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Coates, after her fashion, stretching across two of her daughters, whispered to the third, loud enough for all to hear, "Queeney, this comes of airs! This comes of her not choosing for to go abroad with me, I suppose." "If people doesn't know their friends when they has 'em," replied Queeney, "they may go farther and fare worse: that's all I have to say."
However, I have many pictures in my mind, which I could not have had without this journey; and should have passed it with great pleasure had you, and Master, and Queeney been in the party. We should have excited the attention and enlarged the observation of each other, and obtained many pleasing topicks of future conversation. Piozzi Letters, i. 159.
Chumley Potts offered generally to bet that he would distinguish blindfold at a single sip any Madeira from any first-class Sherry, Old Brown or Pale. 'Single sip or smell! Ambrose Mallard cried, either for himself or his comrade, Queeney could not say which. Of all Lord Fleetwood's following, Mr. Potts and Mr.
Thereupon Lord Simon Pitscrew calls to Queeney, asking him 'why Madeira had been supplied instead of Esslemont's renowned old Sherry? A second Welsh gentleman gave his assurances that his friend had not said it was Madeira. But Lord Brailstone accused them of the worse unkindness to a venerable Old Brown Sherry, in attributing a Madeira flavour to it.
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?
Thus on July 27, 1780, he writes: 'As if I might not correspond with my Queeney, and we might not tell one another our minds about politicks or morals, or anything else. Queeney and I are both steady and may be trusted; we are none of the giddy gabblers, we think before we speak. Piozzi Letters, ii. 169.
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