This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...and doctor being rivals in courting the lady's favor. Impatient at Gibbon's occupying so much of her attention by his conversation, the doctor said crossly to him, " Quand milady Elizabeth Foster sera malade de vos fadaisesje la guirirai." When my Lady Elizabeth Foster is made ill by your twaddle, I will cure her. On ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...and doctor being rivals in courting the lady's favor. Impatient at Gibbon's occupying so much of her attention by his conversation, the doctor said crossly to him, " Quand milady Elizabeth Foster sera malade de vos fadaisesje la guirirai." When my Lady Elizabeth Foster is made ill by your twaddle, I will cure her. On which Gibbon, drawing himself up grandly, and looking disdainfully at the physician, replied, "Quand milady Elizabeth Foster sera morte de vos recettes, je F im-mor-taliserai." When my Lady Elizabeth Foster is dead from your recipes, I will immortalize her. THE EMPTY GUN. As Dick and Tom in fierce dispute engage, And, face to face the noisy contest wage; u Don't cock your chin at me, ' Dick smartly cries. "Fear not--his head's not charged," a friend replies. A SATISFACTORY REASON. Mr. Alexander, the architect of several fine buildings in the county of Kent, was under cross-examination at Maidstone, by Sergeant (afterwards Baron) Oarrow, who wished to detract from the weight of his testimony. "You are a builder I believe?" "No, sir; I am not a builder; I am an architect!" "Ah, well? architect or builder, builder or architect, they are much the same, I suppose?" I beg your pardon, sir; I cannot admit that: I consider them to be totally different!" "Oh, indeed! perhaps you will state wherein this great difference consists?" "An architect, sir, prepares the plan, conceives the design, draws out the specifications, --in short, supplies the mind. The builder is merely the bricklayer or the carpenter: the builder, in fact, is the machine--the architect the power that puts the machine together and sets it going!" "Oh, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do! And now, ...
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