 Behn curiously sealed up, with " private and confidential " on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 325edited by - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1906 - 568 pages
...old Miss Keith of Ravelston got at her request Mrs. Behn's works to read, she returned them with the words: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take my advice you will put her in the fire ; for I find it impossible to get through the first novel. But is it not... | |
 | Clara Helen Whitmore - 1910 - 336 pages
...sealed and marked "private and confidential." The next time he saw her, she gave them back with the words: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not a very odd thing that I, an old... | |
 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - 1917 - 514 pages
...been a joy of her girlhood, and to whom Sir Walter had sent them sealed and marked "confidential," "and if you will take my advice put her in the fire. . . . But is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards sitting alone, should... | |
 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - 1917 - 508 pages
...been a joy of her girlhood, and to whom Sir Walter had sent them sealed and marked "confidential," "and if you will take my advice put her in the fire. . . . But is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards sitting alone, should... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1916 - 406 pages
...old grand aunt. The next time he saw her she gave him back the volumes wrapped up with this remark: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take...through the very first novel," but "is it not," she remarked, "a very odd thing that I, an old woman of 80 and upwards, sitting alone, feel ashamed to... | |
 | Maurice Hewlett - 1920 - 196 pages
..." Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn," said Walter Scott's greataunt to him after a short inspection, " and if you will take my advice, put her in the fire,...it impossible to get through the very first novel." The nemesis of the pornographer : he can't avoid boring you to tears. 49 THE WELTER SOUSED still to... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1905 - 570 pages
...old grand aunt. The next time he saw her she gave him back the volumes wrapped up with this remark: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take my advice, put her i:i the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel," but "is it not," she... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - 1926 - 380 pages
...of Mrs. Aphra Behn which she had read as a girl. "The next time I saw her afterwards," Scott said, "she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with...you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel. But it is not,' she said, 'a very odd thing... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 pages
...sent a set of Behn 'a works to a ' gay old grand aunt, ' who returned it with the sage comment : ' Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn and, if you will take my advice, put her in 39 Beaumont — Benserade the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first поте!.... | |
 | Michael Sadleir - 1927 - 464 pages
...early eighteen-twenties. He sent her the books ; but very quickly she returned them, saying : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire. Is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read... | |
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