Nineteen months afterward his widow died of apoplexy at a boarding-house in
Cheltenham. She was supposed to be the most corpulent woman in England, and was accommodated on the ground-floor of the house in consequence of the difficulty of getting her up and down stairs.
Our route is to be by Salisbury, Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Worcester, Stafford; and so home."
They spent the night at Cheltenham, and on the following morning resumed their journey to Stafford.
The
Cheltenham of Typee is embosomed in the deepest solitude, and but seldom receives a visitor.
Sir James was much pained, and offered that they should all migrate to
Cheltenham for a few months with the sacred ark, otherwise called a cradle: at that period a man could hardly know what to propose if
Cheltenham were rejected.
I'll live anywhere except Bournemouth, Torquay, and
Cheltenham. Oh yes, or Ilfracombe and Swanage and Tunbridge Wells and Surbiton and Bedford.
He started from its dim beginning, from the days when he had bought the novel on his journey from Bath to
Cheltenham. He described his methods of work, his registering of the package, his suspense, his growing resignation.
I do not call Tunbridge or
Cheltenham the country; and November is a still more serious month, and I can see that Mrs.
Of Lady Malkinshaw the letter said nothing; but I afterward discovered that she was then at
Cheltenham, drinking the waters and playing whist in the rudest health and spirits.
I had an uncle once, Madame Mantalini, who lived in
Cheltenham, and had a most excellent business as a tobacconist--hem--who had such small feet, that they were no bigger than those which are usually joined to wooden legs-- the most symmetrical feet, Madame Mantalini, that even you can imagine.'
The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of
Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
I leave town to-day for
Cheltenham. Pray excuse me, if you can, to the amiable Miss Sharp, for my conduct at Vauxhall, and entreat her to pardon and forget every word I may have uttered when excited by that fatal supper.