 | Ada Walker Camehl - 1916 - 1168 Seiten
...will enter families and make progress despite of principles ; being called to breakfast one morning, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of twenty-three shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Francis Kingsley Ball - 1917 - 176 Seiten
...instance, nay breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 Seiten
...and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But tnark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress,...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 534 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors.... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver l They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1920 - 536 Seiten
...my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny 10 earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...by my wife, and had '* cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 458 Seiten
...my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny w earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had 15 cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1920 - 456 Seiten
...my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny 10 earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had IB cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology... | |
 | Eleanore Hubbard - 1922 - 362 Seiten
...cheapest." FRANK. (laughs). "But mark how luxuries will 'Here he comes now, with his wheelbarrow.' 98 enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle:...her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings." MRS. FRANK. (tossing her head). "For which I have no other excuse or apology to make but that I think... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1922 - 350 Seiten
...servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. . . . One morning being call'd to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl with a spoon...been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife. . . . She thought her husband deserv'da silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.... | |
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We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will... 
