The Diverting Pathetic And Humorous Adventures Of Mr Sydenham Greenfinch Compiled From The Ms At Present In The Possession Of Tom Hawkins

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...Mr. Greenfinch's rather limited classical knowledge enabled him to swallow. But that Ellen returned with Hawkins, we question whether Mr. Greenfinch would not have discovered that drawing a mackerel on the pavement was an ancient Pompeian custom, and that Mr. Digby "VVyatt was still anxiously endeavouring to obtain a first-rato specimen in order to give the full nature and spirit of every-day life. "By the way, Syd," Sell observed, after a few minutes of constructive silence, "look here; you ought to buy some little thing--a dress or something of that sort, for your aunt, to say nothing of you know, eh!" And Mr. Sell looked profoundly respectable, serious, wicked, and various sorts of things all together. Even Ellen could not resist the mischievous pleasure of seeing Greenfinch "asking the price" of one of the astonished superintendents in the "printed fabric department." But he was very civilly treated, and, armed with a card and prospectus, he came back perfectly satisfied. But retribution was in store for Sell. His profane jokes about "engaged people," "doing the amiable," "coming the paternal," "looking Lord Lovellish," and a host of others, which continually made Ellen laugh and Lucy blush, were shortly to fall upon his own head. Beware, ye scoffers at nature's first law, and don't attempt to sham indifference while that very small, but very troublesome boy, commonly known as Cupid, is stitching, knitting, darning, and sewing needles into your heart and your conscience. It is our own private belief that everybody is to be met with at Sydenham. Why should not Julius Ca?sar, "arrayed in complete steel," again revisit the place to see whether...

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