 | 1842 - 788 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed.... . . Few minutes elapse ere I am again summoned. I find her then always removed to her state dressing-room, if any room in this private mansion can... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...reading here and there some little paragraph aloud. When I return, I finish, if anything is undone, my dress, and then take Baretti's Dialogues, my dearest... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 490 pages
...and then the hairdresser is admitted. She generally reads the newspapers during that operation. reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...reading here and there some little paragraph aloud. When I return, I finish, if anything is undone, my dress, and then take Baretti's Dialogues, my dearest... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1842 - 834 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...reading here and there some little paragraph aloud I find her then always removed to her state dressing-room, if any room in this private mansion can... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...reading here and there some little paragraph aloud. * * * I find her then always removed to her state dressing-room, if any room in this private mansion... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 494 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If shej is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...she ever detain me without making a point of reading hero and there some little paragraph aloud. When I return, I finish, if anything is undone, my dress,... | |
 | Arts - 1842 - 592 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave , and reads steadily on , she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...consideration not to spoil my clothes that one would not fxpect belonged to her high station. Neither does she ever detain me without making a point of reading... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 558 pages
...constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed...powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes thai one would not expect belonged to her high station. Neither does she ever detain me without making... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 662 pages
...things, and then the hairdresser is admitted. She generally reads the newspapers during that operation. to her high station. Neither does she ever detain...reading here and there some little paragraph aloud. When I return, I finish, if any thing is undone, my dress, and then take Baretti's Dialogues, my dearest... | |
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When she observes that I have run to her but half dressed, she constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not ; but at all times she never... 
