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"You can't do it! old thing," came George's smothered rejoinder, "and you know darned well you can't now! . . . Go on, you bloomin' Hodson! proceed!" Yorke gave vent to a good-natured oath. "Hodson? . . . you do me proud, my buck! . . . Well now! this 'three men in a boat' business! . . . I'll admit I 'rocked' it with Crampton. I virtually abolished him because oh!
Crampton showed this to his nephew with great glee, and was chuckling to think how Mr. William Pitt Scully would be annoyed, who had expected the place, when Perkins burst out laughing and said, "By heavens, here is my own speech! Scully has spoken every word of it; he has only put in Mr. Pincher's name in the place of Mr. Macabaw's."
He met there his old friend Master Crampton, and he says: "I was more beholden to the Frenchmen that escaped drowning in the man-of-war, Madam Chanoyes of Rotchell, and the lawyers of Burdeaux, than all the rest of my countrymen I met in France." While he was waiting there to get justice, he saw the "arrival of the King's great marriage brought from Spain."
I thought to myself, perhaps I might see them on this very sofa and pictured to myself their 2 kind faces. Mr. Crampton was going to ask them to dinner, I had made arrangements to get Sarah nice partners at the ball Why did dear little Lucy tumble down at the Gymnasium? Many a pretty plan in life tumbles down so, Miss Lucy, and falls on its back.
Social occasions irritated him, several times he had come near to gross incivilities, art annoyed him, sport was an effort, wholesome perhaps, but unattractive, music he loved, but it excited him. The defendant broke the sunset calm by uttering amazing and improper phrases. "I can't smug about in a state of falsified righteousness like these Crampton chaps. "I shall roll in women.
We're gitting on first-rate those rods on the stairs " "Yes?" exclaimed Miss Crampton. "We air of a scientific turn, we air Augustus John and I fixing wires to every one of them. They air steep, those steps," he continued pensively. Here Miss Crampton's colour increased visibly. "And when the machine is che-arged, we shall electrify them.
Strongitharm, majestically sailed in. In issuing from and leaving open the door of the inner room, Mr. Crampton had bestowed upon Mr. Perkins a look so peculiarly arch, that even he, simple as he was, began to imagine that some mystery was about to be cleared up, or some mighty matter to be discussed. Presently he heard the well-known voice of Lady Gorgon in conversation with his uncle.
"Well, but I don't see how you have bought him; look at his votes." "My dear John," said Mr. Crampton, jingling his watch-seals very complacently, "I am letting you into fearful secrets. The great common end of party is to buy your opponents the great statesman buys them for nothing." Here the attendant genius of Mr.
The following letters refer to some of the occasion on which mutual civilities were interchanged: To Mr. Crampton, British Minister at Washington. Montreal, May 21, 1849.
Give him some food and talk to him. Mrs. Crampton will look after my comforts. I will run across later on and tell you how he is." And then Olivia reluctantly obeyed him. Marcus was right, and she would not venture to contradict his orders, but how she longed to stay and share his watch. "Good child," he said, kissing her. "You are a splendid doctor's wife! No fuss and no arguing."
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