 | Women - 1830 - 400 pages
...one. ' Then,' said the Doctor, ' with your permission, J will dine with you to-day, tcte-a-tite, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company.' The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pages
...' Then,' said the doctor, ' with your permission, I will dine with you to-day, tête-à-tête, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company.' The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - Human physiology - 1832 - 572 pages
...one. "Then," said the doctor, "with your permission, I will dine with you to-day, t$te-at£te, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company." The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, having expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | 1831 - 500 pages
...one. ' Then,' said the doctor, ' with your permission, I will dine with you to-day tete-a-tete, and we will see, if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company.' The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for ho had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...one. " Then," said the Doctor, " with your permission, I will dine with you to-day, tete-a-tete, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company." The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...one. " Then," said the Doctor, " with your permission, I will dine with you to-day, tete-a-tete, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company." The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1862 - 804 pages
...the bottom of VOL, v. — NO. 28. 24. this singular attack, invited himself to dinner with his Mend, adding, " We will see if your malignant old woman...ridicule rather than his sympathy. When the dinner, however, arrived, the doctor exerted his powers of conversation, which were of a very brilliant character,... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Brain - 1860 - 618 pages
...any one. ' Then,' said the Doctor, 'with your permission I will dine with you to-day tete-d-tete, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company.' The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | Forbes Benignus Winslow - Brain - 1860 - 618 pages
...one. ' Then,' said the Doctor, 'with your permission I will dine with you to-day tSte-d-tSte, and *e will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company.' The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Demonology - 1870 - 426 pages
...one. " Then," said the Doctor, " with your permission, I will dine with you to-day, tite-dUte, and we will see if your malignant old woman will venture to join our company." The patient accepted the proposal with hope and gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy.... | |
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... negative. The nature of the complaint, he said, was so singular, it was so likely to be imputed to fancy, or even to mental derangement, that he had shrunk from communicating the circumstance to any one. 
