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...e pit-bank that evening. Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had ... ...phisti- cated mind, which had repudiated education. On purpose he kept the midland accent in his speech. He understood perfectly what a personificatio... ...ame him. The early, deli- cate autumn affected him. He took a train to the Midlands. And again, just after dark, he strolled with his little bag acros... ... was a start. At a bookstall he saw a man buy a big timetable with a large railway map in it. He immediately bought the same. Then he retired to a cor... ...ed, but the men began to knock at the door. They were all workmen, some in railway men’s caps, mostly in black felt hats. Some wore red cotton neck-ti... ...s. They were making a demonstration against the imprisonment of one of the railway-strikers. I was there. They went on all right, with a good bit of h...

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... contiguous towns, I should mention, in the great in- dustrial area of the Midlands.) We had shared each other’s secret of religious doubt, we had con... ...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...scent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over their intersections, and signal st... ...ll talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at the realiza- tion ... ...ast of Essex, a long and com- plicated journey from Clayton. I went to the railway-station and made some memoranda from the time-tables. The por- ters... ... shoemaker’s —get a sound, good pair of boots— ten minutes—and then to the railway-station—five minutes more—and off! I felt as efficient and non-mora... ...ors;” and he began to tell me of many things that were being arranged, the Midland land committees had got to work with remarkable celerity and direct...

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...hts in the upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing ... ...their bedroom win- 12 The War of the Worlds dows. Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The news... ...wo or three loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railway station. There 13 H G Wells was very little talking. Few of the co... ..., instead of working, I decided to walk down towards the common. Under the railway bridge I found a group of soldiers—sappers, I think, men in small r... ...once.” So they discussed it. After a while I left them, and went on to the railway station to get as many morning papers as I could. But I will not we... ...gh explosives were being prepared to be used in automatic mines across the Midland counties. He was also told that the Midland Railway Company had rep...

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...annel? In a valley near St Jakob, just over the ridge, a long way from the railway, there is a very big, important shrine by the roadside. It is a cha... ...to know the joy of man who has got the earth in his grip, bound it up with railways, burrowed it with iron fin- gers, subdued it. He wanted this last ... ...ght of England, the great mass of London, and the black, fuming, laborious Midlands and north-country. It seemed horrible. And yet, it was better than... ... I found some apples under a tree in a field near a 107 Twilight in Italy railway embankment, then some mushrooms, and I ate both. Then I came on to ... ...bove and sometimes below the twist- 131 Twilight in Italy ing, serpentine railway, then afterwards along a path on the side of the hill—a path that w... ... then opened into a wide valley-head, and we saw Airolo away below us, the railway emerging from its hole, the whole valley like a cornucopia full of ...

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... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ... air of this Theatre was fresh, cool, and wholesome. To help towards this end, very sensible precautions had been used, ingeniously combining the expe... ... removed (with the keys and subscribed capital) to a place of durance, half an hour prior to the commencement of the festivities. Take another case. M... ...e, but for the timely remembrance coming upon him that Jairing’s was but round the corner. Now, Jairing’s being an hotel for families and gentlemen, i... ...tate of the greatest depression, scorned by the bar; and did not recover their self-respect for several days. Or take another case. Take your own case...

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... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ... them anticipated a tithe of what the Brennan mono-rail would do for their railway securities and the face of the world. In a few, years they realised... ...sing an abyss on a wire, and the mono-rail was superseding the tram-lines, railways: and in- deed every form of track for mechanical locomotion. Where... ... the Mersey estuary. Bert was a Southerner; he had never been north of the Midland counties, and the multitude of facto- ries and chimneys—the latter ... ...ed by huge electric generating sta- tions that consumed their own reek—old railway viaducts, mono-rail net-works and goods yards, and the vast areas o...

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... and transfigured, but fore-shortened and confused to- gether. A clockwork railway, I seem to remember, came and went; one or two clockwork boats, toy... ...r in factories. Bromstead had almost doubted in size again long before the railway came; there was hardly any thatch left in the High Street, but inst... ...ople still engaged in business. And then hard on the gasworks had come the railway and cheap coal; there was a wild outbreak of brickfields upon the c... ..., coal-blackened roads between the gasworks, Blodgett’s laundries, and the railway goods-yard. Weekly properties, that is to say small houses built by... ...; I was in the full tide of building and growth from the first; the second railway with its station at Bromstead North and the drainage followed when ... ... the slender graciousness that shone out so pleasingly against the bleaker midland surroundings. 131 H G Wells She was a younger schoolfellow of my c... ...ture for the Kinghamstead Division, that shape- less chunk of agricultural midland between the Great Western and the North Western railways. I was goi...

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...sation at the back of the neck after one hour’s keen talk with a Nauheimed railway magnate saved her any trouble. He nearly wept. “And I’m over thirty... ...attempt to see round the, corner, “ is—what did the hack-cabman say to the railway porter about my trunk— ‘quite on the top?’” “No; ‘a little bit of a... ...kens, their roofs, their water-supply, and their sons in the police or the railway service. 30 Actions and Reactions “But don’t you find it dull, dea... ...t on earth have you brought that timber-tug here for? We aren’t building a railway bridge. Why, in America, half-a-dozen two-by-four bits would be amp... ... front seat of the carriage, while Garin sat with me. She hurried into the railway carriage, saw Kadir Buksh make up my bed for the night, got her dri... ...wered importantly. “We may be, for our branch of the family comes from the Midlands.” I give this talk at length, because I am so proud of my first at... ...ut of our line of fire. “A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and t...

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...iffness of his arm. He wished some of those confounded armchair critics of railway management could have seen it. IV IV IV IV IV By five o’clock that ... ...e Thursley Hanger he could get a glimpse of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, but ploughed fields and a suspicious hamlet pre- vented his nearer... ... little while he understood. He was often to be seen in those days, by the railway passengers, sitting, chin on knees, perched up on the Down hard by ... ... brought to him every day, a mess of grain in the husk, in a truck—a small railway truck, like one of the trucks he was perpetually filling with chalk... ...ggling village streets, the larger houses of the petty great, flower-grown railway banks, gar- den-set stations, and all the little things of the vani... ... destruction. It is all a most hideous misunderstanding … In the north and midlands Giants have been killed … Everywhere.” “They are fighting now?” “N...

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...so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men... ...e has not surrendered his will and con- tracted for the next hundred miles, like a man on a railway. He may change his mind at every finger-post, and,... ...to sing the same air myself in a more diffident manner. T ring was reached, and then T ring railway-station; for the two are not very near, the good p... ...g railway-station; for the two are not very near, the good people of T ring having held the railway, of old days, in extreme apprehension, lest some d... ...pine glaciers to where Italy extends her marble moles and glasses her marble palaces in the midland sea. You may sleep in flying trains or wayside tav... ... knocked out of your body, jarred and bewildered as though you had just been subjected to a railway accident. Another element of joyful horror is adde...

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...ay the fool and make nationalization look silly, and the rest mine owners, railway managers, oil profiteers, financial adventurers…. “ He was fairly l... ...There are men on that Commission who would steal the brakes off a mountain railway just before they went down in it…. It’s a struggle with suicidal im... ...t, they show a brave face; there’s none of the nasty self-betrayals of the railway approach. And everything will be fresh still. There will still be a... ...right-coloured Jews who talked in over- tones, and a family party from the Midlands, badly smitten with shyness, who did not talk at all. “A resort, o... ...stripped of his intellectual dressing. Ev- ery third manufacturer from the midlands or the north has some such undertow of ‘affairs.’ A physiological ... ... me. Even if it is true, as I said, that every third manufacturer from the midlands is in much the same case as he is, that does not dismiss the case.... ...- fications. “Our age will leave the ruins of hotels,” said Sir Richmond. “Railway arches and hotels.” “Baths and aqueducts,” Miss Grammont compared. ... ...- night—in comparison with the touch of your dear fingers— as next month’s railway time-table.” But later she found a topic that could hold their atte...

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...d shades of difference, de spite the amalgamating effects of a roundabout railway; so that, though less than twenty miles from the place of her sojou... ... where she could await a carrier’s van that ran to the south west; for the railways which engirdled this interior tract of country had never yet struc... ... They reached the feeble light, which came from the smoky lamp of a little railway station; a poor enough terrestrial star, yet in one sense of more i... ...twould have been better for us to wait till you were quite settled in your midland farm?’ she once asked timidly. (A midland farm was the idea just th... ...ridge which conducted to the mill premises. He sank behind it, crossed the railway beyond, and disappeared. Then, without a sigh, she turned her atten... ...ntcomb Ash being in the middle of the cretaceous table land over which no railway had climbed as yet, it would be necessary to walk. And the distance...

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...in full, and many episodes of the Indian Mutiny, Lucknow, the second battle of Cawn-pore, the relief of Arrah, the death of poor Spottis-woode, and Si... ... roads lay desert, or were only visited by men in arms. It is for this very reason that it wears now so smiling an appearance: cleared, planted, built... ...tream. Presently a red star appeared, about the height and brightness of a danger signal, and with that my simile was changed; we seemed rather to ski... ..., on the chart it lay near east and west in a straight line. 106 In The South Seas We had but just repeated our manoeuvre and kept away— for not more... ...ow near dead, beside its mates; and he was scarce returned before there came a rush, like that of a furious strong man, against the door, and a whistl...

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...ickets, P ickets, P ickets, Please lease lease lease lease THERE IS IN THE MIDLANDS a single-line tramway system which boldly leaves the county town a... ...se of my own,’ said the uncle defiantly, ‘wi’ th’ best little woman in th’ Midlands. She’s a marvel.— Why don’t you come an’ see us?’ ‘I will. Who is ... ...etween the two men. ‘Where’s Aunt Maud?’ asked the younger. ‘She’ s at the Railway Arms—we passed it, just against Rollin’s Mill Crossing …. They sent... ...nt, think- ing both of the public-house. At last they saw the gates of the railway crossing were closed before them. ‘Shan’t you call?’ asked Berry, j...

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...scination. She knew her a little. She was the most remarkable woman in the Midlands. Her father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a ... ...d not take to each other. It would be queer to meet again down here in the Midlands, where their social standing was so diverse, after they had known ... ...without any definite rhythm, any or- ganic meaning. On the platform of the railway station he saw Gerald Crich, reading a newspaper, and evidently wai... ...ill between the picturesque cottages of Willey Green till they came to the railway crossing. There they found the gate shut, because the colliery trai... ... girls, and drew up at the crossing to wait for the gate, looking down the railway for the ap- proaching train. In spite of her ironic smile at his pi... ...ion was the repulsion of her utter terror, throwing her back away from the railway, so that she spun round and round, on two legs, as if she were in ... ...coal-mine lifted its great mounds and its patterned head-stocks, the black railway with the trucks at rest looked like a harbour just be- low, a large...

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...seen the muster of the village soldiery on the meeting house green, and at railway stations; and heard the drum and fife, and seen the farewells; seen... ... down on a tablet which he had about him, the name of a hall in one of the midland counties of England. “Ah, that old place,” said he, “with its oaks,... ...n, so still and solitary was everything left behind it. It seemed the very midland solitude of the world where Septimius was delving at the grave. He ...

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... back to T ercanbury in time for call-over. As he sat in the corner of the railway carriage he saw that he had done nothing. He was angry with himself... ... contemplate the masterpiece and then took him to a picture representing a railway-station. “Look, here’s a Monet,” she said. “It’s the Gare St. Lazar... ...on. “Look, here’s a Monet,” she said. “It’s the Gare St. Lazare.” “But the railway lines aren’t parallel,” said Philip. “What does that matter?” she a... ... it was near Paris, and neither Philip nor Lawson was indif- ferent to the railway fare. Ruth Chalice would be there, and Lawson had an idea for a por... ...When he lay in bed he seemed still to see her sitting in the corner of the railway carriage, with the white crochet shawl over her head. He did not kn... ...g paper; he had been 565 W. Somerset Maugham sub-editor of a paper in the Midlands and editor of another on the Riviera. From all his occupa- tions h...

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... pleasure in explaining to me those characteristic features of the English midland hunting as centralized at Melton, which even then gave to it the su... ...prov- inces—Somersetshire, Devonshire, Hampshire—are con- founded with our midland counties; and positively the dic- tion of Parricombe and Charricomb... ...t a time when every week sees the town banker drawn from our rural gentry; railway directors in ev- ery quarter transferring themselves indifferently ...

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...ng Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mount...

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... distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit ... ... the ascendant, flicked his imagi- nation with awe of the influence of the railway service upon the destinies of man. Settling a mental debate about a... ...t a syllable for the sublime of the mountains. He might have careered over midland flats for any susceptibility that he betrayed to the grandeur of th... ...hem at home with a million or two, Phil. It all came from the wedding of a railway contrac- tor, who sprang from the wedding of a spade and a clod— an... ...Nikolas. He’ d been there on his father’s business about one of the Danube railways, and he was ready to fill the place of the prince at the head of h...

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...ed himself most mourn fully as to the ruinous effects and rapid spread of railways, and was most pathetic upon the virtues of the slow going old stag... ...gs generously given by Mr. Charles Dickens on behalf of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, took place on Tuesday evening, December 27, 1853, at the... ...e station disappear when the train starts, and about that grope to the new Railway Hotel, which will be an excellent house when the customers come, bu... ...o have been doing nothing during the last week but rushing into and out of railway carriages, and making eloquent speeches at all sorts of public dinn... ...ver too much delight to honour. Elsewhere, through the agency of the great railway companies, some of which are bestirring themselves in this matter w... ...at most promotes digestion. The news man is to be met with on steamboats, railway stations, and at every turn. His profits are small, he has a great ... ...augural Address on the opening of the Winter Session of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. One who was present during the delivery of the following... ...ly to tell you, the mem bers, students, and friends of the Birmingham and Midland Speeches: Literary and Social 139 Institute—firstly, what you cann... ...evening of the above date, Mr. Dickens, as President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, distributed the prizes and certificates awarded to the m...

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...s and public officials—you must have officials, because you can’t settle a railway time-table or make a bridge by public acclamation—and even there yo... ... to a necessary conse- quence or so of this fact. I submit that before the railways, that is to say in the days in which the current conception of loc... ...revolution in the methods of locomotion, and chiefly through the making of railways, this is no longer true. You can still see the villages and towns ... ...ill be denser and compacter than one with numerous tubes, trams, and light railways. Every improvement in locomotion forces the suburban ring of house... ...eason for sup- posing that for practical purposes this change, made by the railway and the motor, this development of local locomotion, will reach a d... ...minimum of possible overlap—such overlap as the spreading out of the great midland city to meet London must some day cause— in this way. I would sugge...

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... pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, past the ruined priory 5 D.H. Lawrence of the Carthusians and... ...s like black studs on the countryside, linked by a loop of fine chain, the railway. To accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co. bui... ...er Morel and Jerry arrived at Bestwood they felt a load off their minds; a railway journey no longer impended, so they could put the finishing touches... ...’ll be here at ten past seven.” “Eh, bless you, it’ll be hours late on the Midland,” she said indifferently. But she hoped, by expecting him late, to ... ...Meantime the three children were on the platform at Sethley Bridge, on the Midland main line, two miles from home. They waited one hour. A train came—... ...ey all grew silent. He wasn’t coming. They looked down the darkness of the railway. There was London! It seemed the utter-most of distance. They thoug... ...ss and love. Then each looked out of the window. The sixteen slow miles of railway journey passed. The mother and son walked down Station Street, feel... ... a plain. They saw the hills of Derbyshire fall into the mo- notony of the Midlands that swept away South. Miriam was somewhat scared by the wind, but... ...ared above the flat of the town. They crossed the wide, black space of the Midland Railway, and passed the cattle en- closure that stood out white. Th...

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...which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still al... ...beautiful. These are the things that make the gamut of joy in landscape to midland bred souls—the things they toddled among, or perhaps learned by hea... ...stage coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new made railway, observing to his fellow passengers that he considered it pretty we... ...of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. A projected line was to run through Lowick parish where the cattl... ...ken by astonishment; and thus it happened that the infant struggles of the railway system entered into the affairs of Caleb Garth, and determined the ... ...his history with regard to two persons who were dear to him. The submarine railway may have its difficulties; but the bed of the sea is not divided amo... ...y measurable but sentimental. In the hundred to which Middlemarch belonged railways were as exciting a topic as the Reform Bill or the imminent horror...

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...which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland land- scape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still ... ...beautiful. These are the things that make the gamut of joy in landscape to midland-bred souls—the things they toddled among, or perhaps learned by hea... ...stage-coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new-made railway, observing to his fel- low-passengers that he considered it pretty ... ...of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. A projected line was to run through Lowick parish where the cattl... ...ken by astonishment; and thus it happened that the infant struggles of the railway system en- tered into the affairs of Caleb Garth, and determined th... ...his history with regard to two persons who were dear to him. The submarine railway may have its difficulties; but the bed of the sea is not divided am... ...rgued against it by saying that noth- ing should induce them to get into a railway carriage; while proprietors, differing from each other in their arg...

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... or arrest. In July of last year I was a stranger in a strange city in the Midlands and particularly out of touch with the world’s politics. Never a v... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t... ... on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first long railway journey in England—to “sign on” for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-... ...o “sign on” for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-water ship. Straight from a railway carriage I had walked into the great city with something of the fee... ...a White Star liner. They remained in England just the time necessary for a railway jour- ney from Liverpool to Harwich. His people (those in the depth...

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... there arrived in this metropulus, per seknd class of the London and Dover Railway, an ellygant young foring gentle- man, whom I shall danomminate Mun... ...uare, and humbly begged pardon of his master for not having instructed the Railway Sec- retaries who answered his applications to apply at the area-be... ...‘Doctor,’ says I to Sir Jeames Clark, ‘I’ve sent to consult you because my Midlands are out of horder; and I want you to send them up to a premium.’ T... ...have ad Earls and Ycounts— Barnits as many as I chose: and the pick of the Railway world, of which I form a member. Last Sunday was a grand Fate. I ha... ...glesbury, that loveliest and most dashing of Staggs, who may be called the Railway Queend, as my friend George H—— is the Railway King,) on my left th... ...is very well, but there’s not one of em can hold a candle to Mary Hann.’” “Railway Spec is going on phamusly. Y ou should see how 92 Thackeray polite...

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...rth of England, that is to say, Thomas was lying in a meadow, looking at the railway trains as they passed over a dis tant viaduct—which was his id... ...layed all the parts), and the short, square, chinky omnibus that goes to the railway, and leads too rattling a life over the stones to hold together l... ...was a rich manufacturer, and had bought landed property enough in one of the midland counties to make all the born squires in his neighbourhood thorou... ...er on the map, this exquisite retreat was approached by a coach road, from a railway station called Aspatria—a name, in a manner, suggestive of the de... ... no idler place to stay at, except by snatches of a few minutes each, than a railway station. ‘An intermediate station on a line—a junction—anything o... ...s,’ as they briskly pass the only wayfarer on the road. In the distance, the Railway Engine, waiting at the town end, shrieks despairingly. Nothing bu...

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...he distance from Barchester to Framley is long, and the roads deep, and no railway lends its assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 F... ...rn portion of the county, but just to the south of the grand trunk line of railway from which the branch to Barchester strikes off at a point some thi... ..., in the western division of the county. Hogglesock is to the north of the railway, the 152 Framley Parsonage line of which, however, runs through a ... ...tendance at the ecclesiastical doings of a certain terrible prelate in the Midland counties, who was sup- posed to favour stoles and vespers, and to h... ...selda. The happy couple then went in Mrs Proudie’s carriage to the nearest railway sta- tion but one, and from thence proceeded to Malvern, and there ...