He slammed the door and, endeavouring to control himself, sauntered down the terraces, and entered the croft by way of the stable-yard.
At the far end of the crofthe descried Hilda, his fiancee, waving a handkerchief to the disappearing airman.
She dwelt in a small thatched cottage well away from the public road, and had attached to her cottage a small croft or patch, half of which was used as a garden, the remainder as a gang for pigs and poultry.
Lorelei had left a handful of silver carelessly exposed, and, discovering this, Mrs. Croft counted it.
Mrs. Croft shook her head mournfully, snuffled a few times, then scowled at the disarray Lilas had left behind.
They haven't come back from the cleaner's," Mrs. Croft answered.
Mrs. Croftwent pale, and retired swiftly but noiselessly into the lavatory, closing the door behind her.
Misch-Masch had a short but brilliant career, for magazines with a wider circulation than Croft Rectory began to claim his attention.
When Charles came home on his holiday visits, he was undoubtedly the busiest person at Croft Rectory.
In moments of leisure little poems went forth to the world--a world which at first consisted of Croft Rectory--for there was another and last family magazine, of which he was sole editor and composer.
With a growing family of children it was absolutely necessary to come more into contact with people, and Croft was a typical, delightful English town, famous even to-day for its baths and medicinal waters.
Meantime Charles Dodgson read his poems over and over, in the seclusion of Croft Rectory, during that quiet pause in his life before he went up to Oxford.
But the quaint old church at Crofthas doubtless weathered more than one overflow from the restless river Tees.
They were pleasantly broken by long vacations at Croft Rectory, by trips through the beautiful English country, by one special journey to the English lakes, where Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge lived and wrote their poems.
The village ofCroft is on the river Tees, in fact it stands on the dividing line between Yorkshire and Durham.
When the portrait arrived and was placed in the hall, old John Blackwell, with his horse-collar legs (as Croft called them) was appointed to unveil it and make a speech.
Croft and myself were on the committee, with one other, probably, J.
Mr. Crofthad them all," with the exception of one precious relic of no value as a publication, which she meant to retain till death.
Your letter to Herbert Croft has made him some enemies here.
Our course now lies along this footpath, with a croft on the left, and an old barn on the right.
I fully appreciate your devotion; and I only regret that you and Abel Croft have exposed yourselves to so much peril on my account.
Very few of the Nurse-Probationers have taken notes of Mr. Croft’s Lectures at all; it is not fair to Mr. Croft to give him people who do not benefit by his instruction.
Mr. Croft has taught you how to take notes; and you have now, every one of you, two leisure times a week to work up your notes.
It was generally on Sundays that boys walked in the croft with those who were, and whom they wished to be considered as, their most intimate and confidential friends.
We remained at Phenice Croft two years and took much pleasure in the little green enclosure that was our own.
Phenice Croft stood at the edge of a little hamlet called Buck’s Green, and across the road from our garden gate stood the one shop flanked by a magnificent poplar tree, that made a landmark however far we might wander.
Phenice Crofthad seen the birth of Fiona Macleod; he had lived there with an intensity of inner life beyond anything he had ever experienced.
At Phenice Croft his imagination was in a perpetual ferment.
It is not always accurately informed; Croft corrects one or two statements in later despatches, but the points corrected are not those with which we are here concerned.
As to what Knox told Croftabout the terms of treaty of July 24, it is best to state the case in Croft's own words.
Anywise kindle the fire," he writes to Croft (July 8).
The Reformers carried a point of essential importance, the very point which Knox told Croft had been secured by the Appointment of July 1559.
Croft says that, on Knox's arrival, many nobles and a multitude of others repaired to Dundee to hear him and others preach.
Croft kept him, not with sufficient secrecy, in Berwick, where he was well known, while Whitelaw was coming from Cecil with his answers to the petitions of the brethren.
Croft is to let the Reformers know that Arran has escaped out of France.
Croft declined this proposal as dishonourable, and as too clearly a breach of treaty.
He never felt so happy as when he was on the sea; and if he couldn't go to sea, he sat alone at home in the croft mending his gear.
The croft which he lived in was just opposite the weir in the river which flowed through the village, and was named after it.
She intended to visit Mên Scryfa, that famous "long stone" which stands away in a moor croft beyond Lanyon.
Tis butivul an' solemn an' still, all aloan out theer in a croft to itself.
And down by the weaver’s croft I stole, To see if the flax were high; But I saw the weaver at his gate With the good news in his eye!
Can I forget our croft and plot of corn; Our garden, stored .
The house of Earlstoun stands very near the water edge, with nothing about it save the green hawthorn-studded croft on the one hand, and the thick wood on the other.
So, unable to bear the desolation, Maisie and I sat out on the fair green playing-croft that looks up to the hillside, and gazed sadly away from one another, saying nothing.
And down by the weaver's croft I stole, To see if the flax were high; But I saw the weaver at his gate With the good news in his eye!
But old Mrs. Croft isn't a house; she's moved into us, instead.
Old Mrs. Croft lifted her two hands towards the ceiling.
Well, Jane, we'd have to keep old Mrs. Croft till she died.
I'm willing to try, although left to myself I should never have thought of old Mrs. Croft as a way of getting different.
Katie Croft took up her market basket and went on up the street.
I'm so happy I just had to let it out," Mrs. Croft announced.
No, what I thought of was inviting that poor old Mrs. Croft here for a week and giving her and her daughter-in-law a rest from one another.
The Penberthy Croft Mine portable engine could be placed on wheels or otherwise, according to the wish of the purchaser, as though steam locomotion was an every day occurrence in 1804.
The little croft was hungry land, and to make a sufficient living she used to weed for her more prosperous neighbours.
