John and Betty's History VisitWilliamson, Margaret
History
John and Betty's History Visit
Williamson, Margaret
England -- Description and travel
"I'D FEEL LIKE 'LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY' GOING
AROUND WITH THOSE CLOTHES ON!" 84
"YOU REMEMBER, DON'T YOU, HAVING THE GUIDE POINT
OUT LONDON BRIDGE?" 88
THE MOSS-GROWN SAXON PORCH 96
JOHN MILTON LIVED THERE AFTER HE FLED FROM LONDON 106
"OH, HERE'S THE OLD CORONATION CHAIR, ISN'T IT?" 114
"EVERY TIME I VISIT THIS PALACE I MARVEL AT THE
AMOUNT OF HISTORY WITH WHICH IT IS CONNECTED" 136
"WHY, I DIDN'T SUPPOSE IT WAS AS BIG AS THAT!" 140
"DID ANNE TRULY LIVE HERE?" 164
"THEY KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE, AND THAT
THIS GARDEN WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT
THEM" 184
"IT STILL SEEMS ALIVE WITH MEMORIES OF THE FAIR
DOROTHY VERNON" 218
"THERE STILL REMAINS THE QUESTION OF HOW THESE
TREMENDOUS STONES WERE BROUGHT HERE" 236
ONE OF PLASTER AND THATCH, OVERGROWN WITH ROSES 240
"YOU'LL FIND NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THIS STRANGE
LITTLE CLOVELLY" 250
"WILLIAM OF SENS, IN 1184, FINISHED THE BUILDING
WHICH WE NOW SEE" 264
OLD GENTLEMEN, STOUT LADIES, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND
SMALL CHILDREN, ALL RIDE IN ENGLAND 286
JOHN AND BETTY'S HISTORY VISIT
CHAPTER ONE
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Two eager young Americans sat, one on each side of the window of an
English train, speeding towards London. They had landed only that
morning, and everything seemed very strange to them, as they watched
the pretty scenes from the car-window. The lady who had met them at
the steamer, was an old friend of the family, who had often been to
America, and was well known to the children, though they had never
seen her son and daughter, whom they had come to visit. Mrs. Pitt soon
aroused them by saying:--
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