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The exiles established themselves as silk workers in Spitalfields, cotton spinners at Bideford, tapestry weavers at Exeter, wool carders at Taunton, kersey makers at Norwich, weavers at Canterbury, bat makers at Wandsworth, sailcloth makers at Ipswich, workers in calico in Bromley, glass in Sussex, paper at Laverstock, cambric at Edinburgh.
He went slowly over Wandsworth Bridge and up the High Street, dejected, under the autumn moon that had once watched his glad sprinting. And in all this time he had not heard again from Violet, nor had he written to her. Then it was in the first week of November Violet wrote. She wrote imploring him to set her free.
Not very far from Wandsworth, in the green pasturelands of Southfields, that great magician was already casting into bricks and mortar his tremendous dream the city of dreams, the Paradise of Little Clerks. As yet he had called into being only a few streets of his city, stretching eastward and southward into the green plain.
It was not for nothing that he had been born over a chemist's shop in Wandsworth High Street. He kept his back to Winny as he stood there by the window. "The bi !" A bad word, a word that he would not for worlds have uttered in a woman's presence, half formed itself on Ranny's lips. He turned. "Well," he said, aloud, "I am Let's throw the filthy things away. They're poisonous."
Colonel Keith, and therefore Lieutenant Drummond, as they are the same person for this evening, is Will Clowes, a young gardener at Wandsworth, who is your lover, of whom your brother Joel does not particularly approve. Now then, keep up your character. And remember," her Ladyship was very grave now "to call any of them by his real name may be death to all of you." I turned round and faced her.
"Why," said Winny, counting them off on her fingers, "you've got a father and a mother and new tires to your bike. "It is a tidy tie," Ranny admitted, smiling because of the buttercups. "But me hat's a bit rocky." "Quite a good hat," said Winny, looking at it with her little head on one side. "And you've won the silver cup for the Wandsworth Hurdle Race. What more do you want?"
Wandsworth is not a place you can get to in ten minutes, especially after the business trains have ceased running for the evening; so that if you took a cab " Reggie jumped to his feet excitedly. "No use wasting time here," he said. "Come along, Cora. I'll just scribble a few lines on one of my cards, so that you can be safe at Edward Street. There you are.
And so they had been drawn into an assignation at the old elm tree by the Causeway on Wandsworth Plain. Thus, if it had done nothing else to him, the Service for Men could be held responsible for throwing that meeting with Violet much too late. Still, he had no misgivings. It was June; and in June nine o'clock was still daytime.
Hampstead Heath, Ashdown Forest, Malvern Hills, Plumstead, Tooting, Wandsworth, Coulston, Dartford, and a great many other commons, village greens, roadside wastes, and other open spaces were saved from enclosure, and some places were partly opened up again, as a result either of lawsuits, of parliamentary action, or of voluntary agreements and purchase.
It was a lovely evening; and I, who am so much a Cockney as to believe that a London sunset is one of the grandest spectacles in the universe, set my face towards the yellow light in the west, and walked across Wandsworth Common, where faint wreaths of purple mist were rising from the hollows, and a deserted donkey was breaking the twilight stillness with a plaintive braying.
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