Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387325517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230368160
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... "I've nothing to say about reasons, sir." "No! that was not a fair question," said my father; "but, my bov, you know on which side you are, don't you?" "To be sure--on your side, father." "That's right--bravo! To know on which side one is, is one great point in life." "And I can tell on which side every one here is." Then going round the table, I touched the shoulder of each of the company, saying, "A Jew!--No Jew!" and bursts of applause ensued. When I came to my father again, he caught me in his arms, kissed me, patted my head, clapped me on the back, poured out a bumper of wine, bid me drink his toast, "No Naturalization Bill!--No Jews!" and while I blundered out the toast, and tossed off the bumper, my father pronounced me a clever fellow, "a spirited little devil, who, if I did but live to be a man, would be, he'd engage, an honour to my country, my family, and my party." Exalted, not to say intoxicated, by my father's praise, when I went to the drawing-room to the ladies, I became rather more eloquent and noisy than my mother thought quite becoming; she could not, indeed, forbear smiling furtively at my wit, when, in answer to some simple country lady's question of "After all, why should not the Jews be naturalized?" I, with all the pertness of ignorance, replied, " Why, ma'am, because the Jews are naturally an unnatural pack of people, and you can't naturalize what's naturally unnatural." Kisses and cake in abundance followed--but when the company was gone, my mamma thought it her duty to say a few words to me upon politeness, and a few words to my father upon the too much wine he had given me. The reproach to my father, being just, he could not endure; but instead of admitting the truth, he vowed, by Jupiter Amnion, that his boy...
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria Edgeworth