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The governor-general who chose to call Sir John the son of his ancient enemy, the Earl of Sussex often denounced him in good set terms.
It is fortunate that the old house has fallen into such good hands. The village has a Tudor manor-house which has been restored. Another court-house, that at Udimore, in Sussex, near Rye, has, we believe, been saved by the Trust, though the owner has retained possession. It is a picturesque half-timbered building of two storeys with modern wings projecting at right angles at each end.
The war will be over before she can organise after the manner of Great Britain. Herr Helfferich exerted powerful influence in the meeting at Great Headquarters at the time of the Sussex Crisis. But our duty to ourselves is to win the war. If we starve out England we win, no matter how many enemies we have. If we fail, another enemy, even the United States, would not make our defeat more thorough.
Our own country is in a perilous state of excitement, and these troubled times make politicians of us all. Of course the papers will have informed you of the risings in Kent and Sussex; London itself is in an unquiet state that suggests the heaving of a volcano before an eruption.
Jim's going to Canada and Bella to Sussex. I understand from Marple that it will be some time before she visits us again." Millicent was glad to hear it, but she made no comment. "It's unreasonable to blame Lisle," Gladwyne went on; "though he did make some unpleasantness with Batley; but I have had so many annoyances and troubles since he arrived.
Wilfrid and his successors in their government of Sussex; Dorchester, as we have seen, was the episcopal town, or rather village, for something like half England. In the names of its officers also and in the methods of their government the Anglo-Saxon town was agricultural. With the advent of the Normans, as one might expect, municipal life to some extent re-arose.
They're very peculiar, these night-hawks. Even ours at home keeps up that whirring, spinning-wheel-like sound in the Surrey and Sussex fir-woods. Ah, that's a dangerous creature, if you like!" he said, in a whisper. "Which?" I said, below my breath. "That piping ping-wing-wing." "Why, that's a mosquito, uncle," I cried contemptuously.
This the King told Peel. Those who observed the Duke of Sussex at the levee thought he seemed very triumphant, and received his Whig friends with a smile which said, 'We shall do them yet. He was invested with the Thistle to-day. The King asked all the knights presented to drink a bottle of claret with him in October. Blomberg was up with an address.
The Queen, however, observed not their confusion, but proceeded to say, "My Lords of Sussex and Leicester, we require your presence at the privy-council to be presently held, where matters of importance are to be debated. We will then take the water for our divertisement, and you, my lords, will attend us. And that reminds us of a circumstance.
Sussex roads are heavy in this damp weather, and the frost coming on won't improve them for a tired beast. We haven't our rails laid down there yet.
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