 So Jemima goes. CHAPTER XVII. WHAT JEMIMA SAYS. " WHAT next ? " think I, hurrying off, as bidden. " What new freak ? Well, if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth I would not have spent my life in bewailing and lamenting that it was not a pewter...  Glimpses of Gotham ; And, City Characters - Pągina 28per Samuel Anderson Mackeever - 1880 - 72 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Mudford - 1849 - 342 pągines
...heart. His eyes sparkled with rapture as he exclaimed to himself, " Every thing I wish, happens just as if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth 1" Meanwhile, as he had been upon the foot ever since day- break, he began to grow weary and hungry,... | |
 | 1865 - 442 pągines
...rickety wooden chair-— otherwise he was in his ordinary dress. " A gentleman !" muttered the thief. " If I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I might have been a gentleman myself." Hugh Simonson turned upon his couch, and partly raised himself... | |
 | Edward Dutton Cook - 1865 - 350 pągines
...laughter. ' You may laugh,' Mr. Bowker went on, quite seriously ; ' but beggars can't be choosers. If I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth, as you were, it would be different.' ' Well I'm sure / wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth,... | |
 | 1872 - 862 pągines
...XVII. WHAT JEMIMA SATS. " WHAT next ? " think I, hurrying off, as bidden. " What new freak ? Well, if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth I would not have spent my life in bewailing and lamenting that it was not a pewter one." In the conservatory... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1872 - 338 pągines
...CHAPTER XVII. WHAT JEMIMA SAYS. rHAT next?" think I, hurrying off, as bidden. " What new freak ? Well, if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth I would not have spent my life in bewailing and lamenting that it was not a pewter one." In the conservatory... | |
 | 1872 - 720 pągines
...XVII.—WHAT JEMIMA SAYS. " WHAT next ?" think I, hurrying off, as bidden. " What new freak ? Well, if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth I would not have spent my life in bewailing and lamenting that it was not a pewter one." In the conservatory,... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1872 - 188 pągines
...XVII. WHAT JEMIMA SAYS. " WHAT next ? " think I, hurrying off, as bidden. " What new freak ? Well, if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth I would not have spent my life in bewailing and lamenting that it was not a pewter one." In the conservatory... | |
 | Richard Marsh - 1899 - 366 pągines
...chair on which he had been sitting, with quite a curious sensation. It was very odd. I believe that if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and the right sort of man to whom to attach mycelf, and to become attached to him, I should have been one... | |
 | Langston Hughes - 2002 - 400 pągines
...lay down your all before her, empty your heart and your pockets, and then have nothing left. I bet if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth, some woman would of had my spoon before I got to the breakfast table. I always was weak for women.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1872 - 590 pągines
...CHAPTER XVII. WHAT JEMIMA SATS. " HAT next ?" thiuk I, hurrying off, as bidden. " What new freak ? Well, if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth I would not have spent my life in bewailing and lamenting that it was not a pewter one." In the conservatory... | |
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