Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . Hard. Nor I, confound me if ever I did. To come to my house, to callfor what he likes, to tnrn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, toorder his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, This house is mine, all thats impudent, it makes me laugh. ITa! ha! ha! Pray, sir (hanter-ing)^ as you take the house, what think vou of taking the rest of the furniture ?Theres a pair of silver candlesticks, and theres a iire-screen, and theres a pairof brazen-nosed bellows; perhaps you may take a fancy to them. 524 HARPERS N
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . Hard. Nor I, confound me if ever I did. To come to my house, to callfor what he likes, to tnrn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, toorder his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, This house is mine, all thats impudent, it makes me laugh. ITa! ha! ha! Pray, sir (hanter-ing)^ as you take the house, what think vou of taking the rest of the furniture ?Theres a pair of silver candlesticks, and theres a iire-screen, and theres a pairof brazen-nosed bellows; perhaps you may take a fancy to them. 524 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY Marl. Bring me your bill, sir, bring nie your bill, and lets make no morewords about it. Hard. There are a set of prints, too. What think you of the HakesProgress for your own apartment ^ Marl. Bring me your bill, 1 say; and Ill leave you and your infernalhouse directly. Hard. Then theres a mahogany table that you may see your own face My bill, I say. Hard. I had forgot the great chair for your own particular slunibeis, aftera hearty meal. Marl. Zounds I bring me my bill, I say, and lets hear no more ont. Hard. Young man, young man, from your fathers letter to me, I wastaught to expect a well-bred, modest man as a visitor here; but now I tind himno better than a coxcomb and a bully. But he will be down here presently,and shall hear more of it. [ Marl. Hows this? Sure I have not mistaken the house? Everythinglooks like an inn; the servants cry, Coming; the attendance is awkward; thebar-maid, too, to attend us. But shes here, and will further inform so fast, ch
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