 | English literature - 1832 - 428 pages
...dinner; and never did feast (for a feast it was, fit for the court of aldermen ! ) yield more unmingled satisfaction. The old man, exhilarated by the spontaneous...just directly, my own Lilly ! " said he composedly; — "seventy-four is no age for surprises, even joyful ones — Sir," (turning to Norman, who stood... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children - 1835 - 248 pages
...for the bashful and surprised girl ; ' but very particularly engaged with friends, who would be loath to part with him to-night, even on business.' ' Lilly,...well ! ' cried the delighted girl, hanging round her father's neck in frantic joy ; ' come and see him directly ! ' ' Not just directly, my own Lilly !... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...the bashful and surprised girl, — " but very particularly engaged with friends, who would be loath to part with him to-night, even on business." —...then finding breath to say, — how is my dear father ?"_" Oh, well ! well !" cried the delighted girl, hanging round her father's neck in frantic joy, —... | |
 | Gift books - 1852 - 356 pages
...leaving the house to prepare for her juvenile fete — two plainly dressed, but respectable-looking people, opened with something of strange familiarity...just directly, my own Lilly!" said he composedly; — "seventy-four is no age for surprises, even joyful ones — Sir," (turning to Norman, who stood... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...for the bashful and surprised girl, "but very particularly engaged with friends, who would be loath roduced in court-dress, .•• j will have a very...society that the iN'lscipe of Claude, Gaspar Pouss mv dear father'/" " Oh, well ! well !" cried the delighted girl, hanging round her father's neck in... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...for the bashful-and surprised girl, "but very particularly engaged with friends, who would be loath to part with him to-night, even on business" — " Lilly, my own Lilly!" eobbed out the female traveller, clasping her daughter to her heart, and then finding breath to say,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 452 pages
...girl, "but verу particularly engaged with friends, who would be loath to part with him to-night, сven on business " — " Lilly, my own Lilly !" sobbed...well !" cried the delighted girl, hanging round her father's neck in frantic joy, "come and see him directly ! " " Not just directly, my own Lilly," said... | |
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cried the delighted girl, hanging round her own father's neck in frantic joy, — come and see him directly ! " " Not just directly, my own Lilly ! " said he composedly; — "seventy-four is no age for surprises, even joyful ones — Sir... 