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Updated: May 15, 2025
and the stage before is merely that of the 'lean and slippered pantaloon. For his own sake, would you not save mankind from having to encounter such miseries as these?" "You can't do it, Mr President." "I very nearly did do it. The Britannulist Assembly, in the majesty of its wisdom, passed a law to that effect."
The old man shuffled his slippered feet upon the bare boards, looking with mild ecstasy at the coins. "And you will be most welcome, sir," he said. "Your generosity happens to be of great assistance to me not that I wish it repeated. I am not grasping, sir, but I am grateful. I have a taste in literature which my reduced circumstances do not allow me to gratify.
Now suddenly, explosively, came Old Man Packard's voice, fairly quivering with rage as the old man shouted: "If that's you, Guy Little, I'll beat your head off'n your fool body! Get out an' go away an' go fast!" "It's important, your majesty," returned Guy Little's voice imperturbably. He rubbed one slippered toe against his calf and winked at Terry, looking vastly innocent and boyish.
After the conclusion of that event circumstances had not afforded him the opportunity of making himself conspicuous; and he had gone on declining gradually in the world's esteem for the world had esteemed him when he first made good his running with the Lady Fanny till now, in his slippered years, he and his Lady Fanny were unknown except among those Torquay Bath chairs and card-tables.
Sponge returned, all dirtied and stained, from the chase, he found his host sitting in an arm-chair over the study fire, dressing-gowned and slippered, with a pocket-handkerchief tied about his head, shamming illness, preparatory to putting off Mr. Spraggon. To be sure, he played rather a better knife and fork at dinner than is usual with persons with that peculiar ailment; but Mr.
She walked languidly, as though she hardly cared to lift her delicate slippered feet from the smooth walk, and often she paused and plucked a flower, and all her train of serving-women stopped behind her, not daring even to whisper among themselves, for the young queen was in no gentle humour of mind.
"On leaving here it will be for either the crush of the London season or Haughton Hall under the new regime," said Lady Esmondet, "and I know just how I shall feel: as a man who, coming home after a day with the hounds, is enjoying a pipe in slippered feet when reminded by madame of the state dinner he has forgotten."
It is not that I never rode or drove a horse. I have achieved both. But I don't urge him to deviltry. Instead I humor his whims. Some horses even I might be fond of. Give me a horse that nears the age of slippered pantaloon and is, moreover, phlegmatic in his tastes, and then, as the stories say "with tightened girth and feet well home" but enough! I must not be led into boasting.
And the Doctor, still reposing in his easy- chair, with his slippered feet stretched out before him on the rug, listened to the tune, and beat time on his knee with Alfred's letter, and looked at his two daughters, and thought that among the many trifles of the trifling world, these trifles were agreeable enough.
She saw him as he passed in at the hall-door, heard him whistle without an apparent tremor in a note, and heard his slippered steps as he slowly lounged up the stair towards the room on the second floor which had been for some months kept as his. The young girl was disappointed astonished astounded! She had seen no agitation had heard and seen the indications of the opposite!
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