Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 4, 2025
Since Ristori was here in 1874, Scott-Siddons, Creswick and Rignold, have been the best known actors we have seen; although Marshall's Quilp, Vernon's Bunthorne, and Hoskins's Touchstone, were impersonations of a high-class. Soldene, curious to say, did not hit the popular taste. The cardinal fault of colonial acting seems to me to be exaggeration.
A column and a half has a large heading 'The Creswick Calamity, and is chiefly composed of subscription lists for the sufferers and accounts of meetings held in various parts of the country on their behalf. We now take up the outside sheet, and find the whole of page 4, taken up by a report of last night's Parliamentary debates.
Mystery is so very attractive." Miss Townly sighed. She was emaciated, dark, and always dressed to look mysterious. "Maurice Delarey is scarcely my idea of a mystery," said Mrs. Creswick, taking joyously a marron glacé. "In my opinion he's an ordinarily intelligent but an extraordinarily handsome man. Hermione is exactly the reverse, extraordinarily intelligent and almost ugly."
"Oh no, not ugly!" said Miss Townly, with unexpected warmth. Though of a tepid personality, she was a worshipper at Hermione's shrine. "Her eyes are beautiful," she added. "Good eyes don't make a beauty," said Mrs. Creswick again, looking at her three-quarters face in the glass. "Hermione is too large, and her face is too square, and but as I said before, it doesn't matter the least.
"This most extraordinary engagement of Hermione's." Mrs. Creswick, who was a short woman who looked tall, with a briskly conceited but not unkind manner, and a decisive and very English nose, rejoined: "I don't know why we should call it extraordinary. Everybody gets engaged at some time or other, and Hermione's a woman like the rest of us and subject to aberration.
Creswick has a high opinion of Krumen working in the mines, and has found sundry of them to develop into excellent mechanics. The men want only good management. Under six Europeans, himself included, he employs a hundred hands, and from eight to ten mechanics. The first headman draws 37s. 6d., the second 22s., full-grown labourers 18s., and 'small boys' from 4s. to 6s. and 9s.
He said he could not stay long when he came, but I didn't hear him go; I have been upstairs, and the servants are in the kitchen they say uncle's mad, and I'm really afraid he is!" They left the drawing-room, and walked along the corridor and the hall to the opposite side of the house, where the study lay. Miss Creswick tapped gently at the door, but there was no answer.
Wilkie's Saturday Night is ably engraved by J. Mitchell; and Tyre, by S. Lacy, from a picture by T. Creswick contended for our choice with Verona, which we have adopted.
And, after tea, they would sit on a log of the wood-heap, or the edge of the veranda that is, in warm weather and yarn about Ballarat and Bendigo of the days when we spoke of being on a place oftener than at it: on Ballarat, on Gulgong, on Lambing Flat, on Creswick and they would use the definite article before the names, as: "on The Turon; The Lachlan; The Home Rule; The Canadian Lead."
I have put him under this sub-heading, in the Batman interjecta, because, as his daughter, Mrs. Henry Creswick, told me, it was Batman's representations to him of the land of promise to the north that induced him to follow the early tide with his flocks and his family the latter consisting of his wife and one only child, the daughter above alluded to.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking