 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...and it will cost me 51. I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me. But here I do first observe the fashion of drawing of mottos, as well as names : my wife's motto was " Most courteous, most fair;" mine I have forgot. One wonder I observed to-day,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...married this day privately," which is a circumstance alluded to the day afterwards — "I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me; which I * Lays of the Minnesingen, 286. was not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I must have... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me; which I * Lays of the Minnesingers, 28G. was not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I nmst have given to others. But here 1 do first observe the fashion of drawing of mottos as well as... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...that I must have laid out if we had not been Valentines." He also adds : " I find that Mrs. Fierce's little girl is my Valentine, she having drawn me ; which I was not sorry for, easing me of something more than I must have given to others. But here I do first observe the drawing... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...that 1 must have laid out if we had not been valentines." Two days after, he adds — " I find that Mrs Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me ; which I was not sorry for, it casing me of something more that I must have given to others. But here 1 do first observe the fashion... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1841 - 404 pages
...will cost me five pounds. I find that mrs Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me. But here I do first observe the fashion of drawing of mottos, as well as names. My wife's motto was ' Most courteous, most fair,' — mine I have forgot. One wonder I observed to-day,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...subsequently, he adds, — " I find that Mrs. Pierce 's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me; i which I was not sorry for, it easing me of something more than I must have given to others." Noticing, shortly afterwards, the jewels of Mistress Stuart, who... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...the frere." I most have laid out if we had not been Valentines." He afterwards adds, " I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my Valentine, she having...the fashion of drawing of mottos as well as names ; BO that Pierce, who drew my wife, did also draw a motto, and this girl drew another for me. What... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...is my Valentine, she having drawn me j which I was not sorry for, easing me of something more than I must have given to others. But here I do first observe the drawing of mottoes as well as names ; so that Pierce, who drew my wife, did draw also a motto, and... | |
 | Arts - 1852 - 436 pages
...; but titat I must have laid out, if we liad not been Valentines." Again he says, " I find that Mr. Pierce's little girl is my Valentine, she having drawn me ; which I was not sorry for, it edging me of something less tiuin I mud, have given to others. But here I do first observe the fashion... | |
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I find that Mrs. Pierce' s little girl is my Valentine, she having drawn me; which I was not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I must have given to others... 
