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For the gracefulest and eruditest orator that ever held forth to genteelest congregation, could not have touched the prisoners by his highest flight of rhetoric as did the earnest, fiery Captain-Sheriff-Chaplain White, who moved aggressively on the wickedness of his felonious audience. When Mr. White's three months had expired, there came another pastor, as different from him as possible. Mr.
Slipslop, "do you think my lady will suffer any preambles about any such matter? She is going to London very concisely, and I am confidous would not leave Joey behind on any account, for he is one of the genteelest young fellows you may see in a summer's day; and I am confidous she would as soon think of parting with a pair of her grey mares, for she values herself on one as much as the other.
I don't believe there's steam heat or an elevator in the whole block. Seven rooms and a bath would be more than the largest and genteelest family would know what to do with. They wouldn't know what to do with the bath, anyway." His monologue seemed to interest his wife apart from the satirical point it had for themselves. "You ought to get Mr.
Once upon a time, when nearly all the fashionable families of Preston went to Trinity Church, neither Platonic love nor current coin could secure a pew. It was a la mode in its most respectable sense, it was Sabbatical ton in its genteelest form, to have and to hold a pew at Holy Trinity when George the Third was king. And for a considerable period afterwards this continued to be the case.
But she is very careful, she says, that she takes no lodgers, but of figure and reputation. She rents two good houses, distant from each other, only joined by a large handsome passage. The inner-house is the genteelest, and very elegantly furnished; but you may have the use of a very handsome parlour in the outer-house, if you choose to look into the street.
"Ay ay I entertain no ill-will to England, though her tobacco laws are none of the genteelest. But my wish to export you, Mr. Howel, is less from a desire to show you England, than to let you perceive that there are other countries in Europe " "Other countries!
"You must not suppose," said Jonson some minutes afterwards, "from our use of this language, that our club consists of the lower order of thieves quite the contrary: we are a knot of gentlemen adventurers who wear the best clothes, ride the best hacks, frequent the best gaming houses, as well as the genteelest haunts, and sometimes keep the first company in London.
With expectations highly roused, he drew up once more before his own house. It was surprising to him to see how exactly it looked like itself. The blinds half-drawn down in the genteelest calm as they always were no faces peeping at the windows no marks of an arrival on the pavement, or in the composed countenance of Mary, who stood holding the door open for him.
'As to my marrying Matilda, thinks I, here's one of the very genteelest sort, and I may as well do the job at once. So I chose her. She's a dear girl; there's nobody like her, search where you will. 'How many did you choose her out from? inquired his father. 'Well, she was the only young woman I happened to know in Southampton, that's true. But what of that?
I had seen her write letters, and supposed, though I could only recollect one or two, that she received in proportion. 'Are you Mary Quince? asked my lady cousin. Mary was arranging the window-curtains, and turned, dropping a courtesy affirmatively toward her. 'You wait on my little cousin, Miss Ruthyn, don't you? 'Yes,'m, said Mary, in her genteelest way. 'Does anyone sleep in her room?
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