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As for the 'Alexander and Diana' affectations, they were the language of the time: and certainly this generation has no reason to find fault with them, or with a good deal more of the 'affectations' and 'flattery' of Elizabethan times, while it listens complacently night after night 'to honourable members' complimenting not Queen Elizabeth, but Sir Jabesh Windbag, Fiddle, Faddle, Red-tape, and party with protestations of deepest respect and fullest confidence in the very speeches in which they bring accusations of every offence short of high treason to be understood, of course, in a 'parliamentary sense, as Mr.
Crowne's The Country Wit , Act ii, II, where Lady Faddle cries to her maid, 'run to my milliner's for my gloves and essences ... run for my new towre. Shadwell, The Virtuoso , Act iii, mentions 'Tires for the head, locks, tours, frouzes, and so forth'. The Debauchee , Act ii, I: Mrs.
He rose to an extensive business in the towns about, at last; and is quoted at this day, for some wild gale of a speech, or some saucy joke, or strange adventure. Lawyer Faddle was equally original. He was as tall as Bray, whenever he straightened up in an animated speech; but his long form commonly bent over, and described a segment of a rainbow.
Naw, mermaids is faddle, he repeated contemptuously. 'Faddle? repeated 'Lias, interrogatively. The children started. They has supposed 'Lias was of doting and talking gibberish for the rest of the morning.
Podmore never interfered with this drawer. She was content to be despotic among the dresses, and left the old lady to faddle to her heart's content with bits of old lace and ribbon which she herself would not have condescended to wear. The old lady fumbled them over.
Cicero Bray, Esq., appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and C. Fox Faddle, Esq., was counsel for the prisoner. Lawyer Bray was a mountainous man, about thirty-five years old; and he had impudence ingrained with his brawny meat and muscles, and his tongue, let loose, would run like a mill-stream. His head rose a little above his ears, and was huge of girth in a horizontal measure.
'He an his loike'll mak a halliblash of us aw soon, wi their silly faddle, an pamperin o' workin men, wha never wor an never will be noa better nor they should be. But thank the Lord I'll not be theer to see. And after this communication she found it very difficult to treat David civilly. But to David's son to Sandy Hannah Grieve capitulated, for the first and only time in her life.
"Jerry Muskrat," said he, so sharply that Jerry nearly lost his balance in his surprise, "has your big cousin come down from the North?" Fiddle, faddle, feedle, fuddle! Was there ever such a muddle? Fuddle, feedle, faddle, fiddle! Who is there will solve the riddle? Here was the Laughing Brook laughing no longer. Here was the Smiling Pool smiling no longer.
Frisbie, they say, is jugged up in jail, and there's better men sometimes hung than that Jock Fairbanks. I guess some o' the gals are kindy sorry they sot their caps for 'em! The Faddle gals, I guess, would give all their old shews, if they'd a' kep away from the whelps.
Theer's a mermaid lives in 't a woman, I tell tha, wi' a fish's tail it's in a book, an he read it out, soa theer an on Easter Eve neet she cooms out, and walks about t' Scout, combin her hair an if onybody sees her an wishes for soomthin, they get it, sartin sure; an 'Mermaids is just faddle an nonsense, interrupted David, tersely. 'Oh, is they? Then I spose books is faddle.
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