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Well, look here, there is a 'Grande Occasion' there!" and the enraptured girl pointed to letters at least two inches high, printed across the sheet of the newspaper. "Look! a 'Grande Occasion!" "And pray what's that, Sophy?" Mrs. Cockayne asked. "What grand occasion, I should like to know." "Dear me, mamma," Theodosia murmured, "it means an excellent opportunity." "My dear," Mrs.
Betrayed by a friend and countryman, named Cockayne, the unhappy Jackson took poison in prison, and expired in the dock. Tone had been seen with Jackson, and through the influence of his friends, was alone protected from arrest. He was compelled, however, to quit the country, in order to preserve his personal liberty.
It is certain that she was an excellent mother to her three daughters, for she reminded Cockayne every night regularly as regularly, he said, as he took his socks off that if it were not for her, she did not know what would become of the children. She was quite sure their father wouldn't trouble his head about them. Perhaps Mrs. Cockayne was right.
While the two gentlemen still talked, Miss Bowen stood secretly listening, but apparently watching the rich twilight that coloured the long sweep of the Regent's Park trees a pretty sight, even though in the land of Cockayne. "There's a carriage at our door!" screamed Missy from the balcony, receiving a hurried maternal reproof for ill-behaviour. Mrs.
Cockayne to her daughters, "it would be positively a sin to miss such an opportunity." Mr. Cockayne took up the paper which Sophonisba had finished reading, and running his eye over it, said, with a wicked curling of his lip "My dear Sophy, my dear child, here are a number of things you've not read." Sophonisba tittered, and ejaculated "Papa dear!" "We have heard quite enough," Mrs.
Cockayne meekly gave it up, and replied that he had secured places for the party at the table d'hôte. Satisfied on this score, the matron proceeded to inform that person whom in pleasant irony she called her lord and master, that she had set her heart on a brooch of the loveliest design it had ever been her good fortune to behold.
"Will you allow me time to get change?" And Mr. Cockayne headed the procession through the hotel court-yard to the Boulevards. "Walk with your father," the outraged lady said to Sophonisba. "It's positively disgraceful, straggling out in this way. But I might have known what it was likely to be before I left home." Mr.
He left flowers for the young lady early in the morning. It was very provoking that Theodosia had consented to be betrothed to John Catt of Peckham. "Carrie, my dear," Mrs. Cockayne observed, having called her daughter to her bedroom for a good lecture, "once for all, I WILL NOT have you on such intimate terms with the people of the house. What on earth can you be thinking about?
The in-and-in Yankee says "suth-in." In a hundred other words have these ambitious ladies done injustice to our vulgar, who are not vulgar, according to the laws of Cockayne, in the smallest degree. "The Broadway," for instance, is no more used by an American than "the Congress," or "the United States of North America." "Perhaps," answered Jim, "'tisn't the Sea Lion, a'ter all.
Rowe's, extolled the elegant manners and enclosed the photograph of the Vicomte de Gars, and said she really began to hope that she had persuaded "his lordship" to pay them a visit in London. "Tell Mrs. Sandhurst, my dear Cockayne, that I am sure she will like the Vicomte de Gars." The Vicomte de Gars was a little man, with long wristbands.
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