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"Dooce take me Tom!" exclaimed this individual, in breathless reproach. "Your infernal mug's hard as iron!" "Craggy, my lord!" answered the other hoarsely. "Cragg by name an' Craggy by natur', my lord!" Thither my uncle George led me, his spurs jingling, whereupon the spectators turned to salute him and stare at me, among whom I recognised my uncle Jervas.
"Enough, George Vereker!" exclaimed my aunt in her terrible voice, and freed herself from his hold like an offended goddess. "O heaven, I might have known that you, George, would have abetted my poor, wilful boy in his dirt and bodily viciousness, and that you, Jervas, would have condoned his turpitude and moral degradation.
"Lady Mary Wortley," Jervas wrote to the poet, probably in 1715 or early in the following year, "ordered me by express this morning, cedente Gayo et ridente Fortescuvio, to send you a letter, or some other proper notice, to come to her on Thursday about five, which I suppose she meant in the evening."
One of Fuseli's most tragical creations. 31 and 33. Morland. Diana and Calista. Wilson. A beautifully poetic composition: yet the painter lived and died nearer to indigence than ease. Alexander Pope and Martha Blount. Jervas. Of comparatively little interest for its pictorial merit; though Pope has enshrined the painter in elegant couplet.
R , the master of the house, filled a glass, and drank "Welcome home to our friend, Mr. Jervas; and may good faith always meet with good fortune." The toast went round, each drank, and repeated, "Welcome home to our friend Mr. Jervas; and may good faith always meet good fortune."
4th. Up, and going down found Jervas the barber with a periwigg which I had the other day cheapened at Westminster, but it being full of nits, as heretofore his work used to be, I did now refuse it, having bought elsewhere.
"Perry," said uncle George, removing his hat to ruffle his curls, "you've heard of bears robbed of cubs, of the Hyr what's-a-name tiger " "Hyrcanian, George!" murmured uncle Jervas. "Well, they're playful pets in comparison. How is your aunt? B'gad, Perry, my lad, that's precisely the dooce of it, d'ye see!" "She she is very well, I hope?" faltered I. "Assuredly!" answered my uncle Jervas.
After I had spent a shilling there in wine I took boat with Jervas and his wife and set them at Westminster, and it being late forbore Mrs. Lane and went by water to the Old Swan by a boat, where I had good sport with one of the young men about his travells as far as Voxhall, in mockery, which yet the fellow answered me most prettily and traveller-like unto my very good mirth.
In an instant uncle George was off his horse and together we ran to him. "Aha, George " he gasped in a horrible, wheezing voice, "it it was unprimed lend me yours!" "O God!" groaned my uncle George. "You're hit, Jervas are you hurt?" "A little, George your pistol quick!"
To tell you the truth, I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Jervas could have been there invisible. In short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented, &c.
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