Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . ess,which, so far as I can see, consists in that mag- 22 Clumber Chase. 1670. nificent big dog, and your filial patience. Thereis some sense in the dog, for it can go upon allfours, but for the other—pouff! Ho ! hoy ! Bro-derick, added he, calling after Gilbert, • oneword. When will be the most likely time to findyou at home ? You had better come and breakfast with me,but not to-morrow, for I shall be in harness allday, but the day after. The day after then be it—ValeJ ^ Oh ! said Mr. Pepys, in his turn interc
Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . ess,which, so far as I can see, consists in that mag- 22 Clumber Chase. 1670. nificent big dog, and your filial patience. Thereis some sense in the dog, for it can go upon allfours, but for the other—pouff! Ho ! hoy ! Bro-derick, added he, calling after Gilbert, • oneword. When will be the most likely time to findyou at home ? You had better come and breakfast with me,but not to-morrow, for I shall be in harness allday, but the day after. The day after then be it—ValeJ ^ Oh ! said Mr. Pepys, in his turn intercept-ing him by pulling Charlies ears, do let me patyour little dog; he do remind me of a mightypretty dog I did see at my Lord Salisburys, atHatfield, the last time I was in Hertfordshire;and I did try to steal it but could not, which didTex me; and I did also see there the wonder-fullest gooseberries for size I ever did see in mylife; they were as big as nutmegs. What gooseberry-fool they would havemade, said Killigrew. And at last Gilbert got away. 1670. Clumber Chase, 23. CHAPTER n. THE CLOUD WITH THE SILVER LIXIXG. HOUGH now nearing the end of! October, the country as yet had putI on none of the desolation of winter, the trees were not yet leafless, theonly change was that their green had turned togold, with occasional large crimson flashes thatlooked like carbuncles in a gorgeous but barbaricreofalia. And those wonderful charmilles at TheChestnuts, jointly composed of yew and hawthorn,alike impervious to the sun in summer and therain in winter, continued green all the year roundwith this difierence, that in summer, the light-varnished green of the hawthorn leaf, gemmedwith its pearl-like flowers, predominated, and inwinter that of the more staid and sombreyew. The old quaint intersected garden in thefront of the house, laid out like the dishes of anold-fashioned supper tray, were still enameledwith bright-tinted autumnal flowers. The Plais-aunces were still carpeted
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