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'Too true, too true, indeed, said Mrs. Weller, murmuring a groan, and shaking her head assentingly. 'Well, said Sam, 'I des-say they may be, sir; but wich is your partickler wanity? Wich wanity do you like the flavour on best, sir? 'Oh, my dear young friend, replied Mr. Stiggins, 'I despise them all. If, said Mr.
'Don't you see you've hit the gen'l'm'n? 'I didn't go to do it, Sammy, said Mr. Weller, in some degree abashed by the very unexpected occurrence of the incident. 'Try an in'ard application, sir, said Sam, as the red-nosed gentleman rubbed his head with a rueful visage. 'Wot do you think o' that, for a go o' wanity, warm, Sir? Mr. Stiggins made no verbal answer, but his manner was expressive.
You're honely in the hinfancy of the istoryonic hart you know; your performers never haspirate the haitch in sich vords for instance as hink and hoats, and leave out the w in wice wanity you know; and make nothink of homittin the k in somethink." There is much more in the same style, but, perhaps, this may suffice.
There is a carelessness somewhere it is hard to say where about the printing, which prevents their being perfect; but a "Sandby" is a very nice thing. My next "wanity" is a Virgil, Justice's Virgil; a most elaborate and elegant edition, in five octavo volumes, published in the middle of the last century.
I have gave myself up," she affirmed quietly, but with a quiver in her voice. "You have gave yourself up!" her father incredulously repeated. "Yes, sir. And I'm loosed of all things that belong to the world. And now I feel fur wearin' the plain dress, fur that's according to Scripture, which says, 'all is wanity!"
Stiggins 'if there is any one of them less odious than another, it is the liquor called rum. Warm, my dear young friend, with three lumps of sugar to the tumbler. 'Wery sorry to say, sir, said Sam, 'that they don't allow that particular wanity to be sold in this here establishment. 'Oh, the hardness of heart of these inveterate men! ejaculated Mr. Stiggins.
Aunt Flint made a bargain with me, and, oh my! I thought it good enough to leave the country and come up to a town whose name is wanity. Nothing have I got, Miss Jasmine, from my share of the bargain but a swimming head and the name of Sarah!" "If this young person will cease to interrupt us," proceeded the editor, in his blandest tones. "Oh, yes; Poppy, please stop talking," said Jasmine.
Primrose said a few words of farewell and regret, and then Poppy set out, determined to take her chance of finding Jasmine and Daisy at home. "I'll go back to my own place to-night," she said to herself, "and tell my mother that wanity of wanities is London my fifteen shillings will just buy me a single third, and I needn't eat nothing until to-morrow morning."
I s'pose with you and your kind, when He comes to you, He calls you Mister Mark Hope." This rather took me back, and I stammered a feeble protest, but he did not heed me. Turning to Mary, he went on: "And you, Mary Warden, I s'pose at such times you are 'Miss. What wanity! What wanity! Politeness, they calls it. Politeness?
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