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"You see, my nephew's wife is daughter of a citizen, one Master Swindon, a ship's chandler, and he said there would be a room there for me, and they would make me heartily welcome. Now, you see, sir, the young masters could have that room, and I could very well sleep on board the ketch; and they would be out of all sort of mischief there."
It was he who, against a most admirable and desperate defence, broke last night into Pump Street and held it for at least half an hour. He was afterwards expelled from it by General Turnbull, of Notting Hill, but only after desperate fighting and the sudden descent of that terrible darkness which proved so much more fatal to the forces of General Buck and General Swindon.
Through an open glen by the Swindon Burn, down what is called The Lady's Walk, Grisell nightly came to the vault with her little store of provisions.
But the halberds were levelled in vain. The figure that rushed up was a messenger from the contingent of the North. "Victory, Mr. Buck!" he cried, panting; "they are ousted. Provost Wilson of Bayswater has taken Pump Street." Buck ran forward in his excitement. "Then, which way are they retreating? It must be either by St. Luke's to meet Swindon, or by the Gas Company to meet us.
His cab carried him like a thunderbolt from the King to Wilson, from Wilson to Swindon, from Swindon to Barker again; if his course was jagged, it had the jaggedness of the lightning. Only two things he carried with him his inevitable cigar and the map of North Kensington and Notting Hill.
A slight exclamation of terror escaped Mrs. Allerton, followed by a loud hysterical scream from the Swindon young woman, as she staggered forward towards the stranger, exclaiming, "Oh, merciful God! my husband!" and then fell, overcome with emotion, in his outstretched arms. "Yes," said the Rev. Mr. Wishart promptly, "that is certainly the gentleman I united to Maria Emsbury.
"You forget to state, Rosamond," said Miss Stewart, who was sitting beside her niece, "that Martin, who was with his young master at Bath, is willing to make oath that no such marriage took place as asserted, at Swindon church." "That alone would, I fear, my good madam, very little avail. Can I see William Martin?" "Certainly." The bell was rung, and the necessary order given.
That beautiful sentence Sir Daniel Gooch quoted to the Swindon workmen, and which I treasure as Mrs.
The ancient art of falconry is still practised in these parts. Thirty years ago, when Duleep Singh lived at Hatherop, hawking on the downs was one of his chief amusements. But the only hawking club hereabouts that we know of is at Swindon, in Wiltshire. Coursing is as popular as ever among the Cotswold farmers. These hills have always been noted for the sport.
But by far the most extraordinary conversation and perhaps the most illuminating I ever heard, was in a train going to the West Country and stopping first at Swindon. It passed between two men who sat in corners facing each other. The one was stout, tall, and dressed in a tweed suit. He had a gold watch-chain with a little ornament on it representing a pair of compasses and a square.
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