 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - United States - 1818 - 482 pages
...refusal was on account of my being present, he might be called back. The hair-dresser was astonished : " You cannot be in earnest, Sir," he said. I assured...that I was much concerned in witnessing the refusal ANECDOTE. 59 from no other cause than that his skin was of a darker tinge than my own. He stopped the... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - History - 1819 - 720 pages
...refusal was on account of my being present, he might be called back. The hair-dresser was astonished : " You cannot be in earnest, Sir," he said. I assured...motion of his scissars ; and after a pause of some second^, ,in which his eyes were fixed upon my face, he said, " Why, I guess as how, Sir, what " you... | |
 | 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 - 1819 - 592 pages
...might be called back. The hair-dresser was astonished: " You cannot be in earnest, Sir?'' he.- snid. I assured him that I was so, and that I was much concerned...my own. He stopped the motion of his scissars ; and alter a pause of some seconds, in which his eyes were fixed upon my face, he said, " Why, I guess as... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...refusal was on account of my being present, he might be called back. The hairdresser was astonished : " You cannot be in earnest, Sir," he said. I assured him that I was so, and that 1 was much concerned in witnessing the refusal from no other cause than that his skin was of a darker... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - United States - 1819 - 478 pages
...refusal was on account of my being present, he might be called back. The hair-dresser was astonished : " You cannot be in earnest, Sir," he said. I assured him that 1 was so, and that I was much concerned in witnessing the refusal from no other cause than that his... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...being present, he might be called back. The hairdresser was astonished: 'You cannot be in earnest,' he said. I assured him that I was so, and that I was...darker tinge than my own. He stopped the motion of his scizzars, and after a pause of some seconds, in which his eyes were fixed upon my face, he said, '... | |
 | J. Syme - Convicts - 1848 - 396 pages
...refusal was on account of my being present, he might be called back. The hairdresser was astonished. ' You cannot be in earnest, sir ?' he said. I assured...was much concerned in witnessing the refusal from 110 other cause than that his skin was of a darker tinge than rny own. He stopped the motion of the... | |
 | 324 pages
...refusal was on account of my being present, he might be called back. The hair-dresser was astonished. " You cannot be in earnest, sir," he said. I assured him that I was 10, and that I was much concerned in witnessing the refusal from no other cause than that his skin... | |
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You cannot be in earnest, Sir,' he said. I assured him that I was so, and that I .was much concerned in witnessing the refusal from no other cause than that his skin was of a darker tinge than my own. He stopped the motion of his... 