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Webster knew Bishop Morton, and also his secretary, Baddeley, who had been notary in the case and had written an account of it. The Catholics declared that the Puritans tried "syllabub" upon him. This was perhaps a sarcastic reference to their attempts to cure him by medicine. Then of Lichfield.
I will have his new Excellency, who seems a good and a kindly man, and Lloyd and Tilghman and Dulany and the rest, with their ladies, to sit with me. And there will be plenty of punch and syllabub and sangaree, I warrant; and tarts and jellies and custards, too, for the misses. Ring for Mrs. Willis, my son." Willis came with her curtsey to the old gentleman, who gave his order then and there.
To travel down into Somersetshire, and stroll among the grass in the meadows, and the gorse on the commons, which she had not seen for twelve months; to feed the calves, and milk the cows, and gather the eggs, and ride Dapple, and tie up the woodbine, and eat syllabub in a bower; to present "great frieze coats" and "riding-hoods" to a dozen of the poorest old men and women in the parish; to hear prayers in a little grey church, through whose open windows ivy nodded, and before whose doors trees arched in vistas; to see her sweet little Prissy and Fiddy, who had taken such a fancy to her, and the vicar, and madam, and granny, and find them all perfectly agreeable, and not slighting her or doubting her because she had been a woman of fashion and an actress; and Master Rowland well disposed of elsewhere; Larks' Hall deserted by its master the brave, generous, enamoured squire heigho!
Take the whites of two Eggs, and a pint of Cream, six spoonfuls of Sack, as much Sugar as will sweeten it; then take a Birchen rod and whip it; as it riseth with froth, skim it, and put it into the Syllabub pot; so continue it with whipping and skimming, till your Syllabub pot be full. The ground or body of Potages must always be very good broth of Mutton, Veal and Volaille.
Now 'ee all knows as well as this child, that that's a big disgrace in the eyes o' Injuns." "You're right about that, hoss," remarked one. "Wal, so the ole 'coon thinks. Now, 'ee see, it's as plain as Pike's Peak that he kim away back 'ithout tellin' any o' the rest a syllabub about it. He'd not let 'em know if he kud help it." "That is not improbable," said Seguin. "Proceed, Rube!"
I just dropped into the first chair an' she put her hands on my two shoulders an' sez she, 'You poor child! an' then she went away an' made me a syllabub." "'Look on the bright side, sez she in her cheery way when I had finished drinkin'." "'Sakes alive, Mis' Everidge, sez I, 'there isn't any bright side!" "'Then polish up the dark one, sez she, ez quick ez a flash.
One of them was frothed like a syllabub. I saw a woman preparing it with such a stick as is used for chocolate, and in the same manner. We had a considerable circle about us, men, women and children, all M'Craas, Lord Seaforth's people. Not one of them could speak English. I observed to Dr Johnson, it was much the same as being with a tribe of Indians.
But the Baptists is a little riper, the Presbyterians is much mellower, an' compared to all of them the 'Piscopalians rises to the excellence of syllabub an' champagne. "A hones' dram tuck now an' then, prayerfully, is a good thing for any religion. I've knowed many a man to take a dram jes' in time to keep him out of a divorce court.
And she-why, bless her heart! of course, she always did. . . . Heigho, youth's was a pleasant lunacy. . . . Thus Charteris reflected, growing drowsy. She said, "You spoke very well to-night. Is it too late for congratulations?" Turning, Mr. Charteris remarked, "As you are perfectly aware, all that I vented was just a deal of skimble-scamble stuff, a verbal syllabub of balderdash.
"Oysters and salads, potted meat and pastry; strong coffee and lemon syllabub with brandy. Good Lord, I don't know what should have kept the contents of an entire cemetery from sweeping down upon your slumbers, you female gourmand. Ghosts indeed!" And he stamped out of the room in high dudgeon.
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