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"sure you cant get on in this world without style all going in food and rent when I get it Ill lash it around I tell you in fine style I always want to throw a handful of tea into the pot measuring and mincing if I buy a pair of old brogues itself do you like those new shoes yes how much were they" (U18.466) |
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"Ive no clothes at all the brown costume and the skirt and jacket and the one at the cleaners 3 whats that for any woman" (U18.470) |
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"and that Mrs Langtry the jersey lily the prince of Wales was in love with" (U18.481)
Lily (or Lillie) Langtry (1853-1929) is an English actress, born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the channel island of Jersey. She was famous in the roles of Rosalind (As You Like It), and Kate (She Stoops to Conquer). Langtry's theatrical career was eclipsed by her fame as the mistress of Edward VII. Langtry was idolized by Americans, and Judge Roy Bean named a Texas town in her honor. Her nickname, 'The Jersey Lily,' is after the Jersey lily flower (Amaryllis belladonna) a symbol of Jersey; it was popularized when Sir John Everett Millais painted her portrait 'A Jersey Lily.' |
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"I suppose hes like the first man going the roads only for the name of a king theyre all made the one way only a black mans Id like to try" (U18.482) |
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"a beauty up to what was she 45" (U18.484) |
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"there was some funny story about the jealous old husband what was it at all and an oyster knife he went no he made her wear a kind of a tin thing round her and the prince of Wales yes he had the oyster knife cant be true a thing like that" (U18.484) |
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"like some of those books he brings me the works of Master Francois Somebody supposed to be a priest about a child born out of her ear because her bumgut fell out a nice word for any priest to write and her a--e as if any fool wouldnt know what that meant" (U18.487) |
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"I hate that pretending of all things with that old blackguards face on him anybody can see its not true and that Ruby" (U18.491) |
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"and Fair Tyrants he brought me that twice I remember when I came to page 50 the part about where she hangs him up out of a hook with a cord flagellate sure theres nothing for a woman in that all invention made up" (U18.493)
An illustration from 'Au Bon Vieux Temps', another novel by James Lovebirch. |
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"like the infant Jesus in the crib at Inchicore in the Blessed Virgins arms sure no woman could have a child that big taken out of her" (U18.497) |
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"only I felt rotten simply with the old rubbishy dress that I lost the leads out of the tails with no cut in it but theyre coming into fashion again I bought it simply to please him I knew it was no good by the finish pity I changed my mind of going to Todd and Burns as I said" (U18.513) |
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"and not Lees it was just like the shop itself rummage sale a lot of trash I hate those rich shops get on your nerves nothing kills me altogether" (U18.517) |
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"only he thinks he knows a great lot about a womans dress and cooking mathering everything he can scour off the shelves into it if I went by his advices every blessed hat I put on does that suit me yes take that thats alright" (U18.519)
Some hat fashions from 1904. |
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"the one like a weddingcake standing up miles off my head he said suited me" (U18.522) |
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"or the dishcover one coming down on my backside on pins and needles about the shopgirl in that place in Grafton street I had the misfortune to bring him into" (U18.523) |