What do you think, Mr Heaviside, as soon as she left the room he rose from his chair, and, twisting up the corner of his mouth, as he looked me in the face, he said, 'Madam, it is my opinion that your daughter's comedy, whenever she makes her appearance on the boards, will, to use a Yankee expression, _be most particularly damned_! I wish you a very good morning.'" "Very rude, indeed, madam; most excessively unpolite of Mr M----.

I should not have thought it possible." "Well, Mr Heaviside, as for Laura, poor thing! you are aware that she is not quite so clever as she might be; she never had any memory: when a child, she never could recollect the evening hymn if she missed it two nights running; so that acting was out of the question with her.

So that all my hopes of their forming a splendid establishment by that channel have vanished.

Now, my dear Mr Heaviside, what would you propose ?" "Why, really, ma'am, it is so difficult to advise in these times; but, if anxious to dispose of your daughters, why not send them out to India ?" "We have thought of it several times; for Mr Revel has an uncle there unmarried, and they say very rich.

He is a colonel in the Bombay marine, I believe." "More probably in the Bengal army, ma'am." "Well, I believe you are right; but I know it's in the Company's service.
But the old gentleman hates my husband, and will not have anything to say to him.