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This is a hasty outline of the chief things you'd have to do, except waiting in the lobby every night, in case I forgot anything, and should want fresh cramming; and, now and then, during great debates, sitting in the front row of the gallery, and saying to the people about 'You see that gentleman, with his hand to his face, and his arm twisted round the pillar that's Mr Gregsbury the celebrated Mr Gregsbury, with any other little eulogium that might strike you at the moment.
The general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr Gregsbury's political conduct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gentleman in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that, for his purpose, it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency. 'The meaning of that term gammon, said Mr Gregsbury, 'is unknown to me.
'I am sorry I have troubled you unnecessarily, sir, said Nicholas. 'I am sorry you have, rejoined Mr Gregsbury, turning his back upon him. 'Door, Matthews! 'Good-morning, sir, said Nicholas. 'Door, Matthews! cried Mr Gregsbury. The boy beckoned Nicholas, and tumbling lazily downstairs before him, opened the door, and ushered him into the street.
'Do my eyes deceive me, said Mr Gregsbury, looking towards the speaker, 'or is that my old friend Pugstyles? 'I am that man, and no other, sir, replied the plump old gentleman. 'Give me your hand, my worthy friend, said Mr Gregsbury. 'Pugstyles, my dear friend, I am very sorry to see you here.
'Nothing whatever, replied Mr Gregsbury. The deputation, who had only seen him at canvassing or election time, were struck dumb by his coolness. He didn't appear like the same man; then he was all milk and honey; now he was all starch and vinegar. But men ARE so different at different times! 'Question number three and last, said Mr Pugstyles, emphatically.
The differentiating absurdities of after-dinner oratory are photographed in Thackeray's Dinner in the City, where the speech of the American Minister seems to have formed a model for a long series of similar performances. Gregsbury, M.P., and his constituents in a later chapter of the same immortal book. The parliamentary eloquence of a later day was admirably reproduced in Mr. Stephen's.
'I have no connection, I am sorry to say, with anything at present, rejoined Nicholas, politely enough, but quite at his ease. 'Oh! said Mr Gregsbury. 'How did you find your way up here, then? Nicholas related how he had been forced up by the deputation. 'That was the way, was it? said Mr Gregsbury. 'Sit down.
And for salary, said Mr Gregsbury, winding up with great rapidity; for he was out of breath 'and for salary, I don't mind saying at once in round numbers, to prevent any dissatisfaction though it's more than I've been accustomed to give fifteen shillings a week, and find yourself. There!
Into Manchester Buildings Nicholas turned, with the address of the great Mr Gregsbury in his hand. As there was a stream of people pouring into a shabby house not far from the entrance, he waited until they had made their way in, and then making up to the servant, ventured to inquire if he knew where Mr Gregsbury lived.
Nicholas bowed. 'Besides which, continued Mr Gregsbury, 'I should expect him, now and then, to go through a few figures in the printed tables, and to pick out a few results, so that I might come out pretty well on timber duty questions, and finance questions, and so on; and I should like him to get up a few little arguments about the disastrous effects of a return to cash payments and a metallic currency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank notes, and all that kind of thing, which it's only necessary to talk fluently about, because nobody understands it.
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