Happy ThoughtsRoberts Brothers, 1873 |
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answer antigropelo Beckenhurst Bob Englefield Boodels says Boodels's boots Bovor Castle Brighton Brounton butler Byng Byng's carriage CHAPTER Childers Chopford chub comes Country friend croquet dibbling dinner dogs door drag the pond drawbridge drawing-room dress earwig explain F. C. BURNAND feel fellow Feudal Castle fish fool footman gentleman give gold-fish groom half-aunt hand Happy Thought head hear horse idea joke ladies laugh lillibullero look luggage machicolated mean Milburd says Miss Fridoline Miss Harding Miss Pellingle Miss Symperson morning Moselle n't know never night Note Nova Scotia play porter portmanteau Poss Felmyr practical joke punt Ratcatcher recollect repartee reply returns sleep smile sniggling sort stairs Station-master Stenton stop suddenly suppose talk tell thanks there's thing ticket tiddledy to-morrow turn Typical Developments walk wasps watch Whist whole-uncle window wish wonder write
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Page 118 - ... as may then be there, to answer to the said charge, and to be further dealt with according to law.
Page 299 - For better for worse, for richer for poorer, till death us do part," is no longer the sole and solemn bond of matrimony.
Page 197 - Oh, yes, I had." I'd forgotten it. " Honours easy," says Stenton to me. I agree with him. Now, I've got to score with this confounded shilling, sixpence, half-crown, and a candlestick. Happy Thought. Ask Bob Englefield how he scores generally. He replies, " Oh, the usual way," and as he doesn't illustrate his meaning, his reply is of no use to me whatever. How can I find out without showing them that I don't know? Happy Thought (while CHILDERS deals'). Pretend to forget to score till next time. Englefield...
Page 266 - I'm showy ! Passing by a village grocer's. Happy Thouglit. — See myself in the window. Not bad ; but hardly " showy." Gaiters effective. Happy Thought. — If I stay long here, buy a saddle, and stirrups my own length. My weight, when he jogs, is too much on one stirrup. Fridoline asks, " Isn't this delightful ? " I say, " Charming." Milburd talks of riding as a science. He says, " The great thing in leaping is to keep your equilibrium.
Page 266 - Ho trots as if all his joints were loose. His tail appears to be a little loose in the socket, and keeps whisking round and round, judging from the sound. I go up and down, and from side to side. Happy Thought. — Are people ever sea-sick from riding? No scientific riding here ! Can't get my equilibrium. Ought to have had a string for my hat. Cram it on. I think, from the horse's habit of looking back sideways, that he's seen the loose antigropelo, and it has frightened him. He breaks into a gallop....
Page 22 - em. To fly — to whip — To moor and tie my boat up by the end To any wooden post, or natural rock We may be near to, on a Preservation Devoutly to be fished. To fly — to whip — To whip ! perchance two bream ;— and there 's the chub ! The Doctor has just come in to say my head must be kept cool.
Page 118 - These are therefore to command you, in Her Majesty's Name, to be and appear on...
Page 271 - You gentlemen of England who live at home at ease, how little do you think upon " the dangers of this infernal hunting.
Page 279 - Happy Thought. — If the long thin man will hold my horse while I go to Radsfort, I will give him half a sovereign. I offer this diffidently, because lie is such a respectablelooking person. Respectable-looking person closes with the offer immediately. Yellow gaiters and man in black propose to show me where the village is: for money. Is this the noble English character that we read of in the villages of our happy land ! Mercenary, dastardly, griping, gaping fools and cowards...