 To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...  London Society - Page 108edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Katherine Thomson - 1861 - 714 pages
...says, after relating how he had met Mrs. Howard, Sirs. Bellenden, arid Mrs. Lepell, at Hampton Court, ' that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, nr ;1 wished that every woman -who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham in a morning,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1862 - 264 pages
...gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 pages
...better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. H.* We all agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all things the most miserable, and wished that...every woman who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat "Westphalian ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches in borrowed hacks, come home in the heat... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 pages
...opportunity of conversation with Mrs. H.ยง We all agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all tilings the most miserable, and wished that every woman who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalian ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches in -borrowed hacks, come home in the heat... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...a dinner, with something I liked 4 better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We ail agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges... | |
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