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Thingumbob, have you brought any grammars, and primers, and dictionaries, and syntaxes with you?" Before he had time to reply in the negative, Miss Dundas interrupted her mother. "I wish, madam, you would leave the arrangement of my studies to myself. Does your ladyship think we would learn out of any book which had been touched by other people?
"Why," exclaimed the master-player "why, upon my word, it is a fair town as fair a town as the heart of man could wish. Wish? I wish 't were sunken in the sea, with all its pack of fools! Why," said he, turning wrathfully upon Nick, "that old Sir Thingumbob of thine, down there, called me a caterpillar on the kingdom of England, a vagabond, and a common player of interludes! Called me vagabond!
But no you shall ask one of the Drawleys across the table to take wine. 'Ah, says he and how he makes out the concatenation, God only knows 'this puts me in mind, Mr Thingumbob, of what happened when I was chairman of the county club, on such a day. Alarming times these were, and deucedly nervous I was when I got up to return thanks.
"Why don't they have French waiters in London?" "Fancy a French waiter at a club," said his friend. The young Englishman started a little, as if he could not fancy it. "In Paris I'm very apt to dine at a place where there's an English waiter. Don't you know what's-his-name's, close to the thingumbob? They always set an English waiter at me. I suppose they think I can't speak French."
Parker implied by a cunning air that he thought he knew the reason of that; but he said nothing. Alice, piqued, would not condescend to make inquiries. So he said, presently, "How is Miss Thingumbob?" "I do not know any one of that name." "You know very well whom I mean. Your aristocratic patron, Miss Carew." Alice flushed. "You are very impertinent, Wallace," she said, grasping her riding-whip.
One day he went on deck, and actually gave me the following very intelligible order: "Mr What's-his-name, have the goodness to what-do-ye-call-'em the the thingumbob." "Ay, ay, my lord!" said I. "Afterguard, haul taut the weather main-brace!" This was exactly what he meant. He was very particular and captious when not properly addressed.
He had a curious way of forgetting, or pretending to forget, the names of men and things I presume because they were so much beneath him; and in their stead substituted the elegant phrases of "what's-his-name," and "what-do-ye-call-'em," and "thingumbob."
These last words were addressed to Tom, who had crept into the room, certainly without much preparatory noise. "I was only wanting the thingumbob, yer honour," said Tom, pretending to search diligently in the drawer for some required article. "Then take your thingumbob quickly out of that, and be d -to you.
In the duke's circle everybody strove to copy that accent, those disdainful intonations, in which there was an affectation of simplicity. Jenkins, finding the session a little tedious, rose to go. "Adieu, I am going. Shall I see you at the Nabob's?" "Yes, I expect to breakfast there promised to take What's-his-name, Thingumbob, you know, about our great affair ps ps ps.
"Why don't you ask Sumph to publish 'em in your new paper the what-d'ye-call-'em hay, Shandon?" bawled out Wagg. "Why don't you ask him to publish 'em in your old magazine, the Thingumbob?" Shandon replied. "Is there going to be a new paper?" asked Wenham, who knew perfectly well, but was ashamed of his connection with the press.
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