Small children's air-balloons of the latest model attached to string became a serious check to the pedestrian in Central
Park. And amidst scenes of indescribable emotion the Albany legislature in permanent session, and with a generous suspension of rules and precedents, passed through both Houses the long-disputed Bill for universal military service in New York State.
"Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla," cried the voice, coming, as it seemed to me, from the district about Regent's
Park. The desolating cry worked upon my mind.
I always thought ill of people at home who trimmed their shrubbery into pyramids and squares and spires and all manner of unnatural shapes, and when I saw the same thing being practiced in this great
park I began to feel dissatisfied.
"You didn't--that is to say you didn't mention the
Park particularly," he admitted.
According to her prognostications, I found Miss Murray in her favourite field just without the
park; and, unfortunately, not alone; for the tall, stately figure of Mr.
But if we could dodge those dreary seats she longed to see me try my luck, and I sought to exclude them from the picture by drawing maps of London with Hyde
Park left out.
Gilbert and Anne loitered a little behind the others, enjoying the calm, still beauty of the autumn afternoon under the pines of the
park, on the road that climbed and twisted round the harbor shore.
Look ye, sir,' resumed he, turning to his other neighbour, and pointing past me with his umbrella, 'that's the Hall: grand
park, you see, and all them woods - plenty of timber there, and lots of game.
We then took half-an-hour's walk in the
park, as we were accustomed to do, before breakfasting at the chateau.
Dalroy had come down, it seemed, to snuff up the scent of a scandal which might very well end in the Divorce Court, but which was at present hovering between Grey Cottage and Pendragon
Park.
Meanwhile, here I am, established at Blackwater
Park, "the ancient and interesting seat" (as the county history obligingly informs me) "of Sir Percival Glyde, Bart.," and the future abiding-place
Yes, certainly, the sun shines, and the
park looks very cheerful.
But if magnificence and splendor were displayed in any one particular part of this palace more than another, - if anything could be preferred to the wonderful arrangement of the interior, to the sumptuousness of the gilding, and to the profusion of the paintings and statues, it would be the
park and gardens of Vaux.
But his horse turned in through the
park gate and began the old familiar nocturnal round.
About this time there drove up to an exceedingly snug and well- appointed house in
Park Lane, a travelling chariot with a lozenge on the panels, a discontented female in a green veil and crimped curls on the rumble, and a large and confidential man on the box.
