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'Never can I forget the splendid figure he cut that day at Bagnigge Wells. We had driven down in our coach, and all the world marvelled at our magnificence. Jack was brave in a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat, and white silk stockings. That was a moment worth living for, and when, after his first bottle, Jack rattled the glasses, and declared himself a highwayman, the whole company shuddered.
He dresses for all the world like you, only worse, and wears a hat I would not be caught under at Bagnigge Wells, were I so imprudent as to go there." "Dr. Franklin has weightier matters than hats to occupy him, sir," I retorted. For I was determined to hold my own. He made a French gesture, a shrug of his thin shoulders, which caused me to suspect he was not always so good-natured. "Dr.
Like most Frenchwomen, she dances divinely; however, if you object to Bagnigge Wells and dancing, go to Brighton, and remain there a month or two, at the end of which time you can return with your mind refreshed and invigorated, and materials, perhaps, for a tale or novel. 'I never heard a more foolish, plan, said I, 'or one less likely to terminate profitably or satisfactorily.
Now my plan is this Take the money, dress yourself fashionably, and conduct Annette's sister to Bagnigge Wells." "And what should we do at Bagnigge Wells?" "Do!" said Francis Ardry. "Dance!" "But," said I, "I scarcely know anything of dancing." "Then here's an excellent opportunity of improving yourself.
Whatever truth there may be in both those assertions, there is no gainsaying the fact that the prosperity of Bagnigge Wells dates from a discovery made by a Mr. Hughes, the tenant of the house, in 1757. This Mr. Hughes took a pride in his garden, and was consequently much distressed to find that the more he used his watering-can, the less his flowers thrived. At this juncture a Dr.
The character of the frequenters had changed for the worse. Instead of "gouty old souls," and "rheumatics," and "asthmaticks," the most noted Cyprians of the day had made the place their rendezvous. So the poet sings of "Thy arbours, Bagnigge, and the gay alcove, Where the frail nymphs in am'rous dalliance rove."
But it seemed as if the Fates had determined against Lord Bagnigge, for the very next day, riding in the Park, his horse fell with him; he was carried home to his house with a fractured limb and a dislocated shoulder; and the doctor's bulletins pronounced him to be in the most dangerous state. Martingale was a married man, and there was no danger of HIS riding by the Fitzbattleaxe carriage.
James Green, so well known as a distinguished amateur and conwivialist, both at Bagnigge Wells, and Vite Conduit House, LONDON, had werry kindly consented, in order to promote the hilarity of the evening, to favour the company with a song immediately after the drawing of the next lottery," and after a few high-flown compliments, which elicited a laugh from those who were up to Jemmy's mode of doing business, he concluded by offering a papier-maché tea-caddy for public competition, in shilling lots as before.
Bagnigge was lying ill chez lui; and the five-and-twenty thousand were irrecoverably his. And he vowed he would buy Lord Binnacle's yacht crew, captain, guns and all. On returning home that night from Lady Polkimore's, Martingale found among the many billets upon the gold plateau in his antichambre, the following brief one, which made him start
He dresses for all the world like you, only worse, and wears a hat I would not be caught under at Bagnigge Wells, were I so imprudent as to go there." "Dr. Franklin has weightier matters than hats to occupy him, sir," I retorted. For I was determined to hold my own. He made a French gesture, a shrug of his thin shoulders, which caused me to suspect he was not always so good-natured. "Dr.
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