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After having tried in vain, even amongst the pert and the ugly, how great at last must be my rapture to have made a conquest over such sense and such heavenly beauty. Then turning to Jenkinson, 'As I cannot, Sir, part with this young lady myself, for she has taken a fancy to the cut of my face, all the recompence I can make is to give you her fortune, and you may call upon my steward to-morrow for five hundred pounds. Thus we had all our compliments to repeat, and Lady Thornhill underwent the same round of ceremony that her sister had done before.
This piece of service was repaid with the warmest professions of gratitude; but as my friend was to leave town in a few days, he knew no other method of serving me, but by recommending me to his uncle Sir William Thornhill, and another nobleman of great distinction, who enjoyed a post under the government.
Martin's-lane; and Hogarth, to forward the undertaking as far as he could, lent them the furniture, &c. formerly belonging to Sir James Thornhill's academy. The remaining part was left to Lady Thornhill, who lived several years with her son-in-law after the death of Sir James. The failure of all preceding attempts to form an academy was attributed by Mr.
But come, let us begone, and see this moral family, we shall meet them coming from the field, and you will see a man who was once in affluence, maintaining by hard labor a numerous family. "Arn. Oh! Thornhill, can you wish to add infamy to their poverty?
A dozen great muslin strips were tacked over the walls there, and two small figures, desperate, smudged, wearing the blue overalls Skeet Thornhill had waved at us, toiled manfully smearing the blossom festival colors on in lettering and ornamental designs. "Ina!" Skeet yawped at her sister, "Another dirty, low Irish trick!
Thornhill wants to sell them an old client of mine, Thornhill. He has applied to me on the matter. Do you think it an improvable property?" Randal listened with a livid cheek and a throbbing heart.
I remember nothing about his clothes save that they were dark in color and seemed to be new and admirably fitted. "'You are John Irons, Jr., and I am Henry Thornhill, said he. 'I saw you at Kinderhook where I used to live. I liked you then and, since the war began, I have known of your adventures.
His short stay in Paris was marked by two incidents trifling in themselves, but too characteristic of the man to be omitted. Lord Hertford, the British Ambassador, had just taken a magnificent hotel in Paris, and Sterne was asked to preach the first sermon in its chapel. The message was brought him, he writes, "when I was playing a sober game of whist with Mr. Thornhill; and whether I was called abruptly from my afternoon amusement to prepare myself for the business on the next day, or from what other cause, I do not pretend to determine; but that unlucky kind of fit seized me which you know I am never able to resist, and a very unlucky text did come into my head." The text referred to was 2 Kings XX. 15 Hezekiah's admission of that ostentatious display of the treasures of his palace to the ambassadors of Babylon for which Isaiah rebuked him by prophesying the Babylonian captivity of Judah. Nothing, indeed, as Sterne protests, could have been more innocent than the discourse which he founded upon the mal-
But they are not paramount, not universal, not unqualified. Iago is utterly overshadowed by Othello, Blifil by Alworthy, Tom Jones by Sophia Western, Squire Thornhill by Dr. Primrose, the reprobate Staunton by the good angel Jeanie Deans.
Norton appeared in the dining-room door with a tray, and simultaneously opened an endless monologue: "I don't know what you men will say to this, I'm sure nothing in the house but some coffee and a few crackers not even any canned soup, and I thought from the way things went yesterday he had ten thousand cans of it at the very least but men are all alike what name did you say? oh yes, Miss Thornhill, pleased to meet you, I'm sure excuse my not shaking hands as I was saying, men are all alike Norton thought if he brought home a roast on Saturday night it ought to last the week out "
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