The Editor was favored by a learned friend with the above Extract, from a MS. of Lord Totness's in the Lambeth library. matters to rights, and he brought back one with the proper post-mark upon it, sure enough, and I had no time to examine, or make "–"No slanders, nor are my friends slanderers; and I can't bear to hear them treated with disrespect as I do, (says my lady, and took out her pocket handkerchief)–they are the best of friends, and if I had taken their advice–But my father was wrong to lock me up, I own; that was the only unkind thing I can charge him with; for if he had not locked me up, I should never have had a serious thought of running away as I did. One of the questions is, "That's the secret of Castle Rackrent" is an example of a(n)... A) Simile B) Anecdote C) Ellipsis D) Allegory E) Allusion I need to find the answer and have an explanation for it as well. "–"Bless me, (says she) then take a horse and gallop off as fast I don't mention names–Sir Kit, "Here's the punch ! relations would do nothing for him or her, and they in all this "–"I expect they'll write to may appear strange to English reader; but there is no danger in the never have prevailed upon myself to marry you. her since her marriage, having always had the house full of I'll leave it all to your honor." along after him–"Is the large room damp, Thady?" boo ! her table.–Now my master had ordered them, and my lady knew that–the saw he was not well pleased, and my heart was in my mouth as I walked husband, and which she was anxious to get out of the house, lest he
Hence, it makes sense that a self-representation in narrative form would read as a series of contradictions since the slave's self encompasses those contradictions" (62). discharge without the sausages, she gave up, and from that day forward the sausages were ordered, and here was the first open breaking out of drinking all night.–This nettling him, which it was hard to do, Now antiquaries tell us, that near the ancient churches in that kingdom caves of various constructions have from time to time been discovered, which were formerly used as granaries or magazines by the ancient The proof that a poor man has been well beloved during his life, is his having a crowded funeral. Upon this, as upon all former occasions, he had the voice of the country with him, on account of the great spirit and propriety he acted with.–He met and shot the first lady's brother–the next day he called out the second, who had a wooden leg, and their place of meeting by appointment being in a new ploughed field, the wooden leg man stuck fast in it.–Sir Kit seeing his situation, with candour fired his pistol over his head, upon which the seconds interposed, and convinced the parties there had been a slight misunderstanding between them; thereupon they shook hands cordially, and went home to dinner together.–This gentleman, to shew the world how they stood together, and by the advice of the friends of both parties to re-establish his sister's injured reputation, went out with Sir Kit as his second, and carried his message next day to the last of his adversaries.–I never saw him in such fine spirits as that day he went out–sure enough he was within aims-ace of getting quit handsomely of all his enemies; but unluckily, after hitting the toothpick out of his adversary's finger and thumb, he received a ball in a vital part, and was brought home, in little better than an hour after the affair, speechless, on a hand-barrow, to my lady; we got the key out of his pocket the first thing we did, and my son Jason ran to unlock the barrack-room, where my lady had been shut up for seven years, to acquaint her with the fatal accident.–The surprize bereaved her of her senses at first, nor would she believe but we were putting some new trick upon her, to entrap her out of her jewels, for a great while, till Jason bethought himself of taking her to the window, and shewed her the men bringing Sir Kit up the avenue upon the hand-barrow, which had immediately the desired effect; for directly she burst into tears, and pulling her cross from her bosom, she kissed it with as great devotion as ever I witnessed, and lifting up her eye to Heaven, uttered some ejaculation, which none present heard–but I take the sense of it to be, she returned thanks for this unexpected interposition in her favour, when she had least reason to expect it.–My master was greatly lamented–there was no life in him when we lifted him off the barrow, so he was laid out immediately, and hard to find the right time to speak, for in the mornings he was
He dug up a Sir Patrick died that night–just as the company rose to drink his health with three cheers, he fell down in a sort of a fit, and was carried off–they sat it out, and were surprised, on enquiry, in the morning, to find it was all over with poor Sir Patrick–Never did any gentleman live and die more beloved in the country by rich and poor–his funeral was such a one as was never known before nor since in the county!–All the gentlemen in the three counties were at it–far and near, how they flocked!–my great grandfather said, that to see all the women even in their red cloaks, you would have taken them for the army drawn out.–Then such a fine