Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
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Pagina 9
... Dolly ! my chee - ild ! my chee - ild ! my Adolphus ! ' just as if she was on the stage . " All the fellows roared ; and I saw she was as drunk as Kitty Coloony . ' Who is this woman , sir ? ' cried the Colonel to DOUBLES AND QUITS . 9.
... Dolly ! my chee - ild ! my chee - ild ! my Adolphus ! ' just as if she was on the stage . " All the fellows roared ; and I saw she was as drunk as Kitty Coloony . ' Who is this woman , sir ? ' cried the Colonel to DOUBLES AND QUITS . 9.
Pagina 10
... he saw Kitty Coloony , and she jumped out and began to dance a jig ; and Fred , who was a lively bird , joined her , and there they were capering away on the grass when I came up . ' What does it all mean , Dolly 10 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
... he saw Kitty Coloony , and she jumped out and began to dance a jig ; and Fred , who was a lively bird , joined her , and there they were capering away on the grass when I came up . ' What does it all mean , Dolly 10 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
Pagina 11
... Dolly . I'll turn out in a jiffy . ' ' Upon my honour , Fred , she's my married wife , ' I said ; and he went away in to order his servants to move his traps , muttering something about ' having cut his eye - teeth . ' " I got Carlotta ...
... Dolly . I'll turn out in a jiffy . ' ' Upon my honour , Fred , she's my married wife , ' I said ; and he went away in to order his servants to move his traps , muttering something about ' having cut his eye - teeth . ' " I got Carlotta ...
Pagina 20
... Dolly , I look towards you , and I'll be your brother , if you like . Here's your health , you jolly green ; ' and he took another pull at his liquor , and reeled out of the room , remarking that he C would go and have a little mirth ...
... Dolly , I look towards you , and I'll be your brother , if you like . Here's your health , you jolly green ; ' and he took another pull at his liquor , and reeled out of the room , remarking that he C would go and have a little mirth ...
Pagina 72
... Dolly , old boy , " I said that night to my double , who was as usual lounging in my hut , “ I am infernally miserable ! " " So am I , " replied Dolly , stolidly . " That of course I take for granted- there's no novelty in that , and it ...
... Dolly , old boy , " I said that night to my double , who was as usual lounging in my hut , “ I am infernally miserable ! " " So am I , " replied Dolly , stolidly . " That of course I take for granted- there's no novelty in that , and it ...
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Pagina 245 - Too late ; the chance was thine, but now 'tis mine — the roses all are dead." Through the livelong night this infernal jingle held possession of my fevered brain. Now and then I woke up, and, as if to exorcise the demon suggesting the evil refrain, roared out, " To-morrow the die shall be cast." In vain — back it came, spoken now by Burridge, now by Badger, now by Lady Rose. It was set to music at last, and Tom Finney and Bill Whytock sung it over a pot-house table, to the air of the
Pagina 25 - I would rrr-rend him limb from limb,' and he rolled his eyes and gnashed his teeth like an ogre. ' Would you 'i ' said I, stepping out. ' Well, here I am — rend away!' Wasn't the Jew taken aback ! You should have seen his face. Then I took him by the scruff of the neck and kicked him up and down the room, and then I got a cutting whip and let into him till he bellowed like a mad bull, and I took the butt and crashed into his head and face with it, and bundled him to the window when I was tired...
Pagina 70 - The pay of a captain, a heavily-mulcted £200 a-year, and £300 a-year of my own in the Funds — it was a case of very simple addition; and this was all I had, and all I could ever calculate upon as a certainty. That was bad; it was desperately bad. The failure of the " three-hundred-a-year marriages," so much talked of once, has no doubt been painfully demonstrated long ago.
Pagina 148 - Major, who was to command us, and who had gone on a month's leave, joined the detachment, he hoped I would " stick very close " to it, especially as the other officers were very young. To ask for leave was therefore impossible, and there was nothing for it but to await the Major's arrival with what patience I might command. The idea of proposing to Lady Rose by letter occurred to me once or twice in my most desperate moments, but I discarded it ; there was an ill-omened smack of the sneaking and...