Chapter XXI

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

Not remembered; lapsed from memory.

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

used when the thing doing the action is also its object

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

To move from a closed position.

From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading SPRING.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

in spite of the fact that

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

by way of; passing through

From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading We had crawled through the narrow and crooked streets of Norwich to its central Market Place under the Castle Mound; swinging to the left on entering it.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading Turning to the left again we were soon in Tombland, a wide and open space opposite the west end of the cathedral, the meaning of the name of which is uncertain.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

in the company of; together with

From this reading We had seen the cathedral spire rising against the clear sky, had glanced through two great archways leading to the Cathedral Church itself, had passed on our left the "Stranger's House" already mentioned, though the quaint fact that the faces of the figures of Hercules and Samson supporting the arch of its door are adorned with "Imperial" beardlets was forgotten then.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.

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From this reading [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home via Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.