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The hills are hornstone and quartz, stratified and dipping southerly with a very high angle; they are very barren, and evidently identical with those on the south bank of the Soane; skirting, in both cases, the granite and gneiss range of Paras-nath.
The number of strata was very great, and only a few inches or even lines thick: they presented all varieties of jasper, hornstone, and quartz of numerous colours, with occasional seams of porphyry or breccia. The racks were elegantly fringed with a fern I had not hitherto seen, Polypodium proliferum, which is the only species the Soane valley presents at this season.
The girl shifted this fact about in various ways, to account for it not unconscious as she did so that it was a pretty exercise of ingenuity for a nice girl. Plainly, it was a rare accident: if it had been their plan to spend the day together the Soane Museum had not been in the original programme. They had been near it, they had been on foot and they had rushed in to take refuge from the rain.
The adaptation of the two first specimens in colour to the parts to which they adhered, is sufficiently remarkable; but the third case was most extraordinary. February 15. Our passage through the Soane sands was very tedious, though accomplished in excellent style, the elephants pushing forward the heavy waggons of mining tools with their foreheads.
'It has, and so far well. And the chair being on the spot, Sir George, so that he was moved without a moment's delay for which I believe we have to thank Mr. Mr. 'Fishwick, Soane suggested. 'To be sure that is so much gained. Which reminds me, the smug gentleman continued, 'that Mr.
Hence it happened that Soane who after dismissing his servant had gone for a moment into the adjacent chamber heard a slight noise in the room he had left; and, returning quickly to learn what it was, found no one, but observed the outer door shake as if some one tried it.
'The simple fact is, he has the gout; and the gout is an odd thing, Sir George, as you'll know one of these days, with another sharp glance at his companion. 'It flies here and there, and everywhere. 'And where is it now? Soane asked innocently. 'It has gone to his head, Addington answered, in a tone so studiously jejune that Sir George glanced at him.
This is Sir George Soane, whose name must be known to you. Permit me to introduce him. 'Then take that for a meddler and a coxcomb, Sir George Soane! cried the angry man; and quick as thought he struck Sir George, who was at elbows with him, lightly in the face. Sir George stepped back, his face crimson. 'You are not sober, sir! he said. 'Is not that enough? cried the other, drowning both Mr.
Soane did not know whether the attorney had preceded him or followed him: the intrusion was the same, and flushed with annoyance, he strode to him to mark his sense of it. But Peter, being addressed, wore his sharpest business air, and was entirely unconscious of offence. 'I have merely purveyed a surgeon, he said, indicating a young man who stood beside him.
It was formally directed after the fashion of those days 'To Mr. Peter Fishwick, Attorney at Law, at Wallingford in Berkshire, by favour of Sir George Soane of Estcombe, Baronet. 'Lord save us, 'tis an honour, the attorney muttered. 'What is it? and with shaking hands he cut the thread that confined the packet. The letter, penned by Dr.
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