RAJPUTAN
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THE CHINA MAH, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1936
DARK STRANGER GOODBYE TO THE
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It
***Just as you like, dear.” Mrs. Dawson had sighed. "All The same, I wish it were Terry. seems queer to drag 1
strange young man about when, you are furnishing your new home,”
"He's not strange.
He's Terry's best friend, even though he wasn't in Singapore very long. Do you think Terry would have sent him to us if he didn't like him?”
"All right, dear, all right.”
been first suggested.
"Have you seen this, Neil?" Becky handed him a slip of paper torn from The Times.,
He read it. and grew pale. What can I say. Becky? I—I'm terribly sorry about it all. You
OLD ADELPHI
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actors of the neighbouring theatres fired him with a pas sion to go on the stage.
"Mere Dunghill"
a
Few sites could have seemed
such Terry asked me to tell you." les promising for "Neil!" She gasped, and start. scheme of building as the Adam brothers conceived. It was, in ed at him in dismay.
|
at
that
"He hated writing. He said the words of a contemporary could explain it better. He said writer, "a mere dunghill, a re- two-and-a-half years was a long (ceptacle for filth, obscenity, and They were lunching first time to be away from a girl, and wretchedness, a scandal to a
Prudence-
gulped. well-roverned city." some quiet little place with cox-They wanted to get married soon,
The property belonged at this ner tables and no music.
because Prudence's father is sime to the Duke of St Albans, "My leave is nearly up. Becky.
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Her eyes softened. "And you on coming back to England.”
"So you let me go making haven't had time to make any
fool of myself.” Becky faced arrangements for yourself. Poor
him. Indignantly. Neil.
Tell me, I feel so selfish. where are you going to live?" "Not too far from London but in the real country."
She smiled. "Better be
our
we
next-door neighbour. Then can throw the two gardens into one and make a tennis-court." He gave a flicker of a smile. "Neil, has Terry asked you to
Becky
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across the table towards him. He gave a start. "N-no."
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"I couldn't help it. You seem ed so much in love with him, so of your excited at the thought
Nothing of the sort had been wedding, so-so happy. I couldn't
The seen in London before bear. to spoil it all. I cabled to
ground ran steeply down to the Terry that first night I met you, water's edge, but the new told him he must write to you estate was to be made in all direct."
appearance level with
the Strand. Thus came into being the system of arches and underground streets, about which grew a sinister and melo-
"In other words you were a coward," said Becky, firmly.
He met her eyes without flinch-
"In other ing.
words-I could
"You will be, won't you? Please. never forgive myself if anything dramatic reputation.
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"It made you happy. And I've was spent in arguing the respec-fallen in love with it myself.” -
"You can have it." She spoke tive merits of walnut and oak.
"Children! Children!" pleaded carelessly.
the tea-table. * glad." He heaved a sigh Mrs. Dawson, at
of relief. "So glad, that I'll give You are exhausting me."
"Wel. Mummy, he won't listen way to you over that dark floor
He
stain. Becky. Maybe blue linoleum to reason.
"If you want the place to look would look too cald.” like a museura-"
"Why not wait until Terry comes and let him give the cast-
"I think it would berather nice," she faltered.
"Sure you don't want that-that
ing vote" suggested Mrs. Dawbedroom redone in shell-pink?"
be asked, anxiously. son weakly.
"I should hate it. All the time Becky jumped. It was the first
rewind- time she had thought of Terry I should imagine it was
"I was just wondering, and now know," said Neil, shortly. "Wondering what?" She smiled
since the argument began. "Poor ing you of girls in pink frocks a darling," she said quietly, he parties. Girls you had wanted to would choose mahogany. I expect. kiss." No, I want the place finished by the time he gets home. It will be such fun taking him round and showing him everything. Neil!up at him.
Why you put on that pink frock What is the matter with you? You look as though you've just to-day-darling." been to fifty funerals. Let's dance. This is a good tune."
(The End)
They danced, and Mrs. Dawson CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LESSON SERMON
envied youth that can so
soon
forget its quarrels; envied youth that is so tireless and gay.
Snowdrops were giving way to
Novel Idea
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James
sidents on the new estate, in the seventh prize in the lottery, McKnight houses in Adam-street. In the to go to the ticket first drawn, Gunn and Bruce Bairnsfather. following year there were more was a block of five flats at the The theatrical profession has in Adam-street and some the Terrace. The houses were street,
north-west corner of Robert been represented by Sir Cedric a style of residence | Hardwicke. Edmund Gwena. not then numbered, but Robert.
described as "greatly sought Granville Barker, Lillah Mc- is Adam was at what
now after."
Carthy, Marie Lohr, Bonald known as No. 4, Adelphi-ter-
Quack And ‘Emma' Squire, Archibald Batty, Basil race. Garrick next door at
Angelica Kauffmann painted Dean. J. E. Vedrenne, Gordon on the other side at No. 32 great many of the ceilings, Craig, Beginald Berkeley, Kate Cypriani. the painter whose or rather she painted on paper Bishop, and Haidee Wright.
John Bentley worked there work Bartolozzi engraved, was which was fixed to the ceilings, occupying premises described and in 1781 she married Aron his plans for Westminster as the Upper Mews, for which tonio Zucchi, who had been Roman Catholic Cathedral and
living at No. The paid £50 a year.
3. John-street Ralph Knott on his
for the The subject of the lesson Ser-
London County Hail. William mon in all churches of Christ, nity had taken on more than:
Alas, the enterprising frater-since 1774.
In 1779 Robert Adam moved Butterfield is another architec Scientist to-morrow, May 17, will they could accomplish from to No. 3, Robert-street, and his tural celebrity of the Adelphi.
their own resources,
house on the terrace was taken and So She loved every moment of the be: "Mortals and immortals.?
remarkable The Golden Text will be: "What arose the ingenious scheme of by that lengthening days, and
man knoweth the things of a man, a public lottery, for which Far-James Graham, who employed Hardy, John Galsworthy, Ber- through most of them. She was singing when Natalie came in that save the spirit of man which is in liament speedily provided the Health" Emma Lyon, who wasiTemple Thurston, W. B. Yeats, the "Rosy Goddess of nard Shaw, Sir James Barrie, so the things of God requisite authority. him? even morningNatalie with a face as white as a sheet. and a folded knoweth no man, but the Spirit of
The total value of the prizes God." (1 Cor. 2:11).
was to be exactly that of the newspaper in her hand.
Among others, the following ci- sum to be expended on building, Becky looked at her, puzzled.
from the Bible will be plus per cent. for the archi- "What's the matter, old girl? You tations
read: "How long wilt thou sleep, tects. look awful--"
by graceful leaps and pirouettes. June, the month of marriages, was within had never felt so happy in her life. She was young, she was in love, and she was arranging her new home in the intervals of making ber trousseau. What girl asks more of life?
"Marriage" column.
with thy likeness." (Prov. 6:9-11:1 Becky read aloud slowly; "On Eph. 5:14; Pa. 17:15).
as
Literature
quack Literature can claim Thomas
afterwards to achieve fame as Horace Torsnell, H. M. Har- Nelson's Lady Hamilton. The wood,
Tennyson Jesse and hall was festooned with Charles Booth, the author of crutches alleged to have been "Darkest London." discarded by grateful patients, The Savage Club is not the and within was the Celestial only club that has enjoyed a this Natalie's voice was hollow out of thy sleep?
"Becky. I've got to show you O sluggard? When wilt thou arise "Greatly Sought After"
Yet a little
The first prize in the lottery Bed, by the use of which pre-house on the terrace.
Others little folding of the consisted
geny perfect .in mind and that flourished for a time were hate doing it, but-" She open-slumber, a
of 12 properties beauty could be assured. the Arundel Club, the French 2nd July Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydneyed her copy of The Times slowly. hands to sleep: So shall thy po-valued at £50,080, and the least
The great names of the 18th Club, the Junior Garrick Club, verty come as one that travelleth of the eight principal prizes century Becky looked alarmed.
include those of Dr. and the Crichton Club. On the "When you were a kid did you and thy want as an armed man. was worth £4,960. Tickets Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and terrace, too, the Sidney Webbs take your cod liver oil in sips, ori "Wherefore he saith, Awake were priced at £50-there were their circle. Edward Gibbon started their school of econo- In one gulp?" Natalie asked her.
thou that sleepest, and arise from 4,370 of them and the sale arrived at the Adelphi Hotel in mics, and at a later date arose "One gulp-and get it over."the dead, and Christ shall give began on March 3, 1774.
An 1787 from Lausanne with part the British Drama League. thee light. As for me, I will be interesting sidelight on Becky smiled.
the of the "Decline and Fall," and **Then read this."
Natalie hold thy face in righteousness: 1 Londoner's modern flat-dwelling Rowlandson died there. pointed to an announcement in the shall be satisfied, when I awake, habits is shed by the fact that At No. 2, Robert-street, TO COOK SAUSAGES'
Thomas Hood wrote many of wholly a state of mind.
his poems, and there also, when the eighteenth inst. at St. Mar- The Lesson Sermon will also "When we wake to the truth of it was the Caledonian Hotel, tin's, Singapore. Terency, second include the following passages being, all disease, pain, weakness, died Kamehameha, King of the son of the late #. G. and Mrs. from the Christian Science test weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will Sandwich Isles, his queen hav- Baker of Prior's Croft. Durden, book, “Science and Health, with be unknown, and the mortaling died a few weeks before Sussex, to Prudence, only daughter Key to the Scriptures," by Maryjdresin will forever cease.
For him.
John Wilson, an elderly Irish of Natalie! This means that Baker Eddy;
right reasoning there should be
Dizzy's Birthplace? tramp, denied having maliciously Terry-Terry-"
Spiritual Exxistence
hut one fact before the thought, To the Adelphi Hotel came set fire to Horsell Common, near "I'm sorry, darling. I just had "Mortal existence is a dream; namely, spiritual existence. In Isaac D'Israeli at the end of Working; when he was charged to show you." Natalie clenched mortal exisence has no real en-reality there is no other existence, his wedding tour. An LC.C. with that offence at Woking police her fists. "He's the meanest tity, but saith "It is L' Spirit is since Life cannot be united to its plate on a house in Gray's Inn court last month. He declared he coward. Not letting you know. If the Ego which never dreams, but unlikeness, mortality. Being is asserts that Benjamin D'Israeli placed an orange box on a "fre- you want to cry, Becky, don't mind understands all things; which holiness, harmony, immortality was born there, but there is a place that had been used by some me."
never errs, and is ever conscious: It is already proved that a know-strong tradition, supported by one else, and set it alight in or- Neil was calling for her at which never believes, but knows;{ledge of this, even in small de Dizzy himself, that he was born der to cook sausages. three. They had to decide where which is never born and never gree, will uplift the physical and in chambers in what is now No P.c. Halloran said that about an the gas stove was to be placed dies. Mortal existence a moral standard of mortals, will 16a, John-street, Adelphi. acre of heath was blazing, and Becky listened absently while he dream of pain and pleasure in increase longevity will purify and The artistic and literary Wilson was standing near. The showed her that the best position matter, a dream of sin, sickness, elevate character. Thus pro-traditions have persisted in the constable alleged that Wilson told ✪ BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL HONGKONG would be where the light fell on and death; and it is like the dream gress will finally destroy all error, Adelphi throughout. Among him: "I set it on fire in order
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It from the window, and not tuck- we have in sleep, in which every and bring immortality to light," the artists who have lived there to get locked up and be in the ed away behind the door as hadjone recognises his condition to be (Pages 260, 188, 218, 492). lately are Joseph Pennell, E. warm.”
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