Calcombe

'Very sad thing, sir, this' ere causality in Switzerland, 'said the red-faced landlord, coming round at once to the topic of the day at Calcombe, after a few unimportant preliminary generalities.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

'I'm so glad you like Calcombe,' Edie said, with one of her unfailing blushes at the indirect flattery to herself implied in praise of her native county; 'and you think it prettier than Dunbude, then, do you?'

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

The Londoner who escapes for a while from the great teeming human ant-hill, with its dark foggy lanes and solid firmament of hanging smoke, to draw in a little unadulterated atmosphere at Calcombe

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

I don't suppose any of our friends or neighbours in Calcombe spend nearly as much as two hundred a year upon their own families. '

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

He's a good fellow, and I like him dearly; but all's fair in love and war; and I must go down to Calcombe to-morrow morning and forestall him immediately.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

Still, all the world of Calcombe came to see little

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

And when I knew you were coming down here to Calcombe, straight from all those grand ladies at Dunbude,

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

Pomeroy, finds himself landed by the Plymouth slow train at Calcombe

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-- Yes, I shall try to get away to Calcombe as soon as ever I can manage to leave Oxford.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

I come away from Dunbude, and come down here to Calcombe: and the difference in the atmosphere makes one's very breath come and go freer.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873