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Glossop, Queeney maintained an impartial attitude, and said there was no victor, no vanquished. They did not sit in blocks. The tactics for preserving peace intermingled them. Each English gentleman had a Welsh gentleman beside him; they both sat firm; both fell together. The bottles or decanters were not stationary for the guest to fill his glass, they circulated, returning to an empty glass.
'Ah, said he, nodding over her mania of the perpetual suspicion. 'Leddings, Queeney, the servants here, run smoothly? 'They do: they are happy in serving. 'You see, we English are not such bad fellows when we're known. The climate to-day, for example, is rather trying. 'I miss colours most in England, said Carinthia. 'I like the winds. Now and then we have a day to remember.
Years later, this butler, Joshua Queeney, 'a much enfeebled old man, retold and enlarged the tale of the enormous consumption of his best wine; with a sacred oath to confirm it, and a tear expressive of elegiacal feelings.
Four days later he wrote: 'Tell my pretty dear Queeney, that when we meet again, we will have, at least for some time, two lessons in a day. I love her and think on her when I am alone; hope we shall be very happy together and mind our books. Ib. p. 173. See ante, iv. 421, for the inscription on an urn erected by Mr.
Mason Fennell, a friend of Mr. Owain Wythan's. They shouted, in an unseemly way, Queeney thought, at their breakfast-table, to hear that three of the English party, namely, Captain Abrane, Mr. Mallard, and Mr. Potts, had rung for tea and toast in bed.
Her ladyship attentive at all to affairs of the house? 'Every day with Queeney; at intervals with Leddings. 'Excellent! You speak like a fellow recording the devout observances of a great dame with her minor and superior, ecclesiastical comforters. Regular at church? 'Her ladyship goes. 'A woman without religion, Gower Woodseer, is a weed on the water, or she's hard as nails. We shall see.
All drank equally. Often the voices were high, the talk was loud. The gentlemen were too serious to sing. At one moment of the evening Queeney confidently anticipated a 'fracassy, he said.
A messenger to Queeney from Croridge then announced the Countess's return 'for a couple of hours. Queeney said it was the day when her ladyship examined the weekly bills of the household. That was in the early morning. The post brought my lord a letter from Countess Livia, a most infrequent writer. She had his word to pay her debts; what next was she for asking?
Glossop, Queeney maintained an impartial attitude, and said there was no victor, no vanquished. They did not sit in blocks. The tactics for preserving peace intermingled them. Each English gentleman had a Welsh gentleman beside him; they both sat firm; both fell together. The bottles or decanters were not stationary for the guest to fill his glass, they circulated, returning to an empty glass.
Mason Fennell, a friend of Mr. Owain Wythan's. They shouted, in an unseemly way, Queeney thought, at their breakfast-table, to hear that three of the English party, namely, Captain Abrane, Mr. Mallard, and Mr. Potts, had rung for tea and toast in bed.
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