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Ellen Pickering. THE REPORT . CHARACTERS . MR . SILENT MRS . SILENT MRS . PRATTLE THE REPORT . Mr. Silent reading ; enter Mrs. Silent.
Ellen Pickering. THE REPORT . CHARACTERS . MR . SILENT MRS . SILENT MRS . PRATTLE THE REPORT . Mr. Silent reading ; enter Mrs. Silent.
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... Prattle tells his wife all he hears , as husbands should . MR . SILENT . Better if he did not . MRS . SILENT . I don't see that at all , my dear . What are tongues for , if not to be used ? MR . SILENT . We have two ears to one tongue ...
... Prattle tells his wife all he hears , as husbands should . MR . SILENT . Better if he did not . MRS . SILENT . I don't see that at all , my dear . What are tongues for , if not to be used ? MR . SILENT . We have two ears to one tongue ...
Page 118
... Prattle always knows every thing . MR . SILENT . And tells every thing too : she may pay for this one of these days ... Prattle herself . Enter Mrs. Prattle who shakes hands with Mrs. Silent , but , in her hurry , overlooks Mr. Silent ...
... Prattle always knows every thing . MR . SILENT . And tells every thing too : she may pay for this one of these days ... Prattle herself . Enter Mrs. Prattle who shakes hands with Mrs. Silent , but , in her hurry , overlooks Mr. Silent ...
Page 119
... Prattle , I never heard any thing of it till this morning : my hus- band is not like your's , he never tells me anything . MRS . PRAT . I wish Mr. Prattle had not told me this . Only think , our names put in the pa- pers , and the ...
... Prattle , I never heard any thing of it till this morning : my hus- band is not like your's , he never tells me anything . MRS . PRAT . I wish Mr. Prattle had not told me this . Only think , our names put in the pa- pers , and the ...
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... Prattle for saying he gambled away all his fortune ? MR . SILENT . Yes , my dear , I knew that an hour ago . MRS . SILENT . And never told me ! MR . SILENT . No , my dear , and if Mr. Prattle had not told his wife , they would not have ...
... Prattle for saying he gambled away all his fortune ? MR . SILENT . Yes , my dear , I knew that an hour ago . MRS . SILENT . And never told me ! MR . SILENT . No , my dear , and if Mr. Prattle had not told his wife , they would not have ...
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Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 35 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 90 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune...
Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 22 - He's tall and he's straight as the poplar tree, His cheeks are as fresh as the rose ; He looks like a squire of high degree When drest in his Sunday clothes.
Page 87 - What, John, not gone yet ? I thought you were to meet the Commissioners at twelve ? " To which, by some instinct of memory, I replied without thinking, " Yes. But it has not struck yet." JOAN : " But you know it's half an hour's walk to the Guildhall. " DAUPHIN :