 Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.  The Monthly critical gazette - Page 3901824Full view - About this book
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...him to give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great, puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets " — already occupied by his shirts and stockings — "walked off with a roll under each arm, and... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market street as far as Fourth street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, шу future wife's father ;... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market street as far as Fourth street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, niy future wife's father ;... | |
 | Biography - 1879 - 244 pages
...told him to give me three penny-worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it; and having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street, as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father, when... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 430 pages
...told him to give me threepenny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...bade him give me threepenny-worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room 295, 296. my journey. His journey to I at the age of seventeen, having Philadelphia, whither he went... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...told him to give me three penny-worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it ; and having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street, as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but "ok it, and, having no room in my pockets, walked off :rith a roll under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, posing by " the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's ra&.l. 3... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - Adventure and adventurers - 1883 - 344 pages
...I told him to give me threepennyworth of any sort. He gave me accordingly three big puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Reed, my future wife's father, where... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and having...under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street as far as Foi?rth Street, passing by the door of 1 The metal currency at that time was... | |
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