Birthday party intrigue and a burglary thwarted
In a nursery during a sister Alice's birthday party, Lou Latour endures a chaotic blind-man's-buff as John Benton arrives unannounced. The night ends with a burglary attempt in the parents’ room, Benton wounded, and Lou confessing a bold crush while two thieves are tackled by family, revealing Benton’s true feelings.
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John Benton
Alice
Miss Latour
Mr. Benton
Warrens
Will
Oil Exchange
John Pane
Peneis
Will Sa
Mr. Eat
Er. Benton
Lou
Benton
Stella
Birr
Birdie
Les Togai
John
Bunyan's Grave at Bunhill Fields Cemetery
A London burial ground for English dissenters on City Road near Wesley's chapel, Bunhill Fields holds 124,000 graves though unused since 1832 and reopened as a public walk in 1869. The most notable tomb is John Bunyan's grave marked by a well trodden path and simple inscription.
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London
City Road
Wesley
Bunhill Fields
Southey
St.Paul's
Bonehill
Church of England
John Bunyan
Monument to John Bunyan Erected by Public Subscription
A 1862 monument near Bedford, funded by public subscription under the Earl of Shaftesbury, features a nine by six foot sarcophagus with a recumbent Bunyan statue. One side shows Christian beginning his journey, the other the Pilgrim at the cross, with Bunyan’s tale echoed in marble and verse.
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Earl of Shaftesbury
Bunyan
Christian
Pilen
John Bunyan
Bedford Lyoness
Srother
Midsannges Madrigal At The Garden Gate
Boston Courier reports a verse about a lover awaiting his beloved at the garden gate. The poem contrasts night and twilight with the maidens trust and the lover’s certainty, then laments lost sun and blossoming beauty as another youth arrives too late and a romance shifts.
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Neder
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Iowa
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Chant
Peck
Joan Bunyan
Boston Courier
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