United States or Switzerland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Perhaps old Wardingham, that pillar of the old Conservatives, was there, fretting over his unsuccessful struggle with our young Toryism. Little he recked of this new turn of the wheel and how it would confirm his contempt of all our novelties.
I find now in my mind as a sort of counterpoise to Evesham the figure of old Lord Wardingham, asleep in the largest armchair in the library of Stamford Court after lunch. One foot rested on one of those things I think they are called gout stools.
"Who's got all that land stretching away there; that little blunted sierra of pines and escarpments I mean?" My father halted for an instant in his answer, and glanced over his shoulder. "Wardingham and Baxter share all those coppices," he remarked. "They come up to my corner on each side." "But the dark heather and pine land beyond. With just the gables of a house among the trees."
Word Of The Day