 ... and she now adopted him.' This venerable woman amused herself latterly in taming and patronising rats. She kept a vast number of these animals in her pay at Auchans, and they succeeded in her affections to the poets and artists whom she had loved...  Troon & Dundonald - Página 129por John Kirkwood - 1876 - 144 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Chambers - 1825 - 330 páginas
...affections to the poets and artists whom she had loved in early life. It does not reflect much credit upon the latter, that her Ladyship used to complain of never having met with gratitude except from four-footed animals ; but perhaps her Ladyship ought to have taken into account,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 366 páginas
...affections to the poets and artists whom she had loved in early life. It does not reflect much credit upon the latter, that her ladyship used to complain of...wainscot of her dining-room, which she tapped upon and opened at meal-times, when ten or twelve jolly rats came tripping forth, and joined her at table.... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 páginas
...affections the poets and artists she had loved in early life. It does not reflect much credit upon the latter, that her ladyship used to complain of...wainscot of her dining-room, which she tapped upon and opened at meal times, when ten or twelve jolly rats came tripping forth, and joined her at table.... | |
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