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Thereafter they broke their fast under the oak trees, and spent a merry hour, and then departed, the two women riding the horses, the others afoot; so came they to the house of Littledale, some while before sunset, and were merry and glad there. Young they were, troubles were behind them, and many a joy before them.
He agreed upon a day with Miss Bessie a day of that same week. An ingenious mind might, perhaps, trace a connection between the young girl's allusion to her destitution of social privileges and a question she asked on the morrow as she sat with her sister at lunch. "Don't you mean to write to to anyone?" said Bessie. "I wrote this morning to Captain Littledale," Mrs. Westgate replied. "But Mr.
And then there was another long pause. "He was devilish civil," observed the young nobleman. "Nothing, certainly, could have been more civil," rejoined his companion. "Littledale said his wife was great fun," said Lord Lambeth. "Whose wife Littledale's?" "This American's Mrs. Westgate. What's his name? Beaumont was silent a moment.
Littledale was a gentleman with a face in full bloom, a very white cravat coming out even with his chin; and within it he bridled with the unmistakable English sense of superiority to the rest of mankind. He is a specimen of the independent, rich country gentleman of England. His conservatories were the best in the world, . . . and so on through all things appertaining to him.
Littledale lecturing at Liverpool on Innovations in 1868 said: "Two mendacious partizans, the infamous Foxe and the not much more respectable Burnet have so overlaid all the history of the Reformation with falsehood, that it has been well-nigh impossible for readers to get at the facts," p. 16. Dictionary of National Biography, article "John Foxe,"
The fittings, fastenings, and arrangements of the windows, hanging from little railways, and sliding instead of closing on hinges, are all ingenious, and worth examination. Mr. Littledale makes use of a moveable wooden railway, carted over by a donkey in a light waggon, to draw root crops from a field of heavy land.
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