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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Is Colonel Trenck your relation?" said the king, hastily. "Yes, your majesty; he is my father's brother's son," said the young man, proudly. "Ah! I see you have a clear conscience," said the king, laying his hand smilingly upon the youth's shoulder. "But, tell me, worthy abbot, do you know any way to rescue us from this mouse-trap?"
Besides, you know quite well that we dine with my mother on that day, and it is impossible to miss paying her a visit. To-morrow I will leave you at your mother's, for the count has returned from Frouville and will be at Madame de Fischtaminel's concert. You know how I adore music! The Touch and Go Mouse-Trap. THE WIFE. Why did you go away so early this evening?
For reasons which by no means lay in the nature of the sexual relationships, but which probably seemed cogent to sacerdotal legislators who assimilated it to ordination, matrimony was declared indissoluble. Nothing was so easy to enter as the gate of matrimony, but, after the manner of a mouse-trap, it opened inwards and not outwards; once in there was no way out alive.
A lover will spend two whole months, if necessary, in planning the construction of the mouse-trap. I have seen the most cunning men on earth thus taken in. There was a certain retired lawyer of Normandy. He lived in the little town of B , where a regiment of the chasseurs of Cantal were garrisoned.
"A bowl of rum-punch from Horsman's" cost half a crown. Fancy a jolly Proctor sending out for bowls of rum-punch, and that in April! Eggs cost a penny each, and "three oranges and a mouse-trap" ninepence. White, a generous man, gave the Vice-Chancellor "seven pounds of double-refined white sugar."
"But that is unnecessary, inasmuch as they have given us their names already, and informed us of their wishes Then, sir, the whole honorable meeting of the people is caught in my house as in a mouse-trap?" "Yes, we have got them all," said the chief. "Now, I would like to know of his excellency, the minister of police, what is to be done with them."
Aunt Mollie wound the clock and set the mouse-trap, and hustled us all off to bed so we could be up bright and early for the wedding breakfast. You'd think she'd been handling these affairs in metropolitan society for years.
There are few husbands who in such circumstances as these do not form the idea of setting a mouse-trap; they welcome as their guests both Monsieur A and the imaginary baron who represents the person whom their wives abhor, and they do so in the hope of discovering a lover in the celibate who is apparently beloved.
Hamlet, when asked by the King how he 'calls the play, answers: 'The Mouse-trap. Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap. If our intention were not to restrict this treatise to desirable limits, many more satirical passages might be pointed out in 'Volpone, which are manifestly directed against 'Hamlet' and Shakspere.
"Don't 'e talk," she said pleasantly, "can't you 'ear the thick 'uns a rattlin' in his mouse-trap. Poor little man and 'im a horphin. Stun me mother if I ain't a goin' ter Jay's termerrer ter buy mournin' in honor of him." "I presume," continued the Archbishop, "that we shall all be admitted to this entertainment as it were that is as the colloquial expression goes on the nod.
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