stickford

Updated: May 1, 2025

"Come, now, tell me all the places thou hast visited," she said, perching herself on his arm-chair. He told her, and she counted them off one by one upon her fingers. "That is ninety miles of travel thou hast had. What is the most pleasing thing thou hast seen?" "It was in Stickford by the fen," he answered, after a perplexed pause.

Gilbert Parker - John Enderby

Once or twice as he rode on in the declining afternoon he muttered to himself. Now it was: "My Lord Rippingdale, indeed!" or "Not even for a King!" or "Sir John Enderby, forsooth! Sir John Enderby, forsooth!" Once again he spoke, reining in his horse beside a tall cross at four corners, near Stickford by the East Fen.

Gilbert Parker - John Enderby