Mrs. Caudle's Curtain LecturesS. Andrus, 1854 - 156 páginas |
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Página 50 - Well, that's a pretty flood, I think, to last for six weeks; and no stirring all the time out of the house. Pooh! don't think me a fool, Mr. Caudle; don't insult me! he return the umbrella! Anybody would think you were born yesterday. As if anybody ever did return an umbrella! There: do you hear it?
Página 52 - ... foolish man. You know I can't wear clogs ; and with no umbrella, the wet's sure to give me a cold — it 'always does. But what do you care for that ? Nothing at all. I may be laid up for what you care, as I dare say I shall — and a pretty doctor's bill there'll be. I hope there will! It will teach you to lend your umbrellas again. I shouldn't wonder if I caught my death ; yes : and that's what you lent the umbrella for.
Página 52 - I'm not going out a dowdy to please you or anybody else. Gracious knows ! It isn't often that I step over the threshold ; indeed, I might as well be a slave at once, — better, I should say. But when I do go out, Mr. Caudle, I choose to go like a lady.
Página 50 - THAT'S the third umbrella gone since Christmas. What were you to do? Why let him go home in the rain, to be sure. I'm very certain there was nothing about him that could spoil.
Página 53 - I'd have known as much as I do now, it might have gone without one for me. Paying for new nozzles, for other people to laugh at you. Oh, it's all very well for you — you can go to sleep. You've no thought of your poor, patient wife, and your own dear children. You think of nothing but lending umbrellas. "Men, indeed! — call themselves lords of creation!
Página 29 - Now, Mr. Caudle, — Mr. Caudle, I say : oh ! you can't be asleep already, I know. Now, what I mean to say is this: there's no use, none at all, in our having any disturbance about the matter; but at last my mind's made up, Mr. Caudle ; I shall leave you. Either I know all you've been doing to-night, or to-morrow morning I quit the house. No, no ; There's an end of the...
Página 50 - Day ! Do you hear it against the windows ? Nonsense, you don't impose upon me. You can't be asleep with such a shower as that. Do you hear it, I say...
Página 8 - I can't tell. Half five pounds would have bought 'em— but now they must go without. Of course, they belong to you; and anybody but your own flesh and blood, Mr Caudle. 'The man called for the water-rate, to-day ; but I should like to know how people are to pay taxes, who throw away five pounds to every fellow that asks them. 'Perhaps you don't know that Jack, this morning, knocked his shuttle-cock through his bed-room window.
Página 36 - I'm sure. What would they do, Mr. Caudle? — Why, do much better without you, I'm certain. And it's my belief, after all, that the button wasn't off the shirt ; it's my belief that you pulled it off, that you might have something to talk about. Oh, you're aggravating enough, when you like, for anything. All I know is, it's very odd that the button should be off the shirt; for I'm sure no woman's a greater slave to her husband's buttons than I am.
Página 81 - How do you know what they want ? How should a man know anything at all about it ? And you won't give more than ten pounds ? Very well. Then you may go shopping with it yourself, and see what you'll make of it. I'll have none of your ten pounds, I can tell you. No, sir, — no ; you have no cause to say that.