Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
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Pagina 27
... Never act upon the im- pulse of kind feelings ; ' but if you don't mind telling me , I should like to know what happened the day after I mean the day you awoke and remembered your declara- tion to Miss Richmond DOUBLES AND QUITS . 27.
... Never act upon the im- pulse of kind feelings ; ' but if you don't mind telling me , I should like to know what happened the day after I mean the day you awoke and remembered your declara- tion to Miss Richmond DOUBLES AND QUITS . 27.
Pagina 31
... don't know . The Oxford man laughed at this , and asked if John Smith was a missionary ; and I said , ' No , that he was only cruising about for a lark . ' Then he asked if he had ever gone through a second ceremony . I said , ' No , he ...
... don't know . The Oxford man laughed at this , and asked if John Smith was a missionary ; and I said , ' No , that he was only cruising about for a lark . ' Then he asked if he had ever gone through a second ceremony . I said , ' No , he ...
Pagina 36
... was so good and kind and tender and true , as the angels are , don't you know ? " I didn't like to write to the family solicitor - indeed I didn't wish to write to any one , but to state my case by word 36 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
... was so good and kind and tender and true , as the angels are , don't you know ? " I didn't like to write to the family solicitor - indeed I didn't wish to write to any one , but to state my case by word 36 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
Pagina 39
... don't want a divorce , ' I said ' I don't require one ; I'm going to annul the mar- riage altogether . ' ' As how ? ' he asked . ' Why , ' I said , ' I'm going to file a bill , of course ; the thing's as plain as a pike - staff . ' He ...
... don't want a divorce , ' I said ' I don't require one ; I'm going to annul the mar- riage altogether . ' ' As how ? ' he asked . ' Why , ' I said , ' I'm going to file a bill , of course ; the thing's as plain as a pike - staff . ' He ...
Pagina 53
... fern and not a man- drake ? No , no " ( as I was going to inter- rupt her ) , " don't tell me about it . I might be taken up as an accomplice , you know . " VOL . II . D " I was neither asleep , nor alone , nor DOUBLES AND QUITS . 53.
... fern and not a man- drake ? No , no " ( as I was going to inter- rupt her ) , " don't tell me about it . I might be taken up as an accomplice , you know . " VOL . II . D " I was neither asleep , nor alone , nor DOUBLES AND QUITS . 53.
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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...