Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 27, 2025
I could potch him again this minute for how he wanted it! Du you little bum you Chammer Momser I'll feedle you!" Across Mrs. Kantor's face as she knelt there in the shapeless cotton-stuff uniform of poverty, through the very tenement of her body, a light had flashed up into her eyes.
There were Isadore, already astride his chair, leaning well into center table, for first vociferous tear at the four-pound loaf; Esther, old at chores, settling an infant into the high chair, careful of tiny fingers in lowering the wooden bib. "Papa, Izzie's eating first again." "Put down that loaf and wait until your mother dishes up, or you'll get a potch you won't soon forget." "Say, pop "
He had always had a contempt for the place, having joined it many years ago when they refused to have him at the 'Hotch Potch' owing to his being 'in trade. As if he were not as good as any of them! He naturally despised the Club that did take him. The members were a poor lot, many of them in the City stockbrokers, solicitors, auctioneers what not!
The fellow was seven years older than himself, no better looking! No richer! What attraction had he? 'Besides, he's come back, he thought; 'that doesn't look -I'll go and see him! and, taking out a card, he wrote: "If you can spare half an hour some afternoon this week, I shall be at the Connoisseurs any day between 5.30 and 6, or I could come to the Hotch Potch if you prefer it.
'Ye micht hae let a body ken ye were comin'. Sic a potch, she said ruefully. 'My, but ye are a picter, an nae mistak'. Gladys laughed, and the sound rang through the place like sweetest music. 'Have you not been quite well? I think you are thinner, she said kindly. 'No, I've no' been up to muckle; fair helpless some days wi' rheumatics.
Why should he not send for Jo? Taking out his card-case, he pencilled the following message: 'Come round at once. I've sent the carriage for you. On getting out he gave this card to his coachman, telling him to drive as fast as possible to the Hotch Potch Club, and if Mr. Jolyon Forsyte were there to give him the card and bring him at once. If not there yet, he was to wait till he came.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking