 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...pigeon-house " fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt u the salt upon the table?" ' Yes," says he, ' my dear, ' and the next post brought us an account of the bat' tie of Almanza.' The reader may guess at the figure I made after having done all this mischief.... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...Yes/' says he, " my dear, and the next post brought ijis an account of the battle of Almanza." Tl\e reader may guess at the figure I made, after having done all this mischief. I dispatehed my dinner as soon as I could with my usual taciturnity ; when, to my utter confusion, the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...the pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table ?' ' Yes,' says he, ' my dear, and the next post brought us an account of the battle of Alman/.a.' The reader may guess at the figure I made, after having done all this mischief. I dispatched... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
..." my dear, and the next pust hronght us an account of the hattle of Almanza." The reader may gness at the figure I made, after having done all this mischief. I dispatched my diuner as soon as I could with my usual taciturnity ; when, to my utter confusion, the lady seeing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table- ?' - Yes,' says he, l my dear, and the next post brought us an account of...figure I made, after having done all this mischief. 1 dispatched my dinner as soon as I could, with my usual taciturnity; when to my utter confusion, the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...the pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table ?' ' Yes,' says he, ' my dear, and the next post brought us an account of the hattle of Ahuanza.' The reader may guess at the figure I made, after having done all this mischief.... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...the pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table? — Yes, says he, my dear, and the next post brought us an account of the battle of jilmanza. The reader may guess at the figure I made, after having done all this mischief. I dispatched... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...the pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table?' ' Yes,' says he, ' my dear, and the next post brought...battle of Almanza.' The reader may guess at the figure 1 made, after having done all this mischief. I dispatched my dinner as soon as I could, with my usual... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...that the pigeonhouse fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table?1 'Yes/ says he, 'my dear, and the next post brought us an account of the battle of Almanza.1 The reader may guess at the figure I made, after having done all this mischief. 1 dispatched... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table? ' — ' Yes,' says he, ' my dear ; and the next post brought...figure I made, after having done all this mischief. I despatched my dinner as soon as I eoold, with my usual taciturnity; when to my utter confusion, the... | |
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Do not you remember, child," says she, "that the pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table ?" " Yes," says he, " my dear ; and the next post brought us an account of the battle of Almanza. 
