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I quarrel with no lady's taste in that way; but heigho! I had rather that Mrs. Fitz-Boodle should read "Humphry Clinker!" Besides these works, there was a "Peerage," of course. What genteel family was ever without one?
'I am told that it is given with great success to infants, as a cordial in the confluent small-pox. Humphry Clinker. Letter of Sept. 3. Regale in this sense is not in Johnson's Dictionary. It was, however, a favourite word at this time. Thus, Mrs.
"Ain't he a little clinker?" said Monkey Brand in hushed voice. "They say Mr. Silver refused £600 for him at Hurlingham. And he took champion at the Poly Pony Show." The girl's hand travelled down the pony's neck with firm, strong, rhythmical stroke. "Heart of Oak!" she purred affectionately. Ragamuffin, the old roan pony in the next stall, began to move, restless and irritable.
"'Humphrey Clinker," says he, "is, I do believe, the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." This is strong praise, though but of a single book; yet it falls short of the general estimate that Walter Scott formed of the capacity of our author.
The instant the beam tips, the connection is broken and the feed stops instantly, thus rendering it impossible to introduce any more material until the charge has been unloaded. The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application.
Cricklander made no mysteries about what she required Miss Clinker's companionship for. She explained minutely that should any special dinner-party or rencontre with any great person be in view, Miss Clinker must do a sort of preparatory cramming for her, as boys are prepared for examinations.
But her memory was her misfortune, for if Miss Clinker instructed her, for instance, in all the different peculiarities of the styles of Keats and Shelley, a week after she would have forgotten which was which because both bored her to distraction and she would have to be reminded again.
It is a wonderfully sporting one; and last season these hounds never had a bad Saturday, and often a 'clinker' resulted. Here again one can never anticipate what sort of ground will be traversed; but the best of it consists of a fine open country of grass and plough intermingled, the fields being intersected by small flying fences and exceptionally wide and deep ditches.
The Long Island coast lay to port, a narrow band of ochre, and all about lay the heaving gray of mighty waters, in which the Fledgling was a black speck. Dan's hat was off and his red-gold hair was flying wild; his teeth were bared. He was always thus in a fight. This was one; a dandy a clinker! He gave the wheel another spoke and the Fledgling slued across a sea and smashed down hard.
And Priscilla said to herself: "She's prayin' to them Immortals, I expect. Well, whoever she prays to, she is a precious saint." Meanwhile, John Derringham lay betwixt life and death and was watched over by the kind eye of Arabella Clinker.
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