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Not even these were more magnificent than Miss Ethel. General Jeremiah J. Bung's lady owned that Miss Newcome was fit to appear in any party in Fourth Avenue. She was the only well-dressed English girl Mrs. Bung had seen in Europe. A young German Durchlaucht deigned to explain to his aide-de-camp how very handsome he thought Miss Newcome. All our acquaintances were of one mind. Mr.
There was a slight mistake in the narrative; but we carried our man, with only a trifling sprinkling of black beans in the boxes: Byles's, of course, who blackballs everybody: and Bung's, who looks down upon a coal-merchant, having himself lately retired from the wine-trade. Some fortnight afterwards I saw Sackville Maine under the following circumstances: He was showing the Club to his family.
'That's a first name for it, he said. 'Hanged if we don't have it painted up! 'A sign of some kind is necessary. But isn't the old man likely to suffocate with that bung in? 'Not he; there's heaps o' breathin' in the cask. That bung's just to gag him awhile. That evening after tea the two sons, with old Peetree under guard between them, joined the mates at their fire.
Julien, sir; Bung's Leoville is considered remarkably fine; and I think you'd like Jugger's Chateau-Margaux. PAPWORTHY. 'Hum! hah! well give me a crust of bread and a glass of beer. I'll only LUNCH, Poppins. Captain Shindy is another sort of Club bore. He has been known to throw all the Club in an uproar about the quality of his mutton-chop. 'Look at it, sir! Is it cooked, sir? Smell it, sir!
This bung's about burst. What you longed for has come to pass. Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing under the yoke. Now for your punishment frock. You will shed your male garments, you understand, Ruby Cohen? and don the shot silk luxuriously rustling over head and shoulders. And quickly too! O crinkly! scrapy! Must I tiptouch it with my nails?
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