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However, while such stories are going about, it is certainly better for his sake and ours that he should not play in any of our games." "Certainly," said Selby. "If he cannot offer us a proper explanation, I for one should object to play with him. But never mind him at present. It is high time that we should get ready for our game. Have you prepared the football, Bracebridge?
He also repeats the fat jokes of old Major Pendergast, the wit of the club, and which, though the general can hardly repeat them for laughing, always make Mr. Bracebridge look grave, he having a great antipathy to an indecent jest. In a word, the general is a complete instance of the declension in gay life, by which a young man of pleasure is apt to cool down into an obscene old gentleman.
At the same time, I believe that they are more connected, and the importance of the latter is greater than some people are apt to suppose. Bracebridge, Buttar, Bouldon, and Gregson were waiting to welcome Ellis when he got down from the coach, which passed through the village, half-a-mile from the house. They all, as they walked home, had a great deal to say, and a great deal to tell him.
"That fellow Blackall and his tongue is a pest to society. If he simply bullied he could do very little harm; but, I say, what is the matter with Ellis? how pale and wretched he looks!" "Bracebridge," said Ellis, coming round to him hurriedly, "who is this fellow Barber? Where does he come from? Do you know? Oh, tell me!" "From Doctor Graham's at Hampstead. I know for certain.
His first movement showed clearly that he was much inclined to break the articles of peace, but when he saw the formidable array of boys drawn up on either side of him, with Bracebridge at the head of one party, and Buttar at that of the other, discretion prevailed, and with a sulky, downcast look, he turned round and walked away across the fields in an opposite direction to that which he saw the hostile armies were taking.
Here "Bracebridge Hall" the original of which was Aston Hall was written, and in this house some of the most delightful letters published in Irving's biography were penned. After a few years, Mr. Van Wart finally removed to "The Shrubbery" in Hagley Road, where he continued to reside until his death.
They had separate sleeping-rooms, where they might study, and they enjoyed a considerable amount of liberty. One day Bouldon came into Ernest's room in high glee. "Come along, Bracebridge; it's all settled! You are to go, and so is Ellis. We are to be back in four days; but we will enjoy those four days thoroughly." "I have no doubt that we shall," said Ernest quietly, looking up from his desk.
Ernest and his party were then at a distance, playing up towards the last hole. "Well, to my mind, after all, it is only like a game of marbles, played with a little leathern ball instead of a stone, and a stick instead of one's knuckles," sneered Blackall. Dawson echoed the sentiment. "How that fellow Bracebridge can find anything to like in it, I do wonder," he remarked.
Oh, the game that you rich folks have in your hands, if you would but play it! Such a man as Colonel Bracebridge now, with the tongue of the serpent, who can charm any living soul he likes to his will, as a stoat charms a rabbit. Or you, sir, with your tongue: you have charmed one precious creature already. I can see it: though neither of you know it, yet I know it.
The Sketch-book, and Bracebridge Hall; Being Pictures of English Country Life. By Washington Irving. A new edition, complete in one volume foolscap 8vo., with an illustration, 8s. Robinson Crusoe, With illustrations by the inimitable Phiz, the complete edition, including his further Adventures, with Life of the Author. Fcap. 8vo., 8s. 6d. Oliver Goldsmith,
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