Grenfell, Francis, 1880-1915
Once when Rivy had had a bad smash at polo he spent some time in hospital. “It seems odd to say so,” he wrote to Francis, “but I enjoyed it immensely. What lucky people we are, taking an interest in so many things! This was another side that I had not yet seen.” I set down the...
Once when Rivy had had a bad smash at polo he spent some time in hospital. “It seems odd to say so,” he wrote to Francis, “but I enjoyed it immensely. What lucky people we are,...
2. CHAPTER II.To pass from the proud position of a leader at school or college to the blank insignificance of the outer world is a trying experience for most people, but the Twins were not co...
3. CHAPTER III.I am inclined to take the autumn of 1904 as the end of the first clearly marked stage in the Twins’ lives after leaving Eton. It was a transition period in which both were tryin...
4. CHAPTER IV.To Rivy, as to most people in England, the absorbing question in the first months of 1906 was politics. Seeing a fight approaching, he conceived it his duty to hurl himself into...
5. CHAPTER V.The Twins were now twenty-six years old, and, as they had grown more easily distinguishable in person, so they had developed idiosyncrasies in character. Francis remained of the...
6. CHAPTER VI.The next four years saw the Twins together in England—Francis with his regiment at various stations, and Rivy immersed in City business, yet not so immersed that he could not sp...
7. CHAPTER VII.In 1909, when Francis went hunting north of the Zambezi, he travelled to the Victoria Falls with Colonel Marling, V.C., then Brigadier-General commanding the Potchefstroom distr...
8. CHAPTER VIII.“Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk! My soul shall thine keep company to heaven; Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast, As in this glorious and well-foughten field We kept toget...