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
| William Swinton - Readers - 1886 - 396 pages
...him give me threepenny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. 98 17. "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 - 1886 - 690 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 jonrney. His journey to i at the age of seventeen, having Philadelphia, whither he went)... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 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 1 Tl^e metal currency at that tim3 was... | |
| Mara Louise Pratt Chadwick - United States - 1889 - 168 pages
...they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. "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. Reed, my future wife's father ; when... | |
| Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - Readers - 1889 - 168 pages
...they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. "He gave me, accordingly, three great, puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets, walked oft' with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. "Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - United States - 1890 - 320 pages
...with three pennies bought three great rolls of bread. "Having no room in my pockets," he says, " I walked off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street, as far as Fourth Street, passing by the house of Mr. Read, my future wife's father,... | |
| Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 450 pages
...me threepenny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surpriz'd at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets, walk'd off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street as far as... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 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... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 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, my future wife's father ; when... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 298 pages
...had 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, my future wife's father, when... | |
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