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I dare say my friend Joe Whitton would be as much astonished as I was after my first lecture. Seeing a splendid house I naturally began to reckon my spondulics. Full of this Pactolean vision, I went into my treasurer's room. "Now, Hingston, my boy, let us see what the proceeds are! We shall soon make a fortune at this rate."
"I suppose he has chucked that job by this time, and gone back to Sir Kersley Whitton. Lucky beggar! He seems to be able to do anything he likes." "I didn't know he was going to leave," said Olga quickly. "No? I believe he said something about it in his letter to me. He is always rather sudden," said Noel. "Too much beastly electricity in his composition for my taste."
You're just off then?" Sir Kersley Whitton looked up with a smile to greet his partner as he entered. "Just off," said Max. He came to Sir Kersley, seated at his writing-table, and paused beside him. It was a day in April, showery, shot with fleeting gleams of sunshine that sent long golden shafts across the doctor's room. "You will bring the boy here then?" said Sir Kersley. "Yes, straight here.
He attained the end of being a very rich man, and married an English woman, but left no family to succeed to his wealth and his country-seat of Whitton, when he died at his house in London in his seventy-eighth year, in 1723.
"Who said?" questioned Olga. "Sir Kersley Whitton and Max. Max sent for him, you know." "Oh, did he? Yes, I remember now. I saw him just for a moment." Again her brow contracted. "Oh, I wish I could remember everything clearly, Nick!" she said. "Never mind, my chicken! Don't try too hard!" Cheery and reassuring came Nick's response. "Don't you think you have thought enough for one day?
16th. At the office all the morning, though little to be done; because all our clerks are gone to the buriall of Tom Whitton, one of the Controller's clerks, a very ingenious, and a likely young man to live, as any in the Office. Among others, the famous Tom Fuller is dead of it; and Dr. Nichols, Dean of Paul's; and my Lord General Monk is very dangerously ill.
"He was like a bit of home." "I'm sure he would be vastly flattered to hear you say so," said Nick. She laughed rather dubiously. "Has Dad got another assistant then?" "I don't know. Very likely. You had better ask him when you write." "And he has gone back to Sir Kersley Whitton?" she ventured. "My information does not extend so far as that," said Nick.
Home, and John Goods comes, and after dinner I did pay him L30 for my Lady, and after that Sir W. Pen and I into Moorfields and had a brave talk, it being a most pleasant day, and besides much discourse did please ourselves to see young Davis and Whitton, two of our clerks, going by us in the field, who we observe to take much pleasure together, and I did most often see them at play together.
Itinerarium Curiosum and Stonehenge . He made a special study of Druidism, and was called "the Arch-Druid." Poet, s. of a knight who had held office as Sec. of State and Comptroller of the Household to James I., was b. at Whitton, Middlesex, ed. at Camb., and thereafter went to Gray's Inn. On the death of his f. in 1627, he inherited large estates.
"If you want to know what sort of animal I am," he said, his eyes going direct to hers, "if you want to know if I am worthy of a woman's confidence in short, if I'm a white man or the other thing, ask Kersley Whitton. For he is the only person in the world who knows."
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