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She sent him a note, and asked him to call in the evening which he did. She received the Hon. Mr. Buckstone with a sunny smile, and said: "I don't know how I ever dared to send you a note, Mr. Buckstone, for you have the reputation of not being very partial to our sex." "Why I am sure my reputation does me wrong, then, Miss Hawkins. I have been married once is that nothing in my favor?"
That Chairman was nowhere in sight. Such disappointments seldom occur in novels, but are always happening in real life. She was obliged to make a new plan. She sent him a note, and asked him to call in the evening which he did. She received the Hon. Mr. Buckstone with a sunny smile, and said: "I don't know how I ever dared to send you a note, Mr.
Thus Covent-Garden is the garden, Drury-Lane the lane, the Victoria the vic, and the Olympic the pic. Actresses, too, are always designated by their surnames only, as Taylor, Nisbett, Faucit, Honey; that talented and lady-like girl Sheriff, that clever little creature Horton, and so on. In the same manner he prefixes Christian names when he mentions actors, as Charley Young, Jemmy Buckstone, Fred.
You must' make him make that speech. I very. particularly desire, it." "Oh, it is easy, to say make him do it, but how am I to make him!" "It is perfectly easy; I have thought it all out." She then went into the details. At length Mr. Buckstone said: "I see now. I can manage it, I am sure. Indeed I wonder he never thought of it himself there are no end of precedents.
Buckstone as much as it seemed to delight Laura. But it did not confuse him as much as it apparently did her. "I wish in all sincerity that I could be worthy of such a felicitous compliment as that. But I am a woman, and so I am gratified for it just as it is, and would not have it altered." "But it is not merely a compliment that is, an empty complement it is the truth.
But if one might come here " "Indeed you would always find a hearty welcome, Mr. Buckstone. I have often wished you would come and tell me more about Cairo and the Pyramids, as you once promised me you would." "Why, do you remember that yet, Miss Hawkins? I thought ladies' memories were more fickle than that." "Oh, they are not so fickle as gentlemen's promises.
"If power over the mutual legs was in the possession of one brother at nine, and passed into the possession of the other one during the next thirty or forty minutes, do you think you could have detected the change?" "By no means!" "That is all, Mr. Buckstone." Mrs. Patsy Cooper was called.
What is the 'C' before some of the names, and the 'B. B.?" "Those are my private marks. That 'C' stands for 'convinced, with argument. The 'B. B. is a general sign for a relative. You see it stands before three of the Hon. Committee. I expect to see the chairman of the committee to-day, Mr. Buckstone." "So, you must, he ought to be seen without any delay.
The main fight came upon the filling of the blanks with the sum to be appropriated for the purchase of the land, of course. Buckstone "Mr. Chairman, I move you, sir, that the words 'three millions of' be inserted." Mr. Hadley "Mr. Chairman, I move that the words two and a half dollars be inserted." Mr. Clawson "Mr.
We have people in England who write for bread, like Dumas and Sand, and are paid so much for their line; but they don't set up for prophets. Mrs. Trollope has never declared that her novels are inspired by heaven; Mr. Buckstone has written a great number of farces, and never talked about the altar and the tabernacle.
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