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" I was a dog. Many's the time I had it on my tongue to remind him what his father was, but I kept it back. A word unsaid is still to say. He was at the South Sea House, near his brother in Leadenhall Street, but they didn't have much to say to each other.... "
The Cornhill Magazine - Page 53
edited by - 1907
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Character and Comedy

Edward Verrall Lucas - Wit and humor - 1907 - 262 pages
...bone 3 and I was a dog. Many's the time I had it on my tongue to remind him what his father was, l>ut I kept it back. A word unsaid is still to say. He...head, poor dear; and when it was a question of whether someone had to promise to be responsible for her, or she must go to an asylum for the rest of her life,...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 2

Literature - 1907 - 812 pages
...still to say. He was at the South Sea House, near his brother in Leadenhall Street, but they did n't have much to say to each other. Mr. John, he was a...and having his own thoughts and his own jokes. They had n't much in common. "Besides, there was another thing. There 'sa sister, you must know, sir, a...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Critic, Volume 2

Literature - 1907 - 820 pages
...still to say. He was at the South Sea House, near his brother in Leadenhall Street, but they did n't have much to say to each other. Mr. John, he was a...and having his own thoughts and his own jokes. They had n't much in common. "Besides, there was another thing. There 'sa sister, you must know, sir, a...
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A Little of Everything

Edward Verrall Lucas - Short stories, English - 1912 - 264 pages
...each other. Mr. John, he was a big, blustering, happy man, while this little one who calls himself 137 Elia is all for quietness and not being seen, and...poor dear ; and when it was a question of whether someone had to promise to be responsible for her, or she must go into an asylum for the rest of her...
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Character and Comedy

Edward Verrall Lucas - 1915 - 260 pages
...then to give me an order, and he threw it to me as if it was a bone and I was a dog. Many's the time 1 had it on my tongue to remind him what his father...poor dear ; and when it was a question of whether someone had to promise to be responsible for her, or she must go to an asylum for the rest of her life,...
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Authors and I

Charles Lewis Hind - American literature - 1920 - 354 pages
...Bookbinder" — that dear man, that unforgotten Bookbinder, speaking of Charles Lamb, says, ". . . this little one who calls himself Elia is all for...seen, and having his own thoughts and his own jokes. . . ." Really, that is not at all a bad description of you. 35. MAURICE MAETERLINCK HAD Maeterlinck...
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Essayists Past and Present: A Selection of English Essays

John Boynton Priestley - English essays - 1925 - 328 pages
...at the South Sea House, near his brother in Leadenhall Street, but they didn't have much to do with each other. Mr. John, he was a big blustering, happy...poor dear ; and when it was a question of whether someone had to promise to be responsible for her, or she must go into an asylum for the rest of her...
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Twentieth-century Literature: The Age of Interrogation, 190l-1925

Alfred Charles Ward - English literature - 1928 - 260 pages
...reading - than anyone living,"_wore all his knowledge with a deceptive air of innocence : he was " all for quietness and not being seen, and having his own thoughts and his own jokes." * Lucas' essays and " entertainments " are marked by fancy, literary artifice, commonsense and humour,...
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