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And besides and the claim is a proud one Punch still remains the only comic paper of importance that is always a perfect gentleman a gentleman who knows how to behave both in the smoking-room and the drawing-room, who knows when a jest oversteps the boundary line of coarseness, who realises that a laugh can sometimes be too dearly won.
She poured coffee until all the cups were full, replenished the bread plate and brought more butter, and hunted the kitchen over for the can opener, to punch little holes in another can of condensed cream; and she rather astonished her guests by serving it in a beautiful cut-glass pitcher instead of the can in which it was bought.
And when Marius de Tregars came to sit by him, whilst exclaiming, "Here you are at last!" he called his attention at the same time with a gesture, and a wink from the corner of his eye, to two men sitting at the adjoining table before a bowl of punch.
Oh! how I rejoice at her exceeding unkindness! How warmly I forgive her the unsisterly to say the least vindictiveness of her unaccountable conduct! Her sufferings will one day be terrible. Good little Andrew supplies her place to me. Why do you refuse his easily afforded bounty? No one need know of it. I tell you candidly, I take double, and the small good punch of a body is only too delighted.
Sneaking away! He stopped. With a careless, cocky swagger he had always, before this, stood up to his troubles. "I'll go back," he said defiantly. "I'm not afraid." He wasn't afraid. That was true. If any fellow there had threatened to punch his head he would have peeled off his coat in an instant.
"Prevent throubles," soliloquised Thady; "there is no way with me to prevent all manner of throuble I believe I'll go in and get a tumbler of punch;" and determined to adopt this mode of quieting troubles, if he could not prevent them, he followed Ussher.
A Suffolk Punch, when he's a good un, is worth his weight in gold. Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir? 'N-no, I said, 'not exactly. 'Here's a gen'lm'n behind me, I'll pound it, said William, 'as has bred 'em by wholesale.
You will then be en rapport and in a position to apologize for yourself." "Pedagogue!" said the squire. And Juliet laughed for the first time. "If anyone apologizes it should be me," she said. "I!" murmured Green. "With more apologies!" The squire turned on him. "Green, I'll punch your head for you directly, you unspeakable pedant! What should you take him for, Miss Moore?
"I looked at Eudora, and her beautiful eyes were shining upon me with a look which made my pulses quicken as they never had before. I don't know what demon possessed me, unless it were the demon of the whiskey punch, of which I had drank far too much, and which prompted me to say, 'All right, if Eudora is willing.
Henry Silver, a member of the Punch staff, who came to the table in 1858, kept a diary of the talk of the table until he retired in 1870. The present writer was the more touched by the honour of being permitted to look into this interesting document from the fact that the pen of the exquisite E.V. Lucas has but lately inspired itself at the same source.
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