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Cockayne said; "one of those 'awful sacrifices' and bankrupt stock sales, like those we see in London, and the bills of which are thrown into the letter-box day after day."
He loved Miss Theodosia Cockayne, and was seriously stricken when he left Paris, although he had tried to throw off the affair with a careless word or two. He hid his grief behind his bluntness; but she had no tears to hide. He took her renewed warmth for repentance after a folly.
"White elephants, Cockayne! White fiddlesticks! I do really think, girls, your father is gradually mind, I say, gradually gradually taking leave of his senses." "La! mamma," unfortunate Carrie interposed, raising her eyes from a volume on Paris in the Middle Ages "la! mamma, you know that in India " "Hold your tongue, Miss of course I know and if I didn't, it is not for you to teach me." Mr.
"This is not a shop, it is a palace dedicated to trade," cried Cockayne. "Stuff and nonsense," was his answer; "take care of the parcels. Yon know better, of course, than the people to whom it belongs." The Cockaynes found themselves borne by the endless stream of customers into a vast and lofty gallery. Pater paused. "This is superb! It would have been impossible to realize "
"Sophonisba! much use her French is in this place. She says their French and the French she learnt at school are two perfectly different things. So you may make up your mind that all those extras for languages you paid for the children were so much money thrown away." "That's a consoling reflection, now the money's gone," quoth Mr. Cockayne.
"I am sure we have been into twenty shops," said Theodosia. "And I am sure," Mrs. Cockayne continued, "it is quite refreshing, after the boorish manners of your London shopkeepers, to be waited upon by these polite Frenchmen. They behave like noblemen." "Mamma has had fifty compliments paid to her in the course of the day, I am certain," said Sophonisba.
Now they sailed among immensities of silk and satin waves. Now they were encompassed with shawls; and now they were amid colonnades of rolls of carpet. Mrs. Cockayne stayed here and there to make a purchase, by the help of Sophonisba's French, which was a source of considerable embarrassment to the shopmen. They smiled, but were very polite.
She was sure nobody could be more economical than she was, both for herself and the children, and that was her reward. She had to undergo the most humiliating process of asking point-blank; even when twenty or thirty thousand pairs of gloves were to be sold at prices that were unheard of! Men were so stupid in their meanness! "Buy the shop," Mr. Cockayne angrily observed. Perhaps Mr.
I wonder what was floating in the head of Mr. Cockayne, when he bought a flat cloth grey cap, and ordered a plaid sporting-suit from his tailor's, and in this disguise proceeded to "do" Paris. In London Mr. Cockayne was in the habit of dressing like any other respectable elderly gentleman.
Fate, in order to try the good-nature of Timothy Cockayne to the utmost, had given him two daughters closely resembling, in patient endurance and self-abnegation, their irreproachable mamma. Sophonisba at whom the reader has already had a glimpse, and whom we last saw demolishing her second baba at Felix's, was the eldest daughter and the second was Theodosia.
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