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Lord Polperro pretended to do the same but in reality swallowed only a few mouthfuls, and gave his more serious attention to the wine. Every few minutes he assured his companion in a whisper that he would feel quite at ease when he had seen Cuthbertson. They looked out the trains to Streatham, and left just in time to catch one. On the journey his lordship dozed.
He thought and mused at Streatham as he did habitually everywhere, and seldom or never minded what was doing about him. On the margin of i. 315 Baretti has written: 'Johnson mused as much on the road to Paris as he did in his garret in London as much at a French opera as in his room at Streatham. A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Tyers, Esq. See ante, iii. 308.
"We'll take a coach to the Castle", said Jorrocks, "and then get a go-cart or a cast somehow or other to Streatham, for we shall have walking enough when we get there.
If he was represented ugly, and was not so, those who knew him would do him justice, and he did not care for what he passed in that respect with those who did not. I then went home. To-day we have a late day in the House, but I shall go and dine first at Lord Ashburnham's in the King's Road, and to-morrow to my villa at Streatham.
I staid all this day* with him at Streatham. He talked a great deal, in very good humour. * Wednesday, May 13. Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, 'Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which were written by me: and the best of it is, they have found out that one is like Demosthenes, and the other like Cicero.
"Go on, please, Peter," she begged. "You are keeping me in suspense." "There isn't much to tell," he answered. "It's over that's all." She drew a sharp breath through her teeth. "You are not going to marry that girl that bourgeois doll in Streatham?" Fitzgerald sat up in his chair. "Look here," he said, seriously, "don't you call her names. If I'm not going to marry her, it isn't my fault.
Boswell will find his way to Streatham before he goes, and will detail this great affair. Piozzi Letters, i. 216. In like manner he communicated to Sir William Forbes part of his journal from which he made the Life of Johnson. Ante, iii. 208.
Thrale, with whom she always held correspondence while living with us, who indulged her in every expense and every folly, although allowed only one hundred and forty pounds per ann. on her account." After two or three years spent in London, the Piozzis resided for some time at Streatham, how changed in mistress and in guests from the Streatham of which Mrs. Thrale had been the presiding genius!
Cumberland acknowledged her merit, after his fashion, by biting his lips and wriggling in his chair whenever her name was mentioned. But it was at Streatham that she tasted, in the highest perfection, the sweets of flattery, mingled with the sweets of friendship. Mrs.
Cobb, she scribbled, 'if you really must see me before you go away to Bristol, or wherever it is, you had better meet me on Saturday at Streatham Station, which is about halfway between me and you. I shall come by the train from Sutton, which reaches Streatham at 8.6. Yours truly, L. E. D. To-day was Thursday.
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