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Mice are so awful!" She shuddered with horror as she spoke. "This ain't a pleasant welcome for a man just in from sea," remarked Captain Davis. Mrs. Davis explained and tried to smooth the matter over, but the Captain continued very sober all that evening. Mell thought it was because he was angry with her, but her step-mother knew very well that she also was in disgrace.
About the year 1700 this gathering of wits produced a club in which the great Whig chiefs were associated with foremost Whig writers, Tonson being secretary. It was as much literary as political, and its "toasting glasses," each inscribed with lines to a reigning beauty, caused Arbuthnot to derive its value from "its pell mell pack of toasts." Of old Cats and young Kits.
In "David Copperfield," Dickens describes a certain flute-playing tutor, by the name of Mell, concerning whom, and the rest of mankind, he expresses the rash opinion, "after many years of reflection," that "nobody ever could have played worse."
The man, a fine vieux moustache, hesitated. My friend saw it, and hit him in a Frenchman's most assailable quarter. "The ladies, my good man the ladies! You would not have them drive in pell mell with the troops, exposed most likely to the fire of the Prussian advanced guard, would you?" The man grounded his musket, and touched his cap "Pass on."
'Silence! cried Mr. Mell, suddenly rising up, and striking his desk with the book. 'What does this mean! It's impossible to bear it. It's maddening. How can you do it to me, boys? It was my book that he struck his desk with; and as I stood beside him, following his eye as it glanced round the room, I saw the boys all stop, some suddenly surprised, some half afraid, and some sorry perhaps.
'I don't give myself the trouble of thinking at all about you, said Steerforth, coolly; 'so I'm not mistaken, as it happens. 'And when you make use of your position of favouritism here, sir, pursued Mr. Mell, with his lip trembling very much, 'to insult a gentleman 'A what? where is he? said Steerforth. Here somebody cried out, 'Shame, J. Steerforth! Too bad! It was Traddles; whom Mr.
Joyce walked with him a turn in the Pell Mell and so parted, he St.
I had planted everything pell mell, one beside the other, in my bit of garden: it was not beautiful, but I loved it. It was mine. I arranged it as I wished, just as I felt at the time, and when I spoke of it, which happened twenty times a day, it was "My garden." Already the jonquils were in bud and the lilac was beginning to shoot, and the wall flowers would soon be out. How would they bloom?
James's and Pell Mell, and read over, with Sir W. Coventry, my long letter to the Duke of York, and which the Duke of York hath, from mine, wrote to the Board, wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive do put great value upon me, and did talk very openly on all matters of State, and how some people have got the bit into their mouths, meaning the Duke of Buckingham and his party, and would likely run away with all.
Then the whole regiment had to run the same gauntlet in which young Allen lost his life. Away across the open corn field the troops fled in one wild pell mell, every man for Himself, while the bullets hummed and whistled through our scattered ranks, but luckily only a few were shot.
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