Category: Humour
There are subjects that seem like rain drops to fall upon a man's head, the head itself having nothing to do with the matter. The result of no train of thought, there is the picture, the statue, the book, wafted, like the smallest seed, into the brain to feed upon the soil, su...
"Puddings! And now I suppose I shall hear of nothing but puddings! Yes, and I know what it would end in. First, you'd have a pudding every day--oh, I know your extravagance--the...
7. Chapter 7"No, you won't, sir--not while I'm alive. A separate room! And you call yourself a religious man, Mr. Caudle. I'd advise you to take down the Prayer Book, and read over the Marr...
5. Chapter 5"A man gets arrested, and because he's taken from his wife and family, and locked up, you must go and trouble your head with it! And you must be mixing yourself up with nasty sh...
4. Chapter 4"And then, when you're out late, Caudle--for I know you must be out late sometimes: I can't expect you, of course, to be always at home- -why then dear mother could sit up for y...
2. Chapter 2"How any decent man can go and spend his nights in a tavern!--oh, yes, Mr. Caudle; I daresay you DO go for rational conversation. I should like to know how many of you would car...
8. Chapter 8"Yes--that's like your artfulness: anything to make me hold my tongue. But we won't quarrel. I'm sure if it depended upon me, we might be as happy as doves. I mean it--and you n...
10. Chapter 10"I hope I shall--I trust I shall always have my eyes about me in my own house. Now, don't think of going to sleep, Caudle; because, as you've brought this up about that Rebecca,...
6. Chapter 6"Miss Prettyman, indeed, and--oh yes! now I see! Now the whole light breaks in upon me! Now I know why you wished me to ask her with Mr. and Mrs. Prettyman to tea! And I, like a...
9. Chapter 9"Oh, Caudle, you ought to have had something nice to-night; for you're not well, love--I know you're not. Ha! that's like you men-- so headstrong! You will have it that nothing...
1. Chapter 1There are subjects that seem like rain drops to fall upon a man's head, the head itself having nothing to do with the matter. The result of no train of thought, there is the pic...
11. Chapter 11"Well, if I know myself at all, I could have borne anything but billiards. The companions you'll find! The Captains that will be always borrowing fifty pounds of you! I tell you...