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There was nothing for the population exposed to such a dire catastrophe to do but leave. This they did. Their humble Lares and Penates, in fact all their belongings, were loaded into the fishing-smacks, and the entire colony sought refuge in Southhampton Harbor.
Helmsley has started on his trip alone?" "Yes, Sir Francis. Quite alone." "Did he say where he was going?" "He booked for Southhampton, sir." "Oh!" "And," proceeded Benson, "he only took one portmanteau." "Oh!" again ejaculated the lawyer. And, stroking his bearded chin, he thought awhile. "Are you going to stay at Carlton House Terrace till he comes back?" "I have a month's holiday, sir.
By some devilish lucky chance I had no sooner got to London from Southhampton, day before yesterday, than some one told me all about the expected row between the Suffragettes and the police. Thought I'd go and see for myself what this meant. No idea before how far the thing had gone, or what brutes the police could be.
Æthelwealh had got himself into complications with Wessex by accepting the sovereignty of the Isle of Wight and the Meonwaras about Southhampton from the hands of a Mercian conqueror. Perhaps Æthelwealh then repaired the old Roman roads which led from his own ham at Chichester to Portsmouth in Wessex, and broke down the mark, so as to connect his old and his new dominions with one another.
Howell incontinentlie assembled his people, to the number of fifteene thousand men, and taking the sea, landed with them at Southhampton, where Arthur was readie to receiue him with great ioy and gladnesse.
Asked me to give you his humble and dutiful regards I believe that was his expression and to assure you he never broke a promise. I suppose he meant his promise to be back in time to join us at Southhampton." "I suppose so," Myra equivocated. "I don't believe he is in love with me, Tony." "I don't see how anyone could help being in love with you, darling," responded Tony gallantly.
And so I left him at the corner of Southhampton Row, and went back to my hotel alone. It was about midnight, a little before, I think, when I got in, and one of the porters had a message for me. "Sir Thomas Lipton rang you up," he said, "and wants you to speak with him when you come in." I rang him up at home directly. "Happy New Year, when it comes, Harry!" he said.
To begin with, unless you have a fortune there's no use considering any place like Newport or Southhampton or Tuxedo. They're out of the question." They all agreed to this solemnly. "And personally I hate New Jersey. Then, of course, there's upper New York, above Tuxedo." "Too cold," said Gloria briefly. "I was there once in an automobile."
He speaks English wonderfully well. He cried when he parted from Mr. Sneid, the supercargo, who most kindly brought him from Southhampton in a postchaise, but these tears in childhood are of very brief duration!... You may be sure that the most liberal sum which you have placed to my credit with the Messrs. Hobson & Co. shall be faithfully expended on my dear little charge. Of course, unless Mrs.
In twelve hours I was in Southhampton. In twenty hours I was in France. And aboot as soon as I got there I was in a lot of shooting and running this way and that that they ha' told me since was the Battle of the Marne. "And in twenty-four hours more I was on my way back to Glasgow!
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