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Updated: May 3, 2025
The halcyon days were for ever past, when, protected by the swords of Joyeuse and of Epernon, the monarch of France could pass his life playing at cup and ball, or snipping images out of pasteboard, or teaching his parrots-to talk, or his lap-dogs to dance. His royal occupations were gone, and murder now became a necessary preliminary to any future tranquillity or enjoyment.
You must not conclude from all this that there is any gallantry implied, or any scandal excited the return for all these services is only a little flattery, a philosophic endurance of the card-table, and some skill in the disorders of lap-dogs.
If they are unhappy enough to receive no attention for the sake of amiability, they are soon seized with ennui; they fall back upon religion, upon the cultivation of pets, cats, lap-dogs, and other fancies which are no more offensive than their devoutness.
You would hardly believe how much freer domestic animals are there than elsewhere. It is proverbial that little lap-dogs are on the same footing as their mistresses, or as horses and asses; they walk about with their noses in the air and get out of nobody's way."
Lap-dogs and cage-birds were kept as pets; 'wonks, the huang kou, or 'yellow dog, were guards of houses and street scavengers. Aquaria with goldfish were often to be seen in the houses of the upper and middle classes, the gardens and courtyards of which usually contained rockeries and artistic shrubs and flowers.
Not occupied with work that demands our unceasing energy, we find ourselves occupied with trifles, worrying over our health, our investments, our luxuries, our lap-dogs and our frivolous occupations.
Plainly, however, he must take her at her word; and as he tramped down the drive, he began to form theories. It must be a fanatic of some kind who lived here, and he inclined to consider the owner as probably an eccentric old lady with a fad, and a large number of lap-dogs.
"I believe he had the pluck to meet Captain Marryatt," said Bart. "Was that particularly creditable?" asked Miss Giddings. "Well, poets' lap-dogs don't fight duels, much; and Miss Giddings, do you think a lap-dog could have written this?" And taking up a volume of Willis, he turned from them and read "Hagar."
Dale, edging off still farther, as if that confession of the creature's sex did not serve to allay her apprehensions, "oh, then, you carry your aversion to the gentlemen even to lap-dogs, that is being consistent indeed, Jemima!" MISS JEMIMA. "I had a gentleman dog once, a pug! pugs are getting very scarce now.
As for Jovial, he dropped lap-dogs, bird-cages, carpetbags and umbrellas plump upon the hall floor, and rushed into the drawing-room, exclaiming: "Masser, it's an invasion of de Goffs and Wandalls, or some other sich furriners! And I think the milishy ought to be called out." "Don't be a fool, if you please.
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