That must be the place my father speaks of as the Hatherleigh Meadows, where he used to go fishing, and, although I must have been there often, yet I can only remember it on one occasion, when he emptied out a basket of fish on the grass for me to look at.

My impression of England is, that everything was of a brighter colour than here; and they tell me I am right." "A glorious country," said Alice; "what would I give to see it ?--so ancient and venerable, and yet so amazingly young and vigorous.

It seems like a waste of existence for a man to stay here tending sheep, when his birthright is that of an Englishman: the right to move among his peers, and find his fit place in the greatest empire in the world.
Never had any woman such a noble destiny before her as this young lady who has just ascended the throne." But the conversation changed here, and her Majesty escaped criticism for the time.

They came to an open space in the forest, thickly grown with thickets of bracken fern, prickly acacia, and here and there a solitary dark-foliaged lightwood.

In the centre rose a few blackened posts, the supports of what had once been a hut, and as you looked, you were surprised to see an English rose or two, flowering among the dull-coloured prickly shrubs, which were growing around.