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Do you suppose he would hang around a girl who was poor, such a sweet, pretty, dear creature as Alice Maitland, who is a hundred times nicer than I am?" "He might," said Miss McDonald, still quizzically. "They say that like goes to like, and it is reported that the Duke of Tewkesbury is as good as ruined." "Do be serious, McDonald." The girl nestled up closer to her and took her hand.
Lady Sarah Tewkesbury held forth on the pleasures of a country life, and lamented that family connections and the necessity of standing well with the Court constrained her to spend the greater part of her existence in town. "I am like Milton," she said. "I adore a rural life. To hear the cock 'From his watchtower in the skies, When the horse and hound do rise.
Workmen, too, were set to search and dig everywhere for "Tewkesbury mustard-balls," as they were called or fire-balls, with which it was thought that the Catholics would set London a-fire, as Oates had said they would or vast treasures which the Jesuits were thought to have buried in the Savoy and other places.
26th. To Malvern with Hopie; 27th, Worcester; 28th, Tewkesbury; 29th, Hereford Cathedral; then Boss, Monmouth, and Chepstow. September 1st. Chepstow Castle, Tintern Abbey, then to Clifton across the Severn. 2nd, rain, so returned to Foxholes. From the Comte de Paris 18 septembre. Je m'empresse de vous remercier de votre lettre du 15, qui m'est parvenue hier.
She and Edward were defeated and taken prisoners at Tewkesbury, and the young prince cruelly put to death by the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, brothers of Edward IV. Margaret was placed in the Tower, and a day or two after Henry died mysteriously there, it is presumed at the hands of Gloucester, who was socially an unpleasant man to meet after dark.
Lady Sarah Tewkesbury had risen betimes, and, in her anxiety to secure a good place, had come out in her last night's "head," which somewhat damaged edifice of ginger-coloured ringlets and Roman pearls was now visible above the wooden partition of the King's Bench to the eyes of the commonalty in the hall below, her ladyship being accommodated with a seat among the lawyers.
'I had already come to that resolve, said I. 'There is nothing more to be said, Captain, said the lawyer, giving me his hand. 'May all good fortune go with you. Keep a still tongue and a quick ear. Watch keenly how all things go. Mark whose face is gloomy and whose content. The Duke may be at Bristol, but you had best make for his seat at Badminton. Our sign of the day is Tewkesbury.
Here he paused of a sudden, and laid his sketch-block slowly down on his knee. "Je-hosaphat!" he exclaimed, his eyes brightening. "Why ever didn't I think of it?" "Think of wot?" He nodded his head. "You'll see, missie, when we get to Evesham! You've put a notion into me and we're going to rattle up Turner and make him hum. The guide-books say he spent considerable of his time at Tewkesbury.
The time had been when at such consecrations three alphabets were written the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin as the title on the cross had been written in these three tongues, but the Hebrew was early discontinued, "probably," writes Blunt, the historian of Tewkesbury Abbey, "because even bishops might not always be able to manage their Alpha Beta in that character."
And the general opinion in the Lincolnshire parsonage was rather, as respected Sir William de Cantilupe, one of condolence than of congratulation. Eighteen years after that summer, a solitary traveller was approaching the city of Tewkesbury. He sat down on a low wall which skirted the road, and wiped his heated brow.
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