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Page 111 - Your pensive, melancholy beauty is the most insipid thing in nature. And yet we often see features without a mind ; and the owner of them sits in the room with you, like a mere vegetable, for an hour together, till at last she is incited to the violent exertion of, ' Yes, Sir '
Page 185 - Sir Bash. That I deny : it is the very identical letter my lady threw away with such indignation. She tore it in two, and I have pieced it together.
Page 230 - I am going to visit— no following me from place to place : and if we should chance to meet, and you should perceive a man of wit or a pretty fellow speaking to me, I will not have you fidgetting about on your chair, knitting your brow, and looking at your watch — " My dear, is it not time to go home? — my love, the coach is waiting :"— and then, if you are prevailed upon to stay, I will not have you converse with a
Page 23 - He has strange notions about the dignity of a husband. There is a secret, which he would fain tell me, and yet he is shy, and he hints, and he hesitates, and then he retreats back into himself, and ends just where he began. But with all his faults, he has fits of good nature.
Page 114 - Ma'am it was not the play — pardon me Sir — but ma'am, — but Sir — I would not play with you for straws; don't you know what Hoyle says ? — If A and B are 'partners against C and D, and the game nine all, A and B have won three tricks, and C and D four tricks; C leads his suit, D puts up the King, then returns the suit; A passes, C puts up the queen, and B trumps it...
Page 165 - ... at the door with coaches and chairs, enough to hurry a body out of one's wits. Lard, this is another thing, and you look quite like another thing, Ma'am, and that dress quite becomes you. I suppose, Ma'am, you will never wear your negligee again.
Page 111 - There must be very little taste left, if you have not a number of bidders. You know the ambition of my heart ; you know I am devoted to you, upon any terms, even though it were to be bought with life.
Page 56 - ... myself? Did I know whether I stood upon my head or my heels for half an hour together ? And did not a great man from the Treasury-bench tell me never to speak again ? Lady Cons.
Page 370 - I have heard that Belinda came to your house: on what business I do not know. I hope, Sir John, that you do not harbour the girl, to disturb the peace and happiness of a father. Sir John. That imputation, sir Lady R.
Page 179 - You are mighty kind, indeed, sir — but I thank you as much as if you had really done me the favour : and, Mrs Lovemore, I'm your humble servant, too. She intends to laugh all the rest of her life ! This letter will change her note. Yonder she comes along the gallery, and sir Brilliant in full chase of her. They come this way. Could I but detect them both now ! I'll step aside, and who knows but the devil may tempt them to their undoing.