Evan HarringtonBradbury, Evans, 1866 - 519 pages |
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Page 58 - Evan again declined, and looked out for a side path to escape the fellow, whose bounty was worse to him than his abuse, and whose mention of the sixpence was unlucky. " Dash it ! " cried the postillion, " you're going down to a funeral — I think you said your father's, sir — you may as well try and get there respectable — as far as / go. It's one to me whether you're in or out ; the horses won't feel it, and I do wish you'd take a lift and welcome. It's because you're too much of a gentleman...
Page 56 - My oath on it, I don't get took in again by a squash hat in a hurry ! " Unaware of the ban he had, by a sixpenny stamp, put upon an unoffending class, Evan went a-head, hearing the wheels of the chariot still dragging the road in his rear. The postillion was in a dissatisfied state of mind. He had asked and received more than his due. But in the matter of his sweet self, he had been choused, as he termed it. And my gentleman had baffled him, he could not quite tell how ; but he had been got the better...
Page 102 - ... closely upon the call. When we have cast off the scales of hope and fancy, and surrender our claims on mad chance, it is given us to see that some plan is working out : that the heavens, icy as they are to the pangs of our blood, have been throughout speaking to our souls ; and, according to the strength there existing, we learn to comprehend them.