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Think of between one and two hundred of these simple gentlemen cooped up at night in one great chamber! What a concert of barrel-organs in this great resounding saloon! And then their plan of marriage! The very birds of the air choose their mates from preference and inclination; but this detestable system of lot!
'I don't so very much mind barrel-organs myself, said Logan; 'I don't know anything prettier than to see the little girls dancing to the music in a London side street. 'But do not the musicians all belong to that dreadful Camorra? asked the lady. 'Not if they come from the North, madam, said the Jesuit.
Two barrel-organs played by the kerb, and horses coming out of Aldridge's with white labels on their buttocks straddled across the road and were smartly jerked back. Mrs. Durrant, sitting with Mr. Wortley in a motor-car, was impatient lest they should miss the overture. But Mr. Wortley, always urbane, always in time for the overture, buttoned his gloves, and admired Miss Clara.
Muddlebranes and Mr. Drawley. 'MR. X. X. MISTY communicated some remarks on the disappearance of dancing-bears from the streets of London, with observations on the exhibition of monkeys as connected with barrel-organs.
Belloni was not in town, things were therefore at a standstill, and I had plenty of time to think over the object of my visit to Paris, while an unceasing accompaniment was poured out to my meditations by the barrel-organs which infest the cites of Paris.
His spirits were far above "proof." His organs were cathedral organs compared with the mere barrel-organs of ordinary men.
Think of between one and two hundred of these simple gentlemen cooped up at night in one great chamber! What a concert of barrel-organs in this great resounding saloon! And then their plan of marriage! The very birds of the air choose their mates from preference and inclination; but this detestable system of lot!
This rejoinder was an article headed "Barrel-Organs," the idea being that there was nothing new in Darwin's book, it was only a grinding out of old tunes with which we were all familiar. Butler alludes to this controversy in a note made on a letter from Darwin which he gave to the British Museum. But it was all very young and silly."
His Majesty would sing you a ballad, of which he had stolen every idea, to an air that was ringing on all the barrel-organs of Christendom, and, turning round to his courtiers, would say, "How do you like that? I dashed it off this morning."
"The knight paid his money, and was admitted. At first the crowd prevented his seeing any thing for the place was full to suffocation, and the noise awful for, besides the exclamations and applause of the audience, there were three barrel-organs, playing 'Home, sweet Home! and 'Cherry Ripe, and the wild man himself contributed his share to the uproar.
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