 you were not comfortable." After a year or two, Mrs. N. did so far relax, and mingle mercy with her hospitality, as to say when placing two ribs of roast beef upon one's plate, " I hope if there's more than you wish for, that you won't scruple to leave...  The New-York Visitor and Lady's Album - Page 41842Full view - About this book
 | George Cruikshank - 1842 - 366 pages
...violate all their simple ideas of etiquette and good breeding. If you left the remaining wing of the turkey, they would be wretched for the rest of the...you wish for, that you won't scruple to leave it." The reader will be lucky if he can secure as much indulgence as this, at many country-houses where... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...violate all their simple ideas of etiquette and good breeding. If you left the remaining wing of the turkey, they would be wretched for the rest of the...you wish for, that you won't scruple to leave it." The reader will be lucky if he can secure as much indulgence as this, at many country-houses where... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1841 - 564 pages
...violate all their simple ideas of etiquette and good breeding. If you left the remaining wing of the turkey, they would be wretched for the rest of the...you wish for, that you won't scruple to leave it." The reader will be lucky if he can secure аз much indulgence as this, at many countryhouses where... | |
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