"When we get to Folkestone, you'll be wanting a supper basket.
At Folkestone he looked everywhere for his friend, but in vain.
"You see," Ralph Conyers explained, drawing back for a moment to look at the result of his labours, "this scheme, properly worked out, can keep a channel route such as the
Folkestone to Boulogne one, for instance, perfectly safe.
Barkis's box), and told me that Miss Betsey lived near Dover, but whether at Dover itself, at Hythe, Sandgate, or
Folkestone, she could not say.
The last of these, at
Folkestone Court, in May, was remarkable for the cold-blooded pistolling of the page, who surprised the masked and solitary burglar.
Two of the eleven are filled with Marie van Houtte roses, two with Viscountess
Folkestone, two with Laurette Messimy, one with Souvenir de la Malmaison, one with Adam and Devoniensis, two with Persian Yellow and Bicolor, and one big bed behind the sun-dial with three sorts of red roses (seventy-two in all), Duke of Teck, Cheshunt Scarlet, and Prefet de Limburg.
Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from
Folkestone to Boulogne, until at last, first little wisps and then a veil of filmy cloud hid the prospect from his eyes.
The same pair combined for Lawrence to give
Folkestone the lead by the half- hour, but VS were still very much in the game with Chris Evans doing well in midfield.
The company's unique hovercraft service from Dover to Calais takes just 35 minutes, the SeaCat service goes from
Folkestone to Boulogne in under an hour and the cross-Channel service to Belgium is two hours by Sea Cat from Dover to Ostend.
Ruthie Babe (2.20
Folkestone, nap), Captain Dunne (3.30 Beverley, nb), Coolminx (3.00 Beverley), Weather Front (4.10 Stratford).