 | 1852 - 436 pages
...open days, when your wife says, with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day. He remembereth birthdays — and professeth he is...suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against bis first resolution. He sticketh by the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remaining... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birthdays — and professeth he is...the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. - will drop in to-day." He remembereth birthdays — and professeth he is...declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet suflereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, 4t My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birthdays — and professeth he is...the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the- servants, who are... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 386 pages
...is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet he suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice, against...the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet he sufFereth himself to be importuned into a slice, against his first resolution. He sticiceth by the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr — — will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate...the port ; yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...upon open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate...the port ; yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate...the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1860 - 836 pages
...remembereth birth-days — and prof't'sseth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He deelareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet suffereth...remaining glass of claret if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him.... | |
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He remembereth birthdays — and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port —... 
