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Garrison Gossip Gathered in Blankhampton; A Novel
Garrison Gossip Gathered in Blankhampton A Novel Author:John Strange Winter General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: F. V. White Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sel... more »ect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. A SLIP. " What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows What poor, defenceless creatures they would be." -- Douolab Jerrold. On the whole, the water-party passed off very well, and was a decided success. If anybody had a right to be dissatisfied or to grumble, it was young Cunliffe, who had been distinctly deluded into going by the representation of Miss D'Arcy as a pretty and attractive young lady; but Cunliffe did not grumble at all; on the contrary, he enjoyed himself fairly well, and admitted that the afternoon's entertainment was an improvement on the stiff and stately hospitality of Blankhamptoa Palace. For the every-day life of " ME," otherwise John, by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of the Diocese, partook always, more or less of the nature of a pageant, something like a court ceremonial in miniature, very satisfying no doubt to the lordly mind, which had in the days of his boyhood looked up to his parish priest, as far as now he looked down upon the same dignitary, but a little tiresome to gay young subalterns, who had been born to the luxuries of plush and silken hose, to serving giantsgliding about ancestral halls, and to the comforts of shiny carriages and high-stepping horses, even if they had never ridden in such an ark as the episcopal omnibus, which daily blocked up the narrow streets of the old city, causing more accidents and bad language than some of my readers might think credible. As Mr. Winks said one day to Orford : " Somehow the Palace always makes me feel as if I'd got to the Heavenly Jerusalem before my time, which i...« less