This was largely due to the glorious prep school, a gracious Georgian house in its own grounds about ten miles from Elmbury, where I learned to tickle trout and to read Virgil; to swim a length under water and to enjoy English history; all about catapults, and a little about Attic Greek. The poac...
First you must hear a piece of old history. Long ago, when the addle-pated Lord Orris first began to borrow from the moneylenders, he had pledged a portion of his estate to some City financiers who had already bought up a good deal of land on the other side of Brensham Hill. Subsequently he had i...
said Councillor Noakes as his glance fell upon the newspapers lying on Stephen’s desk. “Poor fellow, it must have been vertigo. Otherwise he wouldn’t have bought a ticket before he climbed up, would he? Still, it’s an ill wind; and I must say you’ve cashed in on it very nicely.” The gods never do...
It may have been our last match of all upon the square smooth Brensham ground; for the field had been part of the Colonel’s farm - he had let us have it rent free - and the astute Syndicate had made a quick re-sale. An aircraft factory, recently built near Elmbury, was growing almost as fast as t...