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At length we found our old servant who guided us to the lodgings taken by Sir William Gell, where all was comfortable, a good fire included, which our fatigue and the chilliness of the night required. We dispersed as soon as we had taken some food, wine, and water. We slept reasonably, but on the next morning Jerome Bonaparte, ex-King of Westphalia.
And the firmness of this purpose did not leave him, even after the betrayal of his cherished plans. "After the plot was discovered," said Monday Gell, in his confession, "Vesey said it was all over, unless an attempt were made to rescue those who might be condemned, by rushing on the people and saving the prisoners, or all dying together."
We went to Pompeii to-day: a large party, all disposed to enjoy the sight in this fine weather. We had Sir Frederick and Lady Adam, Sir William Gell, the coryphæus of our party, who played his part very well.
It fell below my ideas of the furniture. The staircase is in the corner of the house. The hall in the corner the grandest room, though only a room of passage. On the ground-floor, only the chapel and breakfast-room, and a small library; the rest, servants' rooms and offices . A bad inn. At Matlock. At dinner at Oakover; too deaf to hear, or much converse. Mrs. Gell. The chapel at Oakover.
They just see as a gell is plain and stupid, and then they has nothing more to do with her, and she can go to Jericho for all they cares." "You've had a hard time of it, my lass," repeated Bateson, in his full, deep voice. "Right you are, Mr.
"Exterminated, ex-ter-min-ated," said Benny, scratching his head, "why, to to drive out to ah put an end to to to destroy utterly." "I don't know what your book meaning is. I didn't get mine from books. I got it all the way along began to get it when I wasn't much bigger'n that little gell," said the Witch, pointing at Fanny with her pipe.
Don't you interrupt; you wait till I'm done, and see if I'm talking at random or without facks to support me. Well, fust time as ever I was sent for 'ere was in regard to drains, as they couldn't flush satisfactory. I did my work and come away. Not three weeks arter, Miss Rummles, the heldest gell, was took ill with typhoid.
Alick too was come in, and was seated in his far corner, eating cold broad beans out of a large dish with his pocket-knife, and finding a flavour in them which he would not have exchanged for the finest pineapple. "What a time that gell is drawing th' ale, to be sure!" said Mrs. Poyser, when she was dispensing her slices of stuffed chine.
"Poor thing, poor thing!" said Martin the younger, who was sorry to have provoked this retrospective harshness. "She'd but bad luck. But Hetty's got as good a chance o' getting a solid, sober husband as any gell i' this country." After throwing out this pregnant hint, Mr.
Gell, of Hopton Hall, father of Sir William Gell, well known for his topography of Troy. See ante, iii. 160, for a visit paid by Johnson and Boswell to Kedleston in 1777. See ante, iii. 164. The parish of Prestbury. Shavington Hall, in Shropshire. 'To guard. To adorn with lists, laces or ornamental borders. Obsolete. Johnson's Dictionary. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
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