“You had no objection in that case, sir,” this logician would say When Ridley the Academician had the small-pox, she attended him, and caught the malady Firmin By which I conclude they are city gentlemen Thank you, old boy I married your mother — Heaven help her, poor soul! and forgive me for being but a harsh husband to her — with a view of mending my shattered fortunes It was not you who did this You seem as if you were one of us A card for the ball was left at Madame Smolensk’s , for General, Mrs She now asked for it repeatedly in her walks at sundry ginger-beer shops, and of all sorts of newsvendors By Jove, sir, how happy and how miserable I have been behind that green blind!” And my tods driving shoes friend shakes his large fist at the somewhat dilapidated mansion, whence Madame de Smolensk and her boarders have long since departed“I am very sorry! I would do anything to oblige you, but I can’t help being a gentleman!” growls Philip He was irresistibly comical”“It’s no good, Agnes, that dog,” says the gentleman (he has very curly, not to say woolly hair, under his natty little hat) He is likely enough to accuse her of the robbery,” says the doctor That was once a man, as old Marlborough said, looking at his own picture Could he have had his will, the borough would have continued to return two members to Parliament, as in the good old times before us I might have been Fellow of my college — had a living — married a good wife — risen to be a bishop, by George! — for I had great talents, Caroline; only I was so confounded idle, and fond of the cards and the bones I suspect, Maria, the men must know what devilish bad tempers the girls have got And Miss Baynes makes a curtsey, and her eyes look up at the handsome young man — large brown honest eyes in a comely round face, on each side of which depend two straight wisps of brown hair that were ringlets when they left Folkestone a few hours since A clever man? Yes Have you tods loafers never heard to what lengths some bankrupts will go? To appease the wolves who chase them in the winter forest, have you not read how some travellers will cast all their provisions out of the sledge? then, when all the provisions are gone, don’t you know that they will fling out perhaps the sister, perhaps the mother, perhaps the baby, the little, dear, tender innocent? Don’t you see him tumbling among the howling pack, and the wolves gnashing, gnawing, crashing, gobbling him up in the snow? Oh, horror — horror! My wife draws all the young ones to her breast as I utter these fiendish remarks “To succeed at the law, as in all other professions,” he continued, with much gravity, “requires the greatest perseverance, and industry, and talent; tods outlet and then, perhaps, you don’t succeed You have a great career before you, Chesham He scarcely contradicted a single person; and perhaps, when Larkins said Scumble’s last picture was beautiful, or Bogle, the critic of the Connoisseur, praised Bowman’s last novel, contented himself with a scornful “Ho!” and a pull at his whiskers by way of protest and denial But Woolcomb was so stingy that he grudged the meat which his wife ate, and would give none to her relations Hunt!” cried Philip, jumping up, and clenching his great fists, “I should desire nothing better Phil was thoughtful and silent Twysden “Mamma — mamma! it’s uncle Mac!” these innocents cried, as they ran to the railings “Poor fellow! His shirts was in a dreadful way when he went away from here, and that you know, ma’am Behind these fortifications the veterans awaited their enemy, who, after marching up and down the room for a while, takes position finally in their front and prepares to attack I am sure it is very kind of elderly and ill-complexioned people to supply the ravages of time or jaundice, and present to our view a figure blooming and agreeable, in place of an object faded and withered These two good women had made a sentimental hero of him O me! O my beloved congregation! I have preached this stale sermon to you for ever so many years” Yes, I say, women prefer to have tyrants over them That’s your meaning Gone out to pay some visits Oves’s bar; so that by lifting up the sash of the window which communicates between the two apartments, that good-natured woman may put her face into the club-room, and actually be one of the society ”“And — and his father’s , too?” asks Caroline, anxiously B Philip was a schoolboy no longer, but in his second year at the university, and one of half-a-dozen young men, ex-pupils of the school, who had come up for the annual dinner Sometimes Mrs This reticence makes me wildPhilip Firmin, then, was immensely moved by this magnanimity and kindness on the part of his old employer, and has always considered Mugford’s arrival and friendliness as a special interposition in his favour The lights burned dimly, and the kisses and laughter under the mistletoe were but melancholy sport Woolsey; having intended in the first instance to confer that honour upon Charlotte The dinner was a little late, from some reason best known in the lower regions On which her general said, “By George, Eliza, that’s the point you are thinking of Whenever he drew upon poor Philip for little sums, his letters were sure to be especially magniloquent and hopeful I know, dear ladies, you are angry at this statement Farewell, pretty Charlotte, with your sweet face, and sweet voice, and kind eyes! But why, pray, is Mr But she desires me never to forget your kindness to us, and though I don’t know anything about it now, she promises to tell me when I am old enough As for Bunch, Bunch said to Baynes, “Cool hand, that young fellow!” and winked “Sir,” Philip used to say, describing this period of his life, on which and on most subjects regarding himself, by the way, he was wont to be very eloquent, “when my income was raised to five thousand francs a year, I give you my word I was considered to be rich by my French acquaintance As for me, I know I am not angelical at all; and in walking my native earth, can’t help a little mud on my trousers “Suppose, Sir John had told his butler to put up one of his blue coats and brass buttons for me, as well as pay the cab?”“If it was meant in kindness, Philip, we must not be angry,” pleaded Philip’s wife; — “and I am sure if you had heard her and the Miss Ringwoods speak of baby, you would like them as I intend to do“Isn’t tods sale it a dear cloak?” cries mamma: “and doesn’t baby look like an angel in it? I bought it at Miss Isaacson’s to-day, as you got your money from New York; and oh, my dear, it only cost five guineas That’s your meaning