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Oh! your most obedient, thinks I! if that's the case, it's not for my money: so I bought this, in lieu of the smoke-dried thing, and had it a bargain." In architecture, Mrs. Raffarty had as good a taste and as much skill as in painting.
Raffarty, and Miss Juliana O'Leary, very elegant, with a large party of the ladies and gentlemen of Bray, assembled in a drawing-room, fine with bad pictures and gaudy gilding; the windows were all shut, and the company were playing cards with all their might. This was the fashion of the neighbourhood. In compliment to Lord Colambre and the officers, the ladies left the card-tables; and Mrs.
Raffarty, and Miss Juliana O'Leary, very elegant, with a large party of the ladies and gentlemen of Bray, assembled in a drawing-room, fine with bad pictures and gaudy gilding; the windows were all shut, and the company were playing cards with all their might. This was the fashion of the neighbourhood. In compliment to Lord Colambre and the officers, the ladies left the card-tables; and Mrs.
Raffarty called 'Larry! Larry! My lord's plate, there! James! bread to Captain Bowles! James! port wine to the major! James! James Kenny! James! 'And panting James toiled after her in vain.
In the morning as they were riding away from Tusculum and talking over their visit, the officers laughed heartily, and rallying Lord Colambre upon his seriousness, accused him of having fallen in love with Mrs. Raffarty, or with the elegant Miss Juliana.
Raffarty, though she had done her best, could not take that which nature had given, she pointed out to my lord "a happy moving termination," consisting of a Chinese bridge, with a fisherman leaning over the rails. On a sudden, the fisherman was seen to tumble over the bridge into the water. The gentlemen ran to extricate the poor fellow, while they heard Mrs.
The pyramid was raised by the assistance of the military engineers, and stood trembling again on its base; but the lady's temper could not be so easily restored to its equilibrium. She vented her ill humour on her unfortunate husband, who happening not to hear her order to help my lord to some hare, she exclaimed loud, that all the world might hear, "Corny Raffarty!
'Lord Colambre, I protest! exclaimed a female voice; and Mrs. Raffarty at this instant appeared at the open door. 'Lord Colambre! repeated all present, in different tones. 'My lord, I beg pardon; continued Mrs. Raffarty, advancing as if her legs were tied; 'had I known you was down here, I would not have presumed. I'd better retire; for I see you're busy.
'As they proceeded and walked through the grounds, from which Mrs. Raffarty, though she had done her best, could not take that which nature had given, she pointed out to my lord "a happy moving termination," consisting of a Chinese bridge, with a fisherman leaning over the rails. On a sudden, the fisherman was seen to tumble over the bridge into the water.
Raffarty, says he, 'it's all your own fault; you're an extravagant fool, and ever was, and I wash my hands of you. that was the word he spoke; and she answered, and said, 'And mayn't I send the beds and blankets? said she, 'and what I can, by the cars, out of the way of the creditors, to Clonbrony Castle? and won't you let me hide there, from the shame, till the bustle's over? 'You may do that, says he, 'for what I care; but remember, says he, 'that I've the first claim to them goods; and that's all he would grant.
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