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"Don't you think it a suitable title?" "Yes, I understand" she said. "Thank you, Mr Lorton!" She spoke, with marked emphasis.
"Aw then, my de-ah fellah, you mustn't chawff me any mo-ah, you know. Dawg don't eat dawg, you know ah, hay, Lorton!" And he chuckled considerably at his feeble wit. Poor Horner! What is my guilt that makes me so with thee? Have I not languished prostrate at thy feet? Have I not lived whole days upon thy sight?
The place may suit poor people like me, but would not take the fancy of persons having plenty of money to spend, who can select a house where they like. Ah! the miseries of poverty, Mr Lorton, and to be poor but proud!
There sat the good Bishop Ryder in the chair; beside him the bishop of Bath and Wells; lords Lorton, Lifford, Bexley, Mountsandford, and Carberry; and of other clergymen and gentlemen upwards of forty.
"Ah," put in the vicar, "Praed was a clever fellow; and a true poet, too." "Indeed?" said Min. "I have heard his name, but I've never seen anything that he wrote. Do you recollect any of his charades, Mr Lorton?" she asked again, turning to me. "I think I remember one," I said, repeating those three spirited verses which are well-known, beginning "Come from my First, ay, come!"
Fancy, Lorton, two thousand millions cubic feet of heroes, eh! But, you havn't told us what amount of dust and ashes you would apportion to each separate hero " he thus proceeded, with his caustic wit, seeing that Bessie Dasher and her sister were both laughing; and even Min was smiling, at his absurdities.
There was Mrs Clyde getting her only daughter engaged to be married also, she heard; while no suitor came forward for her two poor orphan girls! Such was the staple of her conversation enlivening, at any rate. "Oh, ma!" exclaimed Bessie Dasher at this juncture; "you should not say so to Mr Lorton!
The Golden Gates Are Passed So Tom went on even to the fifth half-year till he was turned sixteen at King's Lorton, while Maggie was growing with a rapidity which her aunts considered highly reprehensible, at Miss Firniss's boarding-school in the ancient town of Laceham on the Floss, with cousin Lucy for her companion.
"Ah!" he grunted, oracularly. "You knows best about that, sir!" "Well, don't you dare, Shuffler," I savagely retorted, "to couple that lady's name with Mr Mawley's!" I was literally boiling over with fury at the very suspicion: it was the realisation of my worst fears! "You've no cause to get angry, Mr Lorton," said he.
He evidently regarded her as an enemy; for, the feathers on his crest got ruffled. "Indeed!" said her mother, in freezing accents down to the temperature of the best Wenham Lake ice! "I'm sure Mr Lorton is very good! Still, you know, Minnie," she continued, "that I do not like you receiving presents in this way." "But it is only a little bird, Mrs Clyde!"
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