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Updated: June 27, 2025
In Burns's picture of the family circle in The Cotter's Saturday Night there is nothing of bitterness or gloom or melancholy. 'With joy unfeign'd brothers and sisters meet, An' each for other's welfare kindly spiers: The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears.
There was no want of local talent to supply the vacancy so unexpectedly and painfully made by the removal of Captain Spiers, but a combination of curious circumstances, and chiefly the state of transition which at the moment characterised the politics of the two most likely candidates, left the field open for a stranger, while the enthusiasm felt in this part of the island for the new Prime Minister made it almost a matter of course that the vacant seat should be conferred, on terms unexampled for magnanimity and ease, upon that statesman who had been singled out for the post of Home Secretary by Mr.
I do not quite understand the matter, but it appears that we were expected guests of Mr. Spiers, a very hospitable gentleman, and Ex-Mayor of Oxford, and a friend of Bennoch and of the Halls. Mr. S. C. Hall met us at the Oxford station, and under his guidance we drove to a quiet, comfortable house in St. Giles Street, where rooms had been taken for us.
Jorrocks's left, so Stubbs, with a dexterous manoeuvre, placed himself in the centre of the table, with Belinda between himself and her uncle. Crane and Spiers then filled the vacant places on Nimrod's side, Mr. Spiers facing Mr. Stubbs. The dining-room was the breadth of the passage narrower than the front drawing-room, and, as Mr.
"I beg your pardon," said Devine with mock solemnity. "The Guard doesn't recruit. It selects." "It would," I said, "with a Spiers and Pond restaurant; pretty girls to play with; and " "A room apiece, four bob a day and all found," said Verschoyle. "Don't forget that." "Of course!" I said. "It probably beats off recruits with a club." "No, with the ballot-box," said Verschoyle, laughing.
We'll have the lamps directly; but we are all of us rather partial to blind man's holiday not to mention that oil is oil, and that Brother Spiers doesn't give it away. We know he couldn't afford to do that. But there it is Take care of the pence." To Dale's astonishment, he heard a distinct chuckle here and there among the congregation.
The morning after our excursion on the Thames was as bright and beautiful as many preceding ones had been. After breakfast S and I walked a little about the town, and bought Thomas a Kempis, in both French and English, for U . . . . . Mr. De la Motte, the photographer, had breakfasted with us, and Mr. Spiers wished him to take a photograph of our whole party.
They had reduced Worms and Spiers to ashes; and demolished Frankendahl, together with several other fortresses. These conquests, the fruits of sudden invasion, were covered with a numerous army, commanded by the mareschal de Duras; and all his inferior generals were officers of distinguished courage and ability.
Spiers and Pond; and we anxious investigators can scarcely complain of the change which brings us face to face with fair young maidens in their teens to the exclusion of the matrons and spinsters aforesaid, or the male medium who was once irreverently termed by a narrator a 'bull-necked young man.
But all the rest of us were caught to the life, and I was really a little startled at recognizing myself so apart from myself, and done so quickly too. This was the last important incident of our visit to Oxford, except that Mr. Spiers was again most hospitable at lunch. Never did anybody attend more faithfully to the comfort of his friends than does this good gentleman.
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