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Updated: June 21, 2025


"By the by, I am too familiar I am sunk in the world. I am a thing to be sneered at by you old-family people. I am next heir to a bran-new Brummagem peerage. 'Gad, I feel brassy already!" "What, is Mr. Templeton " "Mr. Templeton is no more; he is defunct, extinguished out of the ashes rises the phoenix Lord Vargrave.

"No more there an't my old father always used to say it was of no use hitting it for it always broke his knuckles. Well, it was kind of you to jin mande after so many years. The last time I think I saw you was near Brummagem, when you were travelling about with Jasper Petulengro and I say, what's become of the young woman you used to keep company with?" "I don't know." "You don't?

So perfect, indeed, is the imitation, that the excellence of her work may, perhaps, defeat its own purpose, and the lacquered imitation of woman may satisfy the world, and for long ages prevent any anxious inquiry after the real feminine Brummagem."

Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanismy own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing. I tell you what, brother, I once heard a wise man say in Brummagem, thatthere is nothing like blowing one’s own horn,” which I conceive to be much the same thing as writing one’s own lil.’ After a little more conversation, Mr.

He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy. So he went home glad that he had asked the fortunate question. The girl would accept a little thing like a genuine earldom, she was merely prejudiced against the brummagem article.

Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing. I tell you what, brother, I once heard a wise man say in Brummagem, that "there is nothing like blowing one's own horn," which I conceive to be much the same thing as writing one's own lil.

That you should stick up me, one of your closest friends, a man that worked himself to the bone when you stood for the division and all for the sake of a Brummagem watch and a few shillings is simply incredible." "Simply incredible," repeated the magistrate, with a smile. "And then those actresses, poor little devils, who have to earn all they get. I followed you down the road, you see.

In this intermediate state flourished, at the time I speak of, one Joseph Baines, a fat, small-eyed youth, with immense pendent pallid cheeks, rejoicing in the sobriquet of "Buttons," his father being eminent in that line in the Midland Metropolis. The son was Brummagem to the back-bone.

These divers, by the way, never seemed to trouble about the value of the treasure they were constantly bringing to the surface. They thought themselves well paid if they were given plenty of rice and fish, turtles' eggs and fowls, in addition to such luxuries as spices, coffee, and "Brummagem" jewellery, of a kind which is too well known to need description.

A work-table of rosewood inlaid with brass, which had been a wedding-present, and was a costly thing originally, but in that peculiar taste which is vulgarly called "Brummagem," stood at hand: the brass had started in several places, and occasionally made great havoc in the children's fingers and in Mrs.

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