 I made him a present of - the whole cake! I walked on a little, buoyed up as one is on such occasions with a sweet soothing of self-satisfaction; but before I had got to the end of the bridge my better feelings returned, and I burst into tears, thinking...  English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray - Page 298edited by - 1888 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1911 - 348 pages
...self-denial, and the very coxcombry of charity, school-boy like,' I made him a present of —the whole cake! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions, with a sweet soothing of self-satisfac- 25 tion; but before I had got to the end of the bridge, my better feelings returned,... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1912 - 296 pages
...and the very coxcombry of charity, school-boy-like, I made him a present of — the whole cake ! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew ; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I... | |
 | Gerhard Richard Lomer, Margaret Ashmun - English language - 1914 - 360 pages
...author wishes to produce an effect of extreme familiarity and ease, as in the following passage: — I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I myself,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 pages
...self-denial, and the very coxcombry of chanty, school-boy-like, I made him a present of — the whole cake ! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew ; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - English language - 1915 - 556 pages
...in the vanity of self-denial, . . . schoolboy-like, I made him a present of — the whole cake ! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew ; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I had eaten... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 530 pages
...the very coxcombry of charity, school-boy-like, [340 I made him a present of — the whole cake! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for [550 aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I —... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...and the very coxcombry of charity, school-boy-like, I made him a present of — the whole cake ! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I myself,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...and the very coxcombry of charity, school-boy-like, I made him a present of — the whole cake ! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...sweet soothing of self-satisfaction ; but before I had 235 got to the end of the bridge, my better feelings returned, and I burst into tears, thinking how... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - Readers - 1918 - 552 pages
...dismissed me one evening with a smoking plum-cake, fresh from the oven. On my way to school (it was soothing of self-satisfaction; but before I had got...never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I myself... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...old beggar saluted 288 CHARLES LAMB school-boy-like, I made him a present of — the whole cake ! I walked on a little, buoyed up, as one is on such occasions,...sweet soothing of self-satisfaction; but before I had 235 got to the end of the bridge, my better feelings returned, and I burst into tears, thinking how... | |
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