riverward

Updated: June 9, 2025

For Stephen was an adjutant in the Home Guards what was left of them. One we know of regarded the going of the troops and the coming of the wounded with an equanimity truly philosophical. When the regiments passed Carvel & Company on their way riverward to embark, Mr. Hopper did not often take the trouble to rise from his chair, nor was he ever known to go to the door to bid them Godspeed.

Winston Churchill - The Crisis — Complete