part; in the second, simple indefinite interrogative: the whole a semi-interrogative: the parts connected closely. Sentence 16th.-A double compact exclamatory with the first proposition, comprising two members, only expressed. Sentence 17th.-A fragmentary simple declarative exclamatory. Sentence 18th.-A broken close declarative exclamatory. Sentence 21st.—A compound declarative single compact, third form: correlative words, if-then. 1 SEC. XXII. BURNING OF THE FAME, AND ESCAPE OF THE PASSENGERS. We embarked on the 2d inst. and sailed at daylight for England, from the East Indies, with every prospect of a quick and 2 prosperous passage. The ship was every thing we could wish; and, having closed my charge here, much to my satisfaction, it 3 was one of the happiest days of my life. We were, perhaps, too happy; for in the evening came a sad reverse. Sophia had 4 just gone to bed, and I had thrown off half my clothes, when a cry of Fire-Fire!-roused us from our calm content; and 5 in five minutes the whole ship was in flames! I ran to examine whence the flames principally issued, and found that the fire had 6 its origin immediately under our cabin.-Down with the boats! 7-Where is Sophia ?-8 Here.-9 The children ?—10 Here.— 11 A rope to the side!-12 Lower Lady Raffles.-13 Give her to 14 me, says one.-I'll take her, says the captain.-15 Throw the 16 gunpowder overboard.-It cannot be got at: it is in the maga17 zine, close to the fire.-Stand clear of the powder. 18 Scuttle 19 the water-cask.-Water! water!-20 Where's Sir Stamford? 21 Come into the boat: Nilson! Nilson! come into the boat.22 Push off! push off! 23 Stand clear of the after part of the ship. We pushed 24 All this passed much quicker than I can write it. 25 off; and as we did so, the flames burst out of our cabin windows, and the whole after part of the ship was in flames. 1 SEC. XXIII. OUR WISHES HELP TO DECEIVE US. Baltimore. What were you laughing at? Peter. Only, sir, at Squire Freeman, (he: he he!) who 2 was riding up the back lane, a little while ago, on his new cropeared hunter, as fast as he could canter, with all the skirts of his coat flapping about him, for all the world like a clucking hen upon a sow's back-He: he he! 3 Balt. Thou art pleasant, Peter; and what then? Pet. When just turning the corner, your honor, as it might 4 be so, my mother's brown calf (bless its snout! I shall love it for it, as long as I live) set its face through the hedge, and said "Mow!" 6 Pet. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 O Lord, yes, your honor! into a good soft bed of all the rotten garbage of the village. Balt. And you saw this: did you? Pet. O yes, your honor! as plain as the nose on my face. David. (Aside.) I wonder my master can demean himself so as to listen to that knave's tales; I'm sure he was proud enough once. Balt. (Still laughing.) You really saw it? Pet. Ay, your honor! and many more than me saw it. Balt. And there were a number of people to look at him too? 14 Pet. Oh! your honor! all the rag-tag of the parish were grinning at him. 15 Balt. Ha ha ha ha ha! this is excellent! ha ha ha! 16 He would shake himself but ruefully before them? (Still laughing violently.) 17 Pet. Ay, sir: he shook the wet straws and the withered 18 turnip-tops from his back. It would have done your heart good to have seen him. 19 20 Dav. Nay, you know well enough, you do, that there is nothing but a bank of dry sand in that corner. (Indignantly to Peter.) Balt. (Impatiently to David.) Poo! silly fellow! it is the 21 dirtiest nook in the village. And he rose and shook himself: ha ha ha! I did not know that thou wert such a humorous 22 fellow, Peter: here is money for thee to drink the brown calf's health. 23 24 Pet. Ay, your honor! for certain he shall have a noggen. Dav. (Aside.) To think now that he should demean himself so ! Joanna Baillie. Sent. 10th.-Sing. compact: therefore-for: the second part begins another, of which, one part only is expressed. Sent. 19th.-Therefore nay, (it would not have done his heart good,) for you know, &c. Double compact: the second part begins another sentence which remains unfinished. Sent. 24.-Fragmentary declarative close exclamatory sentence, with something like "is painful" understood at the end. SEC. XXIV. A CURTAIN LECTURE OF MRS. CAUDLE. 1 Bah! that's the third umbrella gone since Christmas. 2 What 3 were you to do! Why, let him go home in the rain, to be sure. 4 I'm very certain there was nothing about him that could spoil. 5 Take cold, indeed! 6 He doesn't look like one of the sort to 7 take cold. Besides, he'd have better taken cold than taken our 8 umbrella. Do you hear the rain, Mr. Caudle? 9 I say, do you 10 hear the rain? And as I'm alive, if it isn't St. Swithin's day! 11 Do you hear it against the windows? 12 Nonsense: you don't impose upon me; you can't be asleep with such a shower as 13 that! Do you hear it, I say? 14 Oh! you do hear it! 15 Well, that's a pretty flood, I think, to last for six weeks; and no 16 stirring all the time out of the house. Pooh! don't think me a 17 fool, Mr. Caudle; dont insult me; he return the umbrella! Any18 body would think you were born yesterday. As if anybody 19 ever did return an umbrella! There: do you hear it? 20 Worse 21 and worse. Cats and dogs, and for six weeks: always six weeks; and no umbrella! 22 I should like to know how the children are to go to school 23 to-morrow. They shan't go through such weather; I am de24 termined. No; they shall stop at home and never learn any thing, (the blessed creatures !) sooner than go and get wet! And 25 when they grow up, I wonder who they'll have to thank for know26 ing nothing: who, indeed, but their father. People who can't feel for their own children ought never to be fathers. 27 But I know why you lent the umbrella: oh! yes, I know very 28 well. I was going out to tea at dear mother's to-morrow: you 29 knew that, and you did it on purpose. Don't tell me; you hate me to go there, and take every mean advantage to hinder me. 30 But don't you think it, Mr. Caudle; no, sir; if it comes down in 31 buckets full, I'll go all the more. No; and I won't have a cab! 32 Where do you think the money's to come from? 33 You've got 34 nice high notions at that club of yours? A cab, indeed! 35 Cost me sixteen-pence, at least sixteen-pence! two-and-eight36 pence; for there's back again. Cabs, indeed! I should like 37 to know who's to pay for 'em; for I'm sure you can't, if you go on as you do, throwing away your property, and beggaring your children, buying umbrellas! 38 Do you hear the rain, Mr. Caudle? 39 I say, do you hear 40 it? But I don't care-I'll go to mother's to-morrow-I will; and what's more I'll walk every step of the way; and you know 41 that will give me my death. Don't call me a foolish woman; 42 it's you that's the foolish man. You know I can't wear clogs; and with no umbrella, the wet's sure to give me a cold: it al43 ways does but what do you care for that? Nothing at all. 44 I may be laid up for what you care, as I dare say I shall; and 45 a pretty doctor's bill there'll be. I hope there will. 46 It will 47 teach you to lend your umbrellas again. I shouldn't wonder if I caught my death: yes, and that's what you lent the umbrella 48 for. Of course! 49 Nice clothes I'll get, too, trapesing through weather like this. 50 My gown and bonnet will be spoiled quite. 51 Needn't I wear 52 'em then? Indeed, Mr. Caudle, I shall wear 'em 53 No, sir; say; I'm not going out a dowdy to please you or anybody else. 54 Gracious knows! it isn't often that I step over the threshold ;indeed, I might as well be a slave at once: better, I should but when I do go out, Mr. Caudle, I choose to go as a lady. 55 Oh! that rain-if it isn't enough to break in the windows. 56 Ugh! I look forward with dread for to-morrow! 57 How I am to go to mother's, I'm sure I can't tell, but if I die, I'll do 58 it. No, sir; I won't borrow an umbrella: no; and you shan't 59 buy one. (With great emphasis.) Mr. Caudle, if you bring home another umbrella, I'll throw it in the street. 60 Ha! And it was only last week I had a new nozzle put to 61 that umbrella. I'm sure if I'd have known as much as I do 62 now, it might have gone without one. Paying for new nozzles 63 for other people to laugh at you! Oh! it's all very well for 64 you; you can go to sleep. You've no thought for your poor patient wife, and your own dear children; you think of nothing but lending umbrellas! 65 Men, indeed!-call themselves lords of creation! pretty lords, when they can't even take care of an umbrella! I know that walk to-morrow will be the death of me, but 66 that's what you want: then you may go to your club, and do as you like; and then nicely my poor dear children will be used; 67 but then, sir, then you'll be happy. Oh! don't tell me! I know you will: else you'd never have lent the umbrella! 68 You have to go on Thursday about that summons; and, of 69 course, you can't go. No, indeed: you don't go without the 70 umbrella. You may lose the debt for what I care-it won't be so much as spoiling your clothes-better lose it; people deserve to lose debts who lend umbrellas! 71 And I should like to know how I'm to go to mother's with72 out the umbrella. Oh! don't tell me that I said I would go; 73 that's nothing to do with it: nothing at all. She'll think I'm neglecting her; and the little money we're to have, we shan't have at all :-because we've no umbrella. The children, too!-(dear things!-) they'll be sopping wet; 74 for they shan't stay at home; they shan't lose their learning; 75 it's all their father will leave them, I'm sure.-But they shall go to school. Don't tell me they shouldn't; (you are so aggra76 vating, Caudle, you'd spoil the temper of an angel;) they shall go to school: mark that; and if they get their deaths of cold, it's not my fault; I didn't lend the umbrella. Here," says Caudle, in his manuscript, "I fell asleep and 77 dreamed that the sky was turned into green calico, with whalebone ribs that, in fact, the whole world revolved under a tremendous umbrella!" Sentence 2d.-Mr. Caudle is supposed to have asked here, "What he should have done." Mrs. C. repeats his words as if she had not heard distinctly; and of course her question takes the rising slide. (See Rule III. Excep.) Sentence 6th.-The first part of a decl. double compact: the second part understood: "but the reverse." Sentence 7th.-The first part of a single compact, itself compact. Therefore-because, the correlative words. "Because we shall want it ourselves" is probably the reason in the mind of the speaker. Sent. 9th and 13th.These being repetitions of the def. interrog., take the downward slide. Sentence 12th."Therefore you don't, because therefore you can't [; because it makes too much noise."] Sentence 15th. As it is well that you hear, so that's a pretty flood, &c." Sentence 16th.-Mr. C. is supposed to have said the umbrella would be returned. A double compact declar. excl.: thus made out. "Don't think me fool enough to believe it; don't insult my understanding by calling on me to believe it; for he will never return the umbrella." The second proposition is virtually negative, though it has an affirmative form. Sentence 21st.-"It rains cats and dogs, and so it will rain for six weeks;" that is, "as it rains, so it will rain, &c." tence 23d.-A double compact, with the first and second proposition expressed: "They shall not, &c., for on that I'm determined." Sentence 24th.-They shall not, &c., but they shall, &c. Sentence 25th.--Who ungrammatically used for whom. Compound decl. imperf. loose. Sentence 29th.-Very much abbreviated. "Dont tell me that, for it is not true: you hate, &c." tence 30th." But don't you think it; no, sir; for if it, &c." Sentence 31st.-"Not only so, indeed, but I wont have a cab !" Sentence 33d.-An indirect interrogative, first kind. Sentence 37th.— Indirect semi-interrogative exclam. Sentence 40th.-Extremely abbreviated and fragmentary again. "But yet I don't care; [if it does rain:] yet I will go, &c., [if it does rain:] yet I will, [if it does rain; &c."] Sentence 41st.-" Therefore don't because it's you, &c." Sentence 42d. -The first part of this semi-interrog. is a fragment. double compact, with the first proposition only expressed: the second, or the reason for the first being understood. Sentence 72d.— "Therefore don't, for that's, &c." Sen Sen SEC. XXV. DISHONORABLE MEANS TO SUCCESS, NEVER TO BE EMPLOYED. 1 3 4 Free. How now, Jenkinson? 2 Things go on prosperously, I hope? Jen. Sir, I am concerned-or, indeed, sorry-that is to say, I wish I could have the satisfaction to say that they do. Free. What say you? 5 Sorry and satisfied? You are a 6 smooth spoken man, Mr. Jenkinson; but tell me the worst at 7 once. I thought I had been pretty sure of it, as the poll stood this morning? 8 9 Jen. It would have given me great pleasure, sir, to have confirmed that opinion; but unfortunately for you, and unpleasantly for myself— Free. Tut; tut! 10 Speak faster, man! 11 What is it? Jen. An old gentleman from Ensford, who formerly received favors from Mrs. Baltimore's father, has come many a 12 mile across the country, out of pure good-will, to vote for him, with ten or twelve distant voters at his heels; and this, I am free to confess, is a thing that was never taken into our calculation. 13 Free. That was very wrong, though; we should have taken 14 every thing into our calculation. Shall I lose it, think you? 15 I would rather lose ten thousand pounds. 16 17 Jen. A smaller sum than that, I am almost sure-that is to say, I think I may have the boldness to promise, would secure it to you. Free. How so? |