[Springhaven by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookSpringhaven CHAPTER XIX 6/12
And even Mr.Cheeseman had failed to bring any type genuinely French from the wholesale house in St.Mary's Axe, which was famed for canonical issue.
But blessed are the patient, if their patience lasts long enough.
The ladies of England were now in full enjoyment of all the new French discoveries, which proved to be the right name, inasmuch as they banished all reputable forms of covering.
At least, so Mrs.Twemlow said; and the Rector went further than she did, obtaining for his sympathy a recommendation to attend to his own business.
But when he showed the Admiral his wife's last book of patterns--from a drawer which he had no right to go to--great laughter was held between the twain, with some glancing over shoulders, and much dread of bad example. "Whatever you do, don't let my girls see it; I'll be bound you won't let your Eliza," said the Admiral, after a pinch of snuff to restore the true balance of his principles; "Faith would pitch it straight into the fire; but I am not quite so sure that my Dolly would.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|