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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...ls A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- s... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells Chapter the F Chapter the F Chapter the F Chapter the ... ...innings, and the Bazaar azaar azaar azaar azaar I I I I I “HOLE!” said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: “‘Ole!” ... ...ng his cap before he came out. He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat. “‘Ere’s your ‘at,” s... ...iture to books and millinery, a department store in fact, The Port Burdock Drapery Bazaar at Port Burdock, one of the three townships that are grouped... ... Platt and Parsons were his contemporary apprentices in departments of the drapery shop, and the three were drawn together into a close friend- ship b... ...e inn was a great affair. No one, they were convinced, would take them for drapers, and there might be a pretty serving girl or a jolly old lady, or w... ...ere’s he going now?” and came along behind the parapet to the front of the drapery establishment. Below, the street was now fully alive to their prese...

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...aring such a faded air that she seemed not to have been made in what linen-drapers call ‘fast colours’ originally, and to have, by little and little, ... ...aid Miss T ox, singling out the young woman with the baby. ‘How do you do, Polly?’ ‘I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,’ said Polly. By way of bringi... ...ut Mrs Chick relieved her, by entering into a close private examination of Polly , her children, her marriage certificate, testimonials, and so forth.... ...olly , her children, her marriage certificate, testimonials, and so forth. Polly coming out unscathed from this ordeal, Mrs Chick withdrew with her re... ...ts of feelings. The less so, as there seemed to be no flaw in the title of Polly Toodle after his sister had set it forth, with many commendations on ... ...oss and across his mouth. ‘Y ou heard what I said to your wife just now?’ ‘Polly heerd it,’ said T oodle, jerking his hat over his shoul- der in the d... ...r, with all the light of his little face absorbed into the black bombazeen drapery , studying every line and wrinkle of her countenance, and peering a... ...f its powerful and prosperous relation. There were railway patterns in its drapers’ shops, and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen. There w...

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...aring such a faded air that she seemed not to have been made in what linen-drapers call ‘fast colours’ originally, and to have, by little and little, ... ...aid Miss T ox, singling out the young woman with the baby. ‘How do you do, Polly?’ ‘I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,’ said Polly. By way of bringi... ...ut Mrs Chick relieved her, by entering into a close private examination of Polly , her children, her marriage certificate, testimonials, and so forth.... ...olly , her children, her marriage certificate, testimonials, and so forth. Polly coming out unscathed from this ordeal, Mrs Chick withdrew with her re... ...ts of feelings. The less so, as there seemed to be no flaw in the title of Polly Toodle after his sister had set it forth, with many commendations on ... ...oss and across his mouth. ‘Y ou heard what I said to your wife just now?’ ‘Polly heerd it,’ said T oodle, jerking his hat over his shoul- der in the d... ...r, with all the light of his little face absorbed into the black bombazeen drapery , studying every line and wrinkle of her countenance, and peering a... ...f its powerful and prosperous relation. There were railway patterns in its drapers’ shops, and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen. There w... ...o a couch, by covering it all over with a clean white 671 Charles Dickens drapery. By a similar contrivance, the Captain converted the little dressin...

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... there’s a many girl in the village that at my age is quite chits. There’s Polly Randall now, that red-haired girl along with Thomas Curtis: she’s sev... ..., sir, on the land, sir, As they walked to and fro, Tom made jolly love to Polly, But was answered no, no, no.” The Captain had put his horse on the g... ...ter. “Madam,” said the person addressed, “I’m not a lord, but a tailor and draper; and as for that young woman, before to-day I never set eyes on her.... ...a coach- and-six.” “I wish I could find my father,” said Tom; “for I think Polly Briggs and I would look mighty well in a coach-and-six.” Tom fancied ... .... “I think we’ll have the coach now, Mother,” says he; “and I’m blessed if Polly Briggs shall not look as fine as a duchess.” “Polly Briggs is a low s... ...een these two young people, that the reader will be glad to hear that Mrs. Polly accepted every shilling of the money which Tom Billings had received ...

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...eautiful hands, with fingers deeply stained by nicotine. She wore sweeping draperies, mauve and green. There was about her the romantic air of High St... ... She had the grotesque look of one of those painters’ dummies used to hang draper- ies on. “I didn’t know you loved him so much as all that,” said Phi... ...were solid ground: the up- lifted arms of the Apostles, the sweep of their draperies, their ecstatic gestures, gave an im- pression of exultation and ... ... had driven him to take the job of press-representative to a large firm of drapers; and though he felt the work unworthy his abilities, which he rated... ... eye fell upon an announcement asking for a salesman in the ‘fur - nishing drapery’ department of some well- known stores. He had a curious little sin... ...ile. “Well, that’s what I call friendly , I knew ‘e wouldn’t take offence, Polly. Just get another plate, my girl.” Polly was flustered, and she thoug... ... shoulders and wasn’t above puttin’ ‘is ‘and to anything as come ‘is way . Polly was timorous. If she was ‘im she’d join the union, the last time ther... ... I won’t be dictated to.” “It’s no good saying it’s a free country ,” said Polly , “that won’t prevent ‘em bashin’ your ‘ead in if they get the chanst...

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... Thedy, Widdy (short for Williamina), Freddy , Izzy, Tizzy, Mysie, Grizzy, Polly, Dolly , Nell, and Bell— all married, all ugly, and all carr’ty hair.... ...t remember Biddy and Minny, and Thedy and Widdy, and Mysie and Grizzy, and Polly and Dolly and the rest?” “D—the Miss Hoggarties, ma’am,” said the rig... ...sex Association, at the suit of V on Stiltz of Clifford Street, tailor and draper. I called down Smithers, and told him for Heaven’s sake not 90 The ...

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... six hours daily, to the delight of the fellow-lodgers: at another, lovely Polly, the nurse-maid, may be seen dandling Master Omnium in her arms: whil... ...nd friendly, and happy. To these three presently came another little one. “Polly,” says she, “your sister’ s got a penny.” At which the children got u... ...a carriage 263 Thackeray once more, bustling about from milliner to linen-draper, es- corted back to the carriage by obsequious shopmen or polite own... ... for your aunt from Southampton. How time flies, to be sure! That can’t be Polly Talboys, that bouncing girl standing by her mother at the cot- tage t... ... sat on the edge of the breakfast table in an easy attitude displaying the drapery of her stocking and an ex-white satin shoe, which was down at heel)... ...-night of importance. I should like to see Mrs. Osborne tho’. Suppose Miss Polly would come with me and show me the way?” Miss Polly was charmed and a... ...m often? Was Mr. Sedley pretty comfortable now in a worldly point of view? Polly answered all these questions of Major Sugarplums to the very best of ...

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... Rudge (under nineteen), and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen draper’s shop, took some coarse linen off the counter, and slipped it under... ...tion on the part of Grip, who would cry in a low voice from time to time, ‘Polly put the ket—’ and there stop short, forgetting the remainder, and go ... ...es were closed. But even then the unquiet spirit of the raven interposed. ‘Polly put the ket—’ cried Grip, and his master was broad awake again. At le... ...into a state of repose. Now and then he muttered in a sepul chral voice, ‘Polly put the ket—’ but very drowsily, and more like a drunken man than a r... ...rip, suddenly struck with an idea and very much excited. ‘—tle on. Hurrah! Polly put the ket tle on, we’ll all have tea; Polly put the ket tle on, we’... ...r spirits, Never say die, Bow, wow, wow, I’m a devil, I’m a ket tle, I’m a—Polly put the ket tle on, we’ll all have tea.’ 142 Barnaby Rudge They stoo...

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...ppose I am not going to write home, and take care that he gets some money? Polly? We thought this intention very noble in Steerforth, whose mother wa... ...nd we walked away to a shop in a narrow street, on which was written OMER, DRAPER, TAILOR, HABERDASHER, FUNERAL FURNISHER, &c. It was a close and stif... ... and Joram was now written up, where Omer used to be; but the inscription, Draper, Tailor, Haber- dasher, Funeral Furnisher, &c., remained as it was. ... ...ckle? Oh, for shame! Did he sip every flower, and change every hour, until Polly his passion requited? Is her name Polly? The Elfin suddenness with w... ...ter I left school. Indeed! Yes. He was a retired what do you call it! draper cloth-merchant and had made me his heir. But he didn t like me when ...

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...nd there by a shop of more pretension; the plate-glass of the enterprising draper, with the light veiled by shawls and rib- bons, the ‘purple jars,’ g... ... a prodigious commotion, but he knew that all ladies were subject to linen-drapery epi- demics, and Albinia’s took a more endurable form than a pull o... ...icious repose of refreshed nature, as in her pretty pink muslin, her white drapery folded round her, and her bright hair unbonnetted, she sat reclinin... ...you screw your eyes about so! you can’t attend to any one.’ ‘It is because Polly Silly is there,’ shouted Master Maurice from his throne beside his ma... ...stupidity and pre- tence; in fact, if she had one she should call it Silly Polly or Polly Silly! T o silence Willie’s exultation in his sister’s disco... ...light over-head, pursuing him with hissing whispers of ‘Polysyllable’ and ‘Polly-silly,’ and if he ventured on indignant gestures, Maurice returned th...

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...etty fully. In a carriage once more, bustling about from milliner to linen-draper, es- corted back to the carriage by obsequious shopmen or polite own... ... for your aunt from Southampton. How time flies, to be sure! That can’t be Polly Talboys, that bouncing girl standing by her mother at the cot- tage t...

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... by Hadrian, T rajan, and the Antonines; stumbling at Polybius (pronounced Polly Beeious, and supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman virgin, and by Mrs B... ... early , my dear, to lose nothing of the fun. Whereabout in the bonnet and drapery announced by her name, any fragment of the real woman may be con- c... ...rles Dickens At length the door stood open, and Mr Fledgeby’s retreat- ing drapery plunged into bed again. Following it at a respect- ful distance, Ri... ...e. When about twenty years of age, they commenced business at Cambridge as drapers, and they continued there until their death. The establishment of t...

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...her lady; but I can neither live on hopes or promises, nor will my woollen draper take any such in payment. You tell me you are secure of having eithe... ...y old schoolmaster, who was a prodigious great scholar, used often to say, Polly matete cry town is my daskalon. The English of which, he told us, was...

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...ken, sir.’ ‘I don’t think there’s a girl in Tavistock Square that can beat Polly—she’s the eldest, called after her mother, you know—that can beat her... ...hisper—’and a glass of port such as you don’t get every day of your life.’ Polly and Lucy Toogood were pretty girls, and merry withal, and certain you... ...n Eames’s office, had partaken so often of the put luck and port wine that Polly Toogood had conquered him by her charms, and he was now a slave, wait... ...nting to three hundred pounds from his maiden aunt, it was considered that Polly Toogood was not doing amiss. ‘I’ll give you three hundred pounds, my ... ...h dead she’ll have a thousand pounds out of the nest. That’s the extent of Polly’s fortune;—so now you know.’ Summerkin was, however, quite contented ... ...’s head, as she always did on these occasions, and assisted to arrange the drapery. She used to tell herself as she did so, that she was like Isaac, p... ...any ram in any thicket would save her. But, nevertheless, she arranged the drapery with all her skill, piling the fagots ever so high for her own pyre... ...course got up also, and seated herself. She was used to her turban and her drapery, and therefore thought of it not at all; and he also was used to it... ...but now that he intended to accom- plish a special purpose, the turban and drapery seemed to be in the way. ‘I do so hope you will like the picture,’ ...

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...e he’s living on his mother.” Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or ... ... But this indulgence he refused. He stood in front of milliners’ shops and drapers’ shops almost bored, but con- tent for her to be interested. They w... ... plug into the tube. “Come, my lad,” he said imploringly to Paul, “there’s Polly crying out for them orders. Can’t you buck up a bit? Here, come out!”... ... “Here y’are!” said Pappleworth. “I think it is ‘here you are’!” exclaimed Polly. “The girls have been here nearly half an hour waiting. Just think of... ...w lad. Don’t ruin him as you did the last.” “As we did the last!” repeated Polly. “Yes, we do a lot of ruining, we do. My word, a lad would take some ... ...ppleworth severely and coldly. “It was time for work some time back,” said Polly, march- ing away with her head in the air. She was an erect little bo... ... common and rather dull. He liked them all, but they were uninter- esting. Polly, the little brisk overseer downstairs, finding Paul eating in the cel...