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I dined with him to-day ehem dined with him upon an excellent joint of mutton I say, father the mutton was good and with his proud, pertinacious curate, whom I do not at all relish; whether, as Homer says I enumerate his scurrilous satire, or his derogatory insinuations.
"I see, sir," replied this extraordinary valet, with an intelligent nod, "but, still, fair and aisy goes far in a day. There's no danger of her, you know don't be unaisy. Fenton, sir ehem Fenton, I say Fenton and fifty I say." "Fenton and a hundred, Dandy, if there's an available trace of him."
Philip, the elder, is very comfortably placed at R ; the younger has his home with me; and Mrs. Morton is a moth that is to say, she takes great pains with him. Ehem! And my poor poor sister!" "Is he like his mother?" "Very much, when she was young poor dear Catherine!" "What age is he?" "About ten, perhaps; I don't know exactly; much younger than the other. And so she's dead!" "Mr.
Ah, Dionysius, merit is overlooked in every church, and in every profession; or perhaps hem! ehem! perhaps some of your reverend friends might be higher up! I mean nobody; but if sound learning, and wit, and humor, together with several other virtues which I decline enumerating, could secure a mitre, why mitres might be on other brows."
She felt relieved and warmed as soon as she had mentioned his name, and sat down easily in the window-seat and smiled back at the old man. "Ehem! So this Mr. Yaverland has surveyed mankind from China to Peru, as the great Dr. Johnson says." But she could not speak of Yaverland again so soon. She tried to make time by wrangling. "Why do you call him the great Dr. Johnson?
Templeton." "Ehem," said Mr. Templeton, clearing his throat, and with a slight but embarrassed smile, "I never thought I should marry again." "/L'homme propose et Dieu dispose/," observed Lumley Ferrers; for it was he. "Gently, my dear nephew," replied Mr. Templeton, gravely; "those phrases are somewhat sacrilegious; I am an old-fashioned person, you know." "Ten thousand apologies."
Ah!" and he sighed, "did you but know what a delight it is to a weary and world-worn traveller to help forward the bright ambitions of youth, to assist the pure and soaring soul to find the mate destined to it by heaven ehem! you wouldn't talk of fees.
He found it no easy matter to make his peace; and before he had quite done it, he called for his bill, and rose to depart. "Well!" said he, as he tendered his hand to the Corporal, "we may meet again, and enjoy together some more of your good stories. Meanwhile, which is my way to this this this famous scholar's Ehem?"
Now saddle the horse till I ride across the bog to Pether Rafferty's Station, where I'm to sarve mass; plase heaven, I'll soon be able to say one myself, and give you all a lift in spirituals ehem!" "Throth, Dinny, I b'lieve you're right, avick; and " "Vick me no longer, father that's another thing I forgot.
Your father, Dionysius, is a parishioner whom I regard and esteem to the highest degree of comparison, and you will be pleased to report my eulogium to himself and to his dacent family and proud may they be of having so brilliant a youth among them as you are ehem! "Now, you may all think that this was plain conversation; but I had read too much for that.
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