Sayings and Doings: Or, Sketches from Life. Second Series ..., Том 1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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Сторінка 245 - And you left his Lordship for that?" enquired the astonished country gentleman. " Oui, Sir, his Lordship gave me excellent character ; I go afterward to live wid my Lord Trefoil, very good, respectable man, my Lord, of good family, and very honest man, I believe — but de king, one day, made him his governeur in Ireland, and I found I could not live in dat devil Dublin." " No ! " No, mon Colonel — it is fine city," said u Rissolle — " good place — but dere is no Italian Opera.
Сторінка 194 - Arden could not, however, suppress a significant ejaculation, quite intelligible to his niece, when the dear little Maria, smelling of soap and bread and butter, with her shoulders pushed back, her head stuck up, and her claviculse developed like drumsticks, squeaked out the opening line — " Pity the sorrows of a poor old man.
Сторінка 243 - The particular profession of this person, the Colonel, who understood very little French, was for some time puzzled to find out ; he heard a vocabulary of dishes enumerated with grace and fluency, he saw a remarkably...
Сторінка 247 - Exclusive of de patisserie, mon Colonel, I never touch dat departement, but I have de honour, to recommend Jenkin, my sister's husband, for the p&tisserie, at five hundred pound, and his wine. Oh Jenkin is dog ship at dat, mon Colonel." " Oh ! exclusive of pastry," said the Colonel, emphatically. " Oui, mon Colonel,
Сторінка 189 - I was only cutting the cake, Ma,' said Sophy. " 'Don't do it again, then, and sit still,' exclaimed the mother, and turning to Louisa, added in an under-tone, 'pretty dears, it is so difficult to keep them quiet at that age^ "
Сторінка 191 - She won't give me any cherries, pa,'' said Robert. " That's a story, now, Robert," cried the eldest girl, who was nearly ten years old, and was screwed in, and poked out, to look like a woman ; with curls, and a necklace, and a dress exactly like her mother's, who was forty. "I'm sure you have had more than Sophy — only you are such a rude boy.
Сторінка 188 - Chairs were ranged round the table for the young fry, who were extremely orderly and wellbehaved for a short time, and in the first instance taken to the Colonel to be praised : the old gentleman, who was not particularly fond of nestlings at any time, but whose whole heart and soul were at the present moment occupied in the affairs of his prodigal nephew, kissed one and patted the other, and 'blessed the little heart...
Сторінка 187 - The Abberlys were at dinner when their guests arrived, the guests themselves having dined early to please the old gentleman at some distance from the metropolis. The meal was speedily finished, and the dessert put down, and Arden, who, as the reader may imagine, was most anxious to hear tidings of his misguided nephew, commenced a series of inquiries upon the interesting subject, when Mrs. Abberly interrupted the conversation by asking her husband "just to ring the bell.
Сторінка 246 - good place — but dere is no Italian Opera." " How shocking!" said Arden, " and you left his Excellency on that account ?" " Oui, mon Colonel." " Why, his Excellency managed to live there without an Italian Opera,
Сторінка 247 - Which is to be contrived for five hundred pounds per annum, additional. Why, Sir, the rector of my parish, a clergyman, and a gentleman, with an amiable wife and seven children, has but half the sum to live upon.