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Virginia was fortunate enough to be accepted as companion by a gentlewoman at Weston-super-Mare; her payment, twelve pounds. Gertrude, fourteen years old, also went to Weston, where she was offered employment in a fancy-goods shop her payment nothing at all, but lodging, board, and dress assured to her. Ten years went by, and saw many changes.
"A couple of years went by, and Lilian became a teacher in the school she had attended. Do you know anything about Bristol and the neighbourhood? It seems that the people there are in the habit of going to a place called Weston-super-Mare excursion steamers, and so on.
"Weston-super-Mare. "Sunday night, 20th Feb., 1881. "My dear Anna, "Many thanks for your kind interest in the approval of my writings. "I have come to a pause in another matter. My Libyan dictionary is as complete as I can make it.... What next? I ask myself; for to be idle is soon to be miserable. I do not quite say with Clough, 'Qui laborat, orat' No!
We use a biscuit-box on two bicycle wheels. I only got the money for that" he patted the stuff "by a pure fluke." "How much did it cost?" asked Strickland. "With seed and machinery about two hundred pounds. I had the labour done by cannibals." "That sounds promising." Stalky reached for a fresh cigarette. "No, thank you," said Agnes. "I've been at Weston-super-Mare a little too long for cannibals.
A loop from Worle to Uphill serves Weston-super-Mare, whilst short branches, one from Bristol and a second from Yatton, afford communication with Portishead and Clevedon. Another section skirts the E. side of the county from Frome to Yeovil, and by taking a short cross-country cut from Castle Cary to Langport unites again with the trunk line near Taunton.
But, unfortunately, the zeal of the master waxed cool as that of the pupil waxed hot; and, at last, when the young thing returned to Greshamsbury from an autumn excursion which she had made with Mrs Umbleby to Weston-super-Mare, she found that the delicious morning services had died a natural death.
The churchyard is beautifully kept, and a very handsome restored cross stands on a little "green" fronting at the churchyard gate. Uphill, a village at the mouth of the Axe, 2 m. S. of Weston-super-Mare. It is an unattractive collection of cottages without any present-day interest.
The pillars of the arcade still show traces of the flames. The tower is good, with bold buttresses. The church contains the effigies of a knight in armour and his lady, within a recess in the S. wall. Hutton, a small village 3-1/2 m. S.E. of Weston-super-Mare. It lies at the base of Bleadon Hill, and may be approached from Weston either through Uphill or by a path that leaves the Worle road.
She herself very rarely left Loring, because she could not afford it; but when, two summers back, she did go to Weston-super-Mare for a fortnight, she took one of the girls with her. Miss Marrable had heard a great deal about Mr. Gilmore.
For a great many years before he died Newman lived at Weston-super-Mare. But two years before his death, in October, 1897, when he was ninety-two years of age, he found himself, partly owing to senile decay and partly owing to a bad fall he had had in the spring of the year, and also to loss of eyesight, unable to take part in public affairs any longer, nor yet to write as he had been used to do.
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