... parliamentary correspondent.] London, Monday Night. There are few new facts to communicate, but rumours are as plentiful as blackberries, and for the most part as worthless. The statement, for instance, that the Marquis of Salisbury is to be created Duke is ...

... of reasons. He is not exactly like Ealstaff, after the robbery Gadshill, who protested that if reasons were plenty as blackberries he would not u,ive them but he is quietly and proudly confident that he has at last achieved some power in the conduct ...

... distant pine-woods and the fresh, cool odour of newlyploughed uplands. The sunshine lit up the ragged hedges, where the blackberry leaves still hung, beautiful in their decay, with every variety of tint, from olive green to bronze, from crimson to darkest ...