United States or Zambia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Lady Bearcroft saw it, and, fearing no mortal, struck with the comic of that look of Lady Masham's, burst into laughter uncontrolled, and the contrast of dignity and gravity in Lady Davenant only made her laugh the more, till out of the room at last she ran.
"It'll happen to you first," said Timmy. "But this woman I was telling you about Masham's aunt " "Oh, do get on," said Timmy, for Jacob was laughing so much that he could not speak. "Masham's aunt..." Timmy laughed so much that he could not speak. "Masham's aunt..." "What is there about Masham that makes one laugh?" said Timmy. "Hang it all a man who swallows his tie-pin," said Jacob.
It was this uprightness and singleness of mind which rendered the Duchess unwilling to believe in the duplicity and the influence of her cousin. Warned of it by Mr. Mainwaring, it was not until she found in the Queen a defender of Mrs. Masham's secret marriage, that the Duchess was roused into suspicion.
I'd advise you to take a cigar. I'll take one, too, to keep you company, though I hate them. They always make me feel sick." So saying, he took a cigar and lit it. I felt bound to do the same, not only to relieve myself of Masham's importunity, but to avoid disturbing the harmony of our party at the very beginning of the day.
The little Venetia was a charming child, and the kind-hearted Doctor, though a bachelor, loved children. O! matre pulchrâ, filia pulchrior, was the Rev. Dr. Masham's apposite and favourite quotation after his weekly visit to Cherbury.
But I declare I would rather see that than a double one, like my Lady Masham's, with her spermaceti smile. And after all, do you know," continued Lady Bearcroft in a right vulgarly-cordial tone "Do you know now, really, the first anger over, I like Lady Davenant I protest and vow, even her pride I like it well became her birth and all, for I hear she is straight from Charlemagne!
Masham's admittance to close attendance on the Queen, the Duchess seemed in a constant state of irritation and annoyance. Her letters to Anne showed the mortification and vexation she endured, and prove the petty and ungrateful conduct of the bedchamber-woman, whose hold on the Queen's regard was sustained by a thousand mean and paltry instances of treachery to her benefactress.
Whipcord drove straight up to an inn in the town, where he ordered the horse and trap to be put up, while we all entered the smoky coffee-room and discussed the desirability of having dinner. "I thought we were going to picnic out of doors?" I said, mildly, in answer to Masham's appeal whether we should not order dinner where we were.
Masham's fire at the Towers; and she forgave him the lawlessness of his impulse for its warmth, bred in the narrow limits of a ship on the seas for three long months! how could he help it? Such a common story on shipboard, and ... such an uncommon ending! Ask the captains of passenger ships what they think, even now that ships steam twenty knots an hour.
Word Of The Day