Jack Pansay has just bought an engagement ring for the bewitching
Kitty Mannering, yet to his annoyance it is the late Mrs Wessington he is thinking about.
Richard Cobden told his audience in the London Tavern that however much
sabre-rattling was heard in St Petersburg, the average Russian was a man of peace.
It was George-a-Green’s job to stop animals trampling the crops,
and it nettled his pride in Wakefield’s broad acres to see some ramblers behaving no better.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Chancellor of the Realm and Imperial Regent of Japan,
was inclined to encourage Christianity until he found out why European Powers were so keen on it.