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"He laughed at the simplicity of this well-meaning benefactor, who was shown nineteen processes for rent, and who shelled out very liberally at the sight." "Seventeen of them were old ones! The rent had already been paid. But whenever an English gobemouche called around out came the old writs until they were clean worn out. They were a splendid source of income while they lasted."
In fact, the term "English tourist" has come to mean the same as gobemouche in France; and clever Pat knows well enough that there is not a fly in the whole region of fable which is too large for the brutal Saxon to swallow.
But the "Half-way House" is passed by this time, and behold! we are in the capital of King Otho. The shabbiness of this place actually beats Ireland, and that is a strong word. How could people who knew Leopold fancy he would be so "jolly green" as to take such a berth? It was only a gobemouche of a Bavarian that could ever have been induced to accept it.
The bird called by Buffon grand gobemouche has never been found in Demerara, although very common in Cayenne. He is not quite so large as the jackdaw, and is entirely black, except a large spot under the throat, which is a glossy purple. You may easily sail from Cayenne to the river Surinam in two days.
People seemed to think that Ali Baba would smell sweeter under some other name. This was a mistake. Almost everything you are told in Simla is a mistake. You should never believe anything you hear till it is contradicted by the Pioneer. I suppose the Government of India is the greatest gobemouche in the world.
Well of Maseen. Rate of Travelling. Our Ghafalah divides in two on account of the difficulty of obtaining Water for so large a Caravan. Es-Sărāb, or The Mirage. Gobemouche Politicians. Camels, fond of dry Bones. Geological Features of Plateau. Desert Tombs and Tumuli Directors. Intense cold of The Desert. Well of Nather. Savage Disposition of Camels. Mr. Fletcher's advice to Desert Tourists.
Not, however, all evil, as I am proud to think, has been the influence of the Snob of England upon Clubs in general: Captain Shindy is afraid to bully the waiters any more, and eats his mutton-chop without moving Acheron. Gobemouche does not take more than two papers at a time for his private reading.
She has the graces, sir, of a Venus with the mind of a Muse. She is a siren, sir, without the dangerous qualities of one. She is hallowed, sir, by her misfortunes as by her genius; and I am proud to think that my instructions have been the means of developing the wondrous qualities that were latent within her until now." "You don't say so!" says gobemouche Fitz-Urse. Having thus indoctrinated Mr.
Not like your Albion if it is yours who is a great gobemouche stuffed full of cotton, steaming with fog, clutching gold with one hand and the Bible with the other, that she may swell her money-bags, and seem a saint all the same; never laughing, never learning, always growling, always shuffling, who is like this spider look! a tiny body and huge, hairy legs pull her legs, the Colonies, off, and leave her little English body, all shriveled and shrunk alone, and I should like to know what size she would be then, and how she would manage to swell and to strut?"
I say the old women of the other sex are not more talkative or more mischievous than some of these. "Such a man ought not to be spoken to," says Gobemouche, narrating the story and such a story! "And I am surprised he is admitted into society at all." Yes, dear Gobemouche, but the story wasn't true; and I had no more done the wicked deed in question than I had run away with the Queen of Sheba.
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