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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 84 NOTES OF AN OCTOGENARIAN. From her own lips and as much as possible in her own words, I have set down these reminiscences of my old friend, Miss Louisa Courtenay.?M. H. The advent of a new century seems to set the youth of one approaching her ninetieth year still farther into the distance, and it lends an access of ' venerability' to one's age to be able to say that one was born when the last century was still in its teens: a fact which makes the little details of domestic life as well as the graver events of childhood's recollections assume something of the importance of ancient history. When my father, Philip Courtenay, barrister-at-law, about the year 1810, took a house in Montagu Street, Russell Square, he was ashamed to tell his professional friends that he had moved into so fashionable a neighbourhood. A little later, my old friend W B 's father bought a plot of land where Queen's Gate now stands, for 8001., and refused 40,000i. for it a few years afterwards. The son of my father's trustee, and our life-long friend, Sir Charles Morgan, lived with his wife, Sydney Lady Morgan, in a new house in William Street, Lowndes Square, only one side of the square being then in existence. There were toll bars at Tyburn?where the Marble Arch now stands?at Hyde Park Corner, and at Kensington. My three brothers were at school at Putney, and it was one of my greatest pleasures to ride out with my father to see them. Our way lay along the King's Road, Chelsea, which was then a thing of beauty, made up of orchards on either hand, and stately villas of the time of Anne and even earlier, standing behind tall iron gates wrought in fine scroll and ornament; and on each close-cropped lawn, it seems to me as I look back, there always stood a spreading cedar and a mulberry-tr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217751575 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217751571 |
| Weight | 1.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.35 In |
| List Price | $41.57 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 610 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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