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"'You may send this if you will, said Mountford, coolly, 'but still Respino is a MAN OF HONOUR; the world will continue to call him so. "'It is probable, I answered, 'they may; I envy not the appellation. If this is the world's honour, if these men are the guides of its manners "'Tut! said Mountford, 'do you eat macaroni "
I thought of good, jovial Mr. Mountford, and his regrets that he might not keep a pack, "a very small pack," of harriers, and his merry ways, and his love of good eating; of the first coming of Mr. Gray, and my lady's attempt to quench his sermons, when they tended to enforce any duty connected with education.
You have travelled as became a man; neither France nor Italy have made anything of Mountford, which Mountford, before he left England, would have been ashamed of. My son Edward goes abroad, would you take him under your protection? "He blushed; my father's face was scarlet. He pressed his hand to his bosom, as if he had said, my heart does not mean to offend you. Mountford sighed twice.
He held poor Will Mountford in talk that night, when bloody Dick Hill ran him through. He will come to a bad end, will that young lord; and no end is bad enough for him," says honest Mr. Westbury: whose prophecy was fulfilled twelve years after, upon that fatal day when Mohun fell, dragging down one of the bravest and greatest gentlemen in England in his fall. From Mr.
I had a travelling tutor, which is the fashion too; but my tutor was a gentleman, which it is not always the fashion for tutors to be. His gentility, indeed, was all he had from his father, whose prodigality had not left him a shilling to support it. "'I have a favour to ask of you, my dear Mountford, said my father, 'which I will not be refused.
Mountford, sent to his house, to desire his wife to let him know his danger, and to warn him not to come home that night, but unluckily no messenger Mrs.
'When shall we see them again? said he. I was delighted with the demand, and promised to reconduct him on the morrow. "In going to their place of rendezvous, he took me a little out of the road, to see, as he told me, the performances of a young statuary. When we were near the house in which Mountford said he lived, a boy of about seven years old crossed us in the street.
He was a terrible man in his anger! But to think of the difference between Parson Hemming and Mr. Gray! or even of poor dear Mr. Mountford and Mr. Gray. Mr. Mountford would never have withstood me as Mr. Gray did!" "And your ladyship really thinks that it would not be right to have a Sunday-school?" I asked, feeling very timid as I put time question. "Certainly not. As I told Mr. Gray.
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