The Stream of Pleasure. a Narrative of a Journey On the Thames From Oxford to London
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Books are the last things to be looked for in riverside inns ; boating men have some- thing better to do than to read. In only one did we find I • ?■ ,-*"* anything in the shape of literature in the coffee-room ; and there, a volume of Meditations on Death and Eternity had been left for the delectation of people very busy with life and the present. In many of the inns there was not even a newspaper to be had. If there was one, as at Sonning, it was sure to be the Daily Telegraph, just then full... of the 7§ THE STREAM OF PLEASURE. " Is Marriage a Failure ? " question. But somehow time did not hang very heavy. As we stood at the door we heard the famous church bells, which a century ago carried off a two-handled silver cup for the " superior style in which they rang ten hundred and eight bob-major," and for this we would much sooner have the word of the guide- book than hear for ourselves the way really beautiful bells can be misused in England. We sat in the church porch and listened to the hymns of the congregation.
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