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Clapp and to Mr. Fowler. I am, your's affectionately, 'May 28, 1768. Soon afterwards, he supped at the Crown and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, with a company whom I collected to meet him. They were Dr. Percy, now Bishop of Dromore, Dr. Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, Mr. Langton, Dr. Robertson the Historian, Dr. Hugh Blair, and Mr.

"Ay, an' we'd give you the same," returned Scaddhan, "if your's was gone, too; ha, ha, ha! it's not moneyless vagabones we want here." "No," said Shannon, "you first make them moneyless vagabones, an' then you kick them out o' doors, as you did him." "Exactly," said the hardened miscreant, "that's the way we live; when we get the skin off the cat, then we throw out the carcass."

When I'm gone, Jacobina will have no one to feed her. She'll feed herself will go to every larder, every house in the place your's best larder, best house; will come to you oftenest. If your wife attempts to drive her away, scratch her eyes out; if you disturb her, serve you worse than Joe Webster's little boy: wanted to prevent this won't now, d d if I do!"

You will understand my motive in pressing this upon you. God bless you, my dear old friend. Your's most affectionately, Robert Southey." As I determined to publish nothing relating to Mr. Coleridge, without Mr. Southey's sanction, my first impression, on the receipt of this letter, was, wholly to withdraw the work; but as I expected soon to see Mr.

"Not I, sir," was the answer, "nor should I wish to know him." The conversation dropped here; but when the party alighted to breakfast, Sheridan called aside the other gentleman and said, "Pray who is that very agreeable friend of your's? He is one of the pleasantest fellows I ever met with; I should be glad to know his name?" "His name is Mr.

I have sent in charge of the bearer of this three complete strings of amber; one of which will procure rice for forty days; the second will purchase milk or fowls for the same time; and the third will buy provisions for you on the road till you arrive at the Niger. "Your's July 28th. Rained all day. Remained in the tent at Nummasoolo. July 29.

In the foreign parts where I come from, when one man stands by another, as you've stood by me to-night, them two are brothers together afterwards. You needn't be a brother to me, if you don't like. I mean to be a brother to you, whether you like it or not. My name's Mat. What's your's?" "Zack," returned young Thorpe, clapping his new acquaintance on the back with brotherly familiarity already.

'Never mind its being under ground, Wishie, said the Fairy, 'that's no concern of your's; attend to what I am going to say to you. You are very fond of wishing, are you not? Wishie made no answer, for she felt rather ashamed; and the Fairy continued: 'I advise you, Wishie, as your friend, to give up such a bad trick, you will find it very inconvenient some day or other.

I agreed with him that you might knock Hume's and Smith's heads together, and make vain and ostentatious infidelity exceedingly ridiculous. Would it not be worth your while to crush such noxious weeds in the moral garden? 'You have said nothing to me of Dr. Dodd . I know not how you think on that subject; though the newspapers give us a saying of your's in favour of mercy to him.

After a time she asked him his first name, and he told her. "I'd like to know your's too, Miss Lawton," he suggested. "I wish you wouldn't call me Miss Lawton," she cried with sudden petulance. "Why, certainly not, if you don't want me to, but what am I to call you?" "Do you know," she confided with a pretty little gesture, "I have always disliked my real name. It's ugly and horrid.