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I would rather, Kate, my dear, said Mrs Nickleby, with great solemnity, and an effusion of tears: 'I would rather, I declare, have been a pig-faced lady, than be exposed to such a life as this!
At this moment, Pearman, sent by Rosa, entered the court with an old gown of Clara's that had been discovered in the scullery, and a scribbling-book of the doctor's, which Clara had appropriated, and written amorous verses in, very superior in number to those that have come down to us from Anacreon. "Hand me those," said the pig-faced beak. "What are they, Dr. Staines?" "I really don't know.
He had not expressed any wish relative to his watch, which had accordingly been pawned by the same individual. 'After some hesitation a Member replied that the pig-faced lady was his mother-in-law, and that he trusted the President would not violate the sanctity of private life. He had considered the pig-faced lady a public character.
This includes the strange fluctuations of memory in a man recovering his reason by degrees. The behavior of the doctor's first two patients I had from a surgeon's daughter in Pimlico. The servant-girl and her box; the purple-faced, pig-faced Beak and his justice, are personal experience. The business of house-renting, and the auction-room, is also personal experience.
I found a picture cut from a weekly paper, one I remember that Mr. Stevenson himself had particularly disliked. He would have been pleased had he seen the scornful way Pola threw the picture on the floor. "I will not have that!" he cried. "It is pig-faced. It is not the shadow of our chief." He leaned against the door and wept. "I have nothing else, Pola," I protested.
What, then, was pathology compared to the pig-faced lady, or the Materia Medica to Smith's Mexican Circus, patronized by all the sovereigns of Europe? But my father was inexorable. I was a tiny fellow in pinafores when this happened, but having once pledged my word, I kept it faithfully through all the studious years that lay between six and sixteen.
"In either case you contrive to talk a deal of nonsense, Sir Percy," said Marguerite gaily. "What else would your ladyship have me do this lazy, hot afternoon?" "Come and view the booths with me," she said. "I am dying for a sight of the fat woman and the lean man, the pig-faced child, the dwarfs and the giants. There!
"Well, what else should she be, bless her poor heart?" said Mrs. Hall the elder. "Why, wasn't it thou thyself, good mother, that brought home word that they had the pig-faced lady at Wilton there?" "Bless thee, Agnes, thou should'st know better than to lend an ear to all the idle tales thy poor old mother may hear at market or fair." "Then should we have enough to do," muttered her husband.
Fancy, a jury chosen out of all Dublin, and not one Catholic! As if that could be fair!" And then he named the different judges. "Look at that big-headed, pig-faced fellow on the right that's Pennefather! He's the blackest sheep of the lot and the head of them! He's a thoroughbred Tory, and as fit to be a judge as I am to be a general.
And as for you, Pig-faced Nan," in this uncivil manner did he address the false Madam Taffetas, "you may go to bed, or to the Devil, 'zactly as you choose, and settle your Business with the Bailiffs in the morning 'zactly as you like.
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