Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... Garden Reach , which I had kept on all the time . I didn't go with her , but I couldn't remain in the station - I was too ashamed ; so I got leave and went away to the hills for a cruise by myself , waiting till I could get an exchange ...
... Garden Reach , which I had kept on all the time . I didn't go with her , but I couldn't remain in the station - I was too ashamed ; so I got leave and went away to the hills for a cruise by myself , waiting till I could get an exchange ...
Pagina 16
... him , you see . I sent no warning to Carlotta , and arrived in Garden Reach one morning about seven o'clock . " The sitting - rooms were to the back of the house , and I got in without her hearing 16 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
... him , you see . I sent no warning to Carlotta , and arrived in Garden Reach one morning about seven o'clock . " The sitting - rooms were to the back of the house , and I got in without her hearing 16 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
Pagina 17
... garden . There I saw a sight that astonished me . Carlotta was there in a dressing - gown , with her hair down , with bloodshot eyes and a white sodden face - so old and haggard and blackguard - looking , just like the horrid figures ...
... garden . There I saw a sight that astonished me . Carlotta was there in a dressing - gown , with her hair down , with bloodshot eyes and a white sodden face - so old and haggard and blackguard - looking , just like the horrid figures ...
Pagina 21
... in a week . I went to the house in Garden Reach ; my wife wasn't in she was riding on the Course , the servants said . I went to my room to VOL . II . B change my dress , and requiring a pair of scissors DOUBLES AND QUITS . 21.
... in a week . I went to the house in Garden Reach ; my wife wasn't in she was riding on the Course , the servants said . I went to my room to VOL . II . B change my dress , and requiring a pair of scissors DOUBLES AND QUITS . 21.
Pagina 25
... garden . Carlotta had fainted really , I believe ; but she came to quick enough . I hadn't much to say to her , and I said it in a few words . She began her theatricals , but I said , ' Stop ; I may be a noodle and an imbecile and a ...
... garden . Carlotta had fainted really , I believe ; but she came to quick enough . I hadn't much to say to her , and I said it in a few words . She began her theatricals , but I said , ' Stop ; I may be a noodle and an imbecile and a ...
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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...