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... not succeed in confining the loose rough waves of dark chest- nut, on the road to blackness. Sylvia was the shorter, firmer, and stronger, with round... ...g in the lanes at home; and once, when Mrs. Lacy had let her run freely in Kensington Gardens, Lady Barbara was much displeased with her, and said Lad... ... his brothers and sisters. She had been greatly delighted by learning that Adelaide was no end of a hand at climbing trees; and that whenever she shou... ...at her contemporaries were to be like—Mary and Fanny, Ernest’s elders, and Adelaide and Grace, who came next below him; she had a vision for each of t... ...at depends,” said Lady Mary, in a very odd merry voice; and the other two, Adelaide and Grace, who were far too much alike for Kate to guess which was... ... She had not seen them since her return to London; they were at Westbourne Road, too far off for her to walk thither even if she had had anyone to go ... ...day instead of T uesday.” “Oh! but, Aunt Barbara, I am going to Westbourne Road on Monday.” “Indeed! I was not aware of it.” “Oh, it is Sylvia’s birth...

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... even before she had time to pay the driver was, “My dear Magdalen, what a road!” Poor Mrs. Best! as the payment was put into the man’s hand, Magdalen... ...ped to pieces and tired to death.” “I was afraid they had been mending the roads,” said Magdalen. “Mending! Strewing them with rocks, if you please,” ... ...eople who have been tired and shaken up in a station cab over newly-mended roads! Were they as bad when I came? But then I could look out, and did not... ...e lost it in the daily jar and fact, And now live idly in a vain regret.” —AdelaideProcter. AGATHA was so much absorbed in her preparation for St. Rob... ... soul hath been all glad and gay, Bid it arise and look on grief to-day.” —Adelaide Proctor. THERE WAS A GUILD at St. Kenelm’s which was considered by... ...ceiving the travellers 174 Modern Broods from Vale Leston in her house in Kensington; and there was her broad, kindly face looking out for them at th...

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...B-’s piercing eye. It was good for one to be sure of that when, in an open roadstead, one heard in the cabin the wind pipe up; but still, there were m... ...ke a tremendous contrast to the silent moments of her arrival in a foreign roadstead—the silent moments when, stripped of her sails, she forges ahead ... ...e of audacity, one early morning, with a steady breeze, entering a crowded roadstead. But he was not genu- ine in this display which might have been a... ... of flats (all to let), ex- iled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington. Just round the corner, as it were, on a pier defined with stone... ...e wide earth but London and Sydney, or London and Melbourne, or London and Adelaide, perhaps 104 The Mirror of the Sea with Hobart Town added for tho...

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...rld, she was beginning it over again. By the time the young ladies reached Kensington turnpike, Amelia had not forgotten her companions, but had dried... ...urney, cannot but think of it with a sweet and tender regret. Where is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich... ...an made me re- mark that we drove very slow for the last two stages on the road, because Sir Pitt was on the box, and because he is pro- prietor of th... ...evening at a wonderful small cot- tage in a street leading from the Fulham Road—one of those streets which have the finest romantic names—(this was ca... ...of those streets which have the finest romantic names—(this was called St. Adelaide Villas, Anna-Maria Road W est), where the houses look like baby-ho... ...elight to take out his little grandson Georgy to the neighbouring parks or Kensington Gardens, to see the soldiers or to feed the ducks. Georgy loved ... ...h magnificent yellow liveries and bay horses, such as the royal stables at Kensington themselves could not turn out—I say had she been Mrs. Mango hers...

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... the cutter to the stables, and Archer struck through the park to the high-road. The village of Skuytercliff was only a mile and a half away, but he k... ...e knew that Mrs. van der Luyden never walked, and that he must keep to the road to meet the carriage. Presently, however, coming down a foot- path tha... ...s went through his mind during their long slow drive from Mayfair to South Kensington, where Mrs. Carfry and her sister lived. Archer too would have p... ...d livery-stable trotters that could still do their eighteen miles on level roads; and at two o’clock, hastily deserting the luncheon- table, he sprang... ...house was a few doors above, were taking a large party that evening to see Adelaide Neilson in Romeo and Juliet, and guessed that the two were of the ...

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...rld, she was beginning it over again. By the time the young ladies reached Kensington turnpike, Amelia had not forgotten her companions, but had dried... ...urney, cannot but think of it with a sweet and tender regret. Where is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich... ...an made me re- mark that we drove very slow for the last two stages on the road, because Sir Pitt was on the box, and because he is pro- prietor of th... ...evening at a wonderful small cot- tage in a street leading from the Fulham Road—one of those streets which have the finest romantic names—(this was ca... ...of those streets which have the finest romantic names—(this was called St. Adelaide Villas, Anna-Maria Road W est), where the houses look like baby-ho...

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...it this season, you fool.” “I know. This is the last time we shall go this road, Cashy. Usen’t it to be a lark? Eh?” “If you don’t shut up, it won’t b... ...ind back?” “I should think so. Bet you twopence I’ll be first at the cross roads. I say, let’s pull the bell at the front gate and give an awful yell ... ... 12 Cashel Byron’s Profession They ran off together, and reached the cross roads about eight minutes later; Gully completely out of breath, and Cashel... ... I was there once. I saw the ‘Lady of Lyons.’” “There is a famous actress, Adelaide Gisborne—” “It was she whom I saw as the Lady of Lyons. She did it... ...pointment of Alice, who had hoped to live in Mayfair, or at least in South Kensington. But Lydia set great store by the high northerly ground and open... ...36 Cashel Byron’s Profession CHAPTER X Mrs. Byron, under her stage name of Adelaide Gisborne, was now, for the second time in her career, much talked ... ...prowess of Cashel Byron, and its theatri- cal column full of the genius of Adelaide Gisborne. But she never read sporting columns, nor he theatrical o...

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...e, and in their places Weary men and anxious women stand. —Adelaide A. Proctor PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE IF A BO... ...ut the main body, tied up in tight bunches like cauliflowers, I dropped at Kensington Palace Gardens.” “A yellow primrose is much more than a yellow p... ...and have got a spick-and-span chess-board of a villa out on the Minsterham road.” “They have not more children than you have.” 14 The Long Vacation “... ...side of the chain of rocks, nearly two miles from Rockquay, and one of the roads ran along the top of the red cliffs that shut it in, with no opening ... ... riding along the cliffs in the Anscombe direction, where there was a good road, from whence they could turn down a steep hill into the village, and t... ...“And really I cannot go back to those intolerable back- gammon evenings at Kensington Palace Gardens.” CHAPTER XXXIII. A MISSIONAR CHAPTER XXXIII. A M...