"first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes" (U18.1574)
This is a recipe if readers would like to try it, from 'Cookery Book and General Axioms for Plain Cookery' formulated by Miss Briggs, London (1890).
This is a recipe if readers would like to try it, from 'Cookery Book and General Axioms for Plain Cookery' formulated by Miss Briggs, London (1890).
"he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him " (U18.1576)
"and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky" (U18.1580)
"I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier" (U18.1582)
"and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted" (U18.1585)
This PC shows South Port street with the convent to the left, and the government house to the right. We see indeed a sentry guard wearing a white helmet.
This PC shows South Port street with the convent to the left, and the government house to the right. We see indeed a sentry guard wearing a white helmet.
A closer view of the Government House. Notice the Union Jack.
"and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs" (U18.1586)
"and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews" (18.1587)
"and the Arabs" (U18.1588)
"and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street" (U18.1588)
A PC of the Commercial Square showing the flags of various countries.
"and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharons" (U18.1589)
"and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls" (U18.1590)
"and the old castle thousands of years old yes" (U18.1592)
"and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas 2 glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets" (U18.1593)
"and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp" (U18.1596)