Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 24
Pagina 9
... once , halted the gharrie , jumped out like mad , and threw her arms round my neck over the com- pound wall , singing out , ' Darling Dolly ! my chee - ild ! my chee - ild ! my Adolphus ! ' just as if she was on the stage . " All the ...
... once , halted the gharrie , jumped out like mad , and threw her arms round my neck over the com- pound wall , singing out , ' Darling Dolly ! my chee - ild ! my chee - ild ! my Adolphus ! ' just as if she was on the stage . " All the ...
Pagina 19
... the game wouldn't do and changed it at once , and said , ' Adolphus , forgive me ; I have deceived you , but it was from a kind motive . This is my brother William . Distress and poverty , from my father's long DOUBLES AND QUITS . 19.
... the game wouldn't do and changed it at once , and said , ' Adolphus , forgive me ; I have deceived you , but it was from a kind motive . This is my brother William . Distress and poverty , from my father's long DOUBLES AND QUITS . 19.
Pagina 20
... be reclaimed if I would pay his passage home , and give him a couple of hun- dred pounds to start him in business . said I would , provided he went off at once I by that day's mail , and I never saw him 20 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
... be reclaimed if I would pay his passage home , and give him a couple of hun- dred pounds to start him in business . said I would , provided he went off at once I by that day's mail , and I never saw him 20 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
Pagina 21
... once ; and he did go . I made the agent pay his passage and see him on board , and I never set eyes on the ruffian again . A nice little domestic incident , wasn't it ? My health was a good deal smashed with all the worry and distress I ...
... once ; and he did go . I made the agent pay his passage and see him on board , and I never set eyes on the ruffian again . A nice little domestic incident , wasn't it ? My health was a good deal smashed with all the worry and distress I ...
Pagina 26
... among my elephants - as if I kept a herd of a few hundreds all to myself . The good old soul paid up at once . I believe she imagines ever since that cavalry regiments are mounted on elephants in India ; but that was 26 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
... among my elephants - as if I kept a herd of a few hundreds all to myself . The good old soul paid up at once . I believe she imagines ever since that cavalry regiments are mounted on elephants in India ; but that was 26 DOUBLES AND QUITS .
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Adolphus aint arrived asked aunt Badger believe better bill bring brother Captain Bruce Captain Burridge Carlotta certainly Colonel course cried dead dear delight devil Dolly don't Donald door double everything eyes face feelings fellow Finney garden gave give gone half hand happy head hear heard heart hope hour I'll idea interest it's Jack keep kind knew Lady Rose laugh lawyer leave looked Major marriage married Mary matter mean mind morning never night once perhaps person Plotski poor possible present Professor promised question remarked remember replied round secret seemed seen settled sort stand started story suppose sure talk tell thank there's thing thought tion to-morrow told took town trouble turn voice whole wife wish woman
Pasaje populare
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...