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...And some day or other (but it will be after our time, thank goodness) Hyde Park Gar- dens will be no better known than the celebrated horticultural ou... ...e next day at the Club, and to compliment Mrs. Crawley in the Ring of Hyde Park with a profound salute of the hat. She and her husband were invited im... ...ine-petticoats, dia- monds, wigs, Louis-Quatorze gimcracks, and old china, park hacks, and splendid high-stepping carriage horses—all the delights of ... ...ement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in those days, a... ...of life: about the next pigeon-match at Battersea, with relative bets upon Ross and Osbaldiston; about Mademoiselle Ariane of the French Opera, and wh... ...nd their pale-faced tutor avoided with maiden coyness; there were old Pall Mall loungers bound for Ems and Wiesbaden and a course of waters to clear o... ...de Borodino’s score and would once more take the cards against Monsieur de Rossignol, or the Chevalier de Raff. When Becky left Brussels, the sad trut... ...e Drawing-room of Colonel Sir Michael O’Dowd, K.C.B., Lady O’Dowd (by Mrs. Malloy Malony of Ballymalony), and Miss Glorvina O’Dowd (by Lady O’Dowd). A...

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...riving back to the Temple, and she to her own house. ‘I shall drive out in the park at five as usual,’ she said as she left him. I heard no more. They ... ...e years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope’s Court, Fleet Street. “What ... ...en except my own and that of the manager. “ ‘My name,’ said he, ‘is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of the pensioners upon the fund left by our n... ...hould not think of leaving,’ said I. “ ‘No excuse will avail,’ said Mr. Duncan Ross; ‘neither sickness nor business nor anything else. There you must ... ...It was a quarter past nine when I started from home and made my way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker Street. Two hansoms were st... ...across, is situated at the boundary between the Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. Above the woods which lined it upon the... ...his put in the evening papers.” “In which, sir?” “Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James’s, Evening News Standard, Echo, and any others that occ...

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... CRAZED MOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 COOLE PARK, 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 COOLE ... ...ve of moonlight glosses The dim grey sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and m... ...eath began. Many a son and daughter lies Far from the customary skies, The Mall and Eades’s grammar school, In London or in Liverpool; But where is la... ...s dream They are spread wide that each May rend what comes in reach. COOLE PARK, 1929 I MEDITATE upon a swallow’s flight, Upon a aged woman and her hou... ... sensuality of the shade — A moment’s memory to that laurelled head. COOLE PARK AND BALLYLEE, 1931 UNDER my window ledge the waters race, Otters below... ... mind commend — Not such as are in Newton’s metaphor, But actual shells of Rosses’ level shore. Greater glory in the Sun, An evening chill upon the ai... ...k in the Great Clock Tower? All those tragic characters ride But turn from Rosses’ crawling tide, The meet’s upon the mountain side. A slow low note a... ...lummet measured face. No! Greater than Pythagoras, for the men That with a mallet or a chisel’ modelled these Calculations that look but casual flesh, ...