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Douglas Jerrold, in his amusing book, “Cakes and Ale,” quotes an exquisite essay written to prove the sufficiency of thirty pounds a-year for all a man’s daily wants and comforts allowing at least five shillings a quarter for the conversion of the Jews and in which every outlay is so nicely calculated, that it must be wilful eccentricity if the pauper gentleman, at the end of the year, either owes a shilling or has one.
Here's the whole afternoon spoiled for all three of us. He can't walk. You'll see he'll drop out in the first mile." "I shan't, Jerrold." And he didn't. He struggled on down the fields to Upper Speed and along the river-meadows to Lower Speed and Hayes Mill, and from Hayes Mill to High Slaughter.
Jerrold cannot go, at least not until I have seen him." "Why, captain, he got the colonel's permission at breakfast this morning." "That is true, no doubt, Mr. Hall." And the captain dropped his sharp and captious manner, and his voice fell, as though in sympathy with the cloud that settled on his face. "I cannot explain matters just now.
"Oh, Jerrold." She knew he was giving her Benjy because her mother was dead. "I've got the grey doe, and the fawn, and the lop-ear," he said. "Oh I shall love him." "You mustn't hold him too tight. And you must be careful not to touch his stomach. If you squeeze him there he'll die." "Yes. If you squeeze his stomach he'll die," Colin cried excitedly. "I'll be ever so careful."
But their plans were changed when they reached the wharf, for there they were met by a messenger who had been sent from Mr. Burton Jerrold with the intelligence that Grey's mother was very ill, and that Lucy must come at once with Grey without stopping at her own home.
All the while you were doing such wonderful, beautiful things with your pen in New York and being made so much of, I was thinking, 'What an inspiration Jerrold Fullerton would be as a real friend. But all the girls were " He laughed. "They won't trouble you, now." "But your friendship is worth more now than then." He shook his head. "It is because you are more than you were then."
It was Monday noon when they returned, and by three o'clock Fanny Sutton had told Nina Beaubien what she knew of the wonderful rumors that were floating in from Sibley. She was more than half disposed to be in love with Jerrold herself. She expected a proper amount of womanly horror, incredulity, and indignation; but she was totally unprepared for the outburst that followed.
Hall came out with Miss Renwick on his arm; they were chatting and laughing as they passed me, but the moment she caught sight of Jerrold and Miss Beaubien she stopped, and said, 'I think I won't stay out here; it's too chilly, or something like it, and went right in; and then Jerrold dropped Miss Beaubien and went after her.
'I'm very sorry, he apologised, 'but the fact is, although we had the skeleton here it has er been mislaid. "That coroner's officer," went on Jerrold gravely, "is now looking over the excavations to see if it's possible to find a few odds and ends to hold the inquest on. But I see Mr. Green's getting impatient. Don't let me keep you."
Burton Jerrold, respected by every one, and, what to his narrow mind was better still, he was looked upon as an aristocrat of the bluest type.
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