Tilbury Nogo (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII ASCOT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Benedick.?Suffer love. A good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. Much Ado about Nothing. Ouk dinner-party at the villa, as we called it par excellence, consisted of Bloomsbury, Sharpes, Cripps, and myself, with the addition of Jack Raffleton, whose good humour and good spirits enlivened us considerably. Many a sly hit and inuendo were pointed at my devoted head, and the most sacred feelings of my bosom (all arisen since morning) appeared to these worldly spirits only to furnish an endless subject for bad puns and impertinent remarks. "Nogo ! let's go to the Windsor ball to-morrow night; there's always a good ball during Ascot week. All the First will be there, and we shall have some fun," said Bloomsbury, heating an already much inflamed countenance with a third bumper of his own most execrable champagne. Why is it that a wine-merchant should always think it necessary to consume his wares in such profusion ? The sorcerer imbibes not the philtre of his own compounding, and the apothecary most religiously eschews the mixture he has himself made up. "Besides," added Bloomsbury, smacking his great lips with a relish that could hardly be feigned, " we shall have all the people who live about here, and Mrs. Cotherstone made me promise to bring some dancing men." " Nogo ! a glass of wine! " " Nogo ! your good heath ! " "Nogo! you'II go!"?the latter from Jack Raffleton? burst upon my tingling ears. I blushed. How could Ihelp it ? I swore I hated balls, and never danced?did not think I should go. Heaven forgive me ! I had promised her that very afternoon that nothing earthly should prevent my being at the ball and claiming her hand for the very first waltz. In short I was over head and ears in love...