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The two rivals in their own principality, the one orb on its decline, the other like the rising sun, sat down upon four chairs before the Cafe de Paris. Maxime took care to place a certain distance between himself and some old fellows who habitually sunned themselves like wall-fruit at that hour in the afternoon, to dry out their rheumatic affections.
And I've left you the blushy side." What could I do? There she stood, fair, slim, bobbed-haired, green-kirtled, serious-eyed, carelessly juicy-lipped, holding up the peach. I, to whom all wall-fruit is death, bit into the side that blushed. She anxiously watched my expression. "Topping, isn't it?" "Yum, yum," said I. "Isn't it?" she said, taking back the peach. That's the beauty of childhood.
Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit, except once in his life. Piozzi's Anec. p. 103. At the Essex Head, Essex-street. Juvenal, Satires, x. 8: 'Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart. Vanity of Human Wishes, l. 15. Mr. Allen, the printer. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 141, 269. His letter to Dr.
As yet, not having sufficient experience to attend the wall-fruit herself, she was frequently obliged to fetch him home to his work, when she generally found him in a state of intoxication.
But Saxon used often to come with the Old Squire's Scotch Gardener to see our gardener, and when they were looking at the wall-fruit, Saxon used to come snuffing after us. He is the nicest dog I know. He looks very savage, but he is only very funny. His lower jaw sticks out, which makes him grin, and some people think he is gnashing his teeth with rage.
She was handsome, too, when he came to look, very handsome when he came to look again, endowed with that city beauty which is like the beauty of wall-fruit, something finer in certain respects than can be reared off the pavement. The miserable routinists who keep repeating invidiously Cowper's "God made the country and man made the town,"
Melcombe often thought, "Laura has my child with her constantly to amuse her, and has none of the responsibility about him that I have. Laura goes to the shops with me, sees me give the orders, and I frequently even consult her; she goes with me into the garden, and sees the interest I take in the wall-fruit and the new asparagus-bed, and yet she never takes example by me.
She was handsome, too, when he came to look, very handsome when he came to look again, endowed with that city beauty which is like the beauty of wall-fruit, something finer in certain respects than can be reared off the pavement. The truth is, the miserable routinists who keep repeating invidiously Cowper's "God made the country and man made the town,"
She was wonderfully well preserved for a lady over eighty years of age, and it was pleasant to see the great attention paid her by all the family. She was rather deaf, so I was seated by her side and requested to address my conversation to her. When lunch was over she was wheeled into the library, and occupied herself in making a cotton net to put over the wall-fruit to keep it from the birds.
At Brighton, in his declining years, the ex-Chancellor's indignation at a dish of defective wall-fruit was so lively that to the inexpressible astonishment of Horne Tooke and other guests he caused the whole of a very fine dessert to be thrown out of the window upon the Marine Parade.
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