1851] SOUTHGATE 249
yesterday, for mistakes in my Latin exercise, I was made to wear my coat and waistcoat inside out till dinner-time."
" May 11. Yesterday, I went by train to Broxbourne, and walked thence by Hoddesdon across the bleak district called the Rye, till I saw an oasis of poplars and willows by the river Lea, and a red brick tower with terra-cotta ornaments, twisted chimney, flag-staff, and a grey arched door below. I had not expected it, so you may imagine how enchanted I was to find that it was the tower of the Rye-House. In that road Charles and James were to have been murdered on their return from Newmarket, and for the plot conceived in that tower Algernon Sidney and William Lord Russell died!
" Bradley is now alternately very good-natured and very provoking. He continually asks me if I do not think him the most annoying, tiresome man I ever met, and I always say, 4Yes, I do think so.' In return, he says that I am sapping his vitals and wearing him out by my ingratitude and exaggerations, but he does not think so at all."
" May 18. I have been to Harrow. Mr. Bradley lent me a horse, to be sent back by the stable-boy after the first six miles, so I easily got through the rest. ... I had many hours with Kate, and came away immediately after dinner, arriving exactly ten minutes to ten — the fatal limit; so Bradley was pleased, and welcomed me, and I did 'not go supperless to bed."
" June 8, 1851. Yesterday I walked to Dyrham Park near Barnet, to pay a visit to the Trotters. It is a handsome place. ... I wrote upon my card, c Will you see an unknown cousin ?' and sending it in was admitted at once. I found Mrs. Trotter1 in the garden. She welcomed me very kindly, and seven of her nine children came trooping
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