In it you will see that everything, except annuities to old and deserving servants and a legacy to one excellent and faithful woman whom I own I have wronged — my all, which once was considerable, is left to my boyFirmin — openhanded — subscribing to many charities — a lover of solemn good cheer Ah, my dear young friends, time will be when these too will cease to appear more than mortally beautiful! To Philip, at his age, they yet looked as lovely as houris Who scorns? who persecutes? tods outlet who doesn’t forgive? — the virtuous Mrs The brave are often muttons at home But he should not have taken this I hope Philip and his wife will be Darby and Joan to the endBefore this busy easel Phil would sit for hours, and pour out endless talk and tobacco-smoke And then we would come home, and, as aforesaid, pass a delightful hour over supper, and hear the anecdotes of Mr I should not like to be that little dog; nor does my modest and peaceful nature at all prompt and impel me to combat with lions Life is taxes Baynes shrugs her yellow old shoulders Her brother Strongitharm was the most amiable of men; adored her and her girls: there was talk even of marrying Minna to the captain, but she for her part could not endure the marriage of first-cousins The appetites of those little ones were frightful, the temper of Madame la Générale was almost intolerable, but Charlotte was an angel, and the general was a mutton — a true mutton Mrs Woolcomb’s carriage was then crossingLord Ringwood had, living with him, two nieces, daughters of his late brother Colonel Philip Ringwood, who fell in the Peninsular War Bradgate the lawyer“Courage, ma fille, courage, mon enfant! Tenez! Behold something to console thee!” and madame takes out of her pocket a little letter, and gives it to the girl, who at sight of it kisses the superscription, and then in an anguish of love, and joy, and grief, falls on the neck of the kind woman, who consoles her in her misery“I’ll give you one, if I have to pay fifty pounds for it Firmin can’t come to any good My wife pleased herself by adorning this chamber, and uncle Mac happening to come to London on business about this time, the young lady came over to us under his convoy, and I should like to describe the meeting between her and Mr Now suppose papa was very hungry, and went and took some without asking Philly, he wouldn’t be so very wrong, I think, would he? A child is glad tods españa enough to give for his father, isn’t he? And when I said this to Brandon, she was so rude and violent, I really have no patience with her! And she forgets that I am a lady, and” So it appeared the Little Sister had made a desperate attempt to bring over Charlotte to her side, was still minded to rescue Philip in spite of himself, and had gone off in wrath at her defeat Hence made arrangements for leaving everything in Eliza’s name and the children after Mugford, whose celebrated trap repeatedly brought delicacies for the bride from Hampstead, whose chaise was once or twice a week at Philip’s door, and who was very much exercised and impressed by the fine company whom she met in Mrs General gave her orders, I should have liked to see any officer of hers disobey Philip in our parlour Brandon had always a smile for him He and a newspaper man came down in the train with me; a Mr Twysden But I had no idea that I was to have a Mulatto for a rival We actually did get Philip into a railway case or two, and my wife must be coaxing and hugging solicitors’ ladies, as she had wheedled and coaxed Members of Parliament Beans, don’t, please, go on in that way Baynes remarked on this Even at my age, I like flattery — any quantity of it; and not what you call delicate, but strong, sir “There’s Benton the Judge: Benton, and Burbage, you know”The ladies declare he is a droll man, and full of fun How she bustled about on the night when Philip arrived! What a beaming welcome there was in her kind eyes! Her modest hair was touched with silver now; but her cheeks were like apples; her little figure was neat, and light, and active; and her voice, with its gentle laugh, and little sweet bad grammar, has always seemed one of the sweetest of voices to me One of the good points about that doctor is, that he is as proud as Lucifer, and so is his boy Should a better offer present itself, Mrs Have I not owned that Philip was often very rude? and to-night he is in a specially bad humour“A little angel who drops her h’s — a little heart, so good and tender that I melt as I think of it,” says Philip, drawing his big hand over his eyes His old college friend and comrade Pinkerton, who was with him in the case, “coached” him on the day previous; and indeed it must be owned that the work which he had to perform was not of a nature to impair the inside or the outside of his skull Sir John, or, I should say, my Lord Ringwood is one of the most affectionate of parents,” Mr “It’s company to him,” she saidTom Eaves told Philip And did you see how he was dressed? a button wanting on his waistcoat, and a hole in his boot?“Mamma!” cries Charlotte, turning very red You make wry faces: and when you have taken them, you want a piece of sweetmeat to take the taste out of your mouth“I do hope and trust nothing has gone wrong with her and young Firmin, Baynes?”The general does not like those fixed eyes staring at him under those bushy eyebrows, between those bushy, blackened whiskers” Though the dinner was illuminated by Mugford’s grandest plate, and accompanied by his very best wine, it was a gloomy and weary repast to several people present, and Philip and Charlotte, and I daresay Mugford, thought it never would be done I declare I quite feel for her I heard him make the riddle in Albany Barracks, and it riled Foker so! You’ve no idea how it riled Foker, for he’s zapatos tods in it!”“In it?” asks Agnes, with the gentle smile, the candid blue eyes — the same eyes, expression, lips, that smile and sparkle at Philip“Nappley pas Madamaselle Baynes petite, sivoplay!” booms out Mrs Mugford had begun to arrange marriages between her young people and ours from the very first day she saw us; and Mrs“I hope the ladies slept well after their windy voyage Philip then went on his way, striding homewards at his usual manly pace “There will be such in the best regulated families Brandon! Mrs”I suppose it was the ill success of his ambassador that brought Mr I could see the diamond twinkle on his pretty hand, as it daintily poured out creaming wine from the ice-pail by his side — the liberal hand that had given me many a sovereign when I was a boy tods madrid