Jerry finished his soup, set the child across, and then took his orders to drive to
Clapham Rise.
It happened that they had made the acquaintance of two young ladies in employment in Clapham, Miss Flossie Bright and Miss Edna Bunthorne, and it was resolved therefore to make a cheerful little cyclist party of four into the heart of Kent, and to picnic and spend an indolent afternoon and evening among the trees and bracken between Ashford and Maidstone.
Miss Bunthorne, whom Bert particularly affected, could not ride, and so with some difficulty he hired a basket- work trailer from the big business of Wray's in the Clapham Road.
We're late for dinner as it is, so it won't make much difference for us to go home by way of Clapham.
He did trace them easily to
Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a hackney coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.
It was impossible to abandon her to solitude at Limmeridge after Laura and I had both left the house, and we have arranged that she is to live with an unmarried younger sister of hers, who keeps a school at
Clapham.
All this hill down to the river, and back to
Clapham, and up to the edge of the common.
I have faced as many murderers in County Clare as you ever fought with in
Clapham junction, Mr.
28, but these worthies left it at
Clapham Junction, and changed cabs more than once between Battersea and Piccadilly, and a few of their garments in each four-wheeler.
In fact, it is an old-fashioned house, very English and very suburban in the good old wealthy
Clapham sense.
Swishtail's, Sugar-cane Lodge, and little Matilda to Miss Peckover's, Laurentinum House,
Clapham.
Walked past him as though I had never set eyes on him in my life, and didn't then; took a hansom in the King's Road, and drove like the deuce to
Clapham Junction; rushed on to the nearest platform, without a ticket, jumped into the first train I saw, got out at Twickenham, walked full tilt back to Richmond, took the District to Charing Cross, and here I am
You are the gentleman residing on
Clapham Green,' resumed Bantam, 'who lost the use of his limbs from imprudently taking cold after port wine; who could not be moved in consequence of acute suffering, and who had the water from the king's bath bottled at one hundred and three degrees, and sent by wagon to his bedroom in town, where he bathed, sneezed, and the same day recovered.
This is
Clapham Junction, if I am not mistaken, and we shall be in Victoria in less than ten minutes.
Two men have been arrested after policefound firearms at a property in
Clapham on Saturday morning(January 13).
