Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

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Houghton, 1865 - 195 páginas
 

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Página 15 - I'm very certain there was nothing about him that could spoil. — Take cold, indeed ! He doesn't look like one of the sort to take cold. Besides, he'd have better taken cold than taken our umbrella. — Do you hear the rain, Mr. Caudle?
Página 15 - 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 17 - ... 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.
Página 17 - I'll walk every step of the way, — and you know that will give me my death. Don't call me a foolish woman, it's you that's the 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.
Página 60 - No, Caudle, no — not a penny will I take under twenty ; if I did, it would seem as if I wanted to waste your money : and I'm sure, when I come to think of it, twenty pounds will hardly do.
Página 36 - A nice notion you have of a wife, to suppose she 's nothing to think of but her husband's buttons. A pretty notion, indeed, you have of marriage. Ha ! if poor women only knew what they had to go through ! — what with buttons, and one thing and another,' — they'd never tie themselves up, — no, not to the best man in the world, I 'm sure.
Página 60 - em proper notions of themselves : and what, indeed, can the poor things think when they see the Briggses, and the Browns, and the Smiths — and their fathers don't make the money you do, Caudle — when they see them as fine as tulips? Why, they must think themselves nobody...
Página 88 - Ha ! that shows what you think of your wife : I dare say if it was with any of your club friends — any of your pothouse companions — you'd have no objection to venison. I say if — -What do you mutter? Let it be venison? Very well. And now about the fish? What do you think of a nice turbot?
Página 59 - How much ? Now, don't be in a hurry ! Well, I think, with good pinching — and you know, Caudle, there's never a wife who can pinch closer than I can — I think, with pinching, I can do with twenty pounds. What did you say? Twenty fiddlesticks? What! You won't give half the money ? Very well, Mr.
Página 19 - I'm sure. But they shall go to school. Don't tell me I said they shouldn't : you are so aggravating, Caudle ; you'd spoil the temper of an angel. They shall go to school ; mark that. And if they get their deaths of cold, it's not my fault — I didn't lend the umbrella.

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