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"Yes, marm," replied the cook; and Mrs Handycock followed her husband into his bedroom on the same floor, to assist him at his toilet. "By Jove, Nancy, the bulls have been nicely taken in," said Mr Handycock, as we sat down to dinner. "O I am so glad!" replied his wife, giggling; and so I believe she was, but why I did not understand.
He took the lion's share, nevertheless, cutting off all the brown, and then shoving the dish over to his wife to help herself and me. After dinner, Mr Handycock went down to the cellar for a bottle of wine. "O deary me!" exclaimed his wife, "he must have lost a mint of money we had better go upstairs and leave him alone; he'll be better after a bottle of port, perhaps."
I had no cocked hat, or dirk, as the warehouse people employed by Mr Handycock did not supply those articles, and it was arranged that I should procure them at Portsmouth.
I thought so too, but made no answer, for Mr Handycock came upstairs. "Are you ready for your dinner, my dear?" said the lady, almost trembling. "If the dinner is ready for me. I believe we usually dine at four," answered her husband gruffly. "Jemima, Jemima, dish up! do you hear, Jemima?"
"Oh! so you've found me out, Mr Simple my lord, I ought to say. Well, I need not ask after your grandfather now, for I know he's dead; but as I was coming this way for orders, I thought I would just step in and see how you looked." "I trust Mr Handycock is well, ma'am. Pray is he a bull or a bear?"
As I was very anxious to see Mr Handycock, and very anxious to have my dinner, I was not sorry to hear the clock on the stairs strike four, when Mrs Handycock again jumped up, and put her head over the banisters, "Jemima, Jemima, it's four o'clock!"
"Are you ready for your dinner, my dear?" said the lady, almost trembling. "If the dinner is ready for me. I believe we usually dine at four," answered her husband, gruffly. "Jemima, Jemima, dish up! do you hear, Jemima?" "Yes, marm," replied the cook, "directly I've thickened the butter;" and Mrs Handycock resumed her seat, with, "Well, Mr Simple, and how is your grandfather, Lord Privilege?"
"Oh! my lord, that's a sore subject; only think of Mr Handycock, when we retired from the 'Change, taking my parrot one day and selling it for five guineas, saying, five guineas were better than a nasty squalling bird. To be sure, there was nothing for dinner that day; but, as Jemima agreed with me, we'd rather have gone without a dinner for a month, than have parted with Poll.
The next morning all my clothes came home, but Mr Handycock, who still continued in good humour, said that he would not allow me to travel by night, that I should sleep there and set off the next morning; which I did at six o'clock, and before eight I had arrived at the Elephant and Castle, where we stopped for a quarter of an hour.
I was very glad to go away, and being very tired, I went to bed without any tea, for Mrs Handycock dared not venture to make it before her husband came up stairs.
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