... the company squeezed themselves into one another's pockets to make room for us. The house, which is borrowed, and to which the ghost has adjourned, is wretchedly small and miserable; when we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no... A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860 - Seite 28von John Timbs - 1864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1819 - 552 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes,...if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes,...asked, if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes,...if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes,...if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes,...asked, if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppetshow, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 Seiten
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the ch1ld to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...asked, if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppetshow, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes,...if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 Seiten
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child lo whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not come that night till... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 Seiten
...at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes. At the top of the room arc ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We had nothing. They told us, as they would at a puppet-show, — ' that it would not come that night... | |
| Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 860 Seiten
...the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light but one tallow-candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they arc murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry... | |
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