Change for a ShillingD. Bogue, 1848 - 120 páginas |
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Página 30 - 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 93 - the family being assembled at breakfast, the Housekeeping Book was laid upon the table, and the House (No. 289, Berkeley Square,) resolved itself into a committee to take into consideration the weekly supplies. Mr. Flint was in the arm-chair. The Butcher's, the Baker's, and Greengrocer's Bills were read for the first, second, and third times, and passed. The Brougham, Gig, and Family Carriage Estimates were advanced a stage; after which MRS. FLUMMERY rose. She said that she had been requested by...
Página 95 - JVo, no") She said, most emphatically, yes, yes, yes. She had nothing more to say. Only she could not help complimenting the House upon having in its employ the talented lady at the head of the home department. The duties of the Exchequer had never, to her knowledge, been discharged with such satisfaction. There was scarcely a bill remaining over. She was acquainted with many houses, but she must say she had never known one in which the business was conducted with half the respectability, or the...
Página 20 - copy ; " and, considering I was taken from a Greenwich pensioner, who used to sit to my master for ninepence an hour and his beer, he was certainly very right. This opinion, however, brought me down in the world, for I was sold soon afterwards to a Mr. Solomons for two Spanish Masters and an Early Father. After this I was carried to the hospital for decayed pictures in Wardour-street, where my frame underwent a complete renovation.
Página 97 - I'm sure she slaves her very soul out to please you. You deny her even the money for your meat and drink, and yet you can afford to give 100/. to the stupid Anti-Corn-Law League. Didn't you begrudge her a box at the opera ? and yet you can have your filthy brandy— MR. FLINT. I tell you the brandy has nothing to do with it. MRS. FLUMMERY. Very well, sir, keep the housekeeping yourself. There is always this scene every time the supplies are debated, and before the children, too! Psha!
Página 97 - I'm to pay for all her cabs ? MRS. FLUMMERY. I have nothing more to say, sir. The cabs were for the dear children, when they returned from the dentist's. The fruit, sir, includes the lemon you had for your disgraceful toddy. I have nothing more to say — only, if you expect thirteen mouths to be filled for nothing, you had better contract with the Poor Law Union to do it. MR. FLINT. Zounds, woman ! is a man to be ruined and not say a word about it? I have borne this too long. Your wilful waste —...
Página 27 - like an angel," was in Christie's Sale Rooms when a portrait of Admiral Drake was put up for auction. It was so unlike the one of the friend who was shortly to rob him of the treasure of his heart, that little as he could afford it, he bought the -picture, and laid it before the earl. The two were compared, and certainly we were no more alike than Mrs. Gamp and Hebe. But Mr. Smith declared I had been in the possession of his family for hundreds of years ; and it was as much as I could do to keep...
Página 29 - There, proud earl," he said, in a voice of lightning and thunder, " there lie your ancestors !" and he laid a stunning emphasis on the word " lie." My master, at this point, stepped forward and explained these allusions, for the barrister had so overlaid his speech with Irish images, that the sense of it had been crushed under its extreme beauty. He adapted his powers of arguing to the plainest understanding ; for, with the magic aid of a sponge and a little turpentine, he made me throw off my admiral's...
Página 98 - I'm sure my poor dear daughter and myself save every farthing we can; and to be treated in this way! It's brutal (cries}. I do not care much about it myself; but I do feel for Eliza. {Emotion in the house.) No one knows how she toils, and slaves, and deprives herself of every comfort, but myself. She won't even take sugar in her tea; she hasn'ta bonnet fit to be seen in; she goes nowhere (incipient hysterics). MR. FLINT. Come, come, my dear Mrs. Flummery, don't say another word about it. I've been...
Página 95 - ... lady whose chair she now filled. — (Vehement coughing.) The hon. gentleman in the chair might cough as he pleased, but she would tell him to his face that he ought to be proud of such a treasure. (Mrs. Flummery sat down amid a loud clatter of tea-spoons, and the youngest members of the House crowded round her to congratulate her upon her effective speech.) MR. FLINT, after a pause, came to the table, and said, that in glancing his eye over the disbursements, he noticed an item of £l 17s.