Chrysal; Or, The Adventures of a Guinea: Wherein are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, with Curious and Interesting Anecdotes, of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands it Passed Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany and Portugal, Svazek 4

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J.F. and C. Rivington, 1783
 

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Strana 141 - Much good may your bargain do you, sir; but I will not take less than fifty for mine in compliment to you, or any bookseller alive; and so, sir, I desire to know without more words (for I told you before that your eloquence would be thrown away upon me!) whether you will give that, as I am in haste to go to company much more agreeable to me than yours.
Strana 138 - I should serve him right, to go away and disappoint him. But would not that disappoint myself more ? He is come into such vogue lately, that the best man in the trade would be glad to get him. Well, if he does not do what I want, I know not who can. Fools may be frighted at the thoughts of a cart's tail or a pillory ; I know better things. Where they come in a popular cause, nothing sets a man's name up to such advantage, and that is the first step toward making a fortune ; as for the danger, it...
Strana 145 - Sir," (said she, pressing the hand that had raised her, with her cold trembling lips) " my deliverer, sent by heaven to save me from despair, let me not think of taking refreshment myself, till I have first procured it for those, whose greater wants I feel ten thousand times more severely than my own.
Strana 146 - With these words, he went directly to a tavern, and enquiring what victuals were dressed in the house, loaded her with as much as she could carry of the best, and putting a couple of bottles of wine in his own pocket, walked with her to her habitation, which was in a blind alley, happily for her not very far distant, as weakness, together with the conflict of passions struggling in her heart, made her scarce able to go.
Strana 148 - , said he, ' can a sense of humanity be such an uncommon thing among creatures who call themselves human, that so poor an exertion of it should be thought deserving of a return proper to be made only to Heaven. Oppress me not, sir, I conjure you, with the mention of what it would have been a crime I could never have forgiven myself to have known I had not done.
Strana 141 - You are very peremptory, sir, but you know your own value, and therefore in hopes you will let me have more for my money next time, I will venture to give you your price now, though really if it was not for your name I could not possibly do it, but to be sure that is worth a shilling extraordinary, I own." "Which is twelve pence more than yours ever will be, unless to the ordinary of Newgate. — But come ! give me the money, I want to go to my company.
Strana 149 - ! exclaimed the daughter, who was afraid that if he should go away, he might not return.
Strana 144 - ... themselves to casual prostitution in the streets, that his curiosity was struck, and he stopped to take more particular notice of her. She appeared to be about fifteen. Her figure was elegant, and her features regular ; but want had sicklied...
Strana 34 - He persisted iui all the extravagance of grief; and acted his part so well, that, forgetting her own distress for a moment, she was insensibly led to administer consolation to him. This was what he wanted ! he at length seemed to be comforted by her arguments, which he gradually improved so far as to glance at her continuance of the guilty commerce, which he pressed for by the most rapturous professions of love, and the strongest vows of constancy and truth. This was an attack which she was no way...
Strana 147 - ... some nourishment, he returned to them, when the moment he entered the room, the whole family fell upon their knees to thank him. Such humiliation was more than he could bear. He raised them, one by one, as fast as he could, and taking the father's hand,

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