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Page 65 - Continental travellers assuring it that the rollicking peer had settled down, had married a handsome, showy wife, and intended closing a hitherto somewhat shady career as a respectable member of the upper ten thousand. It was marvellous how well his virtues were remembered, and the escapades of his early life merely alluded to as pleasant frolics, or else not alluded to at all. His lordship had been a little wild, a little reckless, and, some elderly cynics added, a little brutal, in his pleasures...
Page 269 - Monday fortnight, he means," growled Giggley, as he took hia part, with 'a sneer. " Monday, Mr. Giggley, by gad, sir !'' replied the stage-manager. " Is this all the part ?" said Miss MelLington with a sweet smile, hastily looking over the leaves of the manuscript handed to her.
Page 94 - Bobus went up to the unwelcome visitor and sternly commanded him to quit the premises. But the stranger was now fast relapsing into a maudlin phase of inebriety, and he commenced sobbing and mumbling in an incoherently hysterical manner, very unpleasant to listen to, but to which Mr. Ledbitter did listen very attentively nevertheless. " An ungrateful gal ! an ungrateful, bad, cruel gal !" he whimpered through his sobs and moans. "She's no heart, never had; nor her mother, — no heart and no pity...
Page 69 - ... head, and so suggestive of pecuniary independence his general appearance on the parade. It was during this severe illness that his master, who he thought could never get on without him, — and very badly, it must be confessed, he did get on, — it was during this illness, we say, that Lord Glenburn met a certain lady and made her his wife. When Ledbitter heard of it, he stared in the blankest amazement, and an expression of annoyance and even of anger passed over his pale face, and a fierce...
Page 230 - ... never deceived him. He had " reckoned up" Horace Bentley about two minutes after his entrance ; and the more grandiloquently that highly genteel youth talked, the more convinced was Tindal that the conjectures he had formed were correct. Like most " good fellows" Tindal had no delicacy, and so he cut abruptly into the conversation by asking Horace how he intended to get his living. There is about some impertinencies a boldness which robs them of their irritating quality, and in Tindal's question...
Page 87 - Bobus flung baok the imputation. Him go in for universal suffrage, and have his barman voting against his landlord, maybe; him wish for a parcel of ragamuffins to get into power, and order about respectable people; him attempt to shake the foundations of Church and State, and upset the 'ole framework of society, indeed ! (Hear, hear.) No ; he didn't admire the spirit of the age. (
Page 51 - ... for the casual guest to behold. Cook, who never remained long in her place, invariably commenced with a battle-royal for her rights ; but Miss Pinto went at the great whale of a woman with her little sword-fish severity and sharpness, and speedily came up-stairs from the scene of strife flushed but triumphant. The physic-boys — there were two — would hide at her approach ; and once, when she was kept to her room for a week through influenza, those poor lads said it was as good as a holiday...
Page 262 - Mellington's kept every body waiting," continued Slagg ; " she's always doing it. By gad, the airs that girl gives herself are dis-gusting. In my time actresses attended to their profession, and came at the time they were called; but now, by gad — " Slagg suddenly ceased, for Miss Mellington had entered the room. Miss Julia Mellington, the tremendous favourite of favourites at the Criterion Theatre, was a rather pretty woman, a little over the middle height, with no feature in her face worth mentioning,...
Page 283 - A man looks so absurd with his foot ji in flannel, and a roar upon his lips when any body comes within a yard of the afflicted member. Any thing on the lungs, a fever, a fractured or dislocated limb, — these arouse sympathy ; but gout is always associated with cross-grained guardians in comedies, and wealthy old squires who take too much port ; and it is so eminently respectable that it appears quite a complaint to be proud of. So Lady Glenburn had never apprehended any thing serious when her lord...
Page 220 - Why, Joe !" And the two old friends shook hands as if they were determined on dislocation at the very least. How strangely delightful it is to meet in after life an old loved schoolfellow, of whom we have lost sight since adverse currents parted us on the broad rushing river of life ! When the heart has grown a trifle callous from contact with the world ; when selfish surroundings have somewhat deadened the warm friendly impulses to which we once were prone ; when we have learnt to commence any acquaintanceship...