ISBN: 9780217231442

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... of Lady Sandwich plunged us all in the deepest mourning. Her bright blue eyes were closed, the tones of her bird-like voice were hushed, and in her I lost one of the truest and most indulgent of friends. But my visits to that dear old house were not discontinued, for, on Lord Sandwich''s second marriage to Lady Blanche Egerton1 I found one willing to keep up the old traditions and retain the old friendships of the family, and ever ready to reinstate me in the place I had so long looked upon as a home. Nor is my case altered with passing years and changed circumstances, for the present owner,2.whom I have known and loved since he was an Eton boy, is continually reminding me that the doors of Hinchingbrooke are ever open to his own and his mother''s friend. OSSINGTON It had been a long promise that I should pay a summer visit to Ossington in Nottinghamshire, the residence of my good friends, Evelyn Denison, Speaker of the House of Commons, and his wife, Lady Charlotte, nee Bentinck.3 Shortly after my return from Madeira, I proceeded on my way thither with the delightful prospect of meeting Lady Waterford,4 the Due and Duchesse d''Aumale, their son,8 and my old friend Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. It was proposed that this should essentially be a riding party, and the chief aim and object of our excursions was devoted to showing their Royal Highnesses the sylvan beauties of Sherwood. Accordingly, one morning after breakfast, we repaired, in a carriage and four, equipped for riding, to a wayside inn, on the 1 Daughter of the first Earl of Ellesmere. 2 Edward, eighth Earl of Sandwich. 3 Daughter of the fourth Duke of Portland. 4 Louisa, daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, widow of the third Marquis of Waterford. 8 Prince de Conde. SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER precinct... Mary Louisa Boyle, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Mary Boyle; Her Book Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

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