LORD LYTTON'S GRANDMOTHER AND THE HIGHWAYMEN.
So great was her confidence in herself, that one dark evening having to return from some excursion across Hounslow Heath—at that time infested by highwaymen—she laughed to scorn the warnings she received on the. road, and the terrors of her two men servants, and in the very centre of tho heath she was .stopped by three footpads. She hold ono a moment in parley, and threw hira off his guard, flicked the other in the eye, drovo gallantly over the third and arrived in London with spirits sufficiently composed to dress for n party and relate her adventure, in illustration of the truth that a woman with her wits about her, and tho whip hand disengaged is a for three men any day in the year. The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of Edward Buhver, Lord Lytton."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 31 March 1884, Page 3
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143LORD LYTTON'S GRANDMOTHER AND THE HIGHWAYMEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 31 March 1884, Page 3
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