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Chris Scott
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Username: Chris
Post Number: 416
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 6:13 pm: | 
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Found this quote from the diary of Thomas Hardy.
"September 10. Destitution sometimes reaches the point of grandeur in its pathetic grimness: e.g., as shown in the statement of the lodging-house keeper in the Whitechapel murder:
"'He had seen her in the lodging-house as late as halfpast one o'clock or two that morning. He knew her as an unfortunate, and that she generally frequented Stratford for a living. He asked her for her lodging-money, when she said, "I have not got it. I am weak and ill, and have been in the infirmary." He told her that she knew the rules, whereupon she went out to get some money.' ( Times report.)
"O richest City in the world! 'She knew the rules.'"
This is from:
THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY 1840-1891
COMPILED LARGELY FROM CONTEMPORARY NOTES, LETTERS, DIARIES, AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA, AS WELL AS FROM ORAL INFORMATION IN CONVERSATIONS EXTENDING OVER MANY YEARS
BY FLORENCE EMILY HARDY
Also interestingly, in 1882 the Hardys moved to Wimborne, though I can find no mention of the Druitts as being in their acquaintance. Their move is described thus:
They found a little house called "Llanherne" in the Avenue, Wimborne, that would at any rate suit them temporarily, and till they could discover a better, or perhaps build one. Hardy makes a note that on. June 25 they slept in Llanherne for the first time, and saw the new comet from the conservatory. "Our garden", he says a few days later, "has all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, in full bloom: Canterbury Bells, blue and white, and Sweet Williams of every variety, strawberries and cherries that are ripe, currants and gooseberries that are almost ripe, peaches that are green, and apples that are decidedly immature."
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enimeenimineymo
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| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 4:35 am: |
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 very intersting but i dont really understand who is florence emma hardy?  } |
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