Pray, what think you of these doings at St Dennis's ?" "Fine doings, indeed!" interrupted Von Blunderbussen; "I wish that we had my old uncle alive, he would have had some of them up to the halberts.

He knew how to usa cat-o'-nine-tails.

If things go on in this way, a gentleman will not be able to horsewhip an impudent farmer, or to say a civil word to a milk-maid." "Indeed, it's very true, Sir," said Mrs Kitty; "their insolence is intolerable.

Look at me, for instance:--a poor lone woman!--My dear Peter dead! I loved him:--so I did; and, when he died, I was so hysterical you cannot think.

And now I cannot lean on the arm of a decent footman, or take a walk with a tall grenadier behind me, just to protect me from audacious vagabonds, but they must have their nauseous suspicions;--odious creatures!" "This must be stopped," replied Lord Caesar.