Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
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... thought— and had come and asked for £ 1000 in a lump . He had declined to give it to her without con- sulting me ; and was he to give it to her ? I wrote back to say No , not in a lump , but that he might pay for her any bills she ...
... thought— and had come and asked for £ 1000 in a lump . He had declined to give it to her without con- sulting me ; and was he to give it to her ? I wrote back to say No , not in a lump , but that he might pay for her any bills she ...
Pagina 16
... thought I had better come down without delay . Down I went post - haste . I had never heard of her brother before , and I was naturally inquisitive about him , you see . I sent no warning to Carlotta , and arrived in Garden Reach one ...
... thought I had better come down without delay . Down I went post - haste . I had never heard of her brother before , and I was naturally inquisitive about him , you see . I sent no warning to Carlotta , and arrived in Garden Reach one ...
Pagina 24
... thought I was seedy and going off the hooks , and she was hedg- ing with this beast , and meant , wait till I was dead . If it is worldly prudence , ' said the Jew , who was a deuced poetical kind of Jew - if it is worldly prudence ...
... thought I was seedy and going off the hooks , and she was hedg- ing with this beast , and meant , wait till I was dead . If it is worldly prudence , ' said the Jew , who was a deuced poetical kind of Jew - if it is worldly prudence ...
Pagina 28
... thought came into my head , ' Was there no means of dissolving this marriage anyhow ? ' had thought of this before a score of times , but had dismissed the idea always , because I knew anything I did would re- quire to be public , and I ...
... thought came into my head , ' Was there no means of dissolving this marriage anyhow ? ' had thought of this before a score of times , but had dismissed the idea always , because I knew anything I did would re- quire to be public , and I ...
Pagina 29
... thought away as hard as I could , but I haven't got many brains , you know , and it all came to no- thing , of course . Tommy Carleton's bro- ther , an Oxford fellow , was staying with us at the time . No end of a fellow to talk and lay ...
... thought away as hard as I could , but I haven't got many brains , you know , and it all came to no- thing , of course . Tommy Carleton's bro- ther , an Oxford fellow , was staying with us at the time . No end of a fellow to talk and lay ...
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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...