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...opening out of the living room and dining room bays. Even in its present unflowered-gardened state the place is a stage setting ready for the actors to come on and speak their lines. These lines are from "Pendennis." You will remember that exquisite comedy scene in which Dr. Portman espies from the Dean's garden through an open window the hapless Pen in the act of proposing to the Fotheringay! Here it is, at Lowell House and in Thackeray...
...happened that the Dean of Chatteris entertained a few select clerical friends at his deanery house. That they drank uncommonly good port wine, and abused the Bishop over their dessert are very likely matters, but with such we have nothing at present to do. Our friend, Dr. Portman...
...afternoon George V was whisked to visit his sister Louise, the Princess Royal, now convalescent from her recent illness, at her snug home in Portman Square. That night he celebrated, went to the theatre for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Intellectuals who tried to guess what play His Majesty would choose ruled out one, the U. S. musical comedy Rose Marie which ran in London with the persistency of an Abie's Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total...
...wine merchant and a cricketer of great zeal and some ability. Lord, who appears to have had energy, closed with the offer, and established a ground in what is now Dorset square-not perhaps, we may opine, without some help from the Sackville interest with the owners of the Portman estate. On this ground, called Lord's, a match was played in three days of June, 1787, between the all England and five men of the White Conduit Club. with six men given. Lord Winchilsea and Sir Peter Burrel played for the latter, who were easily defeated. Lord's efforts...