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" This was when he was lying in bed, in one of his attacks of illness. On these delightful visits he would spare no pains in taking me to places of amusement — the play, or the pantomime — sometimes after an excellent dinner at the Garrick Club, where... "
Fragments from the Past: 1832-1907 - Page 230
by Francis St. John Thackeray - 1907 - 235 pages
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The Living Age, Volume 198

1893 - 846 pages
...date, I do not remember, but it was much more than I had lost. This was when he was lying in bed, iu one of his attacks of illness. On these delightful...act of blurting out an oath, the utterance of which lie would not tolerate iu my presence. This illustrates what he oiice wrote : " We have a love for...
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Epoch, Volume 8

1892 - 744 pages
...hands. The exact amount, at this distant date, I do not remember, but it was much more than I had lost. On these delightful visits he would spare no pains...utterance of which he would not tolerate in my presence." * * * THAT Mr. Walter Besant should raise such a hue and cry about the deplorable position of the English...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 198

American periodicals - 1893 - 866 pages
...This was when he was lying iu bed, in one of his attacks of illness. On these delightful visits lie would spare no pains in taking me to places of amusement...the Garrick Club, where I remember his checking some oue in the act of blurting out an oath, the utterance of which he would not tolerate in my presence....
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1927 - 782 pages
...young kinsman of the novelist, was taken by him on one occasion to the Garrick Club. He informs us : ' I remember his checking some one in the act of blurting...utterance of which he would not tolerate in my presence.' 2 The incident of Colonel Newcome as a little boy, upsetting his two little brothers in a go-cart and...
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