She had passed 2 Years at one of the first Boarding-schools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped one night in Southampton.
"Beware my Laura (she would often say) Beware of the insipid Vanities and idle Dissipations of the Metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton."
Then when you arrive at Plymouth or
Southampton or whatever port you are bound for, wait on board, and I will meet you at the earliest hour possible."
The cruiser which the emperor had sent was waiting for him in
Southampton Harbor.
"It shall never be said, whilst I am bailiff of
Southampton, that any waster, riever, draw-latch or murtherer came scathless away from me and my posse.
It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of
Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions.
He drove the family coach-and-four to
Southampton with Miss Horrocks inside: and the county people expected, every week, as his son did in speechless agony, that his marriage with her would be announced in the provincial paper.
The Pereire, of the French Transatlantic Company, whose admirable steamers are equal to any in speed and comfort, did not leave until the 14th; the Hamburg boats did not go directly to Liverpool or London, but to Havre; and the additional trip from Havre to
Southampton would render Phileas Fogg's last efforts of no avail.
"On Monday I am going from
Southampton to Boulogne for forty-eight hours, to attend a court martial there.
It was not until the Ivernia was within five hundred miles of
Southampton that the wireless messages from paper after paper and agency after agency, offering huge prices for a short return message as to our actual results, showed us how strained was the attention not only of the scientific world but of the general public.
Monday next will meet you
Southampton aboard Uhlan with tickets am writing."
IT'S on my visiting cards sure enough (and it's them that's all o' pink satin paper) that inny gintleman that plases may behould the intheristhin words, "Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, 39
Southampton Row, Russell Square, Parrish o' Bloomsbury." And shud ye be wantin' to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite, and the laider of the hot tun in the houl city o' Lonon -- why it's jist mesilf.