antiquities of the Co. of Bucks, 1847, Vol. IV., p. 548. Gray made the churchyard of Stoke Pogis the scene of his famous Elegy, and he was buried there in 1771. Ency. Brit., Vol.
It seemed a long time for everybody till the steamer got in; those going ashore sat on their hand-baggage for an hour before the tug came up to take, them off. Mr. Pogis was among them; he had begun in the forenoon to mark the approaching separation between Lottie and himself by intervals of unmistakable withdrawal.
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