...she hath had long melancholy upon her, and hath endeavoured to make away with herself often. 25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor...the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Stewart's face...

...prosperous he and his wife found much pleasure in talking of the old hard days, Pepys reminding her " how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul...same thing again, if God should reduce us to it." Before their good times came it will be seen that Pepys 'and his wife went through some hardships together,...

...without my leave. From this we began both to be angry, and so continued till bed. February 25, 1666-67. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor...the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. March 22, 1667. My wife having dressed herself in a silly dress of a blue petticoat uppermost, and...

...room " at Hinchingbrooke, but in after years he and his wife recalled the days they spent there : " How she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch! in my little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do, and...

...drawn by her husband's memory, as he looks back from growing fortune on cottage days and simple love. "Talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she...same thing again, if God should reduce us to it." Riches diminish some cares and swell others. In the little room at Lord Sandwich's the servant problem...

...which is a strange thing, that so horrid an effect should have so mean and uncertain a beginning. 25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor...the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's face...

...he and his wife were given rooms in Montagu's London house. Years after Pepys recalled how his wife used "to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hands," in the early days of their married life. Pepys held the appointment of "Clerk of the Acts of...

...their only gleam of comfort. How charming is the later reference which Pepys makes to those old days : "Talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she...little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought forever to love and admire her, and do." 13 On the other hand, it cannot be denied that there is a...

...of their's, this day 34 years. The Lord's name be praised ! and may I be ever thankful for it. 25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor...the same thing again if God should reduce us to it. So up and by coach abroad to the Duke of Albemarle's about sending soldiers down to some ships, and...

...she hath had long melancholy upon her, and hath endeavoured to make away with herself often. 25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor...clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch! in our 1 Brushwood, or small faggots, used for lighting fires. little room at my Lord Sandwich's; for which...