 ... china dish, which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp with three pats of butter and a flagon of water, stirring, and rattling, and laughing, and we every minute expecting to have the dish fly about our ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 1621885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1889 - 788 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by...Ireland who would get the Duchess of Manchester from Mr. spoil this etory that was to repeat it and say, I won't, you jade ! ' In short the whole air of our... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 686 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers' s, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by...conversation was no less lively than the whole transaction.' In a little time the party had monopolised the attention of the garden ; 'so much so that, from eleven... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Roger's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table. The conversation was DO less lively than the whole transaction. In short, the whole air of our party was sufficient, as... | |
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