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The little boy dutifully attending Toff to the gate, observed with grave surprise that his father snapped his fingers gaily at starting, and hummed the first bars of the Marseillaise. "Something is going to happen," said Toff's boy, on his way back to the house. From the Regent's Park to Blackacre Buildings is almost a journey from one end of London to the other.
One whole scene is almost translated from the Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes. Fidelia is Shakspeare's Viola stolen, and marred in the stealing; and the Widow Blackacre, beyond comparison Wycherley's best comic character, is the Countess in Racine's Plaideurs, talking the jargon of English instead of that of French chicane.
From Wycherley's 'Plain Dealer, it appears that in the time of Charles II. angry clients were accustomed to revile their lawyers as 'green bag-carriers. When the litigious Widow Blackacre upbraids the barrister who declines to argue for her, she exclaims "Impertinent again, and ignorant to me!
And Vargrave closed the door. "Legard go to Paris not if Evelyn goes there!" muttered Lumley. "Besides, I want no partner in the little that one can screw out of this blockhead." MR. BUMBLECASE, a word with you I have a little business. Farewell, the goodly Manor of Blackacre, with all its woods, underwoods, and appurtenances whatever. WYCHERLEY: Plain Dealer.
One whole scene is almost translated from the Critique de l'École des Femmes. Fidelia is Shakespeare's Viola stolen, and marred in the stealing; and the Widow Blackacre, beyond comparison Wycherley's best comic character, is the Countess in Racine's Plaideurs, talking the jargon of English instead of that of French chicane.
Surgeon Pinfold, Blackacre Buildings; there's the address. Good night." After Amelius had left him, Rufus remembered his promise to communicate with Regina by telegraph. With his strict regard for truth, it was no easy matter to decide on what message he should send.
And Vargrave closed the door. "Legard go to Paris not if Evelyn goes there!" muttered Lumley. "Besides, I want no partner in the little that one can screw out of this blockhead." MR. BUMBLECASE, a word with you I have a little business. Farewell, the goodly Manor of Blackacre, with all its woods, underwoods, and appurtenances whatever. WYCHERLEY: Plain Dealer.
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