BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
IN A WALLED GARDEN
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IN A WALLED GARDEN
BY
BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
LONDON
WARD AND DOWNEY Limited
12 YORK BUILDINGS, ADELPHI, W.C.
1895 [All rights reserved]
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CONTENTS.
A GHOSTLY PROCESSION
DOROTHEA CASAUBON AND GEORGE ELIOT
JOSEPH PRIESTLY IN DOMESTIC LIFE
IN ROME WITH MRS. JAMESON
MARY HOWITT
LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON
AN OLD WORLD PRINCE
MONTAGUS AND PROCTERS
A CHAPTER OF WAR
DR. MANNING OF BAYSWATER
MRS. BOOTH
THE MODESTY OF NATURE
ON LIVING WELL TO THE FRONT
WHAT TO DO, THEN?
WHAT COMES AFTER
THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW
A GROUP OF FRENCH FRIENDS--
COMTE ADOLPHE DE CIRCOURT
MADEMOISELLE ADELAIDE DE MONTGOLFIER
THE SHOEMAKER'S STORY
A WIDOW INDEED
A GHOSTLY PROCESSION.
THE sun is sinking behind the great screen of rose bushes and
laurustinus which divides the lawn from the vegetables in this small domain,
which has been a garden for two hundred years; nay, for a longer time, for if
the dwelling dates, as may be seen by a legible inscription, from the year of
the death of Queen Anne, the kitchen and dairy are probably the remains of an
Elizabethan cottage; while the pointed tower of the parish church, just piercing
above the swathing ivy of the northern wall, is centuries earlier. The
foundation stone was laid by St. Anselm.
The twilight falls, the stars come out, the "Great Bear" begins its slow
movement upon the darkening sky, and I hear the steps of bygone generations
passing up the village street. They come in the costume which Chaucer wore when
that old church was new. They come in brown straight gowns and light-coloured tunics; they come in armour, in peaked hats and in peaked shoes, in gold chains and plentiful embroidery. Some of them are horsemen, and others ...
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