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Updated: June 5, 2025
Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola, as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud. For had the great Constable fallen, O my countrymen, what a fall were there! Mrs. Coutts, with the Duke of St. Albans and Lady Charlotte Beauclerk, called to take leave of us. When at Abbotsford his suit throve but coldly. She made me, I believe, her confidant in sincerity.
What he had just learned his spouse must also know, so he proceeded with her education: "Consola, what do you call your damned country?" "What should I call it? Just what you taught me: Felifinas!" "I'll throw a chair at you, you ! Yesterday you pronounced it even better in the modern style, but now it's proper to pronounce it like an ancient: Feli, I mean, Filipinas!"
Substance of a speech by Francis Jeffrey. 8vo. Edin. 1825. Robert Cockburn, Lord Cockburn's brother, was then living at No. 7 Atholl Crescent. This alludes to a strange old woman, keeper of a public-house among the Wicklow mountains, who, among a world of oddities, cut short every word ending in tion, by the omission of the termination. Consola for consolation bothera for botheration, etc. etc.
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