Wonderful PeopleWard and Lock, 1856 |
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Página 32 - the young gentleman who does all the funny things in the Penny Magazine." Being suspected of turning everything you see into ridicule, and putting everybody you meet into print. A pause of five minutes, in the hopes of hearing you speak, and being asked at last, whilst everybody is getting ready to grin, " what you think of the weather ?" Being condemned to hear, every day of your life, that the man who would " make a pun would pick a pocket!
Página 59 - He has three holidays a year — Christmas day and Good Friday beinsr, two of them — and then walks to the office and back again to pass away the time. He runs about all day with a big chain round his waist, and a gouty bill-book in his breast-pocket. He marries, and asks for an increase of salary. He is told " the house can do without him.
Página 2 - He respects the fiction of his wife's age, and would as soon burn his fingers as touch the bright poker. He never invades the kitchen, and would no more think of blowing up any of the servants than of ordering the dinner, or having the tray brought up after eleven. He is innocent of a latch-key. He lets the family go out of town once every year, whilst he remains at home with one knife and fork, sits on a brown holland chair, sleeps on a curtainless bed, and has a charwoman to wait on him. He goes...
Página 44 - Your house is his house — your property just as much his property. He invades your library at all hours, and smuggles what books he likes, and lends them to whom he chooses. He rides your horses, and buys Havannah cigars, and eau-de-Cologne, and all sorts of bargains for you, no matter whether you want them or not. He has a patent for giving advice and speaking his mind very freely at all times. He must be consulted in any step you undertake, from the purchase of a poodle to the choice of a wife....
Página 55 - No," just as the person pleases. Beyond this, the Railway Clerk is as obliging as most Clerks, and he has this advantage, that he is very good-looking, and after coming out of an omnibus on a wet day, is quite pleasant to look at. In the heat of summer he looks cool — in the depths of winter he always appears warm and comfortable. He is really a pattern of politeness to ladies, and smiles most condescendingly to pretty girls, displaying his gallantry and white teeth in a thousand little ways.
Página 2 - He pays for her losses at cards, and gives her all his winnings. He never flies out about his buttons, or brings home friends to supper. His clothes never smell of tobacco. He respects the curtains, and never smokes in the house. He carves, but never secretes for himself
Página 65 - I thought I saw every field of Ireland covered with dancing corn, and embroidered with the most beautiful sheep, whose wool was more exquisite than all the Berlin wool that was ever made in England (Cheers); and I thought, my countrymen, its rivers were filled with more salmon and more periwinkles than ever carolled on the muddy Saxon shore (Cheers)', and I thought, my countrymen, that on the brow of every other hill the mighty elephant was reposing under the peaceful shade of the shamrock (more...
Página 41 - at home," especially to top-boots and Jerusalem noses, that bring letters and wait for answers in the passage. He grows nervous. Every knock at the door throws him back, and he rings the bell violently two or three times, whispers to the servant through the door, turns the key, and crouches down with his ear at the key-hole. He looks out of the window before he ventures in the street. He only walks when he cannot afford to pay for a cab. Omnibuses are dangerous — it is not so easy to avoid a creditor...
Página 54 - ... killed by yesterday's accident. It is not his business. He cannot attend to every one at once, and he runs his diamond fingers through his rich, Macassared hair. It's really no fault of his if you lose the train — you ought to have come sooner; and then he whips off, with a very pretty penknife, a sharp corner that pains the symmetry of one of his filbert nails. What should he know about dogs? — you had better inquire at the luggage train. You can •write to the newspapers by all means,...
Página 58 - He copies letters from morning till night, but has no salary. He is to be " remembered at Christmas." He is out in all weathers. At twenty he is impervious to rain, snow, and sunshine. At last he gets £4:0 per annum. Out of that revenue he pays £a a-year to the