The Attaché: Or, Sam Slick in England, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1843 - 76 pagina's |
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Pagina 25 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the very verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Pagina 137 - Congress, and see their speeches, and if they don't, they send a piece to the paper, enquirin' if their member died a nateral death, or was skivered with a bowie knife, for they hante seen his speeches lately, and his friends are anxious to know his fate. Our free and enlightened citizens don't approbate silent members ; it don't seem to them as if Squashville, or...
Pagina 64 - I warn't sorry for it ; for it's not right to be a pokin' it into a perlite man, is it ? " ' I must tell the Queen that story of the Gander Pulling' sais he ; ' I like it amazingly. It's a capital caricature. I'll send the idea to HB Pray name some day when you are disengaged ; I hope you will give me the pleasure of dining with me. Will this day fortnight suit you ?:> " ' Thank you,' sais I,
Pagina 18 - I'll whip his tongue out and whop your ear off, or my name ain't Queen. So jist mind what I say; first spy pokes his nose into your office, chop it off and clap it...
Pagina 175 - I've rubbed the skin off of a sore place ; but I'll tell you a gospel truth, and mind what T tell you, for nobody else has sense enough, and if they had, they hante courage enough. If you don't make Englishmen of us, the force of circumstances will make Yankees of us, as sure as you are born.
Pagina 267 - I had two very powerful reasons for this excursion :—first, because an old and valued friend of mine was there, whom I had not met for many years, and whom I could not think of leaving this country without seeing again; and secondly, because I was desirous of visiting the residence of my forefathers on the Tweed, which, although...