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His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to "one poor knight," his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! Another design shows that Rigdum, if a true, is also a moral and instructive prophet.
Rigdum Funnidos was in a hutch in the small garden under the cliff, Begum and two small gray kittens were in a basket under the kitchen stairs, Aga was purring under everybody's feet, Cocky was turning out the guard upon his perch -in short, Il Lido was made as like Silverfold as circumstances would permit.
You do not appreciate its power; you will now feel it." "I also am a subscriber to the 'Rigdum Funidos," said Waldershare, "and tell you frankly, Mr. St.
'And Rigdum Funnidos and Lady Rigdum? 'And Ruff and Ring? They are the sweetest doves in the world. 'Doves! Oh, Mysie, they would drive your aunt Ada distracted, with coo-roo-roo at four o'clock in the morning, just as she goes off to sleep. 'The Rigdums make no noise but a dear little chirp, triumphantly exclaimed Valetta. 'Do you mean the kittens? We have a vacancy for one cat, you know.
I have a retainer, I can tell you, my lord, from the 'Rigdum Funidos, in my pocket, and it is in my power to keep up such a crackling of jokes and sarcasms that a very different view would soon be entertained in Europe of what is going on here than is now the fashion. The 'Rigdum Funidos' is on the breakfast-table of all England, and sells thousands in every capital of the world.
Some of these became household proverbs at "the Folly," under the title of "Rigdum Funnidoses," and might well be an extreme distress to the good, reverent, and dutiful Jessie. Mrs.
In the earlier numbers of the Comic Almanac all the manners and customs of Londoners that would afford food for fun were noted down; and if during the last two years the mysterious personage who, under the title of "Rigdum Funnidos," compiles this ephemeris, has been compelled to resort to romantic tales, we must suppose that he did so because the great metropolis was exhausted, and it was necessary to discover new worlds in the cloud-land of fancy.
'Fanny was delighted with Silverfold. Macrae seems to have been the pink of politeness to her. 'She must come when the house is alive again, said Gillian. 'What would she think of it then! 'Oh, that would be perfectly delicious, cried Valetta. 'She would see Begum and Rigdum 'And I could show her how to work the lawn cutter, added Fergus.
You see," he added, recollecting as well as he could some Latin words he had heard used by the doctor, "the narves of the rigdum flagdum in circumnavigating through the humorous rusticus, deflastigated by the horrentibus oribus sort o' twist the aures arrectos into asinos, and that you see, to a man of larning makes the whole thing as clear as one of elder Sillyway's sarmons."
Halfpenny had regarded as 'mess, and utterly refused to let his aunts be 'fashed' with; while Valetta's orders were chiefly for the visiting all the creatures, so as to bring an exact account of the health and spirits of Rigdum Funnidos, etc., also for some favourite story-books which she wished to lend to Kitty Varley and Maura White.
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