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We hopped into the cab and got away without staying to see if any one was hurt. But if Waverley hadn't hit out when he did I'd have been a goner." "I had a funny thing happen to me once in the Tottenham Court Road," said Foyle reminiscently. "I was an inspector then and big Bill Sladen was working with me he had a beautiful tenor voice, you will remember.
Just as the relative position of Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday in the Football League is the subject of frenzied back chat; just as the defeat of Yorkshire by Kent causes head shakings in the public-houses of the North towards the end of August, why not have a league of battalions? A wonderful idea if one thinks into it.
The young lady was Mistress Aveline Calveley, his informant said, only child of Master Hugh Calveley, who had but lately come to dwell in Tottenham, and of whom little was known, save that he was understood to have fought at the battle of Langside, and served with great bravery, under Essex, both in Spain and in Ireland, in the times of good Queen Bess such times as England would never see again, the old farmer parenthetically remarked, with a shake of the head.
'Oh, but my bishop doesn't belong to your part of the world, responded my daughter sleepily. 'He is travelling for his health. It was the most unexpected and delightful thing to be packed into one's chair next morning by Dacres Tottenham.
"Bring me that thing!" he cried; on which Tottenham stiffly moved to obey. "Really this is too much!" broke out my companion, affronted and helpless. So indeed it struck me, and before Mr. Searle had time to take the note I possessed myself of it. "If you've no consideration for your sister let a stranger at least act for her." And I tore the disputed object into a dozen pieces.
'What a time since I saw you! 'Is that really true? she replied, with an air more resembling coquetry than any he had yet seen in her. 'Since I spoke to you, then. 'When did you see me? 'Three evenings ago. You were walking in Tottenham Court Road with a young lady. 'Miss Vesper, the friend I live with. 'Will you give me a few minutes now? he asked humbly. 'Is it too late?
In Tottenham he lived a quiet and uneventful life, content to do his duty conscientiously, and pass his leisure hours with his brother-priests and in the society of his books. Father Desmond O'Connor was not perfect; he was a good, honest, hard-working priest, one of that splendid army who are fighting the Church's battles against human weakness in Australia.
'That is a very entertaining explanation, Mr. Macpherson. I suppose this encyclopaedia, as you call it, is in the shop at Tottenham Court Road? 'Oh, no, sir. Each volume of the encyclopaedia is self-locking. These books contain the real secret of our business, and they are kept in the safe at Mr. Summertrees' house in Park Lane. Take Lord Semptam's account, for instance.
From Granville Bay the traveller may return by the 'Kissy Road. Once it was the pet promenade, the Corso, the show-walk of Freetown; now it has become a Tottenham Court Road, to which Water, Oxford, and Westmoreland Streets are preferred. The vegetation becomes splendid, running up to the feet of the hills, which swell suddenly from the shelf-plain.
It was first situated in Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road, but was removed to Marylebone Fields, as the present site was then called in 1755. The site was obtained from Charles Berners on lease for the term of 999 years, and the first stone of the building was laid by the Duke of Northumberland. The building of the wings was completed in 1775, and they were extended in 1834.
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